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New Titles - Entertainment
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Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
Jeremy Asher Dauber · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated scholar's rich account of Jewish humor: its nature, its development, and its vital role throughout Jewish history. In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter.... |
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Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity
Iliza Shlesinger · Weinstein Books
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships."Girl Logic" is Iliza's term for the way women obsess over details and situations... |
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A Teen's Guide to Modern Manners
Sam Norman · Corsair
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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There's little that's been written yetConcerning teenage etiquette,So as a sort of useful guideSome gruesome cases lie insideOf teenagers who lost their wayAnd ultimately had to pay.You'll read about the tragic fateOf Pete, who couldn't get a date,And Jen, whose hopes and dreams... |
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STAGE to STAGE: My Journey to Broadway
JOSH GROBAN · WEA
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Stage to Stage, My Journey To Broadway, is a 192 page hard cover coffee table book featuring energetic and intimate behind the scenes images. Stage to Stage captures Josh's perspective on the notable events that illuminated his extraordinary journey to Broadway. Starting with his Stages... |
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The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
TRACEY GOESSEL · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
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Douglas Fairbanks was the greatest leading man of his generation - the first and the best of the swashbucklers. He made some of the greatest films of the silent era, including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. With Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and his wife, film... |
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Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories, and Misadventures
JOELY FISHER · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher invites readers backstage, into the intimate world of her career and family with this hilarious, irreverent, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero,... |
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Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
SAM WASSON · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Fosse, a sweeping yet intimate - and often hilarious - history of a uniquely American art form that has never been more popular. At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago. Via word-of-mouth,... |
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Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy
Deborah Parker · University of Virginia Press
Pages: 127
Format: Hardcover
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Suck-up. Ass-kisser. Brownnoser. Bootlicker. Lickspittle. Toadeater... Found in every walk of life, both real and imagined, sycophants surround us. But whether we grumble about sycophancy or grudgingly tolerate it as a price of getting along in a complex society, we rarely examine it closely.... |
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Lanigan in the Morning: My Life in Radio
JOHN LANIGAN · Gray & Company, Publishers
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
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If you woke up with John Lanigan each weekday morning (along with hundreds of thousands of other Clevelanders) , you'll enjoy these personal tales from his forty-plus years in radio. Lanigan tells about breaking into the radio business while still in high school . . . Working his way up to the big time... |
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