RECOMMENDS BOOKS

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1 THIS BOOK IS BROKEN This Book Is Broken is a lively oral history of Broken Social Scene, the Toronto cult indie-rock band that doubles as a collective, cottage industry, and self-described beautiful mess. Writer Stuart Berman has pieced together the band’s story through interviews with all 18 members, as well as their Toronto peers, international allies, and childhood heroes.

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2 TALES DESIGNED TO THRIZZLE: VOLUME 1 The first four issues of Michael Kupperman’s Tales Designed to Thrizzle, the award-winning hit comic book series, are now collected in one full-color deluxe hardcover edition. The stories in Tales Designed to Thrizzle are the height hilariously absurdity, with characters such as Dick Crazy, Murder She Didn’t Write, and Pablo Picasso.

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3 LOVE IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD Literary heavyweights Junot Díaz and Lynda Barry as well as up-and-comers Dan Kennedy and Wendy McClure contributed to Love Is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts, a contemporary collection of true stories capturing the dark side of love in prose that spans from comic to poetic, poignant to cringe-inducing.

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4 HIT HARD This is not just another
rock’n’roll memoir. In addition to never-
before-told Aerosmith war stories, Hit