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Florence Foster Jenkins: The Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer
Darryl W. Bullock · Overlook Press
Pages: 198
Format: Print book
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Finally, a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins, considered the world's worst opera singer, soon to be portrayed by Meryl Streep in the forthcoming film."Probably the most complete and absolute lack of talent ever publicly displayed." -- Life MagazineMadame Jenkins couldn't carry... |
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
Tim Kreider · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his virtuoso writing and singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.Psychologists have told him he's a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he's a philosopher. Religious... |
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I hate everyone, except you
Clinton Kelly · Gallery Books
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A collection of essays by the moderator of "The Chew" charts his journey from a misfit youth to an awkward adult, exploring his haphazard experiences with 1980s porn, New Jersey's premiere water parks, his sister's cheerleading endeavors, and a life-threatening mud bath.Kelly... |
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Stand by Your Truth: And Then Run for Your Life!
Rickey Smiley · Gallery Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"I'm very passionate about everything that I do and I don't play any games. I just keep it honest. I don't put on airs. That's the only way you can be. If you tell one lie, you've got to tell another lie. I'm cool with who I am. What you see is what you get."Stand-up... |
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I'm Just a Person
Tig Notaro · Ecco
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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One of America's most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany.In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother... |
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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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Audrey at Home: Memories of My Mother's Kitchen
Luca Dotti · Harper Design
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Enter Audrey Hepburn's private world in this unique biography compiled by her son that combines recollections, anecdotes, excerpts from her personal correspondence, drawings, and recipes for her favorite dishes written in her own hand, and more than 250 previously unpublished personal... |
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Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe
Robert Matzen · Paladin Communications
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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In March 1941, Jimmy Stewart, America's boy next door and recent Academy Award winner, left fame and fortune behind and joined the United States Army Air Corps to fulfill his family mission and serve his country. He rose from private to colonel and participated in 20 often-brutal World... |
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Calypso
David Sedaris · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 273
Format: eBook
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David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast,... |
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Make 'Em Laugh: Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends
Debbie Reynolds · HarperCollins Publishers Inc , 2015
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The beloved Hollywood star and New York Times bestselling author of Unsinkable continues her intimate chat with fans in this entertaining collection of anecdotes, stories, jokes, and random musings from a woman who has seen it all - and done most of it.From her acclaimed performances to her headline-making... |
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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
James McGrath Morris · Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the riveting life of one of the most significant yet least known figures of the civil rights era - pioneering journalist Ethel Payne, the "First Lady of the Black Press" - elevating her to her rightful place in history... |
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It Takes Two: Our Story
JONATHAN SCOTT · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller! Jonathan and Drew Scott, known for their wildly popular HGTV shows including Property Brothers and Brother vs Brother, follow up their New York Times bestseller, Dream Home, with a highly anticipated memoir. It Takes Two: Our Story shares never-before-revealed... |
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I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me To America's #1 Daytime Drama
Eric Braeden · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian and daytime superstar for the past... |
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