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  • Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body

    Featuring critical essays, erotica, and stitched-up memories, Gender/Fucking explores sexual arousal as a site of knowledge about the self and world.Taking the idea of intellectual masturbation a bit too literally, Florence Ashley draws on their experiences as a transfeminine activist, academic, and slut to interrogate what it means to live in a gendered body in our difficult yet occasionally ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Prima Donna

    by Karen Swan ...
    Ballet, glamour, romance – and tragedy. Prima Donna is an enchanting, exciting story from Karen Swan, bestselling author of The Last Summer and Christmas by Candlelight.Breaking the rules was what she liked best. That was her sport. Renegade, rebel, bad girl. Getting away with it.Pia Soto is the sexy and glamorous prima ballerina, the Brazilian bombshell who's shaking up the ballet world with her ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Of Metal and Man - The Definitive Biography of James Hetfield

    The Definitive Biography of James Hetfield

    by Mark Eglinton ...
    'James Hetfield is a guitarist of otherworldly ability... this book tries to understand, de-mystify and even humanise a rock legend who, for most of his career, has remained impenetrable.'Metallica's ascension from thrash metal obscurity to becoming arguably one of the greatest rock bands the world has ever known, can be directly attributed to its lead singer and guitarist, James Hetfield. Having ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • God Is an Englishman

    Series Book 1 - Swann Family Saga
    *From master author R. F. Delderfield, the first in the beloved classic God Is an Englishman series.*The first novel in the epic God Is an Englishman series, this book is a stirring saga of England in the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, forever changing the landscape of England and her people.Adam Swann, scion of an army family, returns home in 1858 after service with Her ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Erdogan Pizza

    War Nerd Dispatches from a Violent and Grotesque World

    by John Dolan ...
    John Dolan aka The War Nerd presents a unique anti-travel book, an unheroic Odyssey, in which and his wife bounce reluctantly between historical war zones as they relocate every few months for reasons varying from tourist-visa expiry to veiled death threats. Every destination offers a different war or (more often) several, which inspire essays meditating on everything from Tuol Sleng to Rwanda to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Solid State

    The Story of "Abbey Road" and the End of the Beatles

    Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and reception of Abbey Road.In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the Beatles' sound, and included "Come Together," "Something," and "Here Comes the Sun," which all ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Not Dead & Not for Sale

    The Earthling Papers, a Memoir

    In the early 1990s, Stone Temple Pilots—not U2, not Nirvana, not Pearl Jam— was the hottest band in the world. STP toppled such mega-bands as Aerosmith and Guns N’ Roses on MTV and the Billboard charts. Lead singer Scott Weiland became an iconic front man in the tradition of Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Robert Plant.Then, when STP imploded, it was Weiland who emerged as the emblem of rock star ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

    by Will Cuppy ...
    A New York Times–bestselling, comical take on world history from the beloved New Yorker humorist.So, you think you know most of what there is to know about people like Nero and Cleopatra, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun, Lady Godiva and Miles Standish? You say there’s nothing more to be written about Lucrezia Borgia? How wrong you are, for in these pages you’ll find Will Cuppy footloose in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Director Should've Shot You

    Memoirs of the Film Trade

    The #1 New York Times–bestselling prolific author recounts his storied career as one of the top novelizers of films and television in Hollywood.Author Alan Dean Foster is a Grand Master of Media Tie-In Fiction. He has written both original tie-ins and script novelizations since the 1970s, bringing his straightforwardness—a favorite to readers but a nuisance to directors—to his many projects. For ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gunfighter Nation

    The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America

    Series series Mythology of the American West
    National Book Award Finalist: The “impressive” conclusion to the “magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history” (Film Quarterly).“The myth of the Western frontier—which assumes that whites’ conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained means to a progressive, civilized society—is embedded in our national psyche. U.S. troops called Vietnam ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin Jazz Guide

    The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

    The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked out the 1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should have and shows how they tell the history ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Capablanca's Best Chess Endings

    Series series Dover Chess
    Chess endings have an immediacy lacking in chess endgame or chess problems: endings are not theoretical or composed, but actual board positions, the point in every game when the superfluous falls away, leaving only the essential. José Raúl Capablanca (1888–1942) had no need for isolated artistic theory or compositions — he composed and created chess art as he played. All of his genius — intuitive, ... Read more

    $12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Holiday in North Korea

    The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth

    “You remember Eat, Pray, Love and Under the Tuscan Sun? Yeah, this really isn’t like those. It’s better” (San Francisco Chronicle).Most people want out of North Korea. Wendy Simmons wanted in.In My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth, Wendy shares a glimpse of North Korea as it’s never been seen before. Even though it’s the scariest place on Earth, somehow Wendy forgot to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Improv Handbook

    The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond

    Series series Performance Books
    The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance.First published in 2008, this second edition ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation 365

    A complete episode-by-episode exploration of the hit TV series—with rarely seen photos and illustrations.With the launch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gene Roddenberry somehow managed to recapture lightning in a bottle. This new incarnation of Star Trek was an instant hit, and its popularity inspired four films and three spin-off television series.A must-have for fans, Star Trek: The Next ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chairman at the Board

    Recording the Soundtrack of a Generation

    by Bill Schnee ...
    Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists from the 1970s to today. Bill Schnee takes the reader inside the studio—behind the curtain—and through the decades with a cavalcade of famous artists as he helped them to realize their vision.After his high school band was dropped by Decca ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Way of Cane

    The Science, Craft, and Art of Bassoon Reed-making

    by Eric Arbiter ...
    As the sound-producing mechanism for the bassoon, the reed is a vital component in the sound of the entire instrument. While pre-manufactured reeds are widely available for purchase at music stores, this one-size-fits-all option hardly does justice to the unique needs of the musician and the piece. Many bassoonists, including seasoned professional bassoonist Eric Arbiter, instead choose to craft ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures

    by Stephen Pile ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES HUMOUR BOOK OF THE YEAR'One of the few books to make me laugh out loud' Sunday ExpressWith Stephen Pile's The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures, celebrate the very best in failure with this all new collection of outrageously funny misadventures from the author of the classic number one bestseller The Book of Heroic Failures.Anyone can be a success, but it takes real ... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Free to Move

    Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom

    by Ilya Somin ...
    Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But it has two major shortcomings: individual voters have little chance of making a difference, and they face strong incentives to remain ignorant about the issues at stake. "Voting with your feet," however, avoids both these pitfalls and offers a wider range of choices. In Free to Move, Ilya Somin explains how broadening ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bassoon Reed Making

    A Pedagogic History

    Withheld by leading pedagogues in an effort to control competition, the art of reed making in the early 20th century has been shrouded in secrecy, producing a generation of performers without reed making fluency. While tenets of past decades remain in modern pedagogy, Christin Schillinger details the historical pedagogical trends of bassoon reed making to examine the impact different methods have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

    **Instant National BestsellerShortlisted for the 2023 Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award"Witty, literary and very funny." —Minneapolis Star TribuneWelcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren’t even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice.**Some years ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • The Tropoholic's Guide to Backstory Romance Tropes

    by Cindy Dees ...
    Series Book 3 - The Tropoholic's Guides
    NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 33 iconic backstory romance tropes, the stories made up of the lingering problems, scars, and needs from your hero’s and heroine’s pasts ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Detroit Project

    Three Plays

    Three provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits at a cross-section—of race and policing, of labor and recession, of property ownership and gentrification—and comes alive in the characters and relationships that look toward complex, hopeful futures. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Gift Of A Curse

    Overcoming Everything that was meant to destroy me

    This powerful and heartbreaking book tells the testimony of a young woman whose life was cursed from the moment she was born. She endured a great deal of pain and abuse which led her down a path of addiction, time in prison, and making a series of bad decisions.She felt alone and unloved, and struggled to understand her worth.As the author shares her story, she inspires the reader to use their own ... Read more

    $9.99 USD