|
Being a Dad Is Weird: Lessons in Fatherhood from My Family to Yours
BEN FALCONE · Dey Street Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A funny and intimate look at fatherhood from the actor and writer/director of The Boss and Tammy that combines stories about his own larger-than-life dad and how his experiences raising two daughters with his wife, Melissa McCarthy, who also penned the Foreword, are shaped by his own childhood.Though... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations
Matt Bellassai · Atria/Keywords Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the break-out star of BuzzFeed and the People's Choice Award-winning comedian behind the web series "Whine About It" and "To Be Honest" comes a collection of hilariously anguished essays chronicling awful moments from his life so far, the humiliations of being... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back
David Hallberg · Touchstone
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
|
|
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New York Times described as "the foremost classical stylist of our day," presents an intimate journey through his artistic life up to the moment he returns to the stage... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Maggie Smith : a biography
Michael Coveney · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 353
Format: Print book
|
|
No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades. From her days as a West End star... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
Paula Poundstone · Algonquin Books
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat." - Lily Tomlin "Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known." - Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice "Is there a secret to happiness?"... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays
Samantha Irby · Vintage
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
|
|
Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales
Ali Wentworth · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life - and this time, on a mission of self-improvement - in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Amanda Wakes Up
ALISYN CAMEROTA · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The Devil Wears Prada meets Primary Colors in this breezy summer read, as seen in The New York Times, People, and O MagazineWhen Amanda Gallo, fresh from the backwater of local TV, lands the job of her dreams at FAIR News - the coveted morning anchor slot - she's finally made it: a six-figure... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
George lucas : a life
Brian Jay Jones · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 560
Format: Print book
|
|
The essential biography of the influential and beloved filmmaker George LucasOn May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two American movie theaters. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmmaker named George... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too
LOUIE ANDERSON · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
|
|
With wry wit and poignant humor, Louie Anderson, New York Times bestselling author and three-time Emmy Award-winning comedian starring in Zach Galifianakis's Baskets, shares his journey of turning life's challenges into joy as well as the wisdom he's gained from his mother.Louie Anderson... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
Anthony Summers · Open Road Media
Pages: 676
Format: Book
|
|
New York Times Bestseller: The definitive biography based on over six hundred interviews with people who knew Marilyn Monroe both professionally and intimately. Marilyn Monroe, born in obscurity and deprivation, became an actress and legend of the twentieth century, romantically linked... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Fine Romance
Candice Bergen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In the follow-up to Knock Wood - her bestselling "engaging, intelligent, and wittily self-deprecating autobiography" (The New York Times) - Candice Bergen shares the big events: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B-Movie Actor
BRUCE CAMPBELL · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author and famous minor television personality John HodgmanIt's been 15 years since his first memoir but Bruce is still living the dream as a "B" movie king in an "A" movie world.Bruce Campbell makes his triumphant return from... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
