• Sérgio Alcides (1967- )
• Ricardo Aleixo (1960- )
• Marçal Aquino (1958- )
• Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil
• Clara Averbuck (1979- )
• Juva Batella (1970- )
• Evanildo Beckara (1928- )
• Régis Bonvicino (1955- )
• Paulo Henriques Britto
• Chico Buarque (1944- )
• Augusto de Campos (1931- )
• Paulo Coelho (1947- )
• Carlos Heitor Cony
• Horácio Costa (1954- )
• Adriana Falcão (1960- )
• Marilene Felinto (1957- )
• Marcelino Freire (1967- )
• Angélica Freitas
• Daniel Galera (1979- )
• Milton Hatoum
• Bernardo Kucinski (1937- )
• Salomão Laredo (1949- )
• Esther Largman (1934- )
• Paulo Lins (1958- )
• Adriana Lisboa
• Ana Maria Machado (1941- )
• Alberto Mussa (1961- )
• Carlos Nejar (1939- )
• Arthur Omar
• Marcelo Rubens Paiva (1959- )
• P. J. Pereira (1973- )
• Adélia Prado
• Esmeralda Ribeiro (1958- )
• Ruth Rocha (1931- )
• Luiz Ruffato (1961- )
• Alice Ruiz (1946- )
• André Sant-Anna (1964- )
• Silviano Santiago (1936- )
• Jair Ferreira dos Santos (1946- )
• Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1928- )
• Roberto Schwarz (1928- )
• Marcos Siscar (1964- )
• Muniz Sodré (1942- )
• Joca Reiners Terron (1968- )
• Carlos Trigueiro (1943- )
• Edla Van Steen (1936-2018)
• Caetano Veloso
• Zuenir Ventura (1931- )
• Luiz Fernando Veríssimo (1936- )
• Fernanda Young.

"Contains biographical entries on twenty-first-century Brazilian writers"-- Provided by publisher.

• Prelude : mountain violence
• Fighting Noah Milton
• Tough men
• Lo's gym
• Flex and the rumble on the hill
• Street preacher
• The unlikely reincarnation story of Rick Cogar
• Jeremiah and the three bears
• Ring girls
• Appalachian underdogs of the squared circle
• Prizefighters
• Hillbilly Jefferson
• Premature stoppage.

Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college professor, comes a passionate commentary on these themes in a family memoir set in West Virginia coal country. 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym is the story of the author's father, Mike ""Lo"" Snyder, a fifth generation West Virginia coal miner who opened a series of makeshift boxing gyms with the goal of providing local at-risk youth with the opportunities that eluded his adolescence. Taking these hardscrabble stories as his starting point, Snyder interweaves a history of the region, offering a smart analysis of the costs - both financial and cultural - of an economy built around extractive industries. Part love letter to Appalachia, part rigorous social critique, readers may find 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym - and its narrative of individual and community strength in the face of globalism's headwinds - a welcome corrective to popular narratives that blame those in the region for their troubles.
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• Macedonia before Philip II
• Philip's childhood
• The reign of Philip
• Philip's new model army and new model state
• The reign of Alexander
• The wars of the successors
• The Hellenistic world and Hellenistic civilization
• Aftermath: the lingering impact of Hellenistic culture.

"By the author of Marathon, an enlightening look at the historical context behind Alexander the Great, his accomplishments, and his legacy"-- Amazon.com.

• Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Dedication Page; Prologue; Chapter One. 1892-1919; Chapter Two. 1920-1929; Chapter Three. 1930-1939; Chapter Four. 1940-1949; Chapter Five. 1950-1959; Chapter Six. 1960-1969; Chapter Seven. 1970-1979; Chapter Eight. 1980-1989; Chapter Nine. 1990-1996; Epilogue; Appendix: Blue Grass Boys; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author

The Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe was a major star of the Grand Ole Opry for over fifty years; a member of the Country Music, Songwriters, and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame; and a legendary figure in American music. This authoritative biography sets out to examine his life in careful detail--to move beyond hearsay and sensationalism to explain how and why he accomplished so much. Former Blue Grass Boy and longtime music journalist Tom Ewing draws on hundreds of interviews, his personal relationship with Monroe, and an immense personal archive of materials to separate the truth from longstanding myth. Ewing tells the story of the Monroe family's musical household and Bill's early career in the Monroe Brothers duo. He brings to life Monroe's 1940s heyday with the Classic Bluegrass Band, the renewed fervor for his music sparked by the folk revival of the 1960s, and his declining fortunes in the years that followed. Throughout, Ewing deftly captures Monroe's relationships and the personalities of an ever-shifting roster of band members while shedding light on his business dealings and his pioneering work with Bean Blossom and other music festivals. Filled with a wealth of previously unknown details, Bill Monroe offers even the most devoted fan a deeper understanding of Monroe's towering achievements and timeless music.
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• Front Cover; Praise for Jarmila Novotná; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Dedication; Prelude; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Photo Section; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Appendix; Notes; Index.

A legendary beauty, hailed as one of the greatest singing actors of her time, Jarmila Novotna (1907-1994) was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia. Best known for her performances in Der Rosenkavalier, The Marriage of Figaro, and La Traviata, she was a celebrated performer at the Metropolitan Opera and other theaters across Europe and the United States. A "natural screen actress, " Novotna also appeared in Hollywood hits such as The Search (1948) with Montgomery Clift (with whom she shared an enduring friendship) and The Great Caruso (1951) with Mario Lanza. She was also considered a pioneering "crossover" star who performed on Broadway, and worked in radio and television with Bing Crosby and Abbott and Costello. This gifted artist captivated audiences worldwide, and while she was still a young woman, the Czech government treated her as a national heroine and its cultural ambassador. In Jarmila Novotna: My Life in Song, editor William V. Madison brings Novotna's own English-language version of her best-selling memoir to readers for the first time. The memoir details how, following her debut in 1925 at the National Theater in Prague, her fame quickly evolved into a tremendous musical career at a time of unprecedented political upheaval. Novotna provides eyewitness accounts of the Nazi takeovers of Germany and Austria, the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, and the aftermath of the Velvet Revolution in 1989, as well as her extensive travels in the United States during and after World War II. Throughout the memoir, lavishly illustrated with photos from her personal collection, Novotna shares entertaining stories about her time in Hollywood, an "unending stream of parties" - including those hosted by Louis B. Mayer, co-founder of MGM Studios - alongside such stars as Jimmy Stewart and Elizabeth Taylor. Novotna also offers revealing profiles of many notable artistic figures of the time, including director Max Reinhardt, composer Cole Porter, and conductor Arturo Toscanini, and dignitaries such as Dwight Eisenhower and Toma Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia. This fascinating self-portrait offers a window on history and the reflections of a captivating and supremely talented figure who left an indelible mark on the performing arts.
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• Ancestry
• The villages
• Hannibal
• Journeyman printer
• The river
• The war
• The mines
• Virginia City
• From Virginia City to San Francisco
• San Francisco
• he Sandwich Islands
• San Francisco redux
• New York
• The voyage
• Washington, D.C.
• The West revisited
• Hartford, Elmira, and Buffalo
• Buffalo exitus.

This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of Clemens's life, because the whole of that epic life cannot be compressed into a single volume. In The Life of Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst has chosen to write a complete biography plotted from beginning to end, from a single point of view, on an expansive canvas. With dozens of Mark Twain biographies available, what is left unsaid? On average, a hundred Clemens letters and a couple of Clemens interviews surface every year. Scharnhorst has located documents relevant to Clemens's life in Missouri, along the Mississippi River, and in the West, including some which have been presumed lost. Over three volumes, Scharnhorst elucidates the life of arguably the greatest American writer and reveals the alchemy of his gifted imagination.
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• Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface;
• 1. 1962;
• 2. 1963;
• 3. 1964;
• 4. 1965;
• 5. 1966;
• 6. 1967;
• 7. 1968;
• 8. 1969;
• 9. 1970;
• 10. 1971;
• 11. 1972;
• 12. 1973;
• 13. 1974;
• 14. 1975;
• 15. 1976;
• 16. 1977;
• 17. 1978;
• 18. 1979;
• 19. 1980;
• 20. 1981;
• 21. 1982;
• Appendix 1. BBC Radio and Radio Luxembourg Appearances, 1963-1965;
• Appendix 2. Television Appearances, 1963-1978; Bibliography; Index

"This day-by-day chronicle of every live concert by the Rolling Stones from 1962 through 1982. Comprehensive coverage of the shows includes set lists, venues, concert reviews, anecdotes and notable events in the lives of the band members. A list of their radio recordings, television performances, never-before-published posters, programs, tickets, handbills and photographs is included"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. The Saga of Society Red 1
• 2. An Uncommon Family 13
• 3. Education of an Eastside Altar Boy 26
• 4. Leaving Home 35
• 5. Pops 44
• 6. Blowin' the Blues Away 51
• 7. Business Lessons 62
• 8. Mischievous Lady 77
• 9. Central Avenue Bop 87
• 10. Trapped 99
• 11. Resurgence 113
• 12. New Life 120
• 13. Very Saxily Yours 134
• 14. Trouble in Paris 144
• 15. The Khalif of Valby 155
• 16. Homecoming 167
• 17. Bebop at Work 179
• 18. Round Midnight 191.
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Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter's personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter, "Man, you ought to leave your karma to science." Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film, and in jazz lore--even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself. .
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• Introduction
• 1. Harmony and Discord
• 2. Cars and Guitars
• 3. Suburbs and Surf
• 4. Studio and Stage
• 5. Fathers, Shrinks, and Gurus
• 6. Girlfriends, Wives, and Mothers
• 7. When Did the Early Sixties End?
• 8. Jan and Dean
• 9. Innocence and the Second-Best Pop Album Ever
• 10. Hip and White
• 11. The Best Unreleased Pop Album Ever
• 12. The Beatles
• 13. Into the Genres
• 14. Dennis
• 15. Carl
• 16. Al, Bruce, and David
• 17. Mike
• 18. Brian Solo
• 19. Storytellers, Historians, and Fans
• 20. Summer's Gone, the Endless Summer Epilogue: Suggestions Acknowledgments Notes Discography A Chronological Listing of DVDs Mentioned in the Book Bibliography.
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Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early surf, car, and summer pop and their later hippie, counterculture, and ambitious rock. No other group can claim the Ronettes and the Four Seasons as early 1960s rivals; the Mamas and the Papas and Crosby, Stills and Nash as later 1960s rivals; and the Beatles and the Temptations as decade-spanning counterparts. This is the first book to take an honest look at the themes running through the Beach Boys' art and career as a whole and to examine where they sit inside our culture and politics-and why they still grab our attention.
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• Front cover ; Copyright ; Contents ; Preface ; Prologue ; One ; Two ; Three ; Four ; Five ; Six ; Seven ; Eight ; Nine ; Ten ; Eleven ; Twelve ; Thirteen ; Fourteen ; Fifteen ; Sixteen ; Seventeen ; Eighteen ; Nineteen ; Twenty ; Twenty-One ; Twenty-Two ; Twenty-Three ; Twenty-Four ; Twenty-Five ; Twenty-Six ; Twenty-Seven ; Twenty-Eight ; Twenty-Nine ; Thirty ; Thirty-One ; Thirty-Two ; Thirty-Three ; Epilogue ; Appendix ; Acknowledgments ; Filmography ; Notes.

Barbara La Marr's (1896-1926) publicist once confessed: "There was no reason to lie about Barbara La Marr. Everything she said, everything she did was colored with news-value." When La Marr was sixteen, her older half-sister and a male companion reportedly kidnapped her, causing a sensation in the media. One year later, her behavior in Los Angeles nightclubs caused law enforcement to declare her "too beautiful" to be on her own in the city, and she was ordered to leave. When La Marr returned to Hollywood years later, her loveliness and raw talent caught the attention of producers and catapulted her to movie stardom. In the first full-length biography of the woman known as the "girl who was too beautiful, " Sherri Snyder presents a complete portrait of one of the silent era's most infamous screen sirens. In five short years, La Marr appeared in twenty-six films, including The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), Trifling Women (1922), The Eternal City (1923), The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924), and Thy Name Is Woman (1924). Yet by 1925 - finding herself beset by numerous scandals, several failed marriages, a hidden pregnancy, and personal prejudice based on her onscreen persona - she fell out of public favor. When she was diagnosed with a fatal lung condition, she continued to work, undeterred, until she collapsed on set. She died at the age of twenty-nine. Few stars have burned as brightly and as briefly as Barbara La Marr, and her extraordinary life story is one of tempestuous passions as well as perseverance in the face of adversity. Drawing on never-before-released diary entries, correspondence, and creative works, Snyder's biography offers a valuable perspective on her contributions to silent-era Hollywood and the cinematic arts.
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