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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians--from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile--and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has always been a force beckoning us still closer, as--with the other arm--she pushes us away. Given this,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
A memoir of the author's decades-long friendship and spiritual journey with the late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, leaving behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner. Lerner, a screenwriter and novelist, first met Cohen at a Zen retreat forty years earlier. Their friendship helped guide each other through life's myriad obstacles,...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The first-ever biography of Mozhdah Jamalzadah: refugee, pop singer, and champion of women's rights Many have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about women's rights. Voice of Rebellion charts her incredible journey, including arriving in Canada as a child refugee, setting her father's protest poem to music (and making it a number-one hit), performing...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Bio-comic of Leonard Cohen's life. Leonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man's life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders his existence in a series of flashbacks that reveal the ups and downs of a storied career. A young Cohen traded in the promise of steady employment in his family's upscale Montreal garment business for the unlikely path of a literary poet. His life took another sharp turn...
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Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Little Leonard grew up in Montréal, Canada, and was a child who delighted in the world around him. From roses with too-long stems, to birds chirping on a rusty wire, he noticed the beauty in things that others might miss. His trips to the synagogue were a source of wonder, too. Leonard listened in awe to the songs and stories--moved by their messages and timeless narratives. When Leonard was nine, his father sadly died. To cope with the loss, he...
9) High school
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, who grew up at the height of grunge and rave culture in the nineties, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today. While grappling with their identity and sexuality, often alone, they also faced academic meltdown, their parents' divorce, and the looming pressure of what might come after...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon-there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspiring the world with his work...Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories chronicles the full breadth of his extraordinary life. This second of three volumes-From This Broken Hill-follows him from the conclusion of his first international music tour in 1971 as he continued to compose...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary life of one of the world's greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon-there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspiring people everywhere with his work. From his groundbreaking and bestselling novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, to timeless songs such...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen-thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end-traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos and bloodshed of the Sinai desert when Egypt attacked Israel on the Jewish high holiday of Yom Kippur. Moving around the front with a guitar and a group of local musicians, Cohen met hundreds of young soldiers, men and women at the worst moment of their lives. Those who...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding and unorthodox look into the life of Leonard Cohen, and the way his experiences with religion and spirituality produced one of the greatest musicians of our time. Leonard Cohen's music is studded with allusions to Jewish and Christian tradition, as well as Kabbalah and Zen. In his 1994 classic 'Hallelujah' he opens with the words 'Now I've heard there was a secret chord, That David played, and it pleased the Lord{u2026} the baffled...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This third and final volume in biographer Michael Posner's sweeping series of Cohen's life explores the last thirty years of his life, starting with the late 1980s revival of his music career with the successful albums I'm Your Man and The Future. It covers the death of his manager, Marty Machat, and the appointment of another who would ultimately be accused of stealing more than five million dollars from Cohen"--
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Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, the trade division of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The 1930s was a magical age in Hollywood, with Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Bette Davis and Clark Gable lighting up the silver screen. But Deanna Durbin's fame surpassed them all. Born in Canada, Deanna was "discovered" by starmaker Eddie Cantor, producer Joe Pasternak and director Henry Koster, and she quickly became the world's most celebrated star. She saved Universal Studios from ruin, she was a favourite of Winston Churchill and Anne Frank,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Concert film biopic and sequel to Never say never, the film continues to focus on Justin Bieber's rise to international fame as he embarks on his Believe Tour. In new interviews with Bieber, the movie reveals answers to questions about his passion to make music, relationships, and coming of age in the spotlight as well as never-before-seen concert footage, and behind-the-scenes access.
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