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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940

Victoria Wilson - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Frank Capra called her “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” She was one of its most natural, timeless, and underrated stars. Now, Victoria Wilson gives us the first full-scale life of Barbara Stanwyck, whose astonishing career in movies (eighty-eight in all)...
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85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards

Robert Osborne - Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover

A deluxe, year-by-year chronicle of the Academy Awards, with an entertaining text, hundreds of star-studded photographs, and complete lists of the nominees and winners.85 Years of the Oscar, newly revised and expanded, is the official history of the Academy Awards. Following an introductory...
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Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas

Jenny Allen - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

"One of the funniest writers in America." That's what The New Yorker's Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen -- and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable.With her eagle eye for the absurd...
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Nevertheless: A Memoir

Alec Baldwin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

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Room to Dream

DAVID LYNCH - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary, highly anticipated memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, opens...
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So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister

ANNA AKANA - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

From Internet sensation Anna Akana comes a candid and poignant collection of essays about love, loss, and chasing adulthood. In 2007, Anna Akana lost her teen sister, Kristina, to suicide. In the months that followed, she realized that the one thing helping her process her grief and begin...
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The Most of Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, Americas funniestand most acutewriter, famous for her brilliant takes on life as weve been living it these last forty years. Everything you could possibly want from Nora Ephron is herefrom her writings on journalism,...
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Insane City

Dave Barry - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A dark comic masterpiece - the first solo adult novel in more than a decade from the Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author.Seth Weinstein knew Tina was way out of his league in pretty much any way you could imagine, which is why it continued to astonish him that he was on the plane...
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She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron

Richard Cohen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship.Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist,...
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Rich Man, Poor Man: A Memoir

Nick Nolte - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"I had become an actor because real life was hard for me. Sometimes it was really rough. Acting was different from real life, yet it gave me the chance to search for complex stories that helped me understand and cope with what I encountered away from the stage lights."Legendary...
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Love Life

Rob Lowe - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Rob Lowe offers up a collection of personal stories in an honest and celebratory memoir about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and son, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.Rob Low is back with stories he only tells his best...
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens

Eddie Izzard - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

Critically acclaimed, award-winning British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard details his childhood, his first performances on the streets of London, his ascent to worldwide success on stage and screen, and his comedy shows which have won over audiences around the world. Over the course of a thirty-year...
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Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

Diane Keaton - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself - no matter what anyone else thinks. Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring...
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Did You Just Eat That?: Two Scientists Explore Double-Dipping, the Five-Second Rule, and other Food Myths in the Lab

PAUL DAWSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Is the five-second rule legitimate? Are electric hand dryers really bacteria blowers? Am I spraying germs everywhere when I blow on my birthday cake? How gross is backwash?When it comes to food safety and germs, there are as many common questions as there are misconceptions. And yet there...
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Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries

Andy Cohen - Henry Holt
Format: Print book

The star-studded and sidesplitting follow up to The Andy Cohen DiariesThe megapopular host of Watch What Happens: Live and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise is back, better than ever, and telling stories that will keep his publicist up at night. Since...
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Scrappy Little Nobody

Anna Kendrick - Touchstone
Format: Print book

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An "honest, effortlessly funny, and alternatively relatable" (Harper's Bazaar) collection of autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air, Pitch Perfect, and Trolls,...
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101 Things That Piss Me Off

RACHEL BALLINGER - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

"My old assisstent wrote a book. Preorder it cuz I fired her so now shes poor & I like doing charity 4 peple cuz I a good person" -Miranda SingsMost people might not get angry at someone for going the speed limit. Or for liking coleslaw or cantaloupe. Or for someone not responding...
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Adjustment Day: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

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 Day, the author's...
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I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses

Robert Wagner - Viking
Format: Book

Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner's memoir of the great women movie stars he has known.

In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise...

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I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

KEVIN HART - Atria / 37 INK
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together...
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Close Knit Killer

Maggie Sefton - Berkley; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

Springtime in Fort Connor, Colorado, is a breeze until a veteran con man shows up in town. Everyone—including the House of Lambspun knitters—is up in arms, and once again it’s up to Kelly Flynn to untangle the threads of a complicated crime… Years ago Jared...
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My Girls

TODD FISHER - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory and touching tribute to the lives of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds written by the person who knew them best, Todd Fisher's poignant memoir is filled with moving stories of growing up among Hollywood royalty and illustrated with never-before-seen photos and memorabilia.In...
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Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life

Jonathan Gould - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited, definitive biography of The King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Redding's iconic performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Otis Redding remains an immortal presence in the canon of American music on the strength of such classic hits as "(Sittin'...
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John Updike: Collected Early Stories

John Updike - Library of America; F First Edition Slipcase edition
Format: Hardcover

The Library of America presents the first of two volumes in its definitive Updike collection. Here are  102 classic stories that chart Updike’s emergence as America’s foremost practitioner of the short story, “our second Hawthorne,” as Philip Roth described...
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina

Misty Copeland - Touchstone Books, published by Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Determination meets dance in this memoir by the history-making ballerina.In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history, telling the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when...
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American by Day

Derek B Miller - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid - the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night - from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother Chief Inspector Sigrid degrd could be basking in the success of her recent...
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Psych's Guide to Crime Fighting for the Totally Unqualified

Shawn Spencer - Grand Central Publishing; ILL edition
Format: Paperback

GOT A MYSTERY TO SOLVE?DON'T GET STUMPED. GET PSYCHED!You've seen him solve unsolvable crimes, stop unstoppable killers, and consume unconsumable breakfast cereals. Now Shawn Spencer, the mastermind from TV's hit show Psych, shows you how to become a fake psychic-and a real...
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How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life

Lilly Singh - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the People's Choice Award winner for Favorite YouTube Star comes the definitive guide to being a bawse: a person who exudes confidence, hustles relentlessly, and smiles genuinely because he or she has fought through it all and made it out the other...
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You Can't Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump

ALEC BALDWIN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Political satire as deeper truth: Donald Trump's presidential memoir, as recorded by two world-renowned Trump scholars, and experts on greatness generally "I have the best words, beautiful words, as everybody has been talking and talking about for a long time. Also? The best sentences...
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A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

Anjelica Huston - Scribner; 1st edition
Format: Audiobook

Writing with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London, and her coming-of-age as a model and nascent actress in New York. Living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid...
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Go Ask Ali: Half-Baked Advice

Ali Wentworth - Harper
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers her hilarious and unique advice on surviving the absurdity of modern life in her third collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Ali Wentworth's first two books, Ali in Wonderland and Happily Ali After, were lauded by readers, critics,...
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My Diarrhe

NOT AVAILABLE. - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Selp-Helf comes the "leaked" diary of YouTube comedic personality Miranda Sings.Taped together so the world can read all about her life through her eyes, My Diarrhe includes pages from Miranda's baby book, poems...
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I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

ABBI JACOBSON - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerFrom the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) bestselling essay collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when...
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Between Heaven and the Real World: My Story

Steven Curtis Chapman - Flemming H Revell
Format: Print book

For decades, Steven Curtis Chapman's music and message have brought hope and inspiration to millions around the world. Now, for the first time, Steven openly shares the experiences that have shaped him, his faith, and his music in a life that has included incredible highs and faith-shaking...
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Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech Youll Never Hear

Carl Hiaasen - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

This is Oh, the Places Youll Never Go--the ultimate hilarious, cynical, but absolutely realistic view of a college graduates future. And what he or she can or cant do about it."This commencement address will never be given, because graduation speakers are supposed to offer encouragement...
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Theft by Finding: Diaries

DAVID SEDARIS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiotDavid Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the makingIt's no coincidence that the world's best writers...
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Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery

CROWN. - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

From the YouTube superstars and creators of Good Mythical Morning comes the ultimate guide to living a "Mythical" life, featuring stories and photos from their lifelong friendship, as well as awesomely illustrated tips for laughing more, learning more, and never taking...
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Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution

Tucker Carlson - Free Press
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 on a ship of fools."...
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A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir

Ian Buruma - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970'sWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant...
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Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words

Michael Ausiello - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

In this evocative and gorgeously wrought memoir reminiscent of Rob Sheffield's Love Is a Mixtape and George Hodgman's Bettyville, Michael Ausiello - a respected TV columnist and founder and editor-in-chief of TVLine.com - remembers his late husband, and the lessons,...
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You're On an Airplane: A Self-mythologizing Memoir

Parker Posey - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Parker as your seat companion, perhaps? Parker's irreverent, hilarious, and enchanting memoir gives you the incredible opportunity. Full of personal stories, whimsical how-tos, recipes, and beautiful...
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays

Tim Kreider - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his virtuoso writing and singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.Psychologists have told him he's a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he's a philosopher....
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I'm Fine...And Other Lies

WHITNEY CUMMINGS - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Well, well, well. Look at you, ogling my book page. . . . I presume if you're reading this it means you either need more encouragement to buy it, you're very bored in an airport, or we used to date and you're trying to figure out if you should sue me or not. Here are all the stories...
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Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby, Creator of the Blog BitchesGottaEat

Samantha Irby - Curbside Splendor Publishing
Format: Paperback

Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor...
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Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index

Kathy Griffin - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

From #1 NYT bestselling author Kathy Griffin, an A-Z compendium of the celebrities she's met over the years and the outrageous, charming, and sometimes bizarre anecdotes only she can tell about them. Last year, while watching Straight Outta Compton, Kathy Griffin realized that she knew...
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Diary of a Mad Fat Girl

Stephanie McAfee - Berkley
Format: eBook

Graciela "Ace" Jones is mad-mad at her best friend Lilly who cancels their annual trip to Panama City for mysterious reasons; at her boss Catherine for "riding her ass like a fat lady on a Rascal scooter;" at her friend Chloe's abusive husband; and especially at Mason...
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In Pieces

Sally Field - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In this intimate, haunting literary memoir, an American icon tells her story for the first time, and in her own gorgeous words--about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother....
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Lou Reed: A Life

Anthony DeCurtis - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou ReedAs lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions...
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Mad about the boy

Helen Fielding - Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Format: Print book

Londonite Bridget Jones faces the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by, the nightmares of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need ninety buttons and three remotes to simply turn on.
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I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

Joan Rivers - Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850"How do I hate thee? How much time do you have?" - Joan Rivers, 2012 Joan Rivers is a groundbreaking, award-winning, internationally renowned entertainment goddess. She's also opinionated...
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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death

Colson Whitehead - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whiteheads hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime...
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The Big Book of Building: Everything Minecraft Imagine it Create it Build it

Triumph Books - Triumph Books
Format: Hardcover

Brought to you by the authors and editors that created the Minecrafter and Minecrafter 2.0 Advanced guide books, The Big Book of Building features more of everything - more mods, more mining, more mobs, and more Minecraft! Up to date for the 2014 holiday season, The Big Book of Building...
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Olivier

Philip Ziegler - MacLehose Press
Format: Hardcover

A finalist for the Sheridan Morley Prize that has been called "probably the best Olivier book for general readers" (Kirkus Reviews), Philip Ziegler's Olivier provides an incredibly accessible and comprehensive portrait of this Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning director, and one who is considered...
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Kardashian Dynasty: The Controversial Rise of America's Royal Family

Ian Halperin - Gallery Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigator Ian Halperin pulls back the curtain on America's notorious Kardashian family - exposing their shaky foundation for fame - one shocking revelation at a time.The Kardashians and Jenners have taken the world by storm, collectively...
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I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

Jenny Mollen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best Seller!By the actress, writer, and one of the funniest women on Twitter, an outrageous, hysterical memoir of acting on impulse, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any formJenny Mollen is an actress and writer living in Los Angeles....
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend

Scott Eyman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more than 100 interviews with the actor's family, co-stars, and close associates, this revelatory biography shows how both the facts and fictions about Wayne illuminate his singular life.John Wayne...
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Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy

Mike Love - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

The New York Times BestsellerMike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history -- timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations."...
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Stirring the Pot: My Recipe for Getting What You Want Out of Life

Jenny McCarthy - Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe View host and New York Times bestselling author Jenny McCarthy is like your favorite friend honest, open, and oh-so-funny. She also speaks her mind and says what the rest of us are thinking, a characteristic that has won her millions of fans no matter how much...
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays

Samantha Irby - Vintage
Format: Paperback

*A New York Times Bestseller*Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult...
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Dave Barrys Greatest Hits

Dave Barry - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

When Dave Barry is on the loose, no one is safe!. What Dave Barry did for the mens movement in his Complete Guide to Guys and for foreign relations when he did Japan he now does for . . . everything in America. The rapacious observer of Tupperware ladies and leisure concept salesmen sounds...
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Crash and Burn

Artie Lange - Touchstone; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Veteran comedian and radio personality Artie Lange turns an unflinching eye and his signature wit on his perilous descent into drug addiction, life-threatening depression, and ultimately, his recovery, in the follow-up to his hilariously raw debut, 1 New York Times bestseller Too Fat to Fish....
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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

Annie Spence - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A Gen-X librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to the books in her life.Librarians spend their lives weeding. Not weeds, but books! Books that have reached the end of their shelf life, both literally and figuratively. They remove the ones...
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I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir

Lee Grant - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a lifetime: from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legendary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue "It...
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The Burn Cookbook: An Unofficial Unauthorized Cookbook for Mean Girls Fans

Jonathan Bennett - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

Real Recipes to Feed Your Inner PlasticTHE BURN COOKBOOK is a hilarious, delicious must-have cookbook for chefs (and wannabes) everywhere! Jonathan Bennett (that's right, Aaron Samuels himself) dishes out a tasty parody of Mean Girls, serving up behind-the-scenes stories from...
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Life As I Blow It: Tales of Love, Life & Sex . . . Not Necessarily in That Order

Sarah Colonna - Villard; Original edition
Format: Paperback

In this wickedly funny and irreverent memoir, Chelsea Lately writer and comedian Sarah Colonna opens up about love, life, and pursuing her dreams . . . and then screwing it all up.   Sarah believes we all struggle to grow up. Sometimes we want to have fun, not take things too seriously,...
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Notes from the Upside Down: An Unofficial Guide to Stranger Things

Guy Adams - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

Jump inside the world of Stranger Things and discover everything you need to know about the hit TV show.Grab your Eggo waffles and get ready for a visit to Hawkins, Indiana - just don't forget the fairy lights! If you devoured Stranger Things on Netflix and you're looking to fill...
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Gold Dust Woman: A Biography of Stevie Nicks

Stephen Davis - St. Martin's Press
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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David Bowie: A Life

DYLAN JONES - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic...
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Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon

Charles Casillo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Based on new interviews and research, this ground-breaking biography reveals how Marilyn's childhood contributed to her struggle with bi-polar disorder, and impacted her career and personal life.Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty still captivates. Her love life still fascinates. Her story still...
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The Last Black Unicorn

TIFFANY HADDISH - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal...
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Truth in Advertising: A Novel

John Kenney - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

"A quick-witted, wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture ... A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and the possibility of healing" (The Washington Post) .Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn't know it. Despite escaping...
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Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work

Susan L. Mizruchi - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life. When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando's Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four...
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Sharon Tate: Recollection

Debra Tate - Running Press
Format: Hardcover

Considered by many to be the most beautiful woman of her generation, Sharon Tate remains a fascinating pop icon and a poster child for the 1960s. What struck most about Sharon was her gentle nature and the sheer perfection of her face, but she was far more than just a beauty. The few films...
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There Is No F*cking Secret: Letters From a Badass Bitch

KELLY OSBOURNE - PUTNAM
Format: Print book

People ask Kelly Osbourne all the time: "What's your secret?" Kelly Osbourne may not always have been a typical role model, but no one can say that her perspective isn't hard won after spending three decades in the spotlight: from growing up completely exposed to the heavy...
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Being a Dad Is Weird: Lessons in Fatherhood from My Family to Yours

Ben Falcone - Dey Street Books
Format: Book

A funny and intimate look at fatherhood from the actor and writer/director of The Boss and Tammy that combines stories about his own larger-than-life dad and how his experiences raising two daughters with his wife, Melissa McCarthy, who also penned the Foreword, are shaped...

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Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World

Andrew Ervin - Basic Books
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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A Curve in the Road

JULIANNE MACLEAN - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Paperback

From USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes a suspenseful, emotionally charged novel that explores the secrets and hidden truths within a seemingly perfect marriage.Abbie MacIntyre is living the dream in the picturesque Nova Scotia town she calls home. She is a successful surgeon,...
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An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media

Joe Muto - Dutton Adult
Format: Hardcover

The Fox Molewhose dispatches for Gawker made headlines in Businessweek, The Hollywood Reporter, and even on The New York Times websitedelivers a funny, opinionated memoir of his eight years at the unfair, unbalanced Fox News Channel working as an associate producer for Bill OReilly. Imagine...
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The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History

NICK OFFERMAN - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

At last, the full story behind Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, including stories, portraits, and the occasional puzzle, all telling the smoldering tale that has fascinated Hollywood for over a decade.The year: 2000. The setting: Los Angeles. A gorgeous virtuoso of an actress...
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The Ultimate Book of Darts: A Complete Guide to Games, Gear, Terms, and Rules

Anne Kramer - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Share in the euphoria that comes of the “kill shot” by learning the skills and techniques required to play a great game of darts. From the history of the sport to choosing the right type of equipment, The Ultimate Book of Darts is written in an accessible style that is perfect...
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The Magnolia Story

Chip Gaines - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

National Bestseller--New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's WeeklyAre you ready to see your fixer upper?These famous words are now synonymous with the dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV's Fixer Upper. As this question fills the airwaves...
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Paul McCartney: The Life

Philip Norman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman.Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost...
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My Squirrel Days

ELLIE KEMPER - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naf to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously reasonable New Yorker.There comes a time in every...
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Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts

Robert Hofler - The University of Wisconsin Press
Format: Print book

Dominick Dunne seemed to live his entire adult life in the public eye, but in this biography Robert Hofler reveals a conflicted, enigmatic man who reinvented himself again and again. As a television and film producer in the 1950s-1970s, hobnobbing with Humphrey Bogart and Natalie Wood,...
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Calypso

David Sedaris - Little, Brown and Company
Format: eBook

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina...
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What If . . .: A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know for Sure

Shirley MacLaine - Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes I think that speculation is more fun than knowledge. I just turn the answers into more questions anyway. Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a host of intriguing topics from the everyday to the esoteric in this all-new collection of ideas and observations,...
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The Swing of Things

Linda Keir - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Somewhere between Tom Perrotta and Erica Jong lies The Swing of Things, a charming, sexy, and surprisingly tender romp through the dark side of wish fulfillment. I'll never look at the other playground parents the same way again." - Marcus SakeyTold from the dual perspective...
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Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head

Jen Larsen - Seal Press
Format: Print book

Jen Larsen always thought that if she could only lose some weight she would be unstoppable She was convinced that once she found a way to not be fat any more she would have the perfect existence shed always dreamed of When diet after diet failed she decided to try bariatric surgery and it worked...
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Around the Way Girl: A Memoir

Taraji P Henson - 37 Ink
Format: Print book

From Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner, Taraji P. Henson, comes an inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood, and the joy of living in your own truth.With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including...
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

John F. Kasson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation. Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black...
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George Lucas: A Life

Brian Jay Jones - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of one of the most influential filmmakers ever - George Lucas. On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining, independent science-fiction film opened in a mere 32 American movie theatres. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmmaker named...
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It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After

Andi Dorfman - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Andi Dorfman, the beloved finalist of season eighteen of The Bachelor who infamously rejected Juan Pablo and went on to star on season ten of The Bachelorette, dishes about what it's like to live out a love story - and its collapse - in front of the cameras, offering hard-won...
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Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other Musings

Ron Burgundy - Crown Archetype; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The autobiography every true American has been waiting for a shockingly candid and raw confessional from a national treasure.From his humble beginnings in a desolate Iowa coal mining town, his years at Our Lady Queen of Chewbacca High School to his odds-defying climb to the dizzying heights...
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Why We Don't Suck: And How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches

Denis Leary - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling Why We Suck comes a searing comic look at these divisive times, skewering liberals and conservatives alike with a signature dose of sarcasm and common sense. Denis Leary refutes the current highly partisan Right Wing Nutjob versus Left Wing Snowflake...
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Confessions of a Domestic Failure

Bunmi Laditan - MIRA
Format: Paperback

Instant Bestseller"Freaking hilarious. This is the novel moms have been waiting for." - Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened"Perfect for readers looking for a funny, realistic look at motherhood." - BOOKLIST...
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There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

Pamela Druckerman - Penguin Press
Format: Book

The best-selling author of BRINGING UP BB investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face.When Pamela Druckerman turns 40, waiters start calling her "Madame," and she detects a disturbing new message in mens' gazes: I would...

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Florence Foster Jenkins: The Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer

Darryl W. Bullock - Overlook Press
Format: Print book

Finally, a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins, considered the world's worst opera singer, soon to be portrayed by Meryl Streep in the forthcoming film."Probably the most complete and absolute lack of talent ever publicly displayed." -- Life MagazineMadame Jenkins couldn't carry...
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