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I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir
Brian Wilson · Da Capo Press Pages: 312 Format: Print book
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They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of. That's part of what makes Brian Wilson's story so astonishing.As a cofounding member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever... |
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My Squirrel Days
ELLIE KEMPER · Scribner Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naïf to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously reasonable New Yorker.There comes a time in every sitcom... |
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Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family
Daniel Bergner · Lee Boudreaux Books Pages: 311 Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestsellerA New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Book A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year As seen on CBS This Morning, NPR's Fresh Air, and People MagazineA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Library Journal... |
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A Brief History of Video Games
Richard Stanton · Running Press Book Publishers Pages: 288 Format: Paperback
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This Brief History provides a unique look at the history and culture of video games, starting with the 1960s classics like Pong to modern favorites such as Grand Theft Auto V and Bioshock. Focusing on creative and scientific advances between 1962 and today, A Brief History of Video Games... |
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Gone 'til november
Lil Wayne. · Penguin Books Pages: 176 Format: Print book
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From rap superstar Lil Wayne comes the long-awaited GONE 'TIL NOVEMBER, a deeply personal and revealing account of his time spent incarcerated on Rikers Island for eight months in 2010. |
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Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy
Elizabeth Winder · Flatiron Books Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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A city, a movie star, and one magical year.In November of 1954 a young woman dressed plainly in a white oxford, dark sunglasses and a black pageboy wig boards a midnight flight from Los Angeles to New York. As the plane's engines rev she breathes a sigh of relief, lights a cigarette... |
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Confessions of a Domestic Failure
Bunmi Laditan · MIRA Pages: 330 Format: Paperback
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Instant Bestseller"Freaking hilarious. This is the novel moms have been waiting for." - Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened"Perfect for readers looking for a funny, realistic look at motherhood." - BOOKLIST (starred... |
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays
Samantha Irby · Vintage Pages: 275 Format: Paperback
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*A New York Times Bestseller*Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult... |
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Radiant Shimmering Light
SARAH SELECKY · Bloomsbury Publishing Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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A nuanced satire--both hilarious and disconcerting--that probes the blurred lines between empowerment, spirituality, and consumerism in our online lives.Lilian Quick is 40, single, and childless, working as a pet portrait artist. She paints the colored light only she can see, but animal... |
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Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
Todd S. Purdum · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American CenturyThey stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound... |
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Class
FRANCESCO PACIFICO · Melville House Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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The breakout novel by Francesco Pacifico, one of Italy's most acclaimed writers, hailed by Dana Spiotta as "brilliantly funny and weirdly subversive"Ludovica and Lorenzo live in Rome. She works in her family's bookstore, and he's a filmmaker - or, rather, a "filmmaker":... |
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Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way
Ryan White · Touchstone Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed music critic and author of Springsteen: Album by Album comes the real story behind the legendary beach bum, rock star, and billionaire musician Jimmy Buffett - who has enchanted audiences of Parrotheads for over four decades with his tropical fantasy world of Margaritaville.Jimmy... |
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Fox 8: A Story
George Saunders · Random House Pages: 64 Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world - featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal.Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer... |
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Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films
Molly Haskell · Yale University Press Pages: 248 Format: Print book
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A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented "Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker,... |
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Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Patricia Lockwood · Riverhead Books Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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From Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father."Destined to be a classic. . .this year's must-read memoir." - Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club Father Greg... |
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