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The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews

Kurt Loder · St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Book

The former Rolling Stone writer and MTV host takes off from classic Roger Ebert and sails boldly into the new millennium.Millions grew up reading the author’s record reviews and watching him on MTV’s “The Week in Rock.” In this collection of more than 200 movie reviews...
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Real Ponies Don't Go Oink

Patrick F. McManus · Henry Holt & Co; 1st edition
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover

"True-life" tales of man against nature in a collection sure to entertain the most hard-to-please listener. 2 cassettes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story

Isabel Gillies · Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

A real-life romantic comedy about getting dumped and getting over itIsabel Gillies the New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day has written another irresistibly moving and funny memoir A Year and Six Seconds A Love Story When our story opens its a dark and slushy winter in New York...
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Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

A. J. Jacobs · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the true and truly hilarious story of one person's quest to become the healthiest man in the world. Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia, goaded by his wife telling him, "I don't...
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Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox

Lois Banner · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: She was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No previous biographer has recognized -- much less attempted...
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Free-Range Chickens

Simon Rich · Random House
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

In his riotous debut collection, Ant Farm, Simon Rich found humor in some of life’s most desperate situations. Now this former editor of The Harvard Lampoon and current writer for Saturday Night Live has returned to mine more comedy from our hopelessly terrifying world.In the nostalgic...
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Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery

Herbie J Pilato · Taylor Trade Publishing; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

Based on author Herbie J Pilato’s exclusive interviews with Elizabeth Montgomery prior to her death in 1995, Twitch Upon a Star includes insider material and commentary from several individuals associated with her remarkable life and career before, during, and after Bewitched, including...
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I'm Over All That: And Other Confessions

Shirley MacLaine · Atria Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

At a certain time in life, we all come to realize what is truly important to us and what just doesn't matter. For Shirley MacLaine, that time is now. In this wise, witty, and fearless collection of small observations and big-picture questions, she shares with readers all those things...
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The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines

Shohreh Aghdashloo · Harper
Format: Book

Oscar nominee and Emmy Award–winning actress Shohreh Aghdashloo shares her remarkable personal journey—from a childhood in the Shah’s Iran to the red carpets of Hollywood—in The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines, a dazzling memoir of family, faith, and hope. When...
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Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story

Paul Harvey · Doubleday
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

Paul Harvey is the most listened-to radio personality in America. Millions of loyal listeners tune in every week to hear his unique blend of news and views. Now, in Paul Harvey's The Rest Of The Story you'll find eighty-two astonishing true stories of the famous and infamous,...
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