Music & Movies
American Legends: The Life of Nat King Cole
"If I could read it, I could play it." - Nat King Cole A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In...
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American Legends: The Life of Natalie Wood
*Includes pictures.*Includes Wood's quotes about her own life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents."Stardom is only a byproduct of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.” –...
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American Legends: The Life of Otis Redding
"If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it 24 hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from...
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American Legends: The Life of Red Skelton
*Includes pictures*Includes Skelton's quotes about his life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading “I don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest'; let other guys claim to be the best. I just want to be...
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American Legends: The Life of Robert Mitchum
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading “I never take any notice of reviews - unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way...
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American Legends: The Life of Robert Redford
*Includes pictures*Includes Redford's own quotes about his life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading “The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned...
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American Legends: The Life of Sam Cooke
"I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand." (Sam Cooke) A lot of ink...
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American Legends: The Life of Sidney Poitier
*Includes pictures*Includes Poitier's quotes about his own life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.”...
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American Legends: The Life of Stevie Wonder
*Includes pictures*Includes Stevie Wonder's quotes about his own life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.” – Stevie WonderA lot of ink...
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American Legends: The Life of Walter Matthau
*Includes pictures *Includes Matthau's own quotes about his life and career *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality...'The Odd...
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American Legends: The Life of Willie Nelson
*Includes pictures*Includes Nelson's quotes about his life and career*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own...
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American Legends: The Pilgrims and the Mayflower
*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts from the journals of two of the Mayflower's passengers*Includes a Table of Contents.“By God's providence, upon the ninth of November following, by break of the day we espied land which was deemed to be Cape Cod, and...
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American Legends: The Salem Witch Trials
*Includes descriptions of the trials and executions of the accused.*Includes testimony from some of the cases and the petitions of some of the accused asking for clemency.*Includes pictures depicting important people, places, and events.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading."More than...
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American Legends: The Wright Brothers
*Includes pictures of the Wright brothers, their planes, and important events. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. “For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and...
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America's Most Influential Jazz Artists
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.” – Duke EllingtonLouis Armstrong once claimed that “Every time I close my...
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Stompin' at the Savoy: How Chick Webb Became the King of Drums
PUBLISHER: Sleeping Bear Press Though a disability stunted his growth and left him with a hunched back, William Henry "Chick" Webb did not let that get in the way of his musical pursuits. Even as a young child, Chick saw...
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Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars
PUBLISHER: Nancy Paulsen Books The poignant story of Blind Willie Johnson--the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night" was included on the Voyager I space probe's Golden RecordWillie Johnson was born in 1897, and from the beginning he loved to...
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Swing Sisters: The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm
PUBLISHER: Holiday House Back in 1909, not far from Jackson, Mississippi, Dr. Laurence Clifton Jones opened a special place for orphans named Piney Woods Country Life School. Dr. Jones loved music and wanted the children to love it too. In...
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Prince
PUBLISHER: Frances Lincoln Ltd In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Prince, one of the most iconic performers in music history.From a young age, Prince was obsessed with music....
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Aretha Franklin
PUBLISHER: Frances Lincoln Ltd In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Aretha Franklin, "The Queen of Soul."The fourth of five children, Aretha was born in Tennessee and took the...
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