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  27 Club The: The Lives and...

  Editors Charles River

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  It is rare in the world of music for a general consensus to form over who was the best at anything. Many would call The Beatles the greatest rock band, but it’s easy to find strongly opinionated dissenters. However, when it came to playing a guitar and laying the soundtrack for the psychedelic era, just about everyone agrees there was Jimi Hendrix and then there was everyone else. Anyone arguing otherwise either never heard his music or saw him perform. In fact, Jimi Hendrix is one of the few musicians known primarily for his sound and what he could do with a guitar than for his discography. A part of that is due to his untimely death and entry into the 27 Club, but it is also due to the fact that he was so revolutionary with the use of an electric guitar and so skilled at playing it that the effects have largely not been duplicated since.  
  The life and career of Janis Joplin marks such a stark departure from the blues, rock and soul traditions as American society has come to know them that her brief and tempestuous career defies artistic analysis, if only because there is so little precedent aside from the great African-American blues and jazz singers that influenced her. For a woman born in 1943 and coming into her professional prime in the 1960s, Joplin stood as a mesmerizing and baffling foil to the female tradition in non-classical music, which had previously been symbolized by pure, mellow voices singing thoughtful texts.  
  Jim Morrison accomplished just about everything by being extreme, in every sense of the word. His poetry was assaultive, blatant and graphic, a sign of the times, and his voice was mystical and haunting, lacking any sense of what was previously or typically considered vocal beauty. Whether intentional or not, Morrison also led the charge of excessive defiance toward anything hierarchical or rule-laden, and the acting out of his subconscious urges on public stages around the world surpassed all previous artists.

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  Attack of the Mutant (Goosebumps...

  R. L. Stine

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  Goosebumps now on Disney+Realizing that he has become lost in a strange part of town, Skipper Matthews, a ravenous comic book collector who's favorite character is an evil super-villain, discovers a building just like the secret headquarters of his idol.

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  Dreams of Hope - A Bedtime Lullaby

  Navjot Kaur

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  With a quiet compassion for the natural world, a father and daughter explore the meaning of beauty. Land bound Sundees turn into high flying butterflies, and gentle, but endangered Chiru snuggle into their warm Shahtooshi. As father lays his Little One to bed, she is filled with a renewed sense of love and respect for the Earth and all living things, including herself.  
  A timeless addition, this soothing lullaby will inspire many dreams of hope for little ones.

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  Baseball's Leading Lady - Effa...

  Andrea Williams

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  Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Negro Leagues Baseball was the only game in town for black athletes. And those leagues owed their existence and success to savvy businesspeople like Effa Manley, the black female co-owner of the Newark Eagles. Effa was the team's business manager, leading her team to win the Negro World Series in 1946. But this victory was bittersweet: Integration was on its way, and the demise of the Negro Leagues would soon follow. In this riveting nonfiction account, author Andrea Williams weaves the parallel stories of the segregated leagues with the tale of an inspiring woman who was at the center of it all.

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  The Last Man in New York

  Paul MacNamara

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  The Last Man in New York by Paul MacNamara - Joe Dunn and Julie are the sole survivors in a vast city of silence and death!  
  There are numerous “last man on earth” stories, but this one stands out for its uniqueness. Written by Paul MacNamara, an author known for publishing only a single science fiction short story, about whom little else is known. The Last Man in New York was featured in the Fall 1944 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories Magazine.

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  I Was Made Special - And You Are...

  6 Wheelz

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  I wrote I Was Made Special for two reasons: For anybody who was born with a disability like me, to reassure them that just because they were born differently than everyone else: doesn't mean that they aren't any less special. Also to try and discourage other children from bullying their peers. I hope this book help teach the importance of having high self-esteem as we all follow this journey and try to learn a few things along the way 

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