Duke Ellington

Biographies & Memoirs

COLLIER, James Lincoln

Arts & Literature

Macmillan

The Winchesters

Fourteen-year-old Chris, a poor relation of the wealthy Winchesters, must choose whether to be on the side of management or labor when his classmates' parents go on strike at the Winchester mill in response to a wage cut

Children's Books

Atheneum

Searching for the lost leader of their expedition, three young people explore a strange planet and learn about survival, themselves, primitive man, and what it means to be human

Planet Out of the Past

Science Fiction & Fantasy

In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states

The Bloody Country

A young rebel's decision to fight against the British affects his Tory family

My Brother Sam Is Dead

Teen & Young Adult

Collier, Christopher

Historical Fiction

Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers

Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he becomes involved in Shays' Rebellion begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against unfair taxation levied on them by the Boston government.

The Winter Hero

Literature & Fiction

Simon&Schuster

Ashamed of his parents' way of life traveling around the country peddling honey for medicinal purposes and stealing, Fergy takes his young sister and runs away to find his mother's wealthy parents and a better way to live

Outside Looking in

Playing the cornet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has ever taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the tough underworld of Chicago in the 1920s. Reprint.

The Jazz Kid

Puffin

A biography of the great jazz trumpeter traces his growth as an artist, his success as an entertainer, and his relationships with fellow musicians

Louis Armstrong: An American Genius

Oxford University Press

Louis Armstrong. "Satchmo." To millions of fans, he was just a great entertainer. But to jazz aficionados, he was one of the most important musicians of our times--not only a key figure in the history of jazz but a formative influence on all of 20th-century popular music. Set against the backdrop of New Orleans, Chicago, and New York during the "jazz age", Collier re-creates the saga of an old-fashioned black man making it in a white world. He chronicles Armstrong's rise as a musician, his scrapes with the law, his relationships with four wives, and his frequent feuds with fellow musicians Earl Hines and Zutty Singleton. He also sheds new light on Armstrong's endless need for approval, his streak of jealousy, and perhaps most important, what some consider his betrayal of his gift as he opted for commercial success and stardom. A unique biography, knowledgeable, insightful, and packed with information, it ends with Armstrong's death in 1971 as one of the best-known figures in American entertainment.

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Duke Ellington

The Winchesters

Planet Out of the Past

The Bloody Country

My Brother Sam Is Dead

The Winter Hero

Outside Looking in

The Jazz Kid

Louis Armstrong: An American Genius

Louis Armstrong: An American Genius