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Product Description: The first in-depth look at the life of Ola Belle Reed, a groundbreaking artist who is one of the all-time greatest performers of authentic, old-time music. Ola Belle Reed s 1960s recordings, some of the earliest she ever made and available here for the very first time, are counter-balanced by a disc of modern-day field recordings of her descendants and those within her Appalachian community that she inspired...read more

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9780981734279 | Har/com edition (Dust to Digital, February 23, 2016), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The first in-depth look at the life of Ola Belle Reed, a groundbreaking artist who is one of the all-time greatest performers of authentic, old-time music.

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Product Description: The second volume in Ian Bell's magisterial two-part biography of the ever-evolving and enigmatic Bob Dylan By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured. The 1975 album Blood on the Tracks seemed to prove, finally, that an uncertain age had found its poet...read more

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9781605986289 | Pegasus Books, October 15, 2014, cover price $35.00
9781780575773 | Mainstream Pub Co Ltd, August 1, 2013, cover price $33.85 | About this edition: The second volume in Ian Bell's magisterial two-part biography of the ever-evolving and enigmatic Bob Dylan By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured.

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9781605989204 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, December 7, 2015), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The second volume in Ian Bell's magisterial two-part biography of the ever-evolving and enigmatic Bob Dylan By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured.

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By Holly Near (foreword by)

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9780520253087 | Univ of California Pr, October 2, 2015, cover price $26.95

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9780252036026 | Univ of Illinois Pr, March 8, 2011, cover price $29.95

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9780252077982 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, July 17, 2015), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: When the times they were a-changin', Bob Dylan became the counterculture's most revered hero. He's won countless awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, several Grammys®, a Golden Globe®, and an Oscar®. This beautiful book traces Dylan's path from Minnesota to Greenwich Village to worldwide fame, illuminating his groundbreaking impact as never before...read more

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9781780976495 | Carlton Books Ltd, May 5, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When the times they were a-changin', Bob Dylan became the counterculture's most revered hero.

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9780810881921 | Scarecrow Pr, December 13, 2012, cover price $50.00
9780256036503, titled "Learning Aid for Use With Basic Marketing: A Managerial Approach" | 9 edition (Richard d Irwin, June 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | also contains Learning Aid for Use With Basic Marketing: A Managerial Approach

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Product Description: Woody Guthrie is the most famous and influential folk music composer and performer in the history of the United States. His most popular song, "This Land is Your Land" has become the country's unofficial national anthem, known to every school child since the 1960s...read more

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9780415895682 | Routledge, July 3, 2012, cover price $136.00 | About this edition: Woody Guthrie is the most famous and influential folk music composer and performer in the history of the United States.

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9780415895699 | Routledge, July 3, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Woody Guthrie is the most famous and influential folk music composer and performer in the history of the United States.

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By Rob Rosenthal (editor), Sam Rosenthal (editor) and Pete Seeger

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9781612052182 | Paradigm Pub, June 30, 2012, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Arlo Guthrie, the son of America’s legendary dust bowl troubadour Woody Guthrie and Martha Graham dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, was reared in the rarefied atmosphere of New York City’s remnant Old Left culture, a period that brought together art, political action, and folk music...read more

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9780810883314 | Scarecrow Pr, June 1, 2012, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Arlo Guthrie, the son of America’s legendary dust bowl troubadour Woody Guthrie and Martha Graham dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, was reared in the rarefied atmosphere of New York City’s remnant Old Left culture, a period that brought together art, political action, and folk music.

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9780061807329 | Harpercollins, May 3, 2011, cover price $27.99

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9780061807336 | Reprint edition (Perennial, May 15, 2012), cover price $15.99

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9780306822162, titled "The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir" | Reissue edition (Da Capo Pr, October 15, 2013), cover price $15.99

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9781455135400 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2012), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: The father of American folk music, Woody Guthrie influenced generations of Americans with his witty journalism and landmark songs. Woody's Road brings together letters to family, photos, drawings, and lyrics to reveal Guthrie's budding personality as he grew from a young boy into a man of remarkable strength and character, becoming America's most publicly political songwriter and the legendary musician who influenced Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Ani DiFranco and so many others...read more

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9781612052199 | Paradigm Pub, May 30, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The father of American folk music, Woody Guthrie influenced generations of Americans with his witty journalism and landmark songs.

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Product Description: Bob Dylan transformed not only folk music, but rock 'n' roll as a whole: he brought the intellectualism of folk lyrics to a genre still dominated by romantic conventions. From the phenomenal commercial success of his 1965 epic, gritty single “Like a Rolling Stone” to Time Out of Mind, rock's first treatise on mortality, in 1997, Dylan has been fearlessly breaking new ground...read more
By Sean Egan (editor)

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9780762442683 | Running Pr Book Pub, September 6, 2011, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Bob Dylan transformed not only folk music, but rock 'n' roll as a whole: he brought the intellectualism of folk lyrics to a genre still dominated by romantic conventions.

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9781596916968 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, August 30, 2011, cover price $30.00

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9781608194605 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, August 21, 2012, cover price $18.00

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Discuss how Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Mimi and Richard Fariäna gathered together in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, chronicling their rise from coffeehouse folksingers to popular icons.

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9780374281991 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Discuss how Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Mimi and Richard Fariäna gathered together in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, chronicling their rise from coffeehouse folksingers to popular icons.

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9780312680695, titled "Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina" | 10 anv edition (Picador USA, April 26, 2011), cover price $20.00
9780865476424 | Reprint edition (North Point Pr, April 1, 2002), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Discusses how Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Mimi and Richard Fariäna gathered together in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, chronicling their rise from coffeehouse folksingers to popular icons.

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By Stephen Alcorn (illustrator) and Samantha Thornhill

School and Library:

9780439928182 | Scholastic, December 1, 2010, cover price $18.99

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Product Description: As a chronicle of Marianne Robinson's unconventional life, ''Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire'' is a fast-moving personal story that describes her multidimensional life of commitment, change, and creativity. Poems, photos, and graphic images also serve to illustrate her restless journey...read more

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9781587902062 | Regent Pr, September 1, 2010, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: As a chronicle of Marianne Robinson's unconventional life, ''Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire'' is a fast-moving personal story that describes her multidimensional life of commitment, change, and creativity.

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Hardcover:

9780307269959 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 21, 2009, cover price $22.95

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9780307390981 | 1 edition (Vintage Books, June 8, 2010), cover price $15.00

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9780070974296 | 12 edition (McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, December 30, 2007), cover price $16.95
9780256036503 | 9 edition (Richard d Irwin, June 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | also contains Greenback Dollar: The Incredible Rise of the Kingston Trio

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The writer for The New Yorker magazine who revealed himself as the author of Primary Colors recounts the life of folk singer Woody Guthrie against the background of the Great Depression, in an illustrated biography. Reprint.

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9780394501529 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1980, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the harsh, sometimes tragic, ultimately triumphant life of the great American folk hero, focusing on his songs and the circumstances behind them, his influence on other songwriters and singers, and his impact on his audiences

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9780385333856 | Reprint edition (Delta, February 1, 1999), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The writer for The New Yorker magazine who revealed himself as the author of Primary Colors recounts the life of folk singer Woody Guthrie against the background of the Great Depression, in an illustrated biography.
9780345335197 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 1, 1990), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the harsh, sometimes tragic, ultimately triumphant life of the great American folk hero, focusing on his songs and the circumstances behind them, his influence on other songwriters and singers, and his impact on his audiences
9780345296283 | Ballantine Books, March 1, 1982, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the harsh, sometimes tragic, ultimately triumphant life of the great American folk hero, focusing on his songs and the circumstances behind them, his influence on other songwriters and singers, and his impact on his audiences

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