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11.19: Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons
2024-12-11 07:10:09| Powells Books Events Calendar
Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive biography of the mythic icon among geek and gaming culture, Gary Gygax — and the complete story behind the invention of Dungeons and Dragons. The godfather of all fantasy adventure games, Gygax has a life story that has been told only in bits and pieces. With Empire of Imagination (Bloomsbury), Michael Witwer has written a dynamic, dramatized biography of Gygax. Told in narrative-driven and dramatic fashion, Witwer's book is an engaging chronicle of the life and legacy of this emperor of the imagination.
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11.18: Rick Moody
2024-12-11 07:10:09| Powells Books Events Calendar
Rick Moody offers a darkly comic portrait of a man who comes to life in the most unexpected of ways: through his online reviews. Reginald Edward Morse is a top reviewer on RateYourLodging.com, where his many reviews reveal more than just details of hotels around the globe — they tell his life story. An inventive blurring of the lines between the real and the fabricated, Hotels of North America (Little, Brown) demonstrates Moody's ability to push the bounds of the novel.
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11.18: Classics Book Group
2024-12-11 07:10:09| Powells Books Events Calendar
This month we meet to discuss The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis. Join us!
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11.18: Wrath of the Furies: A Novel of the Ancient World
2024-12-11 07:10:09| Powells Books Events Calendar
In 88 BC, it seems as if the entire ancient world is at war. In Steven Saylor's new Ancient Rome novel, Wrath of the Furies (Minotaur), Gordianus must go behind enemy lines to rescue an old friend, facing unspeakable danger in the greatest war of the ancient world.
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11.17: Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
2024-12-11 07:10:09| Powells Books Events Calendar
In Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll (Little, Brown), Peter Guralnick, author of the acclaimed Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis, brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash introduced a sound that had never been heard before.
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