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Blood Brothers: The fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by
This is a riveting, informative, and thought-provoking story of the friendship between two of the mid-20th century cultural icons.
Clemente: The passion and grace of baseball's last hero by
A great biography of one of my favorite baseball players. My father was Puerto Rican, and Clemente is an icon of Puerto Rico. The book tells his life story, how the media anglicized his name, labeled him a hypochondriac, and so much more. A rich portrait of one of baseball's true icons.
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A secret history of Jewish punk by
I play guitar in a punk band, and this details the deep contribution of Jews to the first wave of punk rock. It includes members of the Ramones, the Dictators, Television, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and so much more. It's surprising because so many musicians adopted stage names that hid their Jewish roots.
The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s by
I'm a huge fan of Bowie's 1970s work, and this book details every song he wrote during what the author calls Bowie's "long seventies," from 1969 to 1980. This book is part biography, part critical analysis.
Anne of Green Gables by
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Pioneer Days in the Catskill High Peaks: Tannersville and the region around by
Details the history of Tannersville, Hunter, and the family history of the Showers family.
To Kill a Mockingbird by
A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
When Breath Becomes Air by
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.