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Best of NPR's Lost and Found Sound Vol. 1

4 reviews
Noah Adams, Davia Nelson, ...

Highbridge Audio, 2000

My gift for the holidays
Quirky - odd - historical - rich - multi layered - surprising - intimate - sweet - intriguing......are words that come to mind when I listened to this collection of stories. Cigar Stories was incredible! Tennesse Williams - fun, funny, compelling - Someone recording the sound of Aurora borelais? how bizarre ! how fantastic ! The pitchmen in Carnival Talkers... LBJ and the helium filled astronaut ...

The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright
Noah Adams

Books on Tape, 2003

5 Compact Discs

Piano Lessons: Music, Love, and True Adventures

45 reviews
Noah Adams

Delta, 1997

Words That Sing
Noah Adams enchanted me with his touching--and at times very amusing--memoir of learning to play a deceptively simple piece of music on the piano. I read this book years ago, when it was recommended to me by pianist Robin Spielberg. At the time, Piano Lessons struck me as the first prose I had encountered that accurately described the rush of elation musicians experience when successfully ...

Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life With The Piano

2 reviews
James Parakilas and Others

Yale University Press, 2000

A delightful, lively, entertaining history.
Three hundred years of piano history are presented in a fine book which considers the place of the piano in classical and popular music alike. From the design, manufacturing and styles of the piano to the individuals who made their mark in music history with the piano, this includes a delightful range of color drawings and illustrations along with a lively history certain to delight any avid ...

NPR Road Trips: Roadside Attractions

HighBridge Company, 2009

Prairie Dog Town in western Kansas. The Elvis Is Alive Museum in Wright City, Missouri. The Velvet Museum (?Velveteria?) in Portland, Oregon. A 13-foot Styrofoam scale model of Stonehenge. The Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas . . . or is it in Darwin, Minnesota? Roadside attractions are the staples of the American road trip. Many are slowly disappearing from our highways and byways. Are they culture or kitsch? Are their creators ...

NPR Road Trips: National Park Adventures

HighBridge Company, 2009

Grand Canyon National Park is one of the planet?s Seven Natural Wonders, with 4.4 million visitors each year. Who keeps them safe, fed, and happy? When the wind blows at White Sands National Monument, legend says the centuries-old ghost of a Mexican maiden appears in the shifting sands. In Yosemite National Park, there?s a guy who tracks road kill with a clipboard and a shovel to pry flattened victims from the blacktop. This colorful ...

The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright

8 reviews
Noah Adams

Three Rivers Press, 2004

Noah Adams Has Captured the Essence
I lived in Dayton, Ohio, for three years during the late 1960s. I appreciate the nostalgia and reverence Noah Adams captures in his description of Dayton and of the Wright Brothers' exploits. I remember the huge bombers taking off from Wright-Pat airbase, their somber mission and the fear of nuclear war always a palpable emotion in those years. Adams captures both the essence of the Wright ...

Far Appalachia: Following the New River North

16 reviews
Noah Adams

Delta, 2002

I can't believe I loved this book
But I did. It is not at all the typical stuff I usually read. It was such an entertaining and gentle read. Adams is such a wonderful story teller. I felt as if I took that journey right beside him. As far as I am concerned, I have floated down "The New" myself now. I borrowed the book I read from my library but I am purchasing two for my Mom and my sister.

NPR Road Trips: Postcards from Around the Globe

HighBridge Company, 2009

Meet Colin Angus and Julie Wafael, who spent two years circumnavigating the globe using their hands and feet. Turn on the radio in Katmandu and hear music from the 70s. Learn how robot jockeys are solving a human rights problem in Dubai. (It has to do with camel races.) Get ready for carnival in Rio. And walk through old Beijing before it?s demolished for high-rise development. NPR has correspondents all over the world. As listeners learn, ...

European Painting in the Tweed Museum of Art
David Stark, Noah Adams

University of Minnesota Press, 2001

Art/Regional A fiftieth anniversary guide to the museum's stunning European collection. George P. Tweed (1871-1946) was one of the most visible leaders in Duluth's twentieth-century business and cultural world, celebrated for his impressive collection of European master paintings. Never having traveled to Europe, Tweed purchased many of his pieces at New York's finest auction houses, and perhaps received his greatest inspiration from ...

Saint Croix Notes
Noah Adams, Douglas Wood

University of Minnesota Press, 2001

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