Diamond in the Rough: A Memoir
10 best books like Diamond in the Rough: A Memoir (Shawn Colvin): The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Hope Rides Again, Love Medicine, Year of the Monkey, Peony in Love, Theft: A Love Story, The Lost Recipe for Happiness, Cotton Tenants: Three Families, Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire, Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
| Author | Esmé Weijun Wang |
| ISBN | 1555978274 |
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
There was not a single chapter where I did not laugh out loud at least once. Delightfully campy and a much needed joyride. Almost like a Ferris Bueller's Day Off for Barry and Joe.
But that being said there were also some truth bombs scattered throughout the storyline.“Truth” had somehow...
| Author | Louise Erdrich |
| ISBN | 0060786469 |
A member of the Chippewa and Obijwe tribes, Louise Erdrich has been a leading voice in Native American literature for over thirty years. Determined to publish her first book before she turned thirty, Erdrich wrote Love Medicine at the age of twenty nine, and this debut novel won the National Critics...
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
5/1/14 EDIT: Sooo I stopped checking comments for months, and I come back to either rage or agreement with regard to my review. All I have to say is THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD. Also, if you're on the fence about whether or not to continue reading this book, don't read this review unless you're set on quitting....
| Author | Peter Carey |
| ISBN | 0307263711 |
Michael Boone is an ex–"really famous" painter acting as caretaker for his younger brother, a damaged man of childlike emotional volatility. When a mysterious woman comes into their lives, she upsets their delicate equilibrium sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making—or the ruin—of...
The Lost Recipe for Happiness
| Author | Barbara O'Neal |
| ISBN | 0553385518 |
In this sumptuous new novel, Barbara O’Neal offers readers a celebration of food, family, and love as a woman searches for the elusive ingredient we’re all hoping to find….
It’s the opportunity Elena Alvarez has been waiting for–the challenge of running her own kitchen in a world-class...
Cotton Tenants: Three Families
| Author | James Agee |
| ISBN | 1612192122 |
A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer
In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great...
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
| Author | Mark Bowden |
| ISBN | 0802137571 |
I've read several of Bowden's books - Black hawk Down, Killing Pablo and Guests of the Ayatollah, among them - and all have been riveting, and am planning to read his latest about the capture of Bin Laden. This book, however, fell short of the standards of those three in particular. Maybe it was because...
Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark
| Author | Tamara Saviano |
| ISBN | 1623494540 |
Winner, 2016 the Belmont Book Award, Sponsored by the International Country Music Conference
For more than forty years, Guy Clark wrote and recorded unforgettable songs. His lyrics and melodies paint indelible portraits of the people, places, and experiences that shaped him. He has served...
How to Take a Bullet: And Other Survival Poems
| Author | Hollie Hardy |
| ISBN | 1940213975 |
With wit and candor, Hollie Hardy writes for her life. "Break up your own little tedium," these poems remind us. With their riffs on existing literature and recurrent crises, Hardy's poems show us what can be gained from trying old tricks in new ways. Hardy shows us how to survive a life lived just over...
| Author | Barbara O'Neal |
| ISBN | 0345460375 |
Twenty-one years ago, Jewel Sabatino left her childhood behind and never looked back. After a magical taste of fame, she found herself alone with a son to raise and very few options. Now she has left New York for the hills of Colorado, unsure if her family will welcome her back. For Jewel, coming home is...
| Author | Sandra Brown |
| ISBN | 0743289358 |
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is back with a gripping story of obsession and its deadly consequences. After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating....
Voicings for Jazz Keyboard
| Author | Hal Leonard Publishing Company |
| ISBN | 0793534852 |
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Metaphors for the Musician
| Author | Randy Halberstadt |
| ISBN | 1883217121 |
This book is a gold mine of insights into almost every aspect of jazz musicianship, including scale/chord theory, practice strategies, composing techniques, performance psychology and how to create the states of mind that produce the best improvisations. Designed for any level of player, on any...
The Jazz Musician's Guide To Creative Practicing
| Author | David Berkman |
| ISBN | 1883217482 |
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Mornings in Mexico & Etruscan Places
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0140015132 |
Fascinated by the Mexican Indians and the Etruscans, Lawrence spent over two years in New Mexico and Mexico proper, later visiting Etruria.
The two books in this volume are the result of his travels and contain Lawrence's beautifully written musings on departed civilization and the reasons...
Jamie's Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals
| Author | Jamie Oliver |
| ISBN | 1401323596 |
Cooking good food from scratch is a skill that can save you money, keep you healthy, and make you and your family and friends happy. What I've tried to do in this book is pick a whole load of meals that we all love to eat and break them down to make them as simple as possible. There are plenty of clear instructions...
