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The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All: How to Get the Perfect Blowout at Home
The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All: How to Get the Perfect Blowout at Home

Alli Webb · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Picture this. Your hair is a mess and you feel like a nut. You open your Drybar book and you feel better already! The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All is the ultimate handbook for at-home hairstyling. Author Alli Webb, a long-time stylist and life-long curly hair girl, founded Drybar in 2010...
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Idiot's Guides: Digital Photography
Idiot's Guides: Digital Photography

Shawn Frederick · Alpha
Format: Paperback

Idiot's Guides®: Digital Photography is the simplest guide to becoming a better photographer and taking better pictures with any basic digital camera or DSLR. Instead of focusing on complicated and quickly outdated topics like gear or retouching software, you'll learn the timeless...
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I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

Betty Halbreich · Penguin Press; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover

Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim's repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women...
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The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti
The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti

Rafael Schacter · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Painted murals first appeared in Latin America in the early 20th century; in the 1950s, spray-can graffiti associated with Latino gangs followed, notably the “cholo” graffiti of Los Angeles. Today, street art has traveled to nearly every corner of the globe, evolving into a highly...
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The Blue Moon Boys: The Story of Elvis Presley's Band
The Blue Moon Boys: The Story of Elvis Presley's Band

Brian Setzer · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Boasting never-before-told stories of life on the road with a young Elvis, this comprehensive guide to Elvis' band gives an insider's view of how the band worked with him onstage, in the studio, and in movies, and features the first comprehensive look at their post-Presley lives...
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Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction
Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction

Gabrielle Selz · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Awarded the 2015 Best Memoir from The American Society of Journalists and Authors Luminous and revealing, a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father. In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz was born, she, her parents and her sister moved to New York, where her father,...
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Behind the Curtain: An Insider's View of Jay Leno's Tonight Show
Behind the Curtain: An Insider's View of Jay Leno's Tonight Show

Dave Berg · Pelican Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Jay Leno's Tonight Show comes alive in this book by insider Dave Berg, who spent 18 years as Jay's co-producer. There were always two shows: the one on stage and the one behind the curtain. This narrative weaves both together, featuring the show's most legendary moments, including...
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Luck of the draw
Luck of the draw

Bonnie Raitt · BMG Direct Marketing

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The Jewelry Recipe Book: Transforming Ordinary Materials into Stylish and Distinctive Earrings, Bracelets, Necklaces, and Pins
The Jewelry Recipe Book: Transforming Ordinary Materials into Stylish and Distinctive Earrings, Bracelets, Necklaces, and Pins

Nancy Soriano · Artisan Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The Jewelry Recipe Book takes materials available at large craft stores (as well as specialty shops and artisan shops on Etsy) - beads, shrink plastic, leather, lace, pearls, sequins, polymer clay, yarn, and pinecones, to name a few - and transforms them into one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry....
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

Mark Harris · Penguin Press
Pages: 511
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most legendary directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed forever by itIn Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark...
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Abbey Road
Abbey Road

The Beatles · Capitol
Format: Audio CD

The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity...
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In the Name of Gucci: A Memoir
In the Name of Gucci: A Memoir

Patricia Gucci · Crown Pub
Pages: 304
Format: Book

The gripping family drama and never-before-told love story surrounding the rise and fall of the late Aldo Gucci, the man responsible for making the legendary fashion label the powerhouse it is today, as told by his daughter. Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the lovechild whose birth could...
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Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters
Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters

Randy L. Schmidt · Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Judy Garland on Judy Garland is the closest we will come to experiencing and exploring the legend's planned autobiography. Collecting and presenting the most important Garland interviews and encounters that took place between 1935 and 1969, this work opens with her first radio appearance...
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Dressing the Queen: The Jubilee Wardrobe
Dressing the Queen: The Jubilee Wardrobe

Angela Kelly · Royal Collection Trust
Format: Hardcover

Under grey skies, more than one million people gathered for the Thames River Pageant of the 2012 Diamond Jubilee. Huddled under a sea of umbrellas, some had even spent the night there to secure prime seats. But the wait proved worthwhile. As the parade passed, there atop the splendid Spirit...
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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

Stanley Crouch · Harper; F First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.Throughout...
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