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Shatner

Michael Seth Starr - Applause
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the early months of 1966, a handsome, hardworking thirty-five-year-old Canadian-born actor named William Shatner was cast as Captain Kirk in Star Trek, a troubled, low-budget science-fiction television series set to premiere that fall on NBC. Star Trek struggled for viewers and lasted...
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Weird Al: Seriously

Lily E. Hirsch - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From his love of accordions and Hawaiian print shirts to his popular puns and trademark dance moves, "Weird Al" Yankovic has made a career out of making us laugh.Funny music is often dismissed as light and irrelevant, but Yankovic's fourteen successful studio albums prove...
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Ava Gardner: A Life in Movies

Kendra Bean - Running Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Still renowned for her sultry screen performances, down-to- earth personality, and famed lifelong love affair with Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner left an indelible mark on Hollywood history and led a life as adventurous as any film script.

Ava is an illustrated tribute to a legendary...
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Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution

Tucker Carlson - Free Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The popular FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers his signature fearless and funny political commentary on how America's ruling class has failed everyday Americans.

"You look on in horror, helpless and desperate.
You have nowhere to go.
You're trapped...
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Paul Simon: The Life

Robert Hilburn - Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon's participation - but without editorial control - by acclaimed biographer and music writer Robert Hilburn.

Through such hits as "The Sound of Silence," "Bridge...
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Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World

Andrew Ervin - Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An acclaimed critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our time
Video games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four...
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Elizabeth and Michael: The Queen of Hollywood and the King of PopA Love Story

Donald Bogle - Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

One of the country's leading authorities on popular entertainment presents an eye-opening and unique biography of two larger-than-life legends - Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson - and their unlikely yet enduring friendship.

From the moment Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson...
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Dead Even

Annelise Ryan
Format: Hardcover


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This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

Gabourey Sidibe - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir - wise, complex, smart, funny - a version of the American experience different from anything we've read

Gabourey Sidibe - "Gabby" to her legion of fans - skyrocketed to international...
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Gold Dust Woman: A Biography of Stevie Nicks

Stephen Davis - St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Stevie Nicks is a legend of rock, but her energy and magnetism sparked new interest in this icon. At 68, she's one of the most glamorous creatures rock has known, and the rare woman who's a real rock 'n' roller.

Gold Dust Woman gives "the gold standard of rock biographers"...

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