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Geoffrey Giuliano
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Audio Holdings, LLC
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English
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Always the most musically commercial of the Beatles, Paul McCartney has been incredibly successful in his post-Beatles life as well. Paul McCartney: Inside the myth, we follow the career of one of popular music's greatest composers/performers, from the early days in Liverpool to his latest world tour.
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Audio Holdings, LLC
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English
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Born into a working class family in Seattle, Jimi Hendrix had a tough time growing up. Eventually, however, he fell in love with the guitar, and the rest is music history. This title features never-before-heard interviews with Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, Jimi's family, including his father Al Hendrix, Jack Bruce, Denny Laine and Paul McCartney.
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Audio Holdings, LLC
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English
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Dark Horse tells the intensely personal tale of a man refers to his tour of duty with the Beatles as "a nightmare." Giuliano presents George Harrison's story. Included are exclusive interviews with George Harrison, John Lennon, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Tiny Tim and many others, as well as rare archival material.
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Audio Holdings, LLC
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English
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Of the many living musical icons from the tempestuous sixties, Eric Clapton is perhaps the most enduring and talented. From his early stints with the Yardbirds and John Mayall as well as Cream and Blind Faith, Clapton has proven he is a blues master. Here is the untold story of the little boy from Ripley who rose through the ranks to become a true original.
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Author's Republic
Publication Date
2019
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English
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John Lennon's now we'll known, maternal half-sister Julia Baird joined forces with famous author, Geoffrey Giuliano in the early 1980s to write a riveting book on her life and times on the famous Beatle. With a stirring, revealing introduction by close friend Paul McCartney it was an immediate, internationally best selling smash! The sometimes rocky relationship between Mrs. Baird and Mr. Giuliano however, makes for an exciting, behind the scenes...
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Audio Holdings, LLC
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English
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This is a unique and personal portrait of perhaps the greatest singer/songwriter of our times, John Lennon. From his early days with the Quarry Men to his triumphs with the Beatles and their subsequent bitter split, here is a fascinating portrayal of an extraordinary man.
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Audio Holdings, LLC
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English
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The Rolling Stones have survived more than sixty years at the very pinnacle of the rock scene. Listen to the band's tempestuous history, including drug busts, mysterious deaths, exiles and headline-grabbing escapades. Included are original, previously unreleased interviews with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Brian Jones, plus many other Stones insiders.
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English
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This is a classic science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley. This work tells the story of the Terran Empire and their quest to maintain a peaceful rule. However, on the planet Wolf something is afoot. They enlist the services of Race Cargill of the Terran Secret Service, and he goes undercover on Wolf to find the source of the problem. His mission doesn't go as planned and he becomes involved in a blood feud, but this leads him to the secret...
11) The Virginian
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English
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Loosely based on the Johnson County War of 1892, a bloody clash between big landowners and small ranchers in Wyoming, Owen Wister's The Virginian is the classic saga of a man who embodied the spirit of a growing nation--a novel that inspired five movie versions and the popular TV series.
"When you call me that, SMILE!"
He wasn't looking for fame or glory. He wasn't looking for war. The man they called the Virginian was earning his way off the land,...
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English
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The book that made Mark Twain famous and introduced the world to that obnoxious and ubiquitous character: the American tourist Based on a series of letters first published in American newspapers, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's hilarious and insightful account of an organized tour of Europe and the Holy Land undertaken in 1867. Â With his trademark blend of skepticism and sincerity, Twain casts New World eyes on the people and places of the...
13) An Ideal Husband
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English
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Dublin, then at Oxford. With his education complete Wilde moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day. His only novel, The
...14) A doll's house
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English
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Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the life of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic dependence becomes brutally clear, Nora's acceptance of the status quo undergoes a profound change. To the horror of the bewildered Torvald, himself caught in the tight web of a conservative society which demands that he exert strict control, Nora comes to see that only possible true course of action is to...
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This daring tale of revenge and exotic intrigue is demonstrative of Stevenson's broad range and unique genius. "The Master of Ballantrae", first published in 1889, follows the conflict between two Scottish brothers of noble origins during the tumultuous Jacobite Risings of 1745. Greed and envy threaten to tear the brothers apart as a race for the family inheritance intensifies. James Durie, the protagonist and Master of Ballantrae, is as charming...
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eBooksLib
Publication Date
2005
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English
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Kate Douglas Wiggin was an important reformer of children's education at the turn of the century. During a period when children's use in society was often little more than for cheap labor, Kate Douglas Wiggin was dedicated to the betterment of youth. She was the first person to found a free kindergarten school in San Francisco in 1878. Her passion for children's rights carried over to her successful career as an author of children's books. In her...
17) Typee
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This Classroom Edition of Melville's classic first novel contains questions for discussion to help students with reading comprehension, critical thinking, and a close reading of the text."Melville has the strange, uncanny magic of sea-creatures, and some of their repulsiveness. He isn't quite a land animal. There is something slithery about him. Something always half-seas-over. In his life they said he was mad - or crazy. He was neither mad nor crazy....
18) The lost world
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English
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Two scientists, a big game hunter, and a journalist travel to the Amazon rain forest. On a volcanic plateau, they discover an isolated world still inhabited by dinosaurs, climaxing in a chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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English
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"The Mysterious Stranger is a novel by the American author Mark Twain that he worked on for a number of years between 1897 and 1908. This final version was published in 1916 after his death. The story takes place in 1590, where three boys, Theodor, Seppi, and Nikolaus, live relatively happy simple lives in a remote Austrian village called Eseldorf (German for "Assville" or "Donkeytown"). The story is narrated by Theodore, the village organist's son....
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This classic novella by the author of A Christmas Carol offers another unforgettable holiday tale of despair and redemption in Victorian England.
An impoverished old man, Toby "Trotty" Veck is beginning to despair for society. On New Year's Eve, after reading the latest news of crime and depravity in London, he begins to wonder if the poorer classes are simply born wicked. But after coming across a drifter and an orphan-whom Trotty happens to know...