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From behind the walls of a handful of well-hidden, unlikely recording studios in the Los Angeles area, legends-in-waiting created masterpiece albums. It was a time of astonishing creativity and unprecedented fame and fortune. It was also a time of unfettered excess that threatened to unravel everything along the way. With access that only a longtime music business insider can provide, Kent Hartman packs Goodnight, L.A. with never-before-told stories...
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 32
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It's time to cry S.O.S. - Save Our School! New York City has a new mayor, and his name is…Wilson Fisk! Yes, the Kingpin is in charge of the Big Apple, including the Department of Education! But he won't be running it alone: meet your new favorite Marvel character, Princess Fisk! What is her tragic past? Meanwhile, Lunella's problems are all in the present. For one, if she's so smart, why can't she unravel the genetic mystery that keeps swapping...
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Rene "Boxer" Enriquez grew up on the violent streets of East L.A., where gang fights, robberies, and drive-by shootings were fueled by rage, drugs, and alcohol. When he finally landed in prison-at the age of nineteen-Enriquez found an organization that brought him the respect he always wanted: the near-mythic and widely feared Mexican Mafia, La Eme.What the organization saw in Enriquez was a young man who knew no fear and would kill anyone-justifiably...
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Along life's path, Gary L. Coleman had three careers, three wives, and three children. Gary's first career was as a public-school music teacher for five years. His next career, which spanned thirty-seven years, was as a studio musician. Gary was a percussionist who, as one of the early members of the Wrecking Crew and a Motown musician, was fortunate to have worked with hundreds of the most famous artists and acts of the sixties and seventies. During...
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California Pop chronicles the Southland's pop-cultural development from the 15th century, through the 1960s, when the mid-century, Southern California milieu had reached full maturity. It's not an academic treatise; it's just a smooth reading beach book chock full of amusing stories and fun facts about the legions of Southlanders who turned an isolated desert into a pop-cultural dynasty.
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Robert Asprin's Classic Fantasy available for the first time in eBook! Cover and interior illustrations by Phil Foglio! A Recipe for Myth-Adventure... Skeeve is a magician's apprentice (and a wanna-be thief) until an assassin's bolt kills his master, Garkin. Along with Aahz, the green-scaled, purple-tongued demon and master magician summoned by Garkin, he sets out on a quest to get even. The road to vengeance is bound to prove rocky, however, because...
27) Thor the mighty
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Spotlight
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2013, c2011
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English
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The Norse thunder god Thor, a member of the Avengers superhero team, helps people in trouble and battles the supervillain team the Wrecking Crew.
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In Beginnings Vol 2 we look at two of the most significant American popular songwriters of the modern era, both who rose to prominence during the tumultuous 1960's and whose work and influence will live on for many years yet. In some ways it's a tale of two coasts, as Paul Simon emerged from the pseudo-intellectual folk scene in New York, while Brian Wilson and his group, The Beach Boys, emerged from the nascent surf scene in Los Angeles, but both...
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Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government. To survive the next four years, we the people need to know whose hands are on the levers of power-- and how to challenge their abuses. Nichols has been covering many of these deplorables for decades, and now he digs deep into the histories and ideologies of the people who make up Trump's...
30) Matt Helm Lounge
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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2005
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English
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Having kidnapped the inventor of a death ray that can incinerate entire cities, Julian Wall intends to destroy Washington, D.C., as a warning to all those who oppose him (Murderers' row). Matt Helm, ICE's greatest secret agent, is in hot pursuit of the nefarious Tung-Tze, head of the evil Big O organization (Silencers.) When an evil criminal mastermind steals America's latest superweapon, Matt Helm (Dean Martin) heads south of the border to steal...
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc
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2021.
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"When the Silver Surfer arrives in Manhattan warning of an ancient cosmic menace on a collision course with Earth, Lunella Lafayette must step up and solve the impossible! But without Devil Dinosaur by her side, Lunella joins forces with some new friends who are missing their won pals: the Human Torch and the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing! But who will make it a truly awesome foursome? Then it's time to cry S.O.S. -- that means Save Our School, from...
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Stepping out of her comfort zone with her former best friend Beat Dawkins to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve, Melody Gallard, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal threatens to wreck everything--the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love.
Melody Gallard may be the daughter of music royalty, but her world is far from glamorous. She spends her days restoring...
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
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2017.
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"To spare a life, Thor makes the ultimate sacrifice! With the fate of his friend Eric Masterson in the balance, Thor steps in--and finds himself bonded to a mortal form! But which deadly foe will bring about such dire straits? Could it be Quicksand? The maniacal Mongoose? A new Executioner? Or as an untethered Asgard drifts into the Negative Zone, Annihilus? As a new era begins for Thor, Hercules returns! And it will take the combined might of these...
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From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye—the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.
In 1820,...
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.
In 1820,...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
40) TX Jelly
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New West Records, LLC
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[2017]
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English
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The Lone Star-bred collective, The Texas Gentlemen, takes its cues from some of the iconic acts of the past the quicksilver brilliance of The Wrecking Crew and Bob Dylans one-time backers The Band are the most obvious examples. Founding member, Beau Bedford, who shares chief engineering and production responsibilities at Dallas Modern Electric Sound Recorders, assembled The Texas Gentlemen as an all-purpose backing band for an eclectic array of singer-songwriters,...
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