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Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving

Mo Rocca - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From popular TV correspondent and writer Mo Rocca, a charmingly irreverent and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who made life worth living.Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries - reading about the remarkable lives of world leaders, captains of industry, innovators...
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Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy

Saul Austerlitz - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

Charlie Chaplin. Buster Keaton. The Marx Brothers. Billy Wilder. Woody Allen. The Coen brothers. Where would the American film be without them? Yet the cinematic genre these artists represent--comedy--has perennially received short shrift from critics,...
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All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

Kathy Valentine - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover

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 own songs,...
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Hillbilly Heart

Billy Ray Cyrus - New Harvest; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Billy Ray Cyrus is an award-winning country music legend whose "Achy Breaky Heart" propelled his debut album, "Some Gave All," to the top of the charts for a record-breaking seventeen weeks. He's also father of Miley Cyrus, one of Hollywood's most successful...
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Eat Cake. Be Brave.

MELISSA RADKE - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

My name is Melissa Radke, and there is a very real chance you have no idea who I am or why I wrote a book. But admit it, you're curious! Even though millions of people seem to like watching my videos bemoaning the trials of parenting, marriage, French braiding, faith, and living life...
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

David Sedaris - Little
Format: Print book

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds...
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Modern Family: The Untold Oral History of One of Television's Groundbreaking Sitcoms

Marc Freeman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

An oral history, with the full participation of cast and crew, of one of the most popular sitcoms in television history.Since premiering in 2009, the groundbreaking television sitcom Modern Family has garnered tens of millions of devoted fans, earning 75 Emmy nominations and 22 Emmy Awards,...
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