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Ma Speaks Up: And a First-Generation Daughter Talks Back
Marianne Leone - Beacon Press Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed actress and author of Jesse: A Mother's Story tells the story of her outspoken, frequently outrageous Italian immigrant mother.Marianne Leone's Ma is in many senses a larger-than-life character, one who might be capable, even from the afterlife, of shattering expectations.... |
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Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
SAM WASSON - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Fosse, a sweeping yet intimate - and often hilarious - history of a uniquely American art form that has never been more popular. At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago.... |
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Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World
Gillian Gill - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies - of strength, style, and creativity... |
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The Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese - Grove Press Format: Hardcover
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel... |
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Young Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book: The Story of the Making of the Film
Mel Brooks - Black Dog & Leventhal Format: Hardcover
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Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary. Young Frankenstein was made with deep... |
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This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Being in a Secular World
Sophfronia Scott - Paraclete Press Format: Paperback
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Tain Gregory was present in his third grade classroom on the morning of December 14, 2012, the date of the Sandy Hook shootings. As part of the healing process for the community after the tragedy Tain was asked "What's the most important thing in the world to you?" His mother... |
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Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line
Heather Hendershot - Broadside Format: Print book
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A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.When Firing Line premiered... |
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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Finalist for the National Book Award. The definitive biography of Americas greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams... |
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind... |
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