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Rock. Disco. Soul, Jazz. Folk. Funk. The 1970s were as varied as they were exhilarating. Corbett transports us to this thrillingly tumultuous era through a playful exploration of its music. Song by song, album by album, he shows that the music scene of the 1970s was as varied as it was exhilarating. His essays allow readers to dip in and out of the decade at random or immerse themselves completely in Corbett's chronological journey. -- adapted from...
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"Some are born with a perfect palate, others with a perfect pitch. Denver Art Museum Curator of Paintings Lilly Sparks was born with a perfect eye. When the museum's billionaire benefactor is brutally murdered, the grisly tableau stuns her; it's the human embodiment of the museum's prized landscape by famed impressionist Gustave Caillebotte. Lily comes to believe that the Caillebotte was forged and the killer is a painter the art world has spurned....
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Harmony Harbor volume 2
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"Hidden in Graystone Manor is a book containing all the dark secrets of Harmony Harbor, and Ava DiRossi is determined to find it. No one-especially not her ex-husband, Griffin Gallagher-can ever discover what really tore her life apart all those years ago. With Griffin back in town, it's more important than ever that she find the book before someone else does. Because her ex is still angry with her for leaving him. And he still has no idea Ava never...
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"Opposites attract and sparks fly when the vivacious Arabella falls for a baron who lives under the shadow of a scandalous family secret. 1815, London Arabella Latham is a free spirit who longs to feel the spark of true love, but few men can match her passion for Shakespeare or her zest for life. Though her prospects seem slim, Arabella knows she can always count on the handsome but stoic Lord Henry Northcott, dubbed "The Brooding Baron" by the ton,...
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"An exhilarating volume that will ratchet up the joy for all reading groups "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics, " writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished little magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe a life lived in and through...