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One Lucky Bastard: Tales from Tinseltown

Roger Moore · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of Hollywood. Of course, hes an actor and has starred in films that have made him famous the world over but hes also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur. Despite the fact that he is well known as one of the nicest...
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Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

Diane Keaton · Random House Inc
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself - no matter what anyone else thinks. Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring...
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The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink

Pamela Katz · Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

Among the most creative and outsized personalities of the Weimar Republic, that sizzling yet decadent epoch between the Great War and the Nazis' rise to power, were the renegade poet Bertolt Brecht and the rebellious avant-garde composer Kurt Weill. These two young geniuses and the three...
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Independent Ed: Inside a Career of Big Dreams, Little Movies, and the Twelve Best Days of My Life

Edward Burns · Gotham
Format: Hardcover

An entertaining and inspirational memoir by one of the most prominent practitioners and evangelists of independent filmmaking, and the acclaimed writer, director, and actor (Saving Private Ryan, Friends with Kids, Entourage) whose first film - The Brothers McMullen - has become an indie...
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Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century

Philip Hoare · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called "a shocking tale of heroes and villains - illuminating and upsetting in equal measure."The first production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in 1918, with American exotic dancer Maud Allan dancing lead, ignited...
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Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Dick Cavett · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Dick Cavett is back, sharing his reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cultural icons, and the absurdities of everyday lifeIn Brief Encounters, the legendary talk show host Dick Cavett introduces us to the fascinating characters who have crossed his path, from...
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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whiteheads hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.  On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime...
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I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain

Courtney Robertson · It Books
Format: Hardcover

In I Didnt Come Here to Make Friends former Bachelor villain and season 16 winner Courtney Robertson shares her story of love and heartbreak, and the reality of appearing on reality TV. For the first time ever, a former Bachelor contestant takes us along on her journey to find love...
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The Kardashians: An American Drama

JERRY OPPENHEIMER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich comes a blockbuster unauthorized biography of one of the most famous and ubiquitous family dynasties in contemporary culture: The Kardashians. Secrets and scandals of the Kardashians, so closely held that not even hard core fans have...
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Love Life

Rob Lowe · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Rob Lowe offers up a collection of personal stories in an honest and celebratory memoir about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and son, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.Rob Low is back with stories he only tells his best...
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Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero

Nancy Schoenberger · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

John Ford and John Wayne, two titans of classic film, made some of the most enduring movies of all time. The genre they defined - the Western - and the heroic archetype they built still matter today. For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team,...
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Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian

Bob Saget
Format: Hardcover

He is the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House . . .The charming, wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos . . .The scatological, out-of-his-mind stand-up comic from Entourage and The Aristocrats . . .He is Bob Saget, and in Dirty Daddy he delivers uproarious,...
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The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever

JAMIE WRIGHT · Convergent Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

"The reason you love Jamie (or are about to) is because she says exactly what the rest of us are thinking, but we're too afraid to upset the apple cart. She is a voice for the outlier, and we're famished for what she has to say." --Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling...
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I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses

Robert Wagner · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner's memoir of the great women movie stars he has known. In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise of television, becoming...
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Bowie Style

Mark Paytress · Omnibus ; New York
Pages: 159
Format: Print book

The richly illustrated chronicle of pop's greatest exponent of style, newly updated This visual examination of a celebrated, multifaceted career documents the impact of David Bowie's 20th century fashion and culture, brilliantly capturing his spatial odyssey from dedicated follower...
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