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Claydes "Charles" Smith (born Claydes Eugene Smith; September 6, 1948 – June 20, 2006) was an American musician best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang. Biography Early life Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he was introduced to jazz guitar by his father in the early 1960s. Kool & the Gang In the late 1960s, he joined with Ronald Bell (later Khalis Bayyan), Robert "Kool" Bell, George Brown, Dennis Thomas and Robert "Spike" Mickens to become Kool & the Gang. His cool jazz stylings and octave runs, reminiscent of Wes Montgomery but uniquely his own, enriched the music of the group. His playing on the hit "Summer Madness" is a fine example of his work. Kool & the Gang blended jazz, funk, R&B, and pop. The group remained popular from the 1960s through the 1980s. Smith stopped touring in January 2006 due to illness. Personal life and death Smith's family included six children: Claydes A. Smith, Justin Smith, Aaron Corbin, August Williams, Uranus Smith-Garay, and Tyteen Humes. He died in Maplewood, New Jersey, on June 20, 2006, aged 57. He is buried in Westfield, New Jersey's Fairview Cemetery. Discography Studio albums Live albums Singles Awards and nominations Grammy Awards References. Discover the Charles Smith popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Charles Smith books.
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Britain Against Napoleon
Roger KnightFrom Roger Knight, established by his multiaward winning book The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is...
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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Julia Bishop & Steve RoudOne of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladiesFarewell and adieu to you ladies of SpainFor we've received orders for to sail for old En...
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The Breakers
Marcia MullerNew York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller is at her pageturning best in The Breakers, as she digs into a particularly disturbing corner of San Francisco's historyone that Sha...
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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
Anthony Holden & Ben HoldenA lifeenhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writi...
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The Turtle Who Never Listened
Charles L. SmithKirt was born into a beautiful world. He had everything that a turtle could want. He was also very smart. Because he was very smart Kirt thought he didn’t have to...
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Stanton
Walter StahrNew York Times bestselling author Walter Stahr tells the story of Edwin Stanton, who served as Secretary of War in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. “This exhaustively researched, wellpac...
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press
Harold Holzer“Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s l...
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The Weeping Woman
Zoe Valdes & David FryeWinner of the prestigious Azorín Prize for Fiction, the bestselling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar.A writer resembling Zoé Valdésa Cuban exile livin...
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Best of the Best American Poetry
David LehmanRobert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twentyfive years of The Best American PoetryThis special edition celebrates twentyfive years of...
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The Little Demon
Fyodor Sologub & Ronald WilksA dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and murder.Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provi...
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Kickback
David MonteroAn investigation into corporate bribery around the world and how it undermines democracy and the free market systemThe World Bank estimates that rich multinational corporations pay...
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The Quartermaster
Robert O'Harrow“The lively story of the Civil War’s most unlikelyand most uncelebratedgenius” (The Wall Street Journal)General Montgomery C. Meigs, who built the Union Army and was judged by Abra...
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Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles MaturinWith an essay by Alathea Hayter.'My hour is come ... the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears!'This violent, profound, baroque and bla...
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The Liberation of Paris
Jean Edward SmithPrizewinning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during World War IIa triumph achieved only...
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100 Ways to Beat the Blues
Tanya Tucker"This book is like a good song; it will reach so many people right where they live." Tanya TuckerHow do you beat the blues? We all have moments in life when we're down, lonely, or ...
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Island Reich
Jack GrimwoodAN UNLIKELY SPY. A FORMER KING. THE FATE OF A NATION IN THEIR HANDS.The gripping WWII thriller from the awardwinning author of Nightfall Berlin, perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow'I...
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The First Dinosaur
Ian LendlerA Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019 An Orbis Picture Recommended Title “An outstanding case study in how science is actually done: funny, nuanced, and perceptive.” Kirk...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson & Peter LeviBook by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a threemonth trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descripti...
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The Fraud
Zadie SmithThe New York Times bestseller One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of NPR's Best Books of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekl...
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Nothing General About It
Maurice BenardInstant New York Times bestseller!The Emmy Awardwinning star of General Hospital chronicles his astonishing and emotional life journey in this powerful memoiran inspiring story of ...
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The Executioner
Joseph de MaistreSince their first publication in 1821, de Maistre's dark writings have fascinated and appalled critics, with their relentless hatred of the Enlightenment and view of humans as murd...
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Misadventures of a Big Mouth Brit
Piers MorganPiers has got a new job. He's off to America to be the 'Nasty Brit' judging the show America's Got Talent surely a role he was made for? And with unprecedented access to people, p...
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The Space Opera Renaissance
Kathryn Cramer & David G. HartwellFrom "editor extraordinaire" (Publishers Weekly) David G. Hartwell and World Fantasy Awardwinning editor Kathryn Cramer comes the bestever anthology of one of science fiction's mos...
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Goliath Must Fall for Young Readers
Louie GiglioLouie Giglio, the director of the Passion Movement that has reached more than a million young people, shares Goliath Must Fall for Young Readers, a children’s book about facing fea...
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane AustenWhat's a girl to do?Scatterbrained, social climbing Mrs. Bennet makes one demand of her five daughters.Marry. Marry well. Marry RICH.But sweet Jane is hopelessly in love with Mr. B...
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare'The Mona Lisa of literature' T. S. EliotIn Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience, madness and the nature of humanity, a young prince m...
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The Bostonians
Henry James & Richard LansdownPublished in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in search of a career. Through his cousin, Olive Chancellor, Ransom...
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Flash Point
Matt Croucher GCDan Coldrain is a former elite Royal Marine Commando haunted by the death of his best mate Reese, killed in action by enemy forces. Coldrain used to believe in honour, service, and...
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The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins
Peter FitzSimonsThe extraordinary, mustread story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil brought ...
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The Ancestry of Charles Andrew Smith
Troy Smith & Julie SmithGenealogical details for the ancestors of Charles J. Smith and Gunhild G. Sands; parents of Charles A. Smith and Anna Mae Smith. It also includes details on Charles A. Smith’...
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Having it So Good
Peter HennessyWinner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow o...
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Tobruk
Peter FitzSimonsThe number 1 nonfiction bestseller.More than 100,000 copies sold! 'What we have, we hold'MOttO OF AUStRALIA'S 2/17tH BAttALIONIn the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter Fitz...
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The Best of the Best American Poetry
David Lehman & Harold BloomEvery year since 1988 a major poet has selected seventyfive poems for publication in The Best American Poetry. The series has quickly grown in both sales and prestige, as poetry it...
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Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11
Maxim JakubowskiThis superb annual anthology of the year’s most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK is now well into its second decade. Jakubowski has succeeded, once again, in une...
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Scapegoats
Michael Scott & Magnus Linklater“At all costs avoid blame.” Such is the creed of dictators and politicians, tycoons and company chairmen, media celebrities, and spin doctors the world over. But what about men at ...
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The Return of Kid Cooper
Brad SmithWESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA 2019 SPUR AWARDS WINNER! "[A] firstrate novel."True West magazine "Smith has written tight, fastpaced novels his entire career…and reading one ...
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The Insider
Matthew RichardsonThe thrilling novel of espionage and murder set in the dark heart of Westminster, from the UK's most exciting new spy writerA Russian defector is found brutally murdered in a Londo...
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The American Story
David M. RubensteinCofounder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing con...
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Lost Voices from the Titanic
Nick BarrattOn April 15, 1912, the HMS Titanic sank, killing 1,517 people and leaving the rest clinging to debris in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic awaiting rescue. Here, historian Ni...
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The Negro Problem. ILLUSTRATED.
Booker T. WashingtonTable of Contents: I Industrial Education for the Negro Booker T. WashingtonII The Talented Tenth W.E. Burghardt DuBoisIII The Disfranchisement of the Negro Charles W. Chesn...
