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Hollywood Black
Donald Bogle · Running Press Adult
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.
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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
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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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Wildness: An Ode to Newfoundland and Labrador
Jeremy Charles · Phaidon Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning celebration of the bounty of the Atlantic coast, and a dazzling debut monograph from Canada's star chef The first cookbook from acclaimed chef Jeremy Charles takes readers on a journey to Canada's rugged east coast - where wildness has a profound influence on the tasting... |
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Anne Bancroft: A Life
Douglass K Daniel · University Press of Kentucky
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
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"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" These famous lines from The Graduate (1967) would forever link Anne Bancroft (1931-2005) to the groundbreaking film and confirm her status as a movie icon. Along with her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in the stage... |
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Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days
Janice Dean · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces.
Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends, no matter the weather. Yet many of her fans... |
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Against the Grain: Bombthrowing in the Fine American Tradition of Political Cartooning
Bill Sanders · NewSouth Books
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Editorial cartoonists are an endangered species, and even in their heyday they were rare birds -- at the top ranks of print journalism, only a few hundred such jobs existed worldwide in the 20th century. Yet those who wielded the drawing pen had enormous influence and popularity as they... |
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We Cast a Shadow: A Novel
Maurice Carlos Ruffin · One World
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father's obsessive quest to protect his son - even if it means turning him white
"An incisive and necessary work of brilliant satire." - Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
"You... |
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Adjustment Day: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. Adjustment... |
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Failure Is An Option: An Attempted Memoir
H JON BENJAMIN · Dutton
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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H. Jon Benjamin--the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers--helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure.
Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show business success. But he'd... |
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JGV: A Life in 12 Recipes
Jean-Georges Vongerichten · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most influential chef-restaurateurs of all time reflects on a career defined by surprising, delicious food. Jean- Georges Vongerichten was born into a coal- business family in rural Alsace. He didn't enroll at a top culinary program. He was kicked out of high school... |
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Antoni in the Kitchen
Antoni Porowski · Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Antoni Porowski, the food and wine guru on Netflix's sensation Queer Eye, meets people where they live - literally. With appealing vulnerability, he shows cooks of all levels how to become more confident and casual in the kitchen. The verve and naturalness of his approach earned... |
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