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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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  William Blake Poems

  William Blake

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  This Audiobook of William Blake's poems has the following poems rendered by Ramani. 
  A Divine Image 
  A Poison Tree 
  Ah! Sun-flower 
  America: A Prophecy 
  Auguries of Innocence 
  Earth's Answer 
  Europe: A Prophecy 
  Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean 
  Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see 
  I Heard an Angel 
  I Saw a Chapel 
  Infant Joy 
  Infant Sorrow 
  Introduction to the Songs of Experience 
  Introduction to the Songs of Innocence 
  Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake! 
  Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep 
  London 
  Mad Song 
  Milton: And did those feet in ancient time 
  Milton: But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance 
  Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los 
  Never Seek to Tell thy Love 
  Silent, Silent Night 
  Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field 
  Song: Memory, hither come 
  Song: My silks and fine array 
  The Book of Thel 
  The Book of Urizen 
  The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow 
  The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young 
  The Clod and the Pebble 
  The Divine Image 
  The Four Zoas 
  The French Revolution 
  The Garden of Love 
  The Grey Monk 
  The Lamb 
  The Little Black Boy 
  The Little Vagabond 
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 
  The Sick Rose 
  The Smile 
  The Tyger 
  To the Muses

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  The Major and the Missionary - A...

  Diana Pavlac Glyer

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  After the death of his brother, Warren Lewis lived at The Kilns in Oxford, edited his famous brother's letters, and did a little writing of his own. Then he got a letter from a stranger on the far side of the world. Over the years that followed, he and Blanche Biggs, a missionary in Papua New Guinea, shared a vibrant correspondence. These conversations encompassed their views on faith, their politics, their humor, the legacy of C. S. Lewis, and their own trials and longings. Their letters paint a colorful portrait that illuminates not only the particulars of distant times and places, but the intimate contours of a rare friendship.

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  A Different Way of Seeing - A...

  Lois Strachan

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  Have you ever wondered how a blind person pours a cup of coffee? Or how they and their guide dog know when it's safe to cross a busy road? 
  When Lois Strachan lost her sight at the age of 21 years she had to learn the answers to these and countless other questions of how to live as a blind person in a sighted world. 
  In this delightfully quirky and entertaining book Lois shares some of the secrets she discovered about how to live an “ordinary” life in an extraordinary way despite her disability. 
  The second edition of A Different Way of Seeing contains the complete original book with an additional 30% new content – many more stories and updated information that add to this humorous and enlightening perspective of what it’s really like living life as a blind person.

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  Love That Story - Observations...

  Jonathan Van Ness

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  The Emmy-nominated host of Netflix’s Queer Eye follows up his New York Times-bestselling memoir, Over The Top, with this collection of thought-provoking essays on grief and healing, cannabis reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, imposter syndrome, personal style, the HIV safety net, and of, course, how to make your hairdresser love you. 
  In his New York Times-bestselling memoir Over the Top, Jonathan van Ness showed readers how the incredibly difficult moments from his life (surviving sexual abuse and addiction, being diagnosed with HIV) have existed alongside great joy and positivity (landing a breakout role on Netflix’s Queer Eye, becoming an amateur figure skater and professional standup comedian, doting on his five cats). 
  If Jonathan learned anything from the painful life experiences, it’s that in order to thrive, he needed to push past the shame and fear of being his true self, which meant getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. In this candid and curious essay collection, he takes a thoughtful, in-depth look at today’s hot-button issues, viewed through the lens of his personal experience. From the evolution of his signature style to an investigative report on the queer history of his hometown, Jonathan reflects on his life and how he has learned to embrace change—doing the work to challenge internalized beliefs, finding compassion and confidence, and learning more about what makes us all so messy and gorgeous. 
  Balancing the dark and the light, the serious and the madcap, these essays allow us to examine our individual assumptions, expand our horizons, and give ourselves permission to be the flawed and fabulous humans we are.

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  Oscar Wilde - Letters Volume 2...

  Oscar Wilde

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  The correspondence of Oscar Wilde volume two. 
   
  This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written when the Irish playwright was at the height of his success. Wilde defends several of his works from criticism and even censorship and writes "prose poems" to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, that will eventually be read out in court. 
   
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s

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