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  • Austin's Flower Hill Legacy

    A Remarkable Family & a Sixth Street Wildscape

    by Rosa Walston Latimer ...
    Series series Landmarks
    For nearly a century and a half, the Smoot family "cooperated with nature" to create the vibrant Texas wildscape of the Flower Hill Estate on West Sixth Street. But the generosity of spirit that cultivated that sanctuary extends beyond the iron fence surrounding the property. Institutions like the Central Presbyterian Church, the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the Austin American ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harvey Houses of Texas

    Historic Hospitality from the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle

    by Rosa Walston Latimer ...
    Series series Landmarks
    On the eve of the twentieth century, small-town Texas was still wild country lacking in the commodities and cultural centers of larger cities. This changed, however, with the arrival of the Santa Fe rail line, followed quickly by the Harvey House. Established in Kansas by English immigrant Fred Harvey, Harvey Houses could be found throughout the Southwest and adjoined local depots in sixteen Texas ... Read more

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  • Wild Years

    The Music and Myth of Tom Waits

    by Jay S. Jacobs ...
    Newly updated to include his critically acclaimed post-millennial work, this look at Tom Waits - both the reality and the myriad myths - reveals the man behind the curtain. A tale of how a self-taught, drunken hipster in roach-killers and a dirty beret has influenced a generation of musicians with his sound, warmth, and willingness to take chances, this biography shows how he has moved between ... Read more

    $8.81 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Down the Highway

    The Life of Bob Dylan

    by Howard Sounes ...
    The acclaimed biography—now updated and revised. "Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan's] life, but never has it been done so well, so captivatingly" ( The Boston Globe).Howard Sounes's Down the Highway broke news about Dylan's fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard as the most comprehensive and riveting biography on Bob Dylan. Now this edition continues to document the iconic ... Read more

    $17.27 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Max Factor

    The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World

    by Fred E. Basten ...
    Nice women never wore makeup. Even the word was taboo in polite society—until Max Factor entered the scene. Born in Poland in 1877, Factor worked as a beautician for the Russian royal family, the Romanovs. In 1904, he fled to America, where he opened a cosmetics store in Los Angeles. Creating makeup originally for silent films, then the talkies, and, ultimately, color motion pictures, Factor ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Small Town Talk

    Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock

    by Barney Hoskyns ...
    Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock-the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan ... Read more

    $15.83 CAD

  • Down Thunder Road: The Making of Bruce Springsteen

    by Marc Eliot, Mike Appel ...
    The book 'The Boss' hoped would never be published — an explosive unauthorized biography written with the help of Mike Appel, Springsteen's former producer/manager. Based on exclusive interviews and previously unreleased material, including depositions from the lawsuit that prevented Springsteen from recording for over a year, Down Thunder Road traces Springsteen's rise to fame and reveals the man ... Read more

    $6.73 CAD

  • R.E.M.

    the secret history

    by Alan Cross ...
    Series series The Secret History of Rock
    Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music.Here he provides a history of Michael Stipe and R.E.M.This look at the band -- "Radio Free Athens" -- is adapted from the audiobook of the same name. ... Read more

    $1.79 CAD

  • Jonathan Richman

    the secret history

    by Alan Cross ...
    Series series The Secret History of Rock
    Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music.Here he provides a history of alt-rock cult figure Jonathan Richman."Boston's Anti-hippie Punk Pioneer" is adapted from the audiobook of the same name. ... Read more

    $1.79 CAD

  • The Man Behind The Brand - Road Food

    by Doug Gelbert ...
    Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Maytag, Kellogg. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let's look at the men behind the names where we pull off the road to eat. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pioneer Settlers of New Mexico Territory

    The Journeys of a Tough and Resilient People

    by Decloris Kay Curtis-Ward ...
    This work has been done so the next generations will know about their family history and how our True Pioneer Heritage made the United States the greatest country there is to live in. ... Read more

    $4.85 CAD

  • Mary Had a Little Jam

    And Other Silly Rhymes

    by Bruce Lansky ...
    Illustrated by Stephen Carpenter ...
    Series series Giggle Poetry
    These original nursery rhymes recount the latest adventures of Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, Old Mother Hubbard, Little Boy Blue, Little Bo-Peep, Yankee Doodle, Georgie Porgie, Peter Piper, and other best-loved Mother Goose characters.Written by a gang of gifted poets including Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, Linda Knaus, and Darren Sardelli, these rhymes are guaranteed to delight ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD