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Meddling Kids: A Novel
Edgar Cantero · Doubleday
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Freaky pleasure...it scratches a nostalgic itch for those who grew up on Saturday morning Scooby-Doo cartoons and sugar-bombed breakfast cereal"--USA Today"Deliriously wild, funny and imaginative. Cantero is an original voice."--Charles Yu, author... |
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Word Nerd: Dispatches from the Games, Grammar, and Geek Underground
John D. Williams Jr · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this zany, one-of-a-kind memoir, former executive director of the National SCRABBLE Association John D. Williams Jr. brings to life the obsessions, madness, and glory of the SCRABBLE® culture -- from living-room players to world champions.Beginning his career on a lark as a freelance... |
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Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film
Don Graham · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology.Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism,... |
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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
Neal Gabler · Yale University Press 2016.
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful...talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age." Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment - from a popular vocalist... |
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Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters
Bob Dylan · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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In a 1969 conversation with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, Bob Dylan proclaimed, "I don't give interviews." But in truth, he has spoken at length with print publications large and small and with broadcast media around the world, given numerous press conferences, and even answered... |
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Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy
Mike Love · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 436
Format: Print book
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The New York Times BestsellerMike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history -- timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations." As a founding... |
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Herzog by Ebert
Roger Ebert · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge matched by a sheer love of life that bolstered... |
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West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir
PAT CUNNANE · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The West Wing meets The Office in this fresh and funny exclusive look into President Barack Obama's years in the White House, directly from his senior writer and former Deputy Director of Messaging.West Winging It: An Unpresidential Memoir is the personal story of Pat Cunnane and his journey... |
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Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
MR DAVID THOMSON · Yale University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through... |
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Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Patricia Lockwood · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father."Destined to be a classic. . .this year's must-read memoir." - Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club Father Greg... |
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Sam Shepard: A Life
JOHN WINTERS · Counterpoint
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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With more than 55 plays to his credit, including the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child, Sam Shepard's impact on American theater ranks with the greatest playwrights of the past half-century. Critics have enthused that he "forged a whole new kind of American play," while... |
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Are You Anybody: A Memoir
Jeffrey Tambor · Crown/Archetype
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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It's rare that an actor embodies even one memorable character over the arc of a career. Jeffrey Tambor has managed to create three, beginning with Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, the series created by Garry Shandling, Jeffrey's first mentor in television. He went... |
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Bare Bones: I'm Not Lonely If You're Reading This Book
Bobby Bones · Dey Street Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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A touching, funny, heart-wrenching, and triumphant memoir from one of the biggest names in radio, the host of The Bobby Bones Show, one of the most listened-to drive time morning radio shows in the nation.Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell... |
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