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Working for the Man, Playing in the Band: My Years with James Brown

DAMON WOOD - ECW Press
Format: Hardcover

A young, long-haired rock guitarist finds the funk on stage with the Godfather of SoulIn this unvarnished account of toiling under one of popular music's most notorious bosses, Damon Wood details his six years spent playing guitar for James Brown's Soul Generals.In a memoir certain...
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Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

Richard Snow - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined...
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Bowie Style

Mark Paytress - Omnibus ; New York
Format: Print book

The richly illustrated chronicle of pop's greatest exponent of style, newly updated This visual examination of a celebrated, multifaceted career documents the impact of David Bowie's 20th century fashion and culture, brilliantly capturing his spatial odyssey from dedicated follower...
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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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Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

MAEVE HIGGINS - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A timely essay collection about life, love, and becoming an American from breakout comedy star and podcaster Maeve Higgins "Maeve Higgins is hilarious, poignant, conversational, and my favorite Irish import since U2. You're in for a treat." - Phoebe Robinson, New York Times...
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Mobituaries

Mo Rocca - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched audiobook that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries - reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights,...
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Jason Priestley: A Memoir

Jason Priestley - HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Format: Hardcover

Jason Priestley, star of the iconic hit television series Beverly Hills, 90210 and one of the biggest teen idols of the 1990s, chronicles the highs and lows of his life and career in this charming and honest memoir.The hit Fox show Beverly Hills, 90210 became a cultural touchstone of the 1990s...
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Oscar Wildes Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century

Philip Hoare - Arcade
Format: Paperback

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called "a shocking tale of heroes and villains - illuminating and upsetting in equal measure.". The first production of Oscar Wildes Salomé in 1918, with American exotic dancer Maud Allan dancing lead, ignited a firestorm...
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This Will Only Hurt a Little

Busy Philipps - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the beloved comedic actress known for her roles on Freaks and Geeks, Dawsons Creek, and Cougartown who has become "[T]he breakout star on Instagram stories.... [I]magine I Love Lucy mixed with a modern lifestyle guru" (The New Yorker)...
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Paul Simon: The Life

Robert Hilburn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon's participation - but without editorial control - by acclaimed biographer and music writer Robert Hilburn.Through such hits as "The Sound of Silence," "Bridge...
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