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#WeRateDogs: The Most Hilarious and Adorable Pups You've Ever Seen

Matt Nelson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

Based on the social media sensation, #WeRateDogs features the most heroic, over-the-top adorable, wildly successful, all-around entertaining dogs the world has ever seen. It combines extraordinary photos with ridiculous captions to expand the knowledge and overall lives of its readers....
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Malagash

JOEY COMEAU · ECW Press
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback

A precisely crafted, darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning Sunday's father is dying of cancer. They've come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn't good enough. Devastated...
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The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club that Revolutionized Stand-Up

Budd Friedman · BenBella Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

It's no joke to say that our world would be a lot less funny without Budd Friedman! In 1963, thirty-year-old Friedman - who had recently quit his job as a Boston advertising executive and returned to his hometown of New York to become a theatrical producer - opened a coffee house for Broadway...
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Fight Club: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback

The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden,...
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The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence

Catherine Lacey · Bloomsbury
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising. Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood,...
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The Decade

Gabby Means · Arcadia Pub
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

The Decade was the birthplace of rock 'n' roll in Pittsburgh, at the corner of Atwood and Sennott. The eclectic bar with parachutes covering the ceiling was home base for local bands such as the Iron City Houserockers, but it also served as a showcase for rising international recording...
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Man of the Year: A Memoir

LOU COVE · FLATIRON Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

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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The Art of Southern Charm

Patricia Altschul · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 250
Format: Print book

Fan-favorite Bravolebrity Patricia Altschul from the primetime show, Southern Charm, finally brings fans of the show her opus on etiquette and living a glamorous champagne Southern lifestyle (on a beer budget) . From how to throw the best party, to how to dress for an event, to how to handle...
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Canada

Mike Myers · Doubleday Canada
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this instant national bestseller, comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his 53-year relationship with his beloved Canada. Mike Myers is a world-renowned actor, director and writer, and the man behind some of the most memorable comic characters of our time....
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - The Skyrim Library, Vol. I: The Histories

Bethesda Softworks · Titan Books
Format: Hardcover

For the first time, the collected texts from the critically and commercially acclaimed fantasy video game The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim are bound together in three exciting volumes. Lavishly illustrated and produced, these titles are straight out of the world of Skyrim - and a must for any wandering...
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Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart

Mike Peros · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 221
Format: Print book

Dan Duryea (1907-1968) made a vivid impression on moviegoers with his first major screen appearance as the conniving Leo Hubbard in 1941's classic melodrama The Little Foxes. His subsequent film and television career would span from 1941 until his death. Duryea remains best known for the nasty,...
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From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition

Molly Haskell · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 425
Format: Print book

A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to films of the late twentieth century,...
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Like Brothers

Mark Duplass · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The multitalented writers, directors, producers, and actors (as seen on The League, Transparent, and The Mindy Project) share the secrets of their lifelong partnership in this unique memoir. Whether producing, writing, directing, or acting, the Duplass Brothers have made their mark...
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Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World

Mackenzi Lee · Abrams Image
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Based on Mackenzi Lee's popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women from all over the world. With tales of heroism and cunning, in-depth bios and witty storytelling, Bygone Badass Broads gives new life to these...
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Tippi: A Memoir

Tippi Hedren · Harpercollins
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In this absorbing and surprising memoir, one of the biggest names of classic Hollywood - the star of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie - tells her story, including never-before-revealed experiences on the set of some of the biggest cult films of all time.For decades, Tippi Hedren's...
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