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Tyler Oakley · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Pop culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays written in the voice that's earned him more than twenty-one million followers across social media....
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The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage

Greg Gutfeld · Crown Forum; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must...
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia Of Existing Information

The Onion · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will...
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Femme Fatale: Cinema's Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies

Dominique Mainon · Limelight
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From the femme fatale of the early cinema to her post-feminist rebirth, this lavishly illustrated book and comprehensive guide traces the history of these dangerously alluring, manipulative, and desperate lethal ladies. Femme Fatale surveys the history of the femme fatale in world cinema,...
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Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters

Donald Bogle · Harper; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

“Mr. Bogle continues to be our most noted black-cinema historian.”—Spike Lee“Donald Bogle [is a] pioneering safe-keeper of the history of blacks in film.”—VogueFrom Donald Bogle, author of the bestselling Dorothy Dandridge and Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies,...
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Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

David Mamet · Pantheon; First Edition edition
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In Bambi vs. Godzilla, David Mamet, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter, gives us an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a filmmaker who has always played the game his own way.Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay...
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The Four Fingers of Death: A Novel

Rick Moody · Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, "The...
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Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story

Carol Burnett · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the one we bestow on a total stranger who needs it right then, and God has put us there to deliver. — Carrie Hamilton You are about to meet an extraordinary young woman, Carrie Hamilton....
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Breaking Bad: A Cultural History

Lara C Stache · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover

As one of the most critically acclaimed shows of all time, Breaking Bad explored the life and crimes of a high school chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin of the American Southwest. As Walter White and his former student Jesse Pinkman become deeply entwined in the drug world, their narrative...
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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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