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As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

Alice Sedgwick Wohl - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life.As It Turns Out is a family story. Alice Sedgwick Wohl is writing to her brother Bobby, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1965,...
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Jimmy the Kid

Donald E Westlake - Head of Zeus

Taking cues from a pulp novel, Dortmunder arranges a kidnapping. Kelp has a plan, and John Dortmunder knows that means trouble. His friend Kelp is a jinx, and his schemes, no matter how well intentioned, tend to spiral quickly out of control. But this one, Kelp swears, is airtight. He read...
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The Wonder Bread Summer

Jessica Anya Blau - Harper Perennial

Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, delivers another darkly hilarious, heartbreaking coming-of-age novel with Wonder Bread Summer.In The Wonder Bread Summer, loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, 20-year-old Allie Dodgson has adventures that rival those Alice...
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Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

Hannah Hart - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hannah Hart's new book is a roaring, beautiful, and profoundly human account of an extraordinary life." - John Green "Hannah shares her truth with an honesty that is inspiring - one that makes me believe her when...
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Moranifesto

Caitlin Moran - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran's award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today - including three major new pieces...
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Daniel Craig: The Biography

Sarah Marshall - John Blake; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

From provocative choices like The Mother to his triumphant turn as Bond to the lead role in the hotly anticipated remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—the fully updated story of a supremely talented actorHe's gorgeous, tremendously talented,...
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MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

Joanna Robinson - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

"I watched all the movies. I devoured all the articles. I listened to all the pods. I thought I knew everything there was to know about the MCU . . . and then I read this magnificent book. For fans, by fans; hilarious, gripping, and emotional; no infinity stone is left unturned. I loved...
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Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir

Bob Odenkirk - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Charting a "Homeric" decades-long "Odyssey" from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago to a dramatic career full of award nominations and including a side-trip...
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I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Emily Nussbaum - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. From her creation of the first "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer...
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Going Commando

Mark Time - Blake Publishing
Format: Print book

At 16, Mark Time wants to become either a geologist or a Royal Marines Commando. So which does he choose? Despite his love of basalt, he chooses the career that teaches him how to kill. . . and shit in plastic bags. Knowing his weak body will have to shape up to complete 30 weeks of commando...
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