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  27 Club The: Curse or...

  Chance Edwards

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  The myth of the 27 Club “curse" started in 1969 with the untimely death of Rolling Stones founder, Brian Jones, which was soon followed by Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison. They were all only 27 years old. 
  But they weren't the only ones. It seems each new generation loses another beloved celebrity to the 27 Club. 
  This book searches for patterns to these deaths by investigating the incredible true stories behind 20 tragic celebrities who became members of the 27 Club. It covers musicians, artists, athletes, and entertainers, including Basquiat, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Pat Tillman, Anton Yelchin, Jonghyun, and many more.

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  Rock & Roll Nightmares: True...

  Staci Layne Wilson

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  Rock & Roll Nightmares, Volume 1 scratched the sinister surface with tales of the 27 Club, rock ‘n’ roll suicides, plane crashes, curses, and more. Now the award-winning series continues in a standalone audiobook full of concert mayhem, a look at the “baby groupie” trend of the 1970s, Satanic panic, horrific home invasions, musicians who’ve died on stage, rockers who lived on borrowed time, gun-toting music producers, deadly DJs, and much more. 
  You will read about:Murdered rock stars, hitmen hired, and narrow escapesShocking stories of rockers who’ve served time for violent crimesDevil worship and belief in the occultFolks on the fringe who took their obsessions too farPyrotechnics gone horribly wrongMysteries solved, graves robbed, fortunes stolen, and more! 
  Staci Layne Wilson has been writing professionally about rock music for decades and is the director of the multi-award-winning documentary, The Ventures: Stars on Guitars. Staci Layne Wilson is an award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker specializing in rock music history. In the course of her work, she has interviewed David Crosby, John Fogerty, Jimmy Page, Joni Mitchell, Rob Zombie, Cherie Currie, and Gene Simmons, to name a few. 
  EDITORIAL REVIEWS/AWARDS FOR THE ‘ROCK & ROLL NIGHTMARES’ BOOK SERIES 
  Staci Layne Wilson is the Nellie Bly of the rock & roll asylum!—Guitar Girl 
  [The Rock & Roll Nightmares books are] MTV's Headbangers Ball meets Tales from the Crypt—perfect entertainment for anyone who's ever played Stairway to Heaven backward to hear the mumbled phrase "Here's to my sweet Satan.” —Variety 
  There’s gallows humor galore but it’s tempered with Wilson’s empathy, ability to see several sides of a situation, and her obvious love of classic rock music and the people who created it. —On the Rock Block

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  Remembering Christopher Robin -...

  Kevin J. Last

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  This story began a hundred years ago when a child became the inspiration for his famous father, A. A. Milne, who created one of the best known children's characters in recent history. His parents wanted a girl and to begin with treated him as one. They were initially quite distant from him and his upbringing was left to a loyal and loving nanny. Unfortunately, this left Christopher Robin Milne terminally shy and lacking in self-confidence. Unable to escape from the shadow of his fictional self, he became an object of continued interest from a non-understanding public.His salvation started with being sent away to Stowe School, going to Cambridge and joining the Army in the Second World War as a sapper. After an unhappy and directionless time immediately post-war in London, he eventually married and, very successfully, ran a bookshop in the South West for twenty-one years. His life was dominated by a love of the countryside, learned at his parents' country home, Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex, and much later in Devon. How he turned his life round, against the odds, is the subject of this biography.

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  Crime and Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literature of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations. 
  Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. 
  Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.

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  We Are the Fallen - A...

  Cage J Madison

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  "The destiny of humanity relies heavily on how everyone reacts to certain events that are now being experienced. There is a desperate need for change within the society and the opportunity for change is now! It is humanity's responsibility." (Cage J. Madison)
  
  So begins the author in a letter to the listener in this thought-provoking essay written by life coach and author Cage J. Madison (An Evolutional Journey for the Modern Man, Balance Incarnated, Masterclass Seduction, Eye of the Snake, and the Shades of Reflection poetry series). In perhaps his most controversial work, Madison plunges deep into the ways of humanity and societal influences that he believes are the main problems we are all now facing in the world.
  
  The author speaks deeply about how certain damaging thoughts eat away at everybody, leaving most with an enraged pain that storms deep within the mind. The society, as we know it, has become a dominant structure, which does in some ways create an individual, but can also ruin them because of these damaging thoughts. The society has done this by creating a good strategy: judgement.
  
  A majority of humanity has turned to wearing masks to hide their true self from the rest of society because of this strategy. Ever since we were babies, the society and its influences have worked their way into our minds with lies being fed to us through TV or speeches from the so-called leaders of the world. These influences have simply allowed all people to concentrate on their individual demise rather than the life they have been given. We search for what has been lost, but how can something be found while trapped in this instance of self-indulgence?
  
  Corruption within the world seems to eat away at all humans and yet we still think we are free. Consumerism blares out from all walls of society as men and women, boys and girls march like slaves down the streets in rows.
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Yellow Book The - Vol 2

  Kenneth Grahame, Charlotte Mew,...

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  During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate.  This really was mass market publishing to a hungry audience eager for literary sustenance.  Many of our greatest authors contributed and expanded their reach whilst many fledging authors also found a ready source for their nascent works and careers. 
   
  Amongst the very many was ‘The Yellow Book’.  Although titled as ‘An Illustrated Quarterly’ it was sold as a cloth-bound hardback and within were short stories, essays, poetry, illustrations and portraits.  It was edited by the American author Henry Harland, who also contributed, and its art editor was no less that the formidable Aubrey Beardsley, the enfant terrible of illustration. 
   
  Its yellow cover and name gave it an association with the risqué and erotic yellow covered works published in France.  It was a visual shorthand for ideas that would push many boundaries of Society to more open interpretations. Being complete in each volume and slightly aloof it stayed away from serialised fiction and advertisements.   
   
  Within each lavishly illustrated edition were literary offerings that included works by such luminaries as Henry James, H G Wells, W B Yeats, Edith Nesbit, George Gissing and many others from the ascetic and decadent movements of the time.   
   
  The other notable inclusion was women both as contributors and amongst its editing staff, which was at odds with the then patriarchal gender norms.   
   
  Although it only survived for 13 issues its reach and influence were second to none.    
  1 - The Yellow Book - An Introduction. Volume 2 
  2 - Passed by Charlotte Mew 
  3 - Apple Blossom in Brittany by Ernest Dowson 
  4 - Second Thoughts by Arthur Moore 
  5 - The Papers of Basil Fillimer by H D Traill 
  6 - Suggestion by Mrs Ernest Leverson 
  7 - The Crimson Weaver by R Murray Gilchrist 
  8 - A Pen and Ink Effect by Frances E Huntley 
  9 - The Inquity of Oblivion by Kenneth Grahame 
  10 - Dies Irae by Kenneth Grahame 
  11 - A Resurrection by H B Marriott Watson 
  12 - A Journey of Little Profit by John Buchan

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