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Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World
Andrew Ervin - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Woody: The Biography
David Evanier - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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In this first biography of Woody Allen in over a decade, David Evanier discusses key movies, plays and prose as well as Allen's personal life. Evanier tackles the themes that Allen has spent a lifetime sorting through in art: morality, sexuality, Judaism, the eternal struggle of head and heart.... |
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Mercury Pictures Presents: A Novel
Anthony Marra
Format: Hardcover
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The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles - a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital PhenomenaONE OF THE MOST... |
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Who Is Rich?: A Novel
Matthew Klam - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative and hilarious satire of love, sex, money, and politics in our new gilded age - the long-awaited first novel from the the acclaimed author of Sam the CatEvery summer, a once-sort-of-famous forty-two-year-old cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids... |
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Is This Anything?
Jerry Seinfeld
Format: Large Print
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Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub &;Catch a Rising Star&; as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. &;Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage,... |
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Mercury Pictures Presents: A Novel
Anthony Marra - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover
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The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles - a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital PhenomenaONE OF THE MOST... |
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Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives
Karin Wieland - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover
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2015 Washington Post Notable Book Magisterial in scope, this dual biography examines two complex lives that began alike but ended on opposite sides of the century's greatest conflict.Born at the dawn of the twentieth century, Leni Riefenstahl and Marlene Dietrich both came of age in Weimar... |
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The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan
Patricia Bosworth - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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Acclaimed biographer Patricia Bosworth recalls her emotional coming of age in 1950s New York in this profound and powerful memoir, a story of family, marriage, tragedy, Broadway, and art, featuring a rich cast of well-known literary and theatrical figures from the period.From Bosworth - acclaimed... |
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So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister
ANNA AKANA - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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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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