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Wildflower

Drew Barrymore · Dutton
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today. Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible...
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Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase

Jen Lancaster · NAL Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Now in paperback! Jen Lancasters cultural inferiority complex had to come from somewhere...and now fans can find out where in the New York Times bestseller Pretty in Plaid. Before she was bitter, before she was lazy, Jen Lancaster was a badge- hungry Junior Girl Scout with a knack for extortion,...
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Life As I Blow It: Tales of Love, Life & Sex . . . Not Necessarily in That Order

Sarah Colonna · Villard; Original edition
Format: Kindle Edition

In this wickedly funny and irreverent memoir, Chelsea Lately writer and comedian Sarah Colonna opens up about love, life, and pursuing her dreams . . . and then screwing it all up.   Sarah believes we all struggle to grow up. Sometimes we want to have fun, not take things too seriously,...
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The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!

Joe Eszterhas · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Mike Ovitz told him his Wilshire Blvd. "foot soldiers" would hunt him down. He's antagonized almost everyone at the top in Tinseltown. And now, Joe Eszterhas tells everything he knows -- in brief, quotable bursts -- about the business, the history of Hollywood, and how to write...
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The Truth

Al Franken · Dutton
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Al Franken's landmark bestseller, Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) : A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was praised as a "bitterly funny assault" (zThe New York Times) that rang "with the moral clarity of an angel's trumpet" (The Associated Press)...
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Robert Redford: The Biography

Michael Feeney Callan · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Draws on the actor, director, and producer's personal documents to offer insight into his complex life behind his famous roles, discussing the death of his son, his relationship with Sydney Pollack, and his establishment of the Sundance Film Festival.
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Theft by Finding: Diaries

DAVID SEDARIS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiotDavid Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the makingIt's no coincidence that the world's best writers tend to keep diaries....
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Dangerous Minds: A Knight and Moon Novel

Janet Evanovich · Bantam
Pages: 301
Format: Mass Market Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The irrepressibly charming duo of Emerson Knight and Riley Moon returns in another gripping mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Buddhist monk Wayan Bagus lost his island of solitude and wants to get it back. The island was about...
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

David Sedaris · Little
Pages: 257
Format: Print book

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds...
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Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

Marc Eliot · Dey Street Books
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

This is the definitive biography of one of the most iconic, complex and enduring legends of Hollywood's golden age, whose major presence in American film, radio, television, stage and theater lasted beyond the second half of the 20th Century, and whose classic films are known throughout...
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Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality

Jacob Tomsky · Doubleday; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry. Jacob Tomsky never intended to go into the hotel business. As a new college graduate, armed only with a philosophy...
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