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Cinderella: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack

Patrick Doyle · Hal Leonard
Format: Musical score

(Piano Solo Songbook). A baker's dozen selections from the soundtrack to this 2015 live-action Disney feature inspired by the classic fairy tale featuring compositions by Patrick Doyle, who also penned the music for Disney's Brave. Includes the single "Strong" by Sonna...
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Otherworlds: Visions of Our Solar System

MICHAEL BENSON · HARRY N ABRAMS
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Otherworlds is a record of humanity's planetary exploration and a tribute to the stunning beauty of our solar system in spectacular high-resolution landscape images, processed by Michael Benson to capture how the planets would look if we could visit them and see them with our own eyes....
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Hollywood Frame by Frame: The Unseen Silver Screen in Contact Sheets, 1951-1997

Karina Longworth · Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover

There is a voyeuristic thrill in contact sheets, the direct prints used by photographers of the pre-digital age to edit their work. You look directly through the photographer's eyes as each photo gets closer to that perfect shot. And yet, it's often the photos not chosen that best...
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Burglar's guide to the city.

Geoff Manaugh · Farrar
Pages: 304
Format: Book

Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again.At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City...
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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God

Will Durant · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Praised as a revelatory book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prizewinning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durants sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions,...
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The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure

Carl Hoffman · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo." One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization - or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times...
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Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy

DAVE HICKEY · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out----he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately,...
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Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange-- How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos

Robert Hofler · It Books
Format: Hardcover

After the sexual revolution came the sexual explosionThe six years between 1968 and 1973 saw more sexual taboos challenged than ever before. Film, literature, and theater simultaneously broke through barriers previously unimagined, giving birth to what we still consider to be the height...
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Obama: An Intimate Portrait

Pete Souza · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

This is the definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his White House photographer--and presented in an oversize, 12"x10" exquisitely produced format, and featuring a foreword from the President himself.
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John Hughes: A Life in Film: The Genius Behind Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, and more

Kirk Honeycutt · Race Point Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"There's no way I'm going to end a movie on a negative note." - John HughesHe allegedly wrote Ferris Bueller's Day Off in four days, Planes, Trains and Automobiles in three days, The Breakfast Club in two days, and Vacation in a week. He never went to film school or studied...
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Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation

MINDY JOHNSON · Disney Editions
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the earliest origins of animated imagery, the colorful link between paper and screen was created by legions of female artists working on the slick surface of celluloid sheets. With calligraphic precision and Rembrandtesque mastery, these women painstakingly brought pencil drawings...
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Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Justine Picardie · It Books
Pages: 343
Format: Paperback

Sleek. Chic. Notoriously guarded. Welcome to the secret world of Gabrielle Chanel.The story of Chanel begins with an abandoned child, as lost as a girl in a dark fairy tale. Unveiling remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanel's early years in a convent orphanage and her flight into...
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She Sang Me a Good Luck Song: The California Indian Photographs of Dugan Aguilar

Dugan Aguilar · Heyday
Pages: 130
Format: Print book

Inside California's Native Communities Dugan Aguilar (Maidu/Northern Paiute/Achomawi) , a man of few words, speaks his heart through his photography. With nature's light and a camera, he creates images of indigenous California people, photographs that embody the depth of their...
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