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Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
xviii, 332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of favorite holiday stories and excerpts including "The night before Christmas," by Clement C. Moore; "Little Tree," by e.e. cummings; and "A Christmas carol," by Charles Dickens.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Opens with scenes of Yoko at the opening of the John Lennon Art Exhibit in London, Sept. 1988, then shows film footage of the 1969 Rock & Roll Revival in Toronto, John Lennon's first performance before a live audience in over three years, and his first time with the Plastic Ono Band.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
475 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of nonfiction essays on such topics as culture, myth, history, romance, and sex includes contributions by such authors as Guy Davenport, Annie Dillard, Jamaica Kincaid, and Susan Sontag. In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, the Search for Marvin Gardens, D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction...
4) Imagine
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrates, through the eyes of a little pigeon, John Lennon's song about imagining a world at peace, in which people of all sorts live as one. Includes afterword about peace, freedom, and Amnesty International.
5) Acoustic
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Published together for the first time, this collection of letters to family, friends, lovers and complete strangers from the beloved Beatle offers an intimate look into the true personality and mind of one of popular music's most prolific and revered artists.
Author
Language
English
Description
"John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' controversial 1966 American tour, the band had feared...
15) Lennon legend
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Description
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Description
xvi, 448 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illlustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An intimate yet unsparing biography of one of the greatest and most mythologised musicians of the twentieth century. John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently articulating, the group's moment in history. Chronicling a troubled life, from that of the...
17) Lennon revealed
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A quarter of a century after his death, the questions remain: what was John Lennon really like, what drove him to the heights of creativity and the depths of despair, and why do his music and message still resonate for millions around the world? Now acclaimed broadcast journalist and author Larry Kane uncovers the mysteries of Lennon's life and implodes the myths surrounding it. Kane definitely has the right credentials for the job. He was the only...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers. From Fonzie's leather jacket to Archie Bunker's...
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