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  • Duke

    A Life of Duke Ellington

    A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis ArmstrongEdward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century—and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. The grandson of a slave, he dropped out of high school to become one of the world’s most famous ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Flashfire

    A Parker Novel

    by Richard Stark ...
    Series series The Parker Novels
    Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital—the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.But cash isn't everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Duke

    A Life of Duke Ellington

    Narrated by Peter Francis James ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 43 min

    A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis ArmstrongEdward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century—and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. The grandson of a slave, he dropped out of high school to become one of the world’s most famous ... Read more

    $17.50 USD

  • The Dud Avocado

    by Elaine Dundy ...
    A smart, funny classic about a young and beautiful American woman who moves to Paris determined to live life to the fullest.The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Firebreak

    A Parker Novel

    by Richard Stark ...
    A fortune in art awaits the master thief clever enough to steal it in this action-packed noir novel.Foreword by Terry TeachoutBetween Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghosts on the Roof

    Selected Journalism

    Whittaker Chambers is one of the most controversial figures in modern American history a former Communist spy who left the party, testified against Alger Hiss before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and wrote a classic autobiography, Witness. Dismissed by some as a crank, reviled by others as a traitor, Chambers still looms as a Dostoevskian figure over three decades after his death in ... Read more

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  • Making It

    Series series NYRB Classics
    A controversial memoir about American intellectual life and academia and the relationship between politics, money, and education.Norman Podhoretz, the son of Jewish immigrants, grew up in the tough Brownsville section of Brooklyn, attended Columbia University on a scholarship, and later received degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Cambridge University. Making It is his blistering ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Kansas City Lightning

    The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

    Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 56 min

    Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Jazzmen

    How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

    by Larry Tye ...
    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 44 min

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    The Indispensable Composers

    A Personal Guide

    Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 24 min

    An exploration into the question of greatness from the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York TimesWhen he began to listen to the great works of classical music as a child, Anthony Tommasini had many questions. Why did a particular piece move him? How did the music work? Over time, he realized that his passion for this music was not enough. He needed to understand it. Take Bach, for starters ... Read more

    $27.50 USD

  • Nobody Runs Forever

    A Parker Novel

    by Richard Stark ...
    Series series The Parker Novels
    "Lots of bleak fun . . . This stellar series just gets better and better." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The saga begins with a poker game gone lethally awry. When Parker goes in on a messy scam—stealing an armored car—with someone he barely knows, as usual the amateurs get in the way of the job. From a nervous ex-con and his well-intentioned sister to a bank manager's two-timing wife and a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Craftland

    In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades

    by James Fox ...
    Narrated by James Fox ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    An “impassioned and inspiring account of the extraordinary men and women still doing traditional artisanal work” (The Sunday Times) in the face of massive technological industrialization—by renowned Cambridge art historian Dr. James Fox.“Beautifully written and (charmingly illustrated) . . . His chronicle of the decline of the traditional trades is staggering.”—The Wall Street JournalDuring an age ... Read more

    $22.00 USD