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Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir

Bob Odenkirk - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Charting a "Homeric" decades-long "Odyssey" from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago to a dramatic career full of award nominations and including a side-trip...
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Go Ask Ali: Half-Baked Advice

Ali Wentworth - Harper
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers her hilarious and unique advice on surviving the absurdity of modern life in her third collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Ali Wentworth's first two books, Ali in Wonderland and Happily Ali After, were lauded by readers, critics,...
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The Art of Tattoo: A Tattoo Artist's Inspirations, Designs, and Hard-Won Advice

Megan Massacre - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

Tattoo artist Megan Massacre presents a beautiful collection of her best work, with instructive how-to and inspiration for both professional tattoo artists as well as tattoo aficionados. With a personal behind-the-scenes peek into the making of a tattoo, from concept to execution, plus...
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Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Billie Eilish is a phenomenon. With distinctive visual flare and darkly poignant lyrics that are unparalleled among music icons of the 21st century, Billie is a musician who stands out from the crowd. Between her record-shattering award-winning music and her uncompromising and unapologetic...
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Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist

Franchesca Ramsey - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In this sharp, funny, and timely collection of personal essays, veteran video blogger and star of MTV's Decoded Franchesca Ramsey explores race, identity, online activism, and the downfall of real communication in the age of social media rants, trolls, and call-out wars. Franchesca...
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Swanky Panky's Crazy Wisdom, $3.95

Joshua "Jammer" Smith - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

A man named Elvis is waiting for a date when a clown enters the bar and tells everyone they can attain "Wisdom" from a man named Swanky Panky for only $5 American. Elvis, along with everyone at the bar, decides to take a chance, and at the parking garage across the street they...
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She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

Sarah Smarsh - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities - and strengths - of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard...
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Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution

Tucker Carlson - Free Press
Format: Hardcover

The popular FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers his signature fearless and funny political commentary on how America's ruling class has failed everyday Americans."You look on in horror, helpless and desperate. You have nowhere to go. You're trapped on a ship of fools."...
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The Chteau: A Novel

PAUL GOLDBERG - Picador
Format: Hardcover

"We have proverb in Florida...You know why it's good to be on beach?"Bill smiles, but says nothing. He wants the guy to keep talking."Because on beach you are surrounded by idiots on only three sides.""And on the remaining side you have what?" asks Bill."Sharks..."Paul...
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Broadcast in the U.S.: Foreign TV Series Brought to America

Vincent Terrace TV historian and author - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A fun and accessible guide to foreign television series that were later broadcast in or adapted for the U.S., including popular favorites such as The Office and Doctor Who. In Broadcast in the U.S.: Foreign TV Series Brought to America, Vincent Terrace delivers a wonderful resource of over...
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