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This book journeys across America to explore the storied generation of new blues musicians: the biological and spiritual children fathered and mentored by the masters of the blues. Stoking the '60s blues revival, and standing at the vanguard of the next evolution, these young players walked through the doors opened by their fathers-and have kept them open, strengthening a timeless art form. This book tells their unique stories, so you can listen to the elders on the same front porches, sit at the same kitchen tables, ride in the same vans, and stand on the same smoky stages as some of the blues greats. With index and discography.

Boken forteller om den amerikanske jazz-musikeren Louis Armstrongs liv og virke.

X-wing er galaksens eliteflystyrke, og flygerne risikerer livene sine i kampen mot Imperiet.

Boka inneholder over 100 minneverdige uttalelser av USAs 43. president, George W. Bush.

Gjennom anekdoter, biografier og fotografier portretterer boka innovatører innen afro-cubansk jazz. Boka inneholder også vurderinger av innspillinger og essays som tar for seg sjangerens historie. Har register.

Romanen ser det tjuende århundret gjennom øynene til en kvinne som blir like mye en del av vår historie, som av den meksikanske historien hun observerer og er med på å skape. Laura Díaz blir født i 1898, og blir gift, får barn, er mektige menns elskerinne, og før hun dør i 1972 blir hun hedret som en politisk engasjert kunstner. Hun lever et lykkelig liv til tross for de tragedier og tap hun opplever.

Temaet i denne romanen er den tyske gjenforeningen. Forfatteren knytter sammen de forløp og begivenheter som nettopp har skjedd, og deres forhistorier. Ved denne sammenstillingen av merkelige skjebner og politiske prosesser har forfatteren skapt et panorama over tysk historie fra revolusjonen i 1848 og frem til våre dager (1990-tallet).

In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times bestseller, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between good and evil. Carrying its readers from the first stirring of consciousness to a vision of the end of the world, The Great and Secret Show is a breathtaking journey in the company of a master storyteller.

Boka forteller om livet og karrieren til filmskaperen George Lucas, mest kjent for Star Wars-filmene. Har filmografi, bibliografi og register.

Mary er nitten år gammel og bor alene i Albuquerque. Når hun møter José Luis, en flyktning som er blitt smuglet inn i USA fra borgerkrigen i El Salvador, blir hun forelsket i øyeblikket og i mannen. Litt etter litt begynner hun å avsløre for José Luis den delen av seg selv hun aldri har kjent.

Danny Williams hadde ingen planer om å bli advokat, men likevel jobber han 18 timer om dagen i et advokatfirma i London. Selv om han er vellykket, er han også overarbeidet og ensom, og av og til er han også stein. Planen var å forlate de nordirske småbyproblemene til fordel for storbyen i England, men en kveld dukker den gamle skolekameraten Geordie opp. Han er på flukt fra militante, irske lojalister, og bringer med seg alt Danny trodde han hadde forlatt. Dette er forfatterens første roman.

Det er endelig fred i den nye republikken, men den er truet. Luke Skywalker er rastløs og legger ut på en farefull ferd for å finne sin mors folk. Og en mysisk ny fiende, Dukhans leder, truer den skjøre freden.

Leia prøver å finne en diplomatisk løsning på det problemet som truer Den nye republikken. Lando blir tatt til fange av et fremmed romskip, og Luke forsøker å få vite mer om sin mor. Samtidig møter Han Solo en flåte av krigsskip som det blir vanskelig for styrkene fra den nye republikken å slå.

Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and Inez Prada, a red-haired Mexican diva, are brought together in a passion by Berlioz's music for The Damnation of Faust. Meanwhile, the mysterious tale of Neh-el and Ah-nel - the first lovers in human history - unfolds, seductively echoing the Faustian pact of love an death. Linking these narratives is a beautiful crystal seal that belongs to Atlan-Ferrara, its meaning an obsession and its power an enigma.

Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn invade the entourage of a tasteless New York real estate and media magnate, try to turn his talentless wife into a chanteuse, and vie for the affections of a paralyzingly suave magazine editor.

In each of these elegant and mesmerizing stories, Kim Edwards explores the lives of those who exist on the fringes of society--a fire-eater, an American and his Korean war bride, a juggler and a trapeze artist. Spanning several generations and transporting us to exotic locations in Europe, Asia, and America, this wise and exquisite story collection marks the debut of a gifted new voice in literature.

"The Russian Concubine" dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel. Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd, and her fervent girlhood love for a passionate revolutionary named Vasily. After a perilous escape, Sofia endures months of desolation and hardship. But, clinging to a promise she made to Anna, she subsists on the belief that someday she will track down Vasily. In a remote village, sheas nursed back to health by a Gypsy family, and there she finds more than refugeashe also finds Mikhail Pashin, who, her heart tells her, is Vasily in disguise. Heas everything she has ever wantedabut he belongs to Anna. After coming this far, Sofia is tantalizingly close to freedom, familyaeven a future. All that stands in her way is the secret past that could endanger everything she has come to hold deara]

An epic journey of love and discovery from the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine and The Red Scarf. China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is imprisoned in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery girl is willing to leave everything behind- even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo. Lydia begins a dangerous search, journeying to Moscow with her half-brother Alexei. But when Alexei abruptly disappears, Lydia is left alone, penniless in Soviet Russia. All seems lost, but Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He knows things about her father that she does not. And while he races to protect her, she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth.

From the talent behind "The Dowry Bride" and "The Forbidden Daughter" comes a fascinating novel set in a bustling and colorful neighborhood called Little India.

Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all hits the fan? You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system. **I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes.** So begins Neil Strauss's harrowing new book: his first full-length worksince the international bestseller The Game, and one of the most original-and provocative-narratives of the year. After the last few years of violence and terror, of ethnic and religious hatred, of tsunamis and hurricanes?and now of world financial meltdown?Strauss, like most of his generation, came to the sobering realization that, even in America, anything can happen. But rather than watch helplessly, he decided to do something about it. And so he spent three years traveling through a country that's lost its sense of safety, equipping himself with the tools necessary to save himself and his loved ones from an uncertain future. With the same quick wit and eye for cultural trends that marked The Game, The Dirt, and How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Emergency traces Neil's white-knuckled journey through today's heart of darkness, as he sets out to move his life offshore, test his skills in the wild, and remake himself as a gun-toting, plane-flying, government-defying survivor. It's a tale of paranoid fantasies and crippling doubts, of shady lawyers and dangerous cult leaders, of billionaire gun nuts and survivalist superheroes, of weirdos, heroes, and ordinary citizens going off the grid. It's one man's story of a dangerous world?and how to stay alive in it. Before the next disaster strikes, you're going to want to read this book. And you'll want to do everything it suggests. Because tomorrow doesn't come with a guarantee...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLISTHomer and Langley Collyer are brothers-the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley's proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers-wars, political movements, technological advances-and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The inspiration for the major motion picture Rebel in the Rye One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject of this definitive biography, which is filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records. Kenneth Slawenski explores Salinger's privileged youth, long obscured by misrepresentation and rumor, revealing the brilliant, sarcastic, vulnerable son of a disapproving father and doting mother. Here too are accounts of Salinger's first broken heart-after Eugene O'Neill's daughter, Oona, left him-and the devastating World War II service that haunted him forever. J. D. Salinger features this author's dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Elia Kazan, his office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors and writers, and the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, which would both make him world-famous and hasten his retreat into the hills of New Hampshire. J. D. Salinger is this unique author's unforgettable story in full-one that no lover of literature can afford to miss. Praise for J. D. Salinger: A Life "Startling . . . insightful . . . [a] terrific literary biography."-USA Today "It is unlikely that any author will do a better job than Mr. Slawenski capturing the glory of Salinger's life."-The Wall Street Journal "Slawenski fills in a great deal and connects the dots assiduously; it's unlikely that any future writer will uncover much more about Salinger than he has done."-Boston Sunday Globe "Offers perhaps the best chance we have to get behind the myth and find the man."-Newsday "[Slawenski has] greatly fleshed out and pinned down an elusive story with precision and grace."-Chicago Sun-Times "Earnest, sympathetic and perceptive . . . [Slawenski] does an evocative job of tracing the evolution of Salinger's work and thinking."-The New York Times

The newly revised book keeps the national interests secure, but this highly qualified warrior's story is still intact. Shaffer's assessment of successes and failures in Afghanistan remains dramatic, shocking, and crucial reading for anyone concerned about the outcome of the war.