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Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women

Shanita Hubbard - Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover

A "ride-or-die chick" is a woman who holds down her family and community. She's your girl that you can call up in the middle of the night to bail you out of jail, and you know she'll show up and won't ask any questions. Her ride-or-die trope becomes a problem when...
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Filipinx: Heritage Recipes from the Diaspora

Angela Dimayuga - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Filipinx offers 100 deeply personal recipes - many of them dishes that define home for Angela Dimayuga and the more than four million people of Filipino descent in the United States. The book tells the story of how Dimayuga grew up in an immigrant family in northern California, trained...
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The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

Daniel de Visé - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture"They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John...
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From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga

S. H. Fernando Jr. - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup and cultural icons, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC) . Heralded as one of the most influential groups in modern music - hip hop or otherwise - WTC created a rap dynasty on the strength of seven gold and platinum albums that launched the careers of such...
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Cocina Mexicana: Fresh, vibrant recipes for authentic Mexican food

Adriana Cavita - Ryland Peters & Small
Format: Hardcover

Experience authentic Mexican dishes on a culinary journey around the country with a celebrated chef and restaurateur.. Adriana Cavita grew up in a small village in Mexico and was inspired to enter the food industry by her grandmother who ran a street-food business. She has since travelled...
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David Copperfield's History of Magic

David Copperfield - Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

In this personal journey through a unique and remarkable performing art, David Copperfield profiles twenty-eight of the world's most groundbreaking magicians. From the 16th-century magistrate who wrote the first book on conjuring to the roaring twenties and the man who fooled Houdini,...
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The First 21: A Memoir

Nikki Sixx - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Nikki Sixx is one of the most respected, recognizable, and entrepreneurial icons in the music industry. As the founder of Mötley Crüe, who is now in his twenty-first year of sobriety, Sixx is incredibly passionate about his craft and wonderfully open about his life in rock and roll,...
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Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories

Gwen E. Kirby - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive...
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Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir

Wil Wheaton - William Morrow; Annotated edition
Format: Hardcover

Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd, Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom--and now for the first time in audio, narrated by Wil himself!From...
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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

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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