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Victoria

Helen Rappaport · Harper Design
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

The official companion to the Masterpiece presentation on PBS, Victoria delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of one of England's greatest monarchs. From the producers of Poldark and Endeavour, ITV's Victoria follows...
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Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen

Noel Monk · Dey Street Books
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover

The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that changed rock music.Van Halen's rise in the 1980s was one of the most thrilling the music world...
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I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

Luvvie Ajayi · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 241
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestseller#1 Washington Post Bestseller"A truth-riot of a book!" -- Shonda RhimesComedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essaysWith over 500,000...
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Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano

Dana Thomas · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. Both wanted to revolutionize fashion in a way no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with...
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Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumors

Zoî Howe · The Overlook Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The New biography of "the Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll" (Rolling Stone) Lyrical visionary, enduring style icon, and one indispensable fifth of post-Peter Green megaband Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks is one of the most recognizable figures in rock 'n' roll history -- very...
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Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page · Genesis Publications; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page is the photographic autobiography and visual history of the world’s most iconic guitar player. With incredible attention to detail, Page has chosen hundreds of photographs representing significant moments in his career: from a schoolboy with a rock-a-billy...
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Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution

Jon Fine · Viking
Format: Hardcover

* A New York Times Summer Reading List selection * A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2015 * A memoir charting thirty years of the American independent rock underground by a musician who knows it intimately Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands...
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Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York

Justin Davidson · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

From New York magazine's architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City - a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution of the city...
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The Art of Cartooning & Illustration: Learn techniques for drawing and illustrating more than 100 cartoon characters, poses, and expressions

Maury Aaseng · Walter Foster,
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

From the scholarly cartoons of The New Yorker to the laugh-out-loud illustrations of the Sunday funnies, cartooning and animation have been popular artistic genres for myriad eras. In The Art of Cartooning & Illustration, aspiring cartoon artists will learn the basics of traditional...
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The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of the Master Forgers

Noah Charney · Phaidon Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of the Master Forgers explores the stories, dramas and human intrigues surrounding the world's most famous forgeries - investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have faked great works of art, and in doing so conned...
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Listen Out Loud: A Life In Music--Managing Mccartney, Madonna, And Michael Jackson

Ron Weisner · Lyons Press
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover

Even hardcore music fans don't know the name Ron Weisner . . . but they should. A high-powered manager for over four decades, Ron worked alongside Madonna, Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Gladys Knight, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, and, most notably, Michael Jackson. He saw the King...
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Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

James Grissom · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary book; one that almost magically makes clear how Tennessee Williams wrote; how he came to his visions of Amanda Wingfield, his Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Alma Winemiller, Lady Torrance, and the other characters of his plays that transformed the American theater of the mid-twentieth...
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Hamilton: Vocal Selections

Lin-Manuel Miranda · Hal Leonard
Pages: 200
Format: Musical score

(Vocal Selections) . 17 selections from the critically acclaimed musical based on Alexander Hamilton's biography which debuted on Broadway in August 2015 to unprecedented advanced box office sales. Our collection features 17 selections in piano/vocal format from the music penned by Lin-Manuel...
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The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads: Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson

Spoke Gallery. · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The third volume in the New York Times bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series showcases the best artwork from "Bad Dads," an annual exhibition of art inspired by the films of Wes Anderson. Curated by Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco, "Bad Dads" has continued...
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