Music:

Love Is a Mix Tape
Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Written by Rob Sheffield

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $13.00

Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of... Read more >

Can't Buy Me Love
The Beatles, Britain, and America
Written by Jonathan Gould

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $15.95

Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and... Read more >

The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II

Written by Oscar Hammerstein II
Edited by Amy Asch
Foreword by Alice Hammerstein Mathias
Introduction by Ted Chapin

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $65.00

From every “beautiful mornin’” to “some enchanted evening,” the songs of Oscar Hammerstein II are part of our daily lives, his words part of our national fabric.

Born into a theatrical dynasty headed by his grandfather and namesake, Oscar Hammerstein II breathed new life into the moribund art form of operetta by...

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Moving to Higher Ground
How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Geoffrey Ward

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $26.00

“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal... Read more >

Mosaic
Pieces of My Life So Far
Written by Amy Grant

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $14.00

One of America’s most popular music artists shares beautiful pieces of an unforgettable human mosaic, revealing pieces of a life in progress.


With her unmistakable voice and honest lyrics, Amy Grant has captured a unique place in American music. As the bestselling Christian music artist of all time, a crossover pop sensation...

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The Guitar Handbook

Written by Ralph Denyer

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 1992
Price: $27.95

The most comprehensive resource available for beginning and experienced guitarists alike, whether acoustic or electric. Completely redesigned and with many more full-color photos than the original, this new edition surveys recent models and profiles current masters, includes an expanded lesson section, and encompasses 10 years of technological change in recording and... Read more >

Journey of a Thousand Miles
My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $24.95

“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >

How to Read Music
Fundamentals of Music Notation Made Easy
Written by Roger Evans

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $11.95

A basic primer for anyone without musical training who wishes to learn to read musical scores when singing or taking up an instrument. The book explains how notes are named and written; how to read melody, interpret time signatures, keys, sharps, flats, and naturals; how to read tempo; and how to... Read more >

With Strings Attached
The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars
Written by Jonathan Kellerman

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $75.00

For thirty-five years, bestselling author and accomplished musician Jonathan Kellerman has been, as he puts it in his Introduction to this lavishly illustrated, endlessly fascinating volume, “chasing fabulous sound.” The result of that quest is a world-class collection of guitars, mandolins, and other stringed instruments that number more than 120 ... Read more >

Shakey: Neil Young's Biography

Written by Jimmy McDonough

Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $17.95

Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugely influential today. He has never granted a writer access to his inner life – until now. Based on six years of interviews with more than three hundred of Young’s... Read more >