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Paul Simon: The Life

Robert Hilburn · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon's participation - but without editorial control - by acclaimed biographer and music writer Robert Hilburn.Through such hits as "The Sound of Silence," "Bridge...
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Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny

Marlo Thomas · Hyperion; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny is a book that only Marlo Thomas could write—a smart and gracious, witty and confident autobiographical journey.For as long as Marlo Thomas can remember, she’s lived with laughter. Born to comedy royalty—TV and nightclub...
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The Art of Being Bill: Bill Murray and the Many Faces of Awesome

EZRA RAISER JENNIFER CROFT · Race Point Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

The Art of Being Bill is the first illustrated collection of Bill Murray, highlighting the star like you've never seen him before: Bill Murray at The Last Supper, Bill Murray as an Indian god, Bill Murray as a knight, Bill Murray as Superman, and nearly 150 other fitting tributes that will...
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Thank You for Being a Friend: A Golden Girls Trivia Book

Michael D Craig · LULU
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback

Golden Girls, Bea Arthur, Trivia, Betty White, Television, Rue, Estelle Getty, Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, Sophia, Comedy, Entertainment
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The Top 10 of Film

Russell Ash · DK ADULT; 1st edition
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Packed with thousands of astonishing film facts on everything from Hollywood to Bollywood, The Top 10 of Film features lists of the best, worst, scariest, funniest -- and more -- films and film stars of all time.
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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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Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Author of God, No!

Penn Jillette · Blue Rider Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Let’s be honest—nobody has more fun than atheists. Don’t believe it? Well, consider this: For nonbelievers, every day you’re alive is a day to celebrate! And no one celebrates life to the fullest like Penn Jillette—the larger, louder half of legendary magic...
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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian

W KAMAU BELL · DUTTON
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you've read about him in The New York Times, which called him, "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years." Or maybe in The New Yorker,...
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I Want to Kill the Dog

Richard M. Cohen · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious book by Richard M. Cohen, the New York Times bestselling author of Blindsided and Strong at the Broken Places, about living with his wife, Meredith Vieira, and her band of difficult dogs.Has a couple ever gone to war or a spouse moved to another country because a pet came between...
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God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

Penn Jillette · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Not only can the man rant, he can write.nbspFrom the larger, louder half of the world-famous magic duo Penn amp Teller comes a scathingly funny reinterpretation of The Ten Commandments. They are The Penn Commandments, and they reveal one outrageous and opinionated atheists experience in the world....
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Selp-Helf

Miranda Sings · Gallery Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In this decidedly unhelpful, candid, hilarious "how-to" guide, YouTube personality Miranda Sings offers life lessons and tutorials with her signature sassy attitude.Over six million social media fans can't be wrong: Miranda Sings is one of the funniest faces on YouTube. As a bumbling,...
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Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg: Life and Other Calamities

Kathie Lee Gifford · Ballantine Books; English Language edition
Format: Hardcover

As one of Americas most recognized faces, Kathie Lee Gifford has been a part of our morning routine for more years than she cares to count. And thats why it may come as a surprise to hear that there are still sides of this fiftysomething ! devoted mother and dedicated television personality...
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Scrappy Little Nobody

Anna Kendrick · Touchstone
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An "honest, effortlessly funny, and alternatively relatable" (Harper's Bazaar) collection of autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air, Pitch Perfect, and Trolls, "Scrappy Little Nobody...
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Muse: A novel

Jonathan Galassi · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux: a first novel, at once hilarious and tender, about the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions, and the iconic, alluring writer who has obsessed them both. Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent...
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Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

Glenn Beck · Threshold Editions; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

1 New York Times bestselling author and radio and tv host Glenn Becks ultimate handbook for tackling and winning lifes most important arguments. FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE. It happens to all of us Youre minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius...
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