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Kuen
Resilience on Three Continents
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A piano scholarship transports sixteen-year-old Kuen from her home in Hong Kong to the Royal Academy of Music in London. Seven years later, the shy student marries a Malaysian-born Chinese man, and the couple returns to Asia. The lustre of Kuen’s...
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Waking From A Seductive Fantasy
An Enticing World of Love, Murder, and the Supernatural
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Waking From A Seductive Fantasy chronicles Lana Gutman’s cathartic journey following the devastating loss of her spouse, celebrated musician David Maestro, who died by suicide. Lana’s husband was a popular, admired entertainer notorious for his...
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Canada, Canadians and The Beatles
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THE STORY OF THE BEATLES IS THE STORY OF CANADA AND CANADIANS With all that has been written about the world’s greatest band, you are holding something new! Finally, a book that offers a well-paced, entertaining look at Canada’s proud, oversized...
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In A Life
A memoir peppered with stories of a lucky life in music and Bum Ticker adventures
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Steve Goldberger has been a working musician and recording artist for fifty-plus years. In his book In a Life: A Memoir Peppered with Stories of a Lucky Life in Music and Bum Ticker Adventures, Steve shares his personal stories from being in a...
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Magic In The Music
The C-Weed Band Story
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In the 1980s, Manitoba country-rock group The C-Weed Band scored a half dozen Top Ten hits on the country music charts beginning with their #1 hit single "Evangeline". As an Indigenous band, they broke ground for other Indigenous artists on the...
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You Did What?
The Unusual Musical Odyssey of Burl Ronald Brinnon
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At the fresh age of fifteen, Ron Brinnon launches his professional saxophone career and plays gigs that land him amid a hotbed of Russian missiles, an FBI chase, and a levitation session with Depak Chopra. Performing for greats like Desi Arnaz,...
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Solidarity Forever
The Art and Soul of Stevie Van Zandt
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Solidarity Forever is the definitive account of the musical journey of the music legend of Disciples of Soul, Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, and anti-apartheid project Sun City fame, Little Steven Van Zandt. Following Van Zandt’s...
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Journeys to the Bandstand
Thirty Jazz Lives in Vancouver
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What I didn’t know [when starting to research and write this book]: I would become full-on, hopelessly obsessed with finding out every arcane detail about the artists gathered in these pages, whether they are living or long gone. Those myriad...
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The Tenacity of a Wandering Warrior
Guy Marchi Memoirs
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Some life stories beggar belief . . . even those of people we may yet to hear of. In this astonishing memoir, author Guy Marchi recounts the truly extraordinary story of his life. Born and raised in small-town British Columbia, Marchi’s...
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Doug and The Slugs
50,000 Slug Fans Can't be Wrong
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John Burton is a co-founding member of the notorious band Doug and The Slugs. Introduced to Doug Bennett by John ‘Wally’ Watson in the summer of 1977, Doug and the author quickly formed the personal and musical chemistry that led to the meteoric...
