Media & Performing Arts

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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List - trade paperback
By Tom Moon - $22.95 - add to cart

The musical adventure of a lifetime. The most exciting book on music in years. A book of treasure, a book of discovery, a book to open your ears to new worlds of pleasure. Doing for music what Patr...

 

Blindness (Movie Tie-In) - trade paperback
By Jose Saramago - $16.95 - add to cart

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food...

 

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life - trade paperback
By Steve Martin - $17.50 - add to cart

In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the st...

 

Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever - hardcover
By Farah J. Griffin - $27.95 - add to cart

When the renowned trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis chose the members of his quintet in 1955, he passed over well-known, respected saxophonists such as Sonny Rollins to pick out the young, still...

 

Considering Doris Day - trade paperback
By Tom Santopietro - $16.95 - add to cart

A revealing look at a star who was much more than just our favorite girl next door. The biggest female box office attraction in Hollywood history, Doris Day remains unequaled as the only enterta...

 

Diva Italiana - hardcover
By Mediane - $19.95 - add to cart

A tirp into the Golden Age of italian cinema to experience the charm of ''Dolce Vita''. A book containing of pictures of the best divas of the Time,Famous all over the world for their beauty.Images...

 

Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga - trade paperback
By Ian Christe - $15.95 - add to cart

If you’ve ever wondered how two Dutch boys trained in classical music grew up to form America’s greatest hard rock band, find the naked truth in Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga. Learn all ...

 

Ginger: My Story - trade paperback
By Ginger Rogers - $16.25 - add to cart

She was born Virginia Katherine McMath, but the world would come to know her—and love her—as Ginger Rogers: Broadway star, Academy Award-winning actress, and the ultimate on-screen dancing partner...

 

Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) - hardcover
By Don Felder - $28.95 - add to cart

The Eagles are the bestselling, and arguably the tightest-lipped, American group ever, and Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975 is the bestselling album of all time in the United States. Through ...

 

I Want to Believe - mass market paperback
By Max Allan Collins - $8.99 - add to cart

In the bitter heart of a brutal winter, women are inexplicably vanishing in rural Virginia. The only clues to the bizarre disappearances are grotesque remains—human remains—that are turning up in s...

 

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre - hardcover
By Josh Frank - $28.99 - add to cart

On March 3, 1983, Peter Ivers was found bludgeoned to death in his loft in downtown Los Angeles, ending a short-lived but essential pop cultural moment that has been all but lost to history. For th...

 

Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2009 - mass market paperback
By Leonard Maltin - $10.99 - add to cart

Now updated and revised for 2009, Maltin''s guide is most authoritative book in the field, and now contains more entries than ever before. It includes more than 17,000 entries as well as 10,000 DVD...

 

Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2009 - trade paperback
By Leonard Maltin - $22.00 - add to cart

The New York Times bestselling movie guide from a household name in film criticism Consulted more frequently than ever in this era of Netflix as the resource, Leonard Maltinas New York Times bestse...

 

Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies - trade paperback
By Pamela Des Barres - $18.95 - add to cart

This intimate account of 24 legendary groupies reveals what went on behind the closed doors of rock stars from Elvis to Marilyn Manson. Consisting of Pamela Des Barres's revealing interviews with a...

 

Memories Dreams & Reflections - trade paperback
By Marianne Faithful - $19.95 - add to cart

This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her ...

 

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