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About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son

Peggy Rowe · Forefront Books
Format: Book

Peggy Rowe is at it again - this time giving a hilarious inside look at growing up Rowe, both before and after Mike's rise to fame.Since the day they said, "I do," Peggy's previous "doting" lifestyle met with her husband John's minimalist ways and became...

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All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

Kathy Valentine · University of Texas Press
Format: Book

At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go's - and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go's became the first multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play instruments themselves, write their...

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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

Annie Spence · Flatiron Books
Format: Book

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...

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How to Be a Bawse

Lilly Singh · Ballantine Books
Format: Book

#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...

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Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion

Steve Turner · Chronicle Prism
Format: Book

A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene - from backyard skateboard ramps and underground hardcore clubs to worldwide phenomenon - as told by one of its founding fathers and lead guitarist of legendary alternative rock band, Mudhoney. .

In...

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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

Laura Shapiro · Viking
Format: Book

A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.

Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural,...

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Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office

Brian Baumgartner · Custom House
Format: Hardcover

The official oral history book of "The Office," featuring exclusive interviews with every major player and never-before-seen photos, pulling back the curtain on the absurdity and genius that went in to creating this unstoppable force in American popular culture and why it continues...
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Woody Guthrie

Nora Guthrie
Format: Book

Woody Guthrie and his passionate social politics are as crucial today as they have ever been. A powerful voice for justice, and the author of more than 3,000 songs (including "This Land is Your Land") , he was also a poet, painter, illustrator, novelist, journal keeper, and profuse...

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