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Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World
Andrew Ervin · Basic Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our timeVideo games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four... |
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The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet
OLIVIA HUSSEY · Kensington Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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In 1968, Olivia Hussey became one of the most famous faces in the world, immortalized as the definitive Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet. Now the iconic girl on the balcony shares the ups and downs of her truly remarkable life and career . . . At only sixteen-years-old,... |
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Funny Man: Mel Brooks
Patrick McGilligan · Harper Pages: 656 Format: Hardcover
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A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred... |
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David Bowie: A Life
DYLAN JONES · Crown Archetype Pages: 544 Format: Hardcover
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Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic... |
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In Pieces
Sally Field · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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In this intimate, haunting literary memoir, an American icon tells her story for the first time, and in her own gorgeous words--about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother.... |
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Age of bowie
Paul Morley · Gallery Books Pages: 496 Format: Print book
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Author and industry insider Paul Morley explores the musical and cultural legacies left behind by "The Man Who Fell to Earth."Respected arts commentator and author Paul Morley, an artistic advisor to the curators of the highly successful retrospective exhibition David Bowie is for the Victoria... |
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The Division Bell Mystery
Ellen Wilkinson · Poisoned Pen Press Format: Paperback
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS AND PREFACE BY RACHEL REEVES MP'Through the double clamour of Big Ben and the shrill sound of the bell rang a revolver shot.'A financier is found shot in the House of Commons. Suspecting foul play, Robert West, a parliamentary private secretary,... |
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Sam Shepard: A Life
JOHN WINTERS · Counterpoint Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover
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With more than 55 plays to his credit, including the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child, Sam Shepard's impact on American theater ranks with the greatest playwrights of the past half-century. Critics have enthused that he "forged a whole new kind of American play," while... |
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The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities
WAYNE KRAMER · Da Capo Press Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Memoir by Wayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and cofounder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legends The MC5 In January 1969, before the world heard a note of their music, The MC5 was on the cover of Rolling Stone. The missing link between free jazz and punk rock, they were raw, primal,... |
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Around the Way Girl: A Memoir
Taraji P Henson · 37 Ink Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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From Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner, Taraji P. Henson, comes an inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood, and the joy of living in your own truth.With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including... |
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Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon
Charles Casillo · St. Martin's Press Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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Based on new interviews and research, this ground-breaking biography reveals how Marilyn's childhood contributed to her struggle with bi-polar disorder, and impacted her career and personal life.Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty still captivates. Her love life still fascinates. Her story still... |
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I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons
KEVIN HART · Atria / 37 INK Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt,... |
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A Conspiracy of Tall Men
NOAH HAWLEY · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 384 Format: Paperback
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Linus Owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco. His marriage is foundering and his wife, Claudia, has gone to Chicago to visit her mother. But if Claudia is in Chicago, how is it that two FBI agents show up at Linus' office and inform... |
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This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
Gabourey Sidibe · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir - wise, complex, smart, funny - a version of the American experience different from anything we've read Gabourey Sidibe - "Gabby" to her legion of fans - skyrocketed to international fame in 2009... |
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