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New Titles - Entertainment
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Bret Easton Ellis · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century's failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what "freedom of speech" truly means.Bret... |
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Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days
Janice Dean · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces.Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends, no matter the weather. Yet many of her fans know... |
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Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of "The View"
Ramin Setoodeh · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show. When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she'd revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her co-hosts:... |
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The Sopranos Sessions
Matt Zoller Seitz · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as Mad Men, The Wire,... |
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Apocalypse Any Day Now: Deep Underground with America's Doomsday Preppers
Tea Krulos · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Everyone always seems to be talking about the end of the world - Y2K, the Mayan apocalypse, blood moon prophecies, nuclear war, killer robots, you name it. In Apocalypse Any Day Now, journalist Tea Krulos travels the country to try to puzzle out America's obsession with the end of days.... |
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The Fifth Doctrine
Karen Robards · MIRA
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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With her back against the wall, everything's on the line for Bianca St. Ives. She's either going to save the world - or die trying.It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from... |
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Funny Man: Mel Brooks
Patrick McGilligan · Harper
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred... |
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Sterling Hayden's Wars
Lee Mandel · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover
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A master sailor when he was barely in his twenties, Sterling Hayden (1916-1986) became an overnight film star despite having no training in acting. After starring in two major films, he quit Hollywood and trained as a commando in Europe. Hayden joined the OSS and fought in the Balkans... |
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Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
Ken Jennings · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year From the brilliantly witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings, a history of humor - from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes - that tells the story of how comedy... |
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