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The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead--The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Hunter (Author), John Mayer (Foreword by), Dennis McNally (Introduction by)The legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s--a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of "the scene" in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia. "Strange to think back on those days when it was perfectly natural that we all slept on the floor in one sma...

Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Parish (Author)The untold story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead, written by an insider who lived it from the early days to today. Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island. The experience changed him and after getting out he did his best to stay out of trouble, securing a...

The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940 Facsimile Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Victor H. Green (Author)2020 Reprint of 1940 Edition. The Negro Motorist Green Book was an annual guidebook for African American road trippers. It was originated and published by African American, New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination against African Americans especially and other non-whites was widespread. Although pervasive racial discrimination and pov...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Benson (Author)In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer and lifelong Deadhead Michael Benson argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rock-and-roll band but a phenomenon central to American culture. He defends the proposition that the Grateful Dead are, in fact, a musical movement as transformative as any -ism in the artistic history of this century and the last. And a lot more fun than most. From the street festivals of Haight-A...

The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Schechter (Author)Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous perpetrators, and much more -- they examine all angles of a gruesome cultural phenomenon that grips our imagination. From Art (both by and ...

Aces Back to Back: The History of the Grateful Dead (1965 - 2016) - Paperback

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by Scott W. Allen (Author)Aces Back to Back is the most comprehensive, fun, fact-filled and up-to-date history of the Grateful Dead ever written - now updated through August, 2016 From the band's inception, through the death of Jerry Garcia, and on to their incarnations as the Other Ones, the Dead, RatDog, Phil Lesh and Friends, the Mickey Hart Band, 7 Walkers, and Furthur - a replete history complemented by never-before-penned Grateful Dead stories, anecdotes and tales. Our biography feat...

The Last Meal Cookbook: The Story of the Most Notorious Killers Told on a Plate

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Report copyright infringementby Abigail Hibbard (Author)Ever wondered what it would be like to get a taste of murder? Well, now you can! Take a trip to three states and find in each a recipe based around one criminal's last meal, as well as reading about some of their crimes, the history of death row, and the whole idea of a last meal. From the well known killers to the ones that flew under the true crime junkie's radar, there is an interesting story on every page, and can be sizzling on your...

Perspectives on the Grateful Dead: Critical Writings

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Report copyright infringementby Robert G. Weiner (Author)The Grateful Dead, one of the most meticulously documented rock bands, significantly influenced American music and popular culture. Its popularity has endured for three decades despite mixed critical reception. Jerry Garcia, thought of among many as a musical icon and spokesperson for more than one generation of fans, was often equally scorned by various critics. This collection of scholarly essays attests to the varied fields of intere...

Mein Kampf - The Official 1939 Edition Murphy Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Adolf Hitler (Author), James Murphy (Translator), Bob Carruthers (Introduction by)"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." Adolf Hitler The officially sanctioned English language edition of 'Mein Kampf' was translated and introduced by James Murphy. The edition using his translation was first published as a two volume set in the UK in 1939 and also in 22 weekly parts by Hutchison and Co Ltd. This authentic ...

Taylor Swift: The New York Times Best Seller

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (Author), Borghild Fallberg (Illustrator)*New York Times bestseller**#1 Sunday Times bestseller*Learn about the glittering story of Taylor Swift! The talented singer-songwriter who dreamed of sharing her talent with the world. The perfect gift for every Swiftie in your life, young and old, this powerful book features captivating illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with photos of the star and a...

Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Greenfield (Author)For more than thirty years, Jerry Garcia was the musical and spiritual center of the Grateful Dead, one of the most popular rock bands of all time. In Dark Star, the first biography of Garcia published after his death, Garcia is remembered by those who knew him best. Together the voices in this oral biography explore his remarkable life: his childhood in San Francisco; the formation of his musical identity; the Dead's road to rock star...

Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Conners (Author)Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to the mid-'90s, "Growing Up Dead" is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. Peter discovered the Grateful Dead in 1985, at the age of 15, through friends who exchanged bootleg tapes of live Grateful Dead concerts. A teenager living in the suburbs of Rochester, New York, he became exposed to an entirely new way of life, ...

Under the Eagle: Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Holiday (Author), Robert S. McPherson (Author)Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday's vivid account of his own story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which the narrator relates his experiences...

King Philip: War Chief of the Wampanoag People

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Report copyright infringementby John Stevens Cabot Abbott (Author)Metacomet (1638-1676), also known by his adopted English name King Philip, was chief to the Wampanoag people and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. He became a chief in 1662 when his brother Wamsutta (or King Alexander) died shortly after their father Massasoit. Wamsutta's widow Weetamoo (d. 1676), sunksqua of the Pocasset, was Metacomet's ally and friend for the rest of her life. Metacomet married Weetamoo's younger siste...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Tan (Author), David Allen Sibley (Foreword by)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Joy Luck Club comes a gorgeous and witty exploration of birding and nature. This inspiring work cultivates hope and connection, revealing the rhythms of our world and uncovering its beauty hidden in plain sight. - With a foreword by David Allen Sibley "Unexpected and spectacular" --Ann Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days "The drawings and ess...

The story of a Pilgrim family. From the Mayflower to the present time; with autobiography, recollections, letters, incidents, and genealogy of the aut

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Report copyright infringementby John Alden (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 440 Di...

Tall Sheep: Harry Goulding Monument Valley Trader

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Moon (Author)Harry Goulding--"Tall Sheep" to the Navajos--ran a trading post in Monument Valley from 1925 to 1963. In this book the Gouldings, and those who knew them, tell the story of the trader and his wife among the Navajos and among the increasing number of Anglos, who came to Monument Valley as visitors and whom Harry introduced to the land and its people. Samuel Moon's commentary sets their words in the context of larger events. The Goulding years...

The Journals of Grace Hartigan, 1951-1955

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Report copyright infringementby William T. La Moy (Editor), Joseph P. McCaffrey (Editor)Grace Hartigan emerged during the 1950s as a leading representative of the "second generation" of the New York School of abstract expressionist painters, a movement that achieved international standing for American art. In 1958, Hartigan was the only woman and one of only two artists under forty chosen by the Museum of Modern Art for a show on that school. Entitled The New American Painting, the show trave...

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Report copyright infringementby Adolf Hitler (Author), Michael Ford (Translator)For the first time in 65 years, a modern, easy to understand, truly complete, accurate and uncensored edition of Mein Kampf has been released which reveals more than any past translation. Older translations altered passages, omitted passages, mistranslated Hitler's words, made some parts more sensational while concealing the true meaning in other parts of the book. If you have read one of these older translations ...

Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Kreutzmann (Author), Benjy Eisen (Author)The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound systems and fan recordings, they were forward-thinking champions of artistic control and outlaw artists who marched to the beat...

Anything is Possible: Inspiring True Stories for Tween Boys about Courage, Dreaming Big, and Never Giving Up

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Report copyright infringementby Tween Success (Author), Ferne Bowe (Author)INSPIRING TRUE STORIES ABOUT COURAGE, SELF-BELIEF, AND DETERMINATION.-> The perfect gift for TWEEN BOYS - Ages 8-13 The tween years can be tricky. You're not quite a teenager, but you're also not a little kid. It's a time when you're trying to figure out who you are and what you want to be. And sometimes, that can be scary.The great news is you're not alone.Anything is Possible, by Tween Success, is a collection of ...

Keeper of the Flame: A Biography of Nina Simone

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Warner (Author), Lifecaps (Editor)The life of Nina Simone is one of blocked paths and surprising detours. Some people are born to an obvious destiny, only to find that society, circumstance, and chance steer them onto an entirely different course. Had Nina been born at a different time, she could very well have been a superstar of classical music at an early age. However, the severe oppression of African Americans in the United States during the 1950s ...

Deadheads Remember Englishtown '77: The Largest Gathering in New Jersey History

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Daley (Author), Manasha Garcia (With)Deadheads may disagree on which Grateful Dead concert was their best ever, but no one would argue that their performance at Englishtown on Sept. 3, 1977, was something special. For Jim Daley, who saw the band for the first time on that date, it was a life-changing experience that he looks back on with fondness more than forty years later. Like many others, he does n't remember much about that day ... but he sure does rem...

Black Artists Shaping the World: Picture Book Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Sharna Jackson (Author), Marilyn Esther Chi (Illustrator), Zoé Whitley (Contribution by)Featuring full-color reproductions of fourteen artworks and illustrations of the artists at work, this picture book is an ideal introduction to contemporary art for young children, and a fantastic tool for teachers wishing to decolonize and diversify their classroom.Sharna Jackson's experience as a children's author who has worked for over a decade in the cultural sector, bo...

Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

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Report copyright infringementby Leigh Ann Henion (Author)From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light. In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step outside, and embrace the dark as a pro...

History of King Philip, Sovereign Chief of the Wampanoags: Makers of History

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Report copyright infringementby John Stevens Cabot Abbott (Author)Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have." Considered what we would now call "young adult" literature, this collection, first published between 1848 and 1871, was designed to present a clear, distinct, connected narrative of th...

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Report copyright infringementby Joyce B. Lohse (Author)Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in Wisconsin. She moved west, married a man named Harvey Doe, and came to be called "Baby" by the miners in Central City, Colorado.After attracting the attention of wealthy Horace Tabor of Leadville, she began a very public affair with Tabor ending with marriage in a private ceremony in 1882. A lavish lifestyle ended after fifteen years with loss of the Tabor fortune in the Silver Crash and Horac...

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Report copyright infringementby Alejandra Acuña (Author)If you've ever carried the weight of your past like stones in your pockets or stood at the edge of your dreams, wondering if you had the courage to step forward-this book is for you. In Stones, Flowers, and Lessons Learned, Dr. Alejandra Acuña weaves a rebozo of resilience, love, and hard-earned wisdom. Drawing on years of research and lived experience, she blends personal storytelling, ancestral knowledge, and mental health expertise to...

Chief Of The Pilgrims - or, The Life and Time of William Brewster

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Report copyright infringementby Ashbel Steele (Author)"Chief Of The Pilgrims" is a 1857 biographical sketch of William Brewster (1568-1644) written by Ashbel Steele. Brewster was an English official and passenger aboard the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. The ship has since become an important part of North American history and culture, as well as the subject of innumerable works of art, plays, films, poems, songs, books, etc. Due to his ...

Daniel Boone, the Pioneer of Kentucky: Illustrated

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Report copyright infringementby John S. C. Abbott (Author)This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person of Daniel Boone as well as the achievements he made in furthering European settlement in America. Number of Pages: 238 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN ...

She Hath Done What She Could: The Life of Fanny J. Crosby in Story and in Song

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Report copyright infringementby Glenn Christianson (Contribution by), Paul G. Hiscock (Author)"She Hath Done What She Could" is a dramatic hymn-story program for choir on the life of the blind hymn-writer, Fanny Crosby. The story and music have a clear message of salvation and dedication. The arrangements are refreshing and "singable." Written by Paul Hiscock and Glenn Christianson, it features arrangements for choir, ladies' group, men's group, keyboard, congregation, with dramatic narration...

The Life of Saint Anthony: The Miracles and Teachings of the Patron Saint of Portugal

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Report copyright infringementby Saul Cross (Author)Discover the extraordinary life and legacy of Saint Anthony of Padua in this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated biography. As one of the most revered saints in the Catholic Church, Saint Anthony has inspired millions of people through his teachings, miracles, and unwavering faith. This book delves deep into the life of the saint, providing a detailed account of his journey, his remarkable spiritual insights, and the miracles that have ...