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Music isn’t just background noise or a series of torturous exercises we remember from piano lessons. In the right doses, it can double as a mild antidepressant, painkiller, sleeping pill, memory aid—and enhance athletic performance while supporting healthy aging. Starting at age five, Adriana Barton studied the cello for nearly two decades, a pursuit that left her with physical injuries and emotional scars. In Wired for Music, traveling from state-of-the-art labs to a village in Zimbabwe, her investigation gets to the heart of music’s effects on the human body and brain.

Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie’s first and only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than 60 hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her 77 years (and counting).