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Chinaberry Sidewalks

by Rodney Crowell ...

From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his ... Read more

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From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his
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A Few Honest Words

The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music

by Jason Howard ...

"This book's combination of interviews and history makes for an entertaining study of the heart of American roots music." — Library JournalIn industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree—a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred. With native sons and daughters like Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Loretta Lynn, the Everly Brothers, Joan ... Read more

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"This book's combination of interviews and history makes for an entertaining study of the heart of American roots music." — Library JournalIn industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree—a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred. With native sons and daughters like Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Loretta Lynn, the Everly Brothers, Joan
... Read more
Western Skies

by Darden Smith ...

Part prose, part album, and part photographic essay, Western Skies is singer-songwriter Darden Smith's stunning homage to the mythologies of Texas and companion to his music release of the same name.Amid a series of road trips across West Texas, Darden Smith-Austin-based musician, author, and creative-found himself writing songs at the wheel and taking Polaroid photographs of the stark and ghostly ... Read more

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Part prose, part album, and part photographic essay, Western Skies is singer-songwriter Darden Smith's stunning homage to the mythologies of Texas and companion to his music release of the same name.Amid a series of road trips across West Texas, Darden Smith-Austin-based musician, author, and creative-found himself writing songs at the wheel and taking Polaroid photographs of the stark and ghostly
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A Word on Words

The Best of John Seigenthaler's Interviews

by Arna Bontemps, Marshall Chapman, Pat Conroy, Rodney Crowell, John Egerton, Jesse Hill Ford, Charles Fountain, William Price Fox, Kinky Friedman, Nikki Giovanni, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Halberstam, Waylon Jennings, John Lewis, David Maraniss, William Marshall, Jon Meacham, Ann Patchett, Alice Randall, Dori Sanders, John Michael Seigenthaler, Marty Stuart ...

For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most important writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much about the writers who appeared on his show and gave a glimpse into their creative processes. Seigenthaler was a ... Read more

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For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most important writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much about the writers who appeared on his show and gave a glimpse into their creative processes. Seigenthaler was a
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Word for Word

by Rodney Crowell ...

From growing up in Texas, to living in his car, to landing his first publishing deal, to writing fifteen #1 songs, Word for Word is a lavishly illustrated look at the lyrics of an icon among songwriting giants. Emmylou Harris—who once employed Rodney Crowell as the guitarist, harmony singer, and arranger in her legendary Hot Band—introduced many listeners to his finely-crafted songs, including ... Read more

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From growing up in Texas, to living in his car, to landing his first publishing deal, to writing fifteen #1 songs, Word for Word is a lavishly illustrated look at the lyrics of an icon among songwriting giants. Emmylou Harris—who once employed Rodney Crowell as the guitarist, harmony singer, and arranger in her legendary Hot Band—introduced many listeners to his finely-crafted songs, including
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Chinaberry Sidewalks

by Rodney Crowell ...

Narrated by Rodney Crowell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his ... Read more

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From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his
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The Flame

Poems and Selections From Notebooks

by Leonard Cohen ...

Narrated by Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher ...

Unabridged

4 hours 34 min

The final work from Leonard Cohen, Canada's most celebrated poet and an artist whose audience spans generations and whose work is known and loved throughout the world.The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems, selected and ordered by the author in the final months of his life. Featuring lyrics, prose pieces, and illustrations, the book also contains an extensive selection ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

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The final work from Leonard Cohen, Canada's most celebrated poet and an artist whose audience spans generations and whose work is known and loved throughout the world.The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems, selected and ordered by the author in the final months of his life. Featuring lyrics, prose pieces, and illustrations, the book also contains an extensive selection
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Composed

A Memoir

by Rosanne Cash ...

Narrated by Rosanne Cash ...

Unabridged

7 hours 5 min

A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her upbringing in Southern California as the child of country ... Read more

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A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her upbringing in Southern California as the child of country
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Smarter Than You Think

How Technology Is Changing Our Minds For the Better

by Clive Thompson ...

Narrated by Jeff Cummings ...

Unabridged

10 hours 41 min

How technology boosts our cognitive abilities—making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever beforeIt’s undeniable: technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson votes yes. The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and investigation. We learn more and retain ... Read more

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How technology boosts our cognitive abilities—making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever beforeIt’s undeniable: technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson votes yes. The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and investigation. We learn more and retain
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Here the Dark

by David Bergen ...

Narrated by Michael Braun ...

Unabridged

6 hours 50 min

From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost offthe islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boy’s infatuation reveals his naiveté and an agingrancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil andgood, obscurity and light. Following men and boys ... Read more

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From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost offthe islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boy’s infatuation reveals his naiveté and an agingrancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil andgood, obscurity and light. Following men and boys
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What Truth Sounds Like

Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America

by Michael Eric Dyson ...

Narrated by Michael Eric Dyson ...

Unabridged

6 hours 32 min

This program is read by the author.What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot Stop.***President Barack Obama: "***Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”In 2015 BLM activist Julius Jones confronted Presidential candidate H... ... Read more

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This program is read by the author.What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot Stop.***President Barack Obama: "***Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”In 2015 BLM activist Julius Jones confronted Presidential candidate H...
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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

by Douglas Rushkoff ...

Narrated by Douglas Rushkoff ...

Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

**Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?**When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn’t ... Read more

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**Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?**When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn’t
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