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Magical Thinking: True Stories

Augusten Burroughs · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

From the number-one bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes Augusten Burroughs's most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that give voice to the thoughts that we all have but dare not mention.It begins with a Tang Instant-Breakfast Drink television commercial:"Yes,...
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Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia

Buddy Valastro · Atria Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

In this heartfelt memoir, master baker and star of the #1 hit TLC show, Buddy Valastro tells his inspiring story - and recounts his family's warm memories from a lifetime of living, loving, and cake making.Television viewers have fallen in love with Buddy Valastro, master cake maker,...
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The Great Gasbag: An A-to-Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World

JOY BEHAR · Harper
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

One of our most beloved comedians, the brilliantly witty and outspoken star of The View, hits the most unpopular President ever elected where it hurts - and makes us laugh and cheer - in this hilarious alphabetical guide to everything that's wrong with the "Orange One," Donald...
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Bossy pants

Tina Fey · Little, Brown and Co.
Pages: 277
Format: eBook

From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals...
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom · Hyperion; 1 edition
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover

Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns...
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Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas

Christian Kracht · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago, in German New Guinea. His destination: the island Kabakon....
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Celebrity Feuds!: The Cattiest Rows, Spats, and Tiffs Ever Recorded

Boze Hadleigh · Taylor Trade Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Celebrity Feuds! dishes the dirt with in-depth stories of every word uttered, letter written, or fist swung from the cantankerous stars' first calamitous encounters to their deathbed declarations. Exposing the shocking tactics of the most bitter rivals in the entertainment industry...
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The Satanic Verses: A Novel

Salman Rushdie · Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight....
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Confessions of a Domestic Failure

Bunmi Laditan · MIRA
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback

Instant Bestseller"Freaking hilarious. This is the novel moms have been waiting for." - Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened"Perfect for readers looking for a funny, realistic look at motherhood." - BOOKLIST (starred...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris · Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks...
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

Mark Harris · Penguin Press
Pages: 490
Format: Hardcover

The epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde-and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood,...
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Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era

James Bawden · University Press of Kentucky
Pages: 424
Format: Print book

James Bawden: Seeing the way people behave when they're around you, is it still fun being Cary Grant?Cary Grant: I don't like to disappoint people. Because he's a completely made-up character and I'm playing a part. It's a part I've been playing a long time, but no way am I really Cary...
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Amy, My Daughter

Mitch Winehouse · It Books; First US Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The intimate, inside story of the ultimately tragic life of multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse Rehab, Back to Black is told by the one person most able to tell itAmys closest advisor, her inspiration, and best friend her father, Mitch. Amy, My Daughter includes...
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