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The Last Black Unicorn
TIFFANY HADDISH · Gallery Books Pages: 288 Format: eBook
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From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods... |
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Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture
Gary Alan Fine · University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account in their play. Surrounding that one-on-one... |
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The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
Maryann Erigha · NYU Press Pages: 240 Format: Paperback
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The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn't believe that Denzel Washington could "open" a western genre... |
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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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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
John F. Kasson · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 308 Format: Hardcover
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How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation. Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black... |
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Lindy West · Hachette Books Pages: 272 Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, ESQUIRE, The LA Times, and NEWSWEEKWINNER OF THE STRANGER GENIUS AWARDShrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't... |
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Fox 8: A Story
George Saunders · Random House Pages: 64 Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world - featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal.Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer... |
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A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
Ian Buruma · Penguin Press Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970'sWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant... |
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Captain Fantastic: Elton John's Stellar Trip Through the '70s
Tom Doyle · Ballantine Books Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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Based on rare one-on-one interviews with the flamboyant rock 'n' roll icon, this is the first book to trace Elton John's meteoric rise from obscurity to worldwide celebrity in the wildest, weirdest decade of the twentieth century. In August 1970, Elton John achieved overnight fame with... |
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Calypso
David Sedaris · Little Pages: 259 Format: Hardcover
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David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast,... |
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The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
Rainn Wilson · Dutton Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Rainn Wilson's memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life. For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love... |
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Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
Phil Marcade · Three Rooms Press Pages: 288 Format: Paperback
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Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcade's first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding up in New York City and becoming immersed in the early punk rock scene.... |
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