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Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies
Ann Hornaday · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Whether we are trying to impress a date after an art-house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations with friends, we all need ways to watch and talk about movies. But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron romantic comedy, how can everyday viewers... |
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Not Quite a Genius
NATE DERN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the senior writer at Funny or Die and former artistic director at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, a collection of absurdist, hilarious stories and essays on relationships, technology, and contemporary society.This collection of essays and stories spans a wide variety of topics.... |
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Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures
JENNIFER ROMOLINI · HarperBusiness
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get and keep the job you want - from an outsider whose been there and done it, a woman who went from being a broke, divorced, college dropout to running some of the biggest websites in the world.Jennifer Romolini started her career as an awkward... |
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Theft by Finding: Diaries
DAVID SEDARIS · LITTLE
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From bestselling author David Sedaris, for the first time in print: selections from the diaries that are the source of his remarkable autobiographical essays.For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny... |
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Black privilege : opportunity comes to those who create it
Charlamagne Tha God · Touchstone
Pages: 291
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The radio and television personality shares his unlikely success story as a troubled youth-turned-influential radio personality, outlining unstinting views about how embracing one's truths is an essential part of achieving success and happiness. |
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Grace Notes: My Recollections
Katey Sagal · Gallery Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Gripping, singular, and gorgeously reflective, Grace Notes is a memoir told in essays by beloved actress, Hollywood veteran, and singer/songwriter Katey Sagal - perfect for fans of Mary Louise Parker's Dear Mr. You and Patti Smith's M Train.Popular and award-winning star Katey Sagal chronicles... |
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I Hope I Screw This Up: How Falling In Love with Your Fears Can Change the World
KYLE CEASE · North Star Way
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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If Eckhart Tolle and Jim Carrey had a baby, that baby would be Kyle Cease. Transformational comedian Kyle Cease brings his irreverently touching, insightful, and one-of-a-kind self-help wisdom to sold-out audiences in his Evolving Out Loud live stage show.In I Hope I Screw This Up he disarms... |
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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
W KAMAU BELL · DUTTON
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you've read about him in The New York Times, which called him, "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years." Or maybe in The New Yorker,... |
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CRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing and the Power of Their First Celebrity Crush
Cathy Alter · William Morrow
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush.You never forget your first crush . . .CRUSH... |
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Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep
Michael Schulman · Harper
Pages: 293
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep - the "Iron Lady" of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three - that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling... |
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The Mother of All Questions: Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions
Rebecca Solnit · Haymarket Books
Pages: 180
Format: Print book
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Praise for Men Explain Things to Me:"It's a fraught time to be female in America (or should I say fraught-er) , and Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me is the most clarifying, soothing, and socially aware document I've read on the topic this year." - Lena Dunham,... |
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West of Eden: An American Place
Jean Stein · Random House, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol "superstar" Edie Sedgwick, which... |
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