This stunning novel by the author of Sway is another "brilliant portrayal of life as a legend" (Margot Livesey). In 1972, the American gangster Meyer Lansky petitions the Israeli government for citizenship. His request is denied, and he is returned to the U.S. to stand trial. He leaves behind a mistress in Tel Aviv, a Holocaust survivor named Gila Konig. In 2009, American journalist Hannah Groff travels to Israel to investigate the killing of an Israeli writer. She soon finds herself inside a web of violence that takes in the American and Israeli Mafias, the Biblical figure of King David, and the modern state of Israel. As she connects the dots between the murdered writer, Lansky, Gila, and her own father, Hannah becomes increasingly obsessed with the dark side of her heritage. Part crime story, part spiritual quest, I Pity the Poor Immigrant is also a novelistic consideration of Jewish identity.

Bob Dylan and his artistic accomplishments have been explored, examined, and dissected year in and year out for decades, and through almost every lens. Yet rarely has anyone delved extensively into Dylan's Jewish heritage and the influence of Judaism in his work. In Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, Seth Rogovoy, an award-winning critic and expert on Jewish music, rectifies that oversight, presenting a fascinating new look at one of the most celebrated musicians of all time. Rogovoy unearths the various strands of Judaism that appear throughout Bob Dylan's songs, revealing the ways in which Dylan walks in the footsteps of the Jewish Prophets. Rogovoy explains the profound depth of Jewish content—drawn from the Bible, the Talmud, and the Kabbalah—at the heart of Dylan's music, and demonstrates how his songs can only be fully appreciated in light of Dylan's relationship to Judaism and the Jewish themes that inform them. From his childhood growing up the son of Abe and Beatty Zimmerman, who were at the center of the small Jewish community in his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, to his frequent visits to Israel and involvement with the Orthodox Jewish outreach movement Chabad, Judaism has permeated Dylan's everyday life and work. Early songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" derive central imagery from passages in the books of Ezekiel and Isaiah; mid-career numbers like "Forever Young" are infused with themes from the Bible, Jewish liturgy, and Kabbalah; while late-period efforts have revealed a mind shaped by Jewish concepts of Creation and redemption. In this context, even Dylan's so-called born-again period is seen as a logical, almost inevitable development in his growth as a man and artist wrestling with the burden and inheritance of the Jewish prophetic tradition. Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet is a fresh and illuminating look at one of America's most renowned—and one of its most enigmatic—talents.

The Gig Book: Bob Dylan features the lyrics, Guitar chord boxes and melody line to one hundred classic Bob Dylan songs from the every decade of his career. This is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song – how to sing them and what chords to play. Setlist: - Blowin' In The Wind - Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Ballad Of Hollis Brown - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Masters Of War - Girl From The North Country - With God On Our Side - Only A Pawn In Their Game - Chimes Of Freedom - The Times They Are A-Changin' - One Too Many Mornings - All I Really Wanna Do - I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - Spanish Harlem Incident - My Back Pages - It Ain't Me Babe - To Ramona - Subterranean Homesick Blues - Maggie's Farm - Mr Tambourine Man - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Gates Of Eden - Love Minus Zero/No Limit - She Belongs To Me - Its All Over Now, Baby Blue - Like A Rolling Stone - Tombstone Blues - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - Highway 61 Revisited - Queen Jane Approximately - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Desolation Row - Positively 4th Street - Visions Of Johanna - One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - I Want You - Just Like A Woman - Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands - I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine - All Along The Watchtower - Drifter's Escape - I Pity The Poor Immigrant - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Quinn The Eskimo - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - This Wheel's on Fire - Tears Of Rage - Lay Lady Lay - I Threw It All Away - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You - If Not For You - Watching The River Flow - I Shall Be Released - New Morning - When I Paint My Masterpiece - Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Forever Young - Tangled Up In Blue - Simple Twist Of Fate - You're A Big Girl Now - Idiot Wind - If You See Her, Say Hello - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Shelter From The Storm - Hurricane - One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) - Oh, Sister - Isis - Romance In Durango - Changing Of The Guards - Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) - Gotta Serve Somebody - I Believe In You - Every Grain Of Sand - Jokerman - Blind Willie McTell - Brownsville Girl - Most Of The Time - Ring Them Bells - Everything Is Broken - Man In The Long Black Coat - Dignity - Series Of Dreams - Love Sick - Tryin' To Get To Heaven - Make You Feel My Love - Not Dark Yet - Mississippi - High Water (For Charley Patton) - Things Have Changed - Workingman's Blues #2 - Thunder On The Mountain - Someday Baby - When The Deal Goes Down - Life Is Hard - Beyond Here Lies Nothin’

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Through a series of letters home, fifteen-year-old Vospop "Voss" Vsklzwczdztwczky shares his experiences as he is smuggled out of Slobovia in a crate of black-market cheese puffs, tries to find a job in an American city, and foils a sinister plot.

A new collection of Bob Dylan's most essential lyrics - one hundred songs that represent the Nobel Laureate's incredible musical range through the entirety of his career so far. Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time and the first musician in history to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 100 Songs, Dylan delivers an intimate and carefully curated collection of his most important lyrics that spans from the beginning of his career through the present day. Perfect for students and younger readers as well as long-time fans, this portable, abridged volume of Dylan's lyrics shines a light on the songs that mean the most from a music and cultural legend.

The Bob Dylan Mandolin Chord Songbook provides the chords and full lyrics to 30 of Bob Dylan’s greatest musical and lyrical creations. With easy to read Mandolin chord diagrams, this handy songbook is perfect for any aspiring mandolin player, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to add to your repertoire Songlist: - All Along The Watchtower - All I Really Want To Do - Beyond Here Lies Nothin' - Blowin' In The Wind - Changing Of The Guards - Chimes Of Freedom - Forever Young - Hurricane - I Pity The Poor Immigrant - I Shall Be Released - If Not For You - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Lay, Lady, Lay - Like A Rolling Stone - Love Minus Zero, No Limit - Maggie's Farm - Make You Feel My Love - Mr. Tambourine Man - Oh, Sister - One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) - One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - Positively 4th Street - Simple Twist Of Fate - Subterranean Homesick Blues - Tears Of Rage - The Times They Are A-changin' - This Wheel's On Fire - When I Paint My Masterpiece

"That I was born Puerto Rican was happenstance, but that I have no connection to what it means is no accident. My grandparents made conscious decisions and so did my father as part of the first generation born here in the States. And none of it bothered me until recently, which is probably why I can’t quite put my finger on any of this. I’m still grappling with what I’ve lost and how I can miss something I’ve never had." Robert Lopez’s grandfather Sixto was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1904, immigrating to the United States in the 1920s, where he lived in a racially proportioned apartment complex in East New York, Brooklyn, until his death in 1987. The family’s efforts to assimilate within their new homeland led to the near complete erasure of their heritage, culture, and language within two generations. Little is known of Sixto—he may have been a longshoreman, a painter, or a boxer, but was most likely a longshoreman—or why he originally decided to leave Puerto Rico, other than that he was a meticulously slow eater who played the standup keyboard and guitar, and enjoyed watching baseball. Through family recollection, the constant banter volleyed across nets within Brooklyn’s diverse tennis community, as well as an imagined fabulist history drawn from Sixto’s remembered traits, in Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure, Robert Lopez paints a compassionate portrait of family that attempts to bridge the past to the present, and re-claim a heritage threatened by assimilation and erasure.

In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. “Lines on a Half-Painted House” made it into the magazine—but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband’s employer, verification that the poem was her original work. Kumin, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was part of a groundbreaking generation of women writers who came of age during the midcentury feminist movement. By challenging the status quo and ultimately finding success for themselves, they paved the way for future generations of writers. In A Story Larger than My Own, Janet Burroway brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives. The essays and poems featured in this collection illustrate that even writers who achieve critical and commercial success experience a familiar pattern of highs and lows over the course of their careers. Along with success comes the pressure to sustain it, as well as a constant search for subject matter, all too frequent crises of confidence, the challenges of a changing publishing scene, and the difficulty of combining writing with the ordinary stuff of life—family, marriage, jobs. The contributors, all now over the age of sixty, also confront the effects of aging, with its paradoxical duality of new limitations and newfound freedom. Taken together, these stories offer advice from experience to writers at all stages of their careers and serve as a collective memoir of a truly remarkable generation of women.

Clinton Heylin has devoted his career to Bob Dylan's work and presents here a comprehensive study of all of Dylan's recording sessions.