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By Arden, Jann2020., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: Bio A676i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jann Arden--bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star--is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash. Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun: "Being the age I am--that so many women are--is just the best time of my life." Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self--and all of us--that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose--not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures.
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-- Mr. Leonard Cohen2006, p1965., General, KOCH Vision Call No: DVD Bio C678l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A portrait of Canadian poet Leonard Cohen during one of his visits to his home city of Montreal. Discusses his poetry and outlooks and includes readings from his collections, A spice box of earth, Flowers for Hitler, Angel, A kite is a victim, I'm your man, and Poen.
![Ladies and gentlemen...Mr. Leonard Cohen [DVD] (1965). Directed by Donald Brittain and Don Owen.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Ladies and gentlemen...Mr. Leonard Cohen [DVD] (1965). Directed by Donald Brittain and Don Owen.")
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2014., Backbeat Books Call No: Bio C678k Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: No other contemporary songwriter has created a body of work of such consistent quality, and such singular emotional and intellectual brilliance, as Leonard Cohen. His smoke-black vocal style navigates the most sophisticated and arresting of melodies in songs infused with romance, innuendo, and humor. Arriving at the 60s pop-music party fashionably late, Cohen released his debut albumSongs of Leonard Cohenin 1967. At 33 years of age, he was the adult in the room, a room brimming, then as now, with literary pretension and artistic self-importance. But Cohen, already established as a respected poet and novelist, was the real deal. In the decades since, he has battled with drugs, love, and bankruptcy; become a Buddhist monk while simultaneously reaffirming his Jewish faith; and recorded 11 more albums of unfailingly affecting beauty. Beginning with Cohen the young poet and author in his home town of Montreal and ending with his 2012 releaseOld Ideasand recent acclaimed live performances, Everybody Knows honors Leonard Cohens 80th birthday by celebrating his genius and tracing his rise to stardom through 200 photographs and the thoughts, memories, and reflections of those who have both worked with and been inspired by him.
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-- I'm your man2006, p1996., General, Christal Films Call No: DVD Bio C678l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The life and work of Leonard Cohen is celebrated in Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man. The documentary also includes performances and interviews by artists that Cohen has inspired including U2, Beth Orton, Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, and more.
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Ã2017., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Bio M681y Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Joni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Canadians. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty of their language and the rawness of their emotions, both deeply personal to Mitchell and universally relatable to her audience. In this intimate biography, composed of dozens of in-person interviews with Mitchell, David Yaffe reveals the backstory behind the famous songs from her youth on the Canadian prairie, her pre-vaccine bout with polio at age nine, and her early marriage and the child she gave up for adoption, up through the quintessential albums and love affairs, and all the way to the present, and shows us why Mitchell has so enthralled her listeners, her lovers, and her friends. Yaffe draws on interviews with childhood friends and the cast of famous characters (Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen, David Crosby, and more) with whom she has crossed paths and influenced, as well as insightful analyses of her famous lyrics, their imagery and style, and what they say about the woman herself. The story of Mitchell and also of the fertile, exciting musical time of which she was an integral part, one that had a profound effect that can still be felt today on American music and the industry. David Yaffe is a professor of Humanities at Syracuse University, and is the author of Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing and Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown"--Provided by publisher.
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2014., Adult, Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: Bio Y76s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this follow-up to his memoir "Waging Heavy Peace" Neil Young Young has fashioned a work of reminiscences about his Canadian boyhood, his musical influences, his family, the rock 'n<U+2019>'roll life, and one of his deepest, most ebullient passions: cars. Through the framework of the many vehicles he's collected and driven, Young explores his love for the well-crafted vintage automobile,and examines his newfound awareness of his hobby's negative environmental impact. He recounts the saga of Lincvolt, his specially modified electric car, and his efforts to demonstrate to lawmakers and consumers how viable non-gas-guzzling vehicles truly can be. Witty, eclectic, and wonderfully candid, this is an amalgam of memories, artwork, and political ponderings from one of the most genuine and enigmatic artists of our time. The son of sports journalist Scott Young, Neil Young was born in Toronto. From his early days with Buffalo Springfield through his solo career and collaborations with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crazy Horse, and dozens of other musicians, Young is acclaimed for both his musical talents and his artistic integrity.
