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New Titles - Entertainment
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Olivia de Havilland and the Golden Age of Hollywood
Ellis Amburn · Lyons Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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This is classic Hollywood history as told through the life and career of one of its most iconic actresses. The book benefits tremendously from the author's meeting with Olivia de Havilland after he was assigned to handle her projected memoir at the Delacorte Press in 1973. Amburn also... |
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Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
MAEVE HIGGINS · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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A timely essay collection about life, love, and becoming an American from breakout comedy star and podcaster Maeve Higgins "Maeve Higgins is hilarious, poignant, conversational, and my favorite Irish import since U2. You're in for a treat." - Phoebe Robinson, New York Times... |
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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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Cherry: A novel
Nico Walker · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin.Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and Ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily... |
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Hits and Misses: Stories
SIMON RICH · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A sharp new collection from "one of the funniest writers in America" -- The Daily BeastSimon Rich is the "hilarious" (Washington Post) humorist who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams (The New York Times Book Review) , James Thurber, and P.G. Wodehouse (The Guardian)... |
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Last Looks: A Novel
Howard Michael Gould · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A razor-sharp, exquisitely paced, madly fun debut thriller that gleefully lampoons Hollywood culture and introduces the highly eccentric yet brilliant ex-detective gone rogue: Charlie Waldo.There are run-of-the-mill eccentric Californians, and then there's former detective Charlie Waldo.Waldo,... |
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Inappropriation: A Novel
Lexi Freiman · Ecco
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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"This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment." -- Emma Cline, author of The GirlsA wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politicsStarting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school,... |
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Live Long And . . .: What I Learned Along the Way
William Shatner · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Star Trek legend and veteran author William Shatner discusses the meaning of life, finding value in work, and living well whatever your age."I have always felt," William Shatner says early in his newest memoir, that "like the great comedian George Burns, who lived to 100,... |
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Lake Success: A Novel
Gary Shteyngart · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth in the long-awaited novel, his first in seven years, from the acclaimed, bestselling author... |
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