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Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions

LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Forgive him, Father, for Stephen Colbert has sinned. He knew it was wrong at the time. But he went ahead and did it anyway. Now he's begging for forgiveness. Based on his popular segment from The Late Show, Stephen Colbert and his team of writers now reveal his most shameful...
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: A Visual History

Fred Rogers Productions - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

A visual celebration of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, America's most beloved children's television show, including a foreword by Tom Hanks and a peek at the making of the feature film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, in theaters Thanksgiving weekend. Go behind the scenes...
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This Bright Future: A Memoir

Bobby Hall - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

This Bright Future is a raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind of Bobby Hall, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era-defining artist of our tumultuous age. A self-described orphan with parents, Bobby Hall began life as Sir Robert Bryson...
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Talking to the Stars: Bobbie Wygant's Seventy Years in Television

Bobbie Wygant - Texas Christian University Press
Format: Hardcover

In her memoir Talking to the Stars: Bobbie Wygant's Seventy Years in Television, Bobbie Wygant recalls her trailblazing career as an arts and entertainment reporter for Dallas-Fort Worth's Channel 5. Started in 1948 by Amon G. Carter, WBAP (now KXAS) was the first television...
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

Thomas Morris - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its grisly weirdness. A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered...
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Joan Baez: The Last Leaf

Elizabeth Thomson - Palazzo Editions
Format: Hardcover

Since she stepped onstage unannounced at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has occupied a singular place in popular music. Within three years, she had recorded three best-selling albums and had embarked on a tour of southern US campuses, playing to integrated audiences in an era of segregation....
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How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

D L HUGHLEY - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALIST"Hilarious yet soul-shaking." - Black Enterprise, a "Must Read Book for 2019"200 years ago, white people told black folks, "'I suggest you pick the cotton if you don't like getting whipped." Today,...
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Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Betty White: 100 Years of Wisdom from the First Lady of Television

Juliana Sharaf - Media Lab Books
Format: Hardcover

With a television career spanning more than 80 years (the longest on record) , she is one of America's most beloved entertainers, best known for her award-winning roles on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls and Hot in Cleveland. She has received eight Emmy Awards, three American...
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Seeing Stevie Ray

Tracy Anne Hart - Texas A&M University Press
Format: Hardcover

It may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn't already been said. The skinny kid from Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas who followed his older brother Jimmie in and out of local blues clubs and eventually to Austin would go on to establish himself as the finest...
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Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution

Todd S. Purdum - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American CenturyThey stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific,...
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