A personal memoir of the bestselling, legendary singer and guitarist Jim Croce, told by those who knew him best.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This amazingly intimate collection brings together 40 of Croce's beloved songs along with Ingrid Croce's personal remembrances of the stories behind the writing of each of them. Complete with photos and copies of Jim's handwritten notes, this is a beautiful insight into one of the most popular songwriters of a generation. Songs include: Alabama Rain * Bad, Bad Leroy Brown * Ballad of Gunga Din * Got No Business Singing the Blues * I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song * It Doesn't Have to Be That Way * Mary Ann * Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) * Photographs and Memories * Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy) * Roller Derby Queen * These Dreams * Time in a Bottle * Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day * Top Hat Bar and Grille * Walkin' Back to Georgia * What Do People Do * Workin' at the Car Wash Blues * You Don't Mess Around with Jim * and more.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). 12 timeless classics from the late Jim Croce: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown * I Got a Name * I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song * Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) * Photographs and Memories * Time in a Bottle * Workin' at the Car Wash Blues * and more.

(Book). In 1971, Jim Croce, a Pittsburgh native, wrote the haunting melody and words for the classic "Time in a Bottle," a song for his son, Adrian James. Less than two years later, Jim Croce's life was tragically cut short by a plane crash. This photographic memoir by his wife, Ingrid, offers an intimate look at their lives through Jim Croce's lyrics, quotes, photographs, and memories. With the turning of every page, it reveals never before seen photographs and a timeline of Jim Croce's successful life.

Hold On World revisits Lennon and Ono's love affair and startling collaborations. John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band was arguably the most emotionally honest album ever made. It wasn't merely another record but more like a sonic exorcism, a spiritual, public bloodletting. Lennon's album drove a stake through the heart of the Beatles' myth while confronting everything else in John's life, from Dylan to God to his glorified status as a "Working Class Hero." Determined to rid himself of past traumas—abandonment by his father and the death of his mother, Julia—Lennon wrote the most powerful song cycle of his career, confronting fear, disappointment, and illusion, all the while espousing his love for Yoko Ono. Released simultaneously, Ono's album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is emotionally raw and challenging. It inspired bands like the B-52s and Yo La Tengo to employ pure sound, whether shrieking vocals or guitar feedback, to express their deepest feelings.

At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we argue over who has the right to speak.To protect ourselves from encroaching tyranny, we must look beyond this one-dimensional notion of what it means to be free and, by reconnecting liberty to equality and accountability, restore the individual agency engendered by the three dimensions of freedom.

"One day, a purple coyote appeared on the hill. A coyote unlike any other. A purple coyote. Jim's never seen a purple coyote before, and he's determined to find out how the creature got his unusual color. But the coyote isn't saying. It's a big secret. So is the reason why the coyote howls a strange howl and dances a strange dance. Jim is stumped, and the more he questions the coyote, the more frustrated he becomes. Then one day the secret is revealed . . . .