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  Folk Music - A Bob Dylan...

  Greil Marcus

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  Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs 
   
  “Marcus delivers yet another essential work of music journalism.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 
   
  “Further elevates Marcus to what he has always been: a supreme artist-critic.”—Hilton Als 
   
  Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. 
   
  In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan’s story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus’s point of departure is Dylan’s ability to “see myself in others.” Like Dylan’s songs, this book is a work of implicit patriotism and creative skepticism. It illuminates Dylan’s continuing presence and relevance through his empathy—his imaginative identification with other people. This is not only a deeply felt telling of the life and times of Bob Dylan, but a rich history of American folk songs and the new life they were given as Dylan sat down to write his own.

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  AMY: Book 1 - A working mom...

  Autumn Karen, Jeremiah James

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  This story is Fifty Shades of Grey meets Bridget Jones’s Diary, with a healthy dose of twenty-first century motherhood realness. It follows the life and adventures of Amy Bowles, a relatably klutzy wife and working mother of three who gets an unexpected education in the swinging lifestyle, sparked by a modern series of events and fostered by a connection with an old friend from college.After one more long day taking care of the kids an one more short night of unfulfilling sex with her devoted husband Will, Amy indulges in a little too much wine and plops down in front the TV, searching for something to stream that will take the edge off of her frustrated desire. She lands on a swinging documentary, and in her tipsy haze finds inspiration. Thrusting past her usually rule following nature, Amy snaps some tawdry selfies and blasts her way onto a swinging hookup app on her phone. When she wakes up the next morning, Will has left early to go fishing and she’s home alone with the kids. It’s not until she’s tended to her toddler and checked on the older two that her phone buzzes with notifications and Amy remembers her late night foray into online swinging.Amy now has a dilemma on her hands. Does she possibly meet with the beautiful and kind couple reaching out to her? Does she take the leap into a world she is tantalized by but knows little to nothing about, risking her ho hum but content life? She wants to explore it with her husband, could she possibly use swinging as a means to bring the passion back to their sex life? If she does, could she possibly face her fears and insecurities? You’ll have a read her story to find out.

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  The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman

  Niko Stratis

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  A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. 
   
   
   
  When Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as "dad rock," Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad's glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her hypermasculine environment, Stratis found an unlikely lifeline amid dad rock's emotionally open and honest music. Listening to dad rock, Stratis could access worlds beyond her own and imagine a path forward. 
   
   
   
  In taut, searing essays rendered in propulsive and unguarded prose, Stratis delves into the emotional core of bands like Wilco and The National, telling her story through the dad rock that accompanied her along the way. She found footing in Michael Stipe's allusions to queer longing, Radiohead's embrace of unknowability, and Bruce Springsteen's very trans desire to "change my clothes my hair my face"—and she found in artists like Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten that the label transcends gender. A love letter to the music that saves us and a tribute to dads like Stratis's own who embody the tenderness at the genre's heart, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman rejoices in music unafraid to bare its soul.

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  Hollywood Stage - Alias Jimmy...

  Various Authors

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  The Hollywood Ringmaster himself, Cecil B DeMille unveils the treasures and the stars for you right here…..

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  Adorning the Dark - Thoughts on...

  Andrew Peterson

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  Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone.    Over the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has performed thousands of concerts, published four novels, released ten albums, taught college and seminary classes on writing, founded a nonprofit ministry for Christians in the arts, and executive-produced a film—all in a belief that God calls us to proclaim the gospel and the coming kingdom using whatever gifts are at our disposal. He’s stumbled along the way, made mistake after mistake, and yet has continually encountered the grace of God through an encouraging family, a Christ-centered community of artists in the church, and the power of truth, beauty, and goodness in Scripture and the arts.    While there are many books about writing, none deal first-hand with the intersection of songwriting, storytelling, and vocation, along with nuts-and-bolts exploration of the great mystery of creativity. In Adorning the Dark, Andrew describes six principles for the writing life:      serving the work  serving the audience  selectivity  discernment  discipline  community   Through stories from his own journey, Andrew shows how these principles are not merely helpful for writers and artists, but for anyone interested in imitating the way the Creator interacts with his creation.  This book is both a memoir of Andrew’s journey and a handbook for artists, written in the hope that his story will provide encouragement to others stumbling along in pursuit of a calling to adorn the dark with the light of Christ.  

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  The Mediatization of the OJ...

  Tatjana Neubauer

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  F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: »Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.« In the 1990s, nobody fell deeper than O.J. Simpson. Once considered a national treasure, the athlete was accused of brutally slaying his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994. Within days, the media and public developed an unprecedented obsession with the story, turning a murder investigation and trial into a sensationalized reality show. Tatjana Neubauer examines the mediatization, deliberate manipulation, and the simplification of popular criminal trials for profit on television. She demonstrates that TV conflated legal proceedings into entertainment programming by commodifying events, people, and places.

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