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  • Good Booty

    Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music

    by Ann Powers ...
    NPR Best Books of 2017In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Traveling

    On the Path of Joni Mitchell

    by Ann Powers ...
    *An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself in a definitive biography.“What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying through a life that changed ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bladesong

    The Martyrs of Compiègne

    by Ann Power ...
    So often one hears the question "What can we do?" More often than not, it remains a question without the effort of an answer. Yet in the turbulence and terror of the French Revolution, a time much like today, when the new sacrificed the old, when man insisted on replacing God, a community of Carmelites offered the oblation of their lives for peace, not without imagined horror, anxiety, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

    A Memoir

    by Tori Amos, Ann Powers ...
    An intimate, eye-opening look inside the life of one of the most unique and adored performers of contemporary rock musicFrom her critically acclaimed 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes, to the recent hit, Scarlet’s Walk, Tori Amos has been a formidable force in contemporary music, with one of the most dedicated fan bases in the industry. In Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, the singer herself takes readers ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Keening

    A Mystery of Gaelic Ireland

    by Anne Emery ...
    Narrated by Sean Power ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    The murdered body of Sorcha the prophetess is discovered following a lavish banquet at the Maguire castle in 16th-century Ireland. In the present day, a dig commences on the land, and not only is a body discovered, but a sheaf of prophecies. Who killed Sorcha?There has been a guesthouse on the Tierney land in County Fermanagh for hundreds of years. Now Tierney’s Hotel is faced with a development ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Traveling

    On the Path of Joni Mitchell

    by Ann Powers ...
    Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 24 min

    *An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.Read by Audiofile Golden Voice Narrator Hillary Huber!“What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying t... ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    How Women Made Music

    A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

    by National Public Radio, Inc, Alison Fensterstock ...
    Narrated by Alison Fensterstock, Ann Powers, Janina Edwards, Hillary Huber, Maggi-Meg Reed, Chanté McCormick, Inés del Castillo ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    2025 ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS AWARDS CERTIFICATE OF MERIT * AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE EARPHONES AWARDThe audiobook edition of How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History brings listeners closer than ever to their creative heroes. Featuring rare interview excerpts with Nina Simone, Sinead O’Connor, Lucinda Williams, Joni Mitchell, Taylor Swift, Solange, and many more.NPR’s launch of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Smoke from Small Fires

    by Anne Powers ...
    It's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving, creativity is all she has to weather the hard times. As an adult, she describes her art: "It is about the rituals of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Herbs in My Kitchen: Reference Guide for Everyday Cooking

    by Ann Powers ...
    With today’s busy lifestyles, we all find it difficult to put together meals that are both nutritious and tasty. Who wouldn’t want to literally add some spice to everyday meals and special ones? Ann Powers made dietary changes to try turning around a puzzling set of health problems, and in the twenty-eight years since making those changes, she’s studied a wide variety of cuisines that have a focus ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best Music Writing 2010

    by Ann Powers, Daphne Carr ...
    Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals out there. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is essential reading for anyone who loves great music and accomplished writing. Scribes of every imaginable sort-novelists, poets, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • True Crime Parallels to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

    by Anne Powers ...
    Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era. This book takes ten of her most famous works and shows their relationship to ten of crime history's most famous and sensational cases--cases whose notoriety still resounds to this day.Addressing both novels and short stories, the author illuminates the relationship ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Good Booty

    Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

    by Ann Powers ...
    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 22 min

    In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America’s primary erotic art form. Powers takes us ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook