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  Stones Touring Party - A Journey...

  Robert Greenfield

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  A journalist who rode along with the Rolling Stones on their 1972 US tour chronicles what he witnessed on and off the stage. 
   
  The Rolling Stones’ 1972 tour of the United States was perhaps their best—and certainly most notorious—ever. Their previous visit in 1969 had ended in the nightmare of Altamont; now, three years later, they had just recorded their two finest albums, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, and were musically in their prime—if also personally at their most dissolute and debauched. 
   
  Robert Greenfield, one of America’s finest writers, went along for the ride and came back with a riveting account of high living, excess and rock & roll fury, from the Playboy Mansion to the jail cells of Rhode Island. This was an extended tour Party, capital P, to which all America’s hip, rich and glitzy were invited, from Truman Capote to Stevie Wonder, Annie Liebowitz to Hugh Hefner. The result has been acclaimed as one of the all-time classic music books. 
   
  Previously published as STP: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones, this reissue uses the original title and features a new introduction by the author. 
   
  Praise for Stone’s Touring Party 
   
  “A compelling account of the Stones trashing America during 1972. . . . Greenfield was allowed the kind of access journalists can only dream of today.” —The Times (UK) 
   
  “One of the greatest rock books ever written.” —GQ 
   
  “Exceptionally well-written and highly readable.” —Jerry Hopkins, Los Angeles Times 
   
  “Unsparing in its picture of the calculation and lyrical decadence behind the tour.” —John Rockwell, New York Times 
   
  “Skip this review and rush right down to your local bookstore and get a copy . . . reads like the best fiction.” —Ed War, Creem

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  Saturday Mountain

  Julie Sormark

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  Art Classic Stories is a special series of English fairy tales that combines the paintings of great painters with classic fairy tales.

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  Summers with Lincoln - Looking...

  James A. Percoco

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  A journey across America revealing “the history of how seven of these monuments came to be . . . and what they mean to us today” (The Washington Times).   Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly two hundred statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated.   A few years ago, Jim Percoco, a history teacher with a passion for both Lincoln and public sculpture, set off to see what he might learn about some of these monuments—what they meant to their creators and to the public when they were unveiled, and what they mean to us today. The result is a fascinating chronicle of four summers on the road looking for Lincoln stories in statues of marble and bronze.   Percoco selects seven emblematic works, among them Thomas Ball’s Emancipation Group, erected east of the Capitol in 1876 with private funds from African Americans and dedicated by Frederick Douglass; Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s majestic Standing Lincoln of 1887 in Chicago; Paul Manship’s 1932 Lincoln the Hoosier Youth, in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Gutzon Borglum’s 1911 Seated Lincoln, struggling with the pain of leadership, beckoning visitors to sit next to him on his metal bench in Newark, New Jersey.   At each stop, Percoco chronicles the history of the monument, spotlighting its artistic, social, political, and cultural origins. His descriptions draw fresh meaning from mute stone and cold metal—raising provocative questions not just about who Lincoln might have been, but about what we’ve wanted him to be in the monuments we’ve built.

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  Abbott and Costello: Basic Training

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  The program originates from Davis Monthan Air Base, Tucson, Arizona and features a routine about horses, and another about army life.

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  Sunset Boulevard - Adapted from...

  Mr Punch

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  Mr Punch Presents: SUNSET BOULEVARD, nominated for eleven Academy Awards, Billy Wilder’s brilliant 1950 film is about the flamboyant silent movie star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) and her pitiful attempt to stage a comeback to the silver screen through her friendship with the young opportunistic screenwriter, played by William Holden. Recreated for the radio with the original stars in this special radio production. 
   
  This high-quality audiobook has been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast. 
    
  Also available as part of the Hollywood Playhouse BOX SET, a collection of 14 Oscar winning ear-movies, adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. 
    
  These radio dramas were….to become as popular as the movies themselves. Hollywood Movie Memories 
    
  This is an excellent audio product that will appeal to the majority of audiobook listeners. Talking Business 
    
  A lovely series to add to any film, audio or crime lovers’ collection. Audio World

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  Institutio Oratoria (On the...

  Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

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  Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and was the first rhetorician to set up a genuine public school and to receive a salary from the State. He left behind him a treatise "On the causes of the decadence of Roman oratory" (De causis corruptae eloquentiae), some speeches and his magnum opus, the only one to survive to our days. His Institutio Oratoria, despite the fact that much of it is highly technical, has still much that is of interest to-day, even for those who care little for the history of rhetoric. (Summary adapted from the translator's preface) This first volume covers books 1 to 3.

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