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In such good company : eleven years of laughter, mayhem, and fun in the sandbox
Carol Burnett - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book
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Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. Who but Carol Burnett herself has the timing, talent, and wit to pull back the curtain on the Emmy-Award winning show that made television history... |
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The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
Tracey Goessel - Motown, 1986.
Format: Music CD
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Silent film superstar Douglas Fairbanks was an absolute charmer. Irrepressibly vivacious, he spent his life leaping over and into things, from his early Broadway successes to his marriage to the great screen actress Mary Pickford to the way he made Hollywood his very own town. The inventor... |
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The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
Roger Cohen - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history - a story of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love.In this luminous memoir, award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. As he follows them... |
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The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion
Tracy Daugherty - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published... |
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Jessie Close - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament... |
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William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come
James Curtis - Pantheon Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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He was the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale, influenced by German expressionism and the work of the great European directors. He was known for his visual flair and timeless innovation, a man who meticulously preplanned the color and design of each film through a series... |
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper... |
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I'm Just a Person
Tig Notaro - Ecco
Format: Print book
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One of America's most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany.In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother... |
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Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution
Eve Golden - The University Press of Kentucky; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many ways: they traveled with a black orchestra, had an openly lesbian manager, and were animal-rights... |
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Presto!: How I Made over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
Penn Jillette - Novel Audio
Format: Audiobook
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An unconventional weight loss tale from an unconventional personality. Penn Jillette tells how he lost 100 pounds with his trademark outrageous sense of humor and biting social commentary that makes this success story anything but ordinary. Legendary magician Penn Jillette was approaching... |
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Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
Simon Morrison - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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An enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.On a freezing night in January 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet. The crime, organized... |
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She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron
Richard Cohen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship.Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist,... |
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How to Make White People Laugh
Negin Farsad - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world, one joke at a time. In HOW TO MAKE WHITE PEOPLE LAUGH, Farsad shares her personal experiences growing up as the "Other" in an American culture that has no time for nuance. |
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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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Elizabeth and Michael: The Queen of Hollywood and the King of PopA Love Story
Donald Bogle - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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One of the country's leading authorities on popular entertainment presents an eye-opening and unique biography of two larger-than-life legends - Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson - and their unlikely yet enduring friendship.From the moment Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson met, they... |
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Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy
Mike Love - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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The New York Times BestsellerMike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history -- timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations."... |
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I Hate Myselfie: A Collection of Essays by Shane Dawson
Shane Dawson - Atria/Keywords Press
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller? Publishers Weekly Bestseller ? Los Angeles Times Bestseller ? Wall Street Journal Bestseller The book that more than 12 million of Shane Dawson's YouTube subscribers have been waiting for!From his first vlog back in 2008 to his full-length film directorial... |
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The Wes Anderson Collection
Matt Zoller Seitz - Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Wes Anderson is one of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema. A true auteur, Anderson is known for the visual artistry, inimitable tone, and idiosyncratic characterizations that make each of his films—Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums,... |
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The Magnolia Story
Chip Gaines - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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National Bestseller--New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's WeeklyAre you ready to see your fixer upper?These famous words are now synonymous with the dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV's Fixer Upper. As this question fills the airwaves... |
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