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Lou Reed: A Life
Anthony DeCurtis · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou ReedAs lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions... |
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Peter O'Toole: The Definitive Biography
Robert Sellers · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Peter O'Toole was supremely talented, a unique leading man and one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. Described by his friend Richard Burton as "the most original actor to come out of Britain since the war," O'Toole was also unpredictable, with a dangerous edge... |
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Bobby Rydell: Teen Idol On The Rocks: A Tale of Second Chances
Bobby Rydell
Format: Paperback
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At seventeen, Bobby Rydell was the face of American Bandstand - the kid from Italian South Philly with the smoothest voice, the highest pompadour, and the sweetest smile. And there were those hits: "Wild One," "Volare," and "Forget Him," to name a f |
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
Eddie Izzard · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Critically acclaimed, award-winning British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard details his childhood, his first performances on the streets of London, his ascent to worldwide success on stage and screen, and his comedy shows which have won over audiences around the world. Over the course of a thirty-year... |
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Seating Arrangements
Maggie Shipstead · Vintage; Reprint edition
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A San Francisco Chronicle and Daily Candy Best Book of the YearWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to the impeccably... |
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Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
Lauren Graham · Ballantine Books
Pages: 209
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood - along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking... |
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Man of the Year: A Memoir
LOU COVE · FLATIRON Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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For one 1970's family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold.In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with Rumours, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem,... |
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Sharon Tate: A Life
Ed Sanders · Da Capo Pr
Pages: 285
Format: Print book
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Ed Sanders gave readers their clearest insight yet into the disturbing world of Charles Manson and his followers when he published The Family in 1971. Continuing that journalistic tradition, Sanders presents the most thorough look ever into the heartbreaking story of Sharon Tate, the iconic... |
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Let Me Tell You about Jasper . . .: How My Best Friend Became America's Dog
Dana Perino · Twelve
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author of And the Good News Is... Dana Perino is back with stories of friends, family, and how America's love for a dog named Jasper is a place where even political opponents can find common ground. Dana Perino is a popular and beloved host on Fox's The Five, with over two million... |
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Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years
David Litt · Ecco
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
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Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? Former Obama speechwriter David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years - and charts a path forward in the age of Trump. More than any other presidency, Barack... |
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Brick Shakespeare: Four Tragedies & Four Comedies
John McCann · Skyhorse Publishing; Box Har/Ps edition
Format: Hardcover
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Never before have Shakespeare’s plays been depicted in LEGO bricks, and now Brick Shakespeare: The Tragedies—Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar and Brick Shakespeare: The Comedies—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Taming... |
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Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff
Michael Nesmith · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The long, strange journey of Michael Nesmith is as fascinating as it as was fraught--from fleeing Dallas as a young man with his pregnant girlfriend, to gaining international fame as a member of the Monkees, to falling deep into the grips of what he calls Celebrity Psychosis, to finally... |
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501 Must-See Movies
Emma Beare · Bounty Books
Pages: 544
Format: Print book
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501 Must-See Movies by Emma Bearce. Bounty Books,2009 |
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Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane
Patrick McGilligan · Harper
Pages: 832
Format: Hardcover
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On the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years - from his first forays in theater and radio to the inspiration and making of Citizen Kane.In the history of American popular culture, there... |
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