Bob Batchelor presents Roadhouse Blues: Morrison, the Doors, and Death Days of the Sixties, an enthralling, epic tale of one of rock’s most significant periods.
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The new book "Cat's Cafe, One Cup at a Time" by Matt Tarpley immerses readers in the gentle, supportive world of café owner Cat and his adorable friends.
Pulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Art of the Street & Smith Universe gives fans a rare glimpse into the pre-war pulp novel decade of the 1930s.
Hollywood Tiki arose as the defining expression of American pop culture during World War II and its influence continued through the 1960s in pop culture.
A new large-format 400-page collectible art book curated by the band’s three surviving founding members Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and David Crosby.
A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world.
Side Hustles For Dummies steps the reader through key milestones and decision points in many different types of side hustles that can be a full-time business.
Damien MacDonald explores the world’s best comics art including masterpieces by cartoonists from Richard Felton Outcault in 1896 to Chris Ware today.
Stephen King goes deep into his imagination. Fairy Tale is about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war.
The TCM Underground book is a movie-lovers guide to 50 of the campiest, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonderful cult films you need to see.
When you pick up that first crayon, it could be the path of long misery when you aspire to be a cartoonist.
Explore the man behind Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and the rest of the Peanuts Gang with this intimate look into the life and times of Charles M. Schulz.
A-Z Record Shop Bags by Jonny Trunk features over 550 graphically arresting record-shop bags, plus informative, humorous histories of the stores and their famous staff, this book reveals a previously undocumented side of British popular culture
The true writer of the popular boy series was Leslie McFarlane who used the pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon with other writers. This American sleuth boy series was written not by a true blood American but by a Canadian. The Hardy Boys, a project on which Leslie was the main contributor, wrote 19 of the first 25 books between 1927 and 1946, and 21 overall. Just who was Leslie McFarlane? This seems like a mystery that only the Hardy Boys can solve. Ghost of the Hardy Boys: The Writer Behind the World’s Most Famous Boy Detectives explores the true origins of the writings of the Hardy Boys series.
The third Sunday in June is Father's Day became a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972. The tie business went through the roof every June after that. Economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day gifts. Did you know? There are more than 70 million fathers in the United States. Author Cian Cruise celebrates fatherhood with, Dad Bod: Portraits of Pop Culture Papas. Let's celebrate dads in pop culture!
Werner Herzog’s The Twilight World revisits Hiroo Onoda’s 30-year war and asks whether we all cling to private jungles of belief in life’s twilight.
Weird to Exist is divided into three intrinsic human acts—to exist, to love, to create—and ultimately touches on how weird it is to do all of that. Also included is Zai’s popular long-form comic Bee Real, which follows one little irritable bee’s enlightening mission to extinguish the sun. With sharp levity and emotional complexity, this colorful collection finds the fun in life’s hard truths.
The Marvel Super Heroes are back! Fans will light up with this second volume of the psychedelic, collectible portfolio featuring 12 frameable black light posters of celebrated Marvel Comics characters, such as Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, Captain America, Doctor Strange, and Black Bolt, illustrated by legendary artists including Jack Kirby, John Romita Sr., Gil Kane, and more.
New York Times best-selling author Nick Hornby of High Fidelity fame has a new book Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius that explores the duality of Prince and Dickens in their individual centuries. So far apart but yet so much alike.
Innovations for Learning (IFL) Canada, a global non-profit that works to level the playing field for emerging readers in high-need communities, and Symcor, a leading Canadian organization that enables secure data exchanges, expand their partnership with the development of a new original storybook series. Ice Fishing with Nimkii tells the true story of Nimkii Lavell, the land-based Learning Lead with the Wiikwemkoong Board of Education, who ties education to traditional Anishinaabek outdoor activities.
Remember when long-haired British rock ’n’ rollers made teenage girls swoon ― and their parents go crazy? Britmania plunges into the period when suddenly, America went wild for All Things British. This profusely illustrated full-color hardback, subtitled “The British Invasion of the Sixties in Pop Culture,” explores the movies (A Hard Day’s Night, Having a Wild Weekend), TV (The Ed Sullivan Show, Magical Mystery Tour), collectibles (toys, games, trading cards, lunch boxes), comics (real-life Brits in the DC and Marvel Universes) and, of course, the music!
All you need are basic drawing tools and shapes to cartoon! The book features dozens of drawing projects and step-by-step instructions perfect for beginning and aspiring artists, cartoonists, illustrators, pen and graphite artists, and many others. Learn to draw cartoon characters and more using geometric shapes with Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square by Margherita Cole.
Comic book adaptations of television shows have been around since the beginning of the medium. Before that, there were a few comic books based on movies. Today comic book publishers gravitate to well-known brand names. Some of them at one time were television shows. American TV Comic Books 1940s-1980s by Peter Bosch celebrates the halcyon days of adaptions of television shows to comic book form.
Quentin Tarantino's next book is a nonfiction dispatch from a lifelong movie fanatic. “Cinema Speculation,” to be published Oct. 25, will center on “The Getaway” and other films from the 1970s that influenced him during childhood. The book, announced Friday by Harper, comes a year after the best-selling novelization of his movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”