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Alan Lightman's grandfather, M. A. Lightman, was the family's undisputed patriarch: it was his movie theater empire that catapulted the family to prominence. His fearless success both galvanized and paralyzed his descendants, haunting them for a half-century after his death. Lightman writes about returning to Memphis in an attempt to understand the people he so eagerly left behind forty years earlier.

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Music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner investigates in detail the enormous changes that took place in the Beatles' lives and work during 1966. He looks at the historical events that had an impact on the group, the music they made that in turn profoundly affected the culture around them, and the vision that allowed four young men from Liverpool to transform popular music.