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Begin Again_ A Biography of Joh - Kenneth Silverman
From John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, qui... -
Bacon_ A Love Story - Heather Lauer
From Publishers WeeklyIn this voluminous look at all things bacon, the creator of BaconUnwrapped.com takes her love of pig belly to print. Like its subject, this material is best c... -
Apathy for the Devil - Nick Kent
From Publishers WeeklyThe subtitle of Kent's first memoir, and first book since 2002's The Dark Stuff collected his writings on rock music, says it all: this is a staggering and vi... -
An Education - Lynn Barber
Review[Barber’s] a suburban girl who’s frightened that she’s going to get cut out of everything good that happens in the city. That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. It’s ... -
American Empire_ Blood and Iron - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyNobody plays the what-if game of alternative history better than Turtledove, especially when he has a large-scale subject and when he's working close enough t... -
Agincourt - Bernard Cornwell
"The greatest writer of historical adventures today" (Washington Post) tackles his richest, most thrilling subject yet — the heroic tale of Agincourt.Young Nichol... -
A Heartbeat Away - Michael Palmer
From Publishers WeeklyPalmer (The Last Surgeon) offers a nifty plot premise in this high-concept medical thriller, but a plethora of subplots distracts from the more interesting pr...