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Hard unpacks the history of Joey Kramer, a rock star who was both fragile and tough, who, after years of wildness, became willing to accept help and finally kick a serious alcohol and drug addiction, only to find that the real terrors and hard work were still ahead.

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5 SAY EVERYTHING
In Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg
chronicles the rise and improbable
triumph of blogging, tracing its impact
on politics, business, the media,
and our personal lives. He provides

and expertise. Also included are fascinating vignettes and recollections by an A-list of skateboarding personalities, ranging from Tony Hawk to Mike Vallely, Mark Gonzales to Mark “Gator” Rogowski, Steve Caballero to Stacy Peralta and more.

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closeups of blogging pioneers such as Blogger founder Evan Williams, investigative journalist Josh Marshall, “mommyblogger” Heather Armstrong, and many others, whose stories offer vital insights and warnings as we navigate the future.

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6 THE BIG REWIND In The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture, Nathan Rabin shares his too-strange-for-fiction life story. It is a moving as well as darkly comic narrative about how pop culture helped save Rabin from suicidal despair, institutionalization, and parental abandonment -- throughout a childhood that sent him ricocheting from a mental hospital to a foster home to a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents.

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7 THE DISPOSABLE SKATEBOARD BIBLE The Disposable Skateboard Bible offers an insider’s guide to the culture, the art, and the mania of the skate world with authority

8 THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES As Harvard undergraduates, Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg shared academic brilliance in math and an awkwardness with women. One night, Zuckerberg hacked into the university’s computer system, creating a ratable database of female students on campus. In that moment, the framework for Facebook was born. The Accidental Billionaires is a story of innocence lost—and the creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.

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9 BERLIN Lou Reed’s concept album Berlin represented a brave departure from his earlier solo work. It’s a tragic tale about heartbreak and addiction meant to be played live as a rock opera. The book draws on stills from the tour, photographs of the set design, printed lyrics of Reed’s original verse, and images from Julian Schnabel’s projections to tell the twin stories of Berlin as a rock opera and as a unique collaboration between two geniuses of contemporary art, music, words, and film.

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