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| | Title | The Birth of Loud | | Author | Port, Ian S. | | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | | Format | Hardcover | | Category 1 | Music | | Category Full 1 | MUSIC / Business Aspects | | Category Full 2 | MUSIC / Musical Instruments/Guitar |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501141652 | | On Sale | 01/15/19 | | US Price | $28 | | CDN Price | $37 | | Pages | 352 | | Cover Status | Final | | |
| | A riveting saga in the history of rock ‘n’ roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar’s amplified sound—Leo Fender and Les Paul—and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built. |
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| | Title | Heavy | | Author | Laymon, Kiese | | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | Category Full 1 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs | | Category Full 2 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/General |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501125669 | | On Sale | 03/05/19 | | US Price | $16 | | CDN Price | $22 | | Pages | 256 | | Cover Status | Final | | |
| *Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics*
In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize—genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon “provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot” (Entertainment Weekly). |
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| | Title | Survival Math | | Author | Jackson, Mitchell S. | | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | | Format | Hardcover | | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | Category Full 1 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/General | | Category Full 2 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501131707 | | On Sale | 03/05/19 | | US Price | $26 | | CDN Price | $35 | | Pages | 336 | | Cover Status | Final | | |
| | In a thrillingly alive, candid new work, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth, while examining the cultural forces—large and small—that led him and his family to this place. |
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