All That Is Bitter and Sweet
A Memoir
Written by Ashley Judd and Maryanne Vollers
Foreword by Nicholas D. Kristof
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $16.00
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In 2002, award-winning film and stage actor Ashley Judd found her true calling: as a humanitarian and voice for those suffering in neglected parts of the world. After her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, Ashley knew immediately that she wanted to...
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You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again
The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny
Written by Suzanne Hansen
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $9.99
New and completely updated editionHilarious and addictive, this chronicle of a small-town girl’s stint as a celebrity nanny reveals what really happens in the diaper trenches of Hollywood.
When Oregon native Suzanne Hansen becomes a live-in nanny to the children of Hollywood über-agent Michael Ovitz, she thinks she’s found the job of...
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One More Time
A Memoir
Written by Carol Burnett
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $16.00
Carol Burnett spent most of her childhood in a Depression-scarred Hollywood neighborhood, where she lived in a single-room apartment with her endearingly batty grandmother, Nanny, a hypochondriacal Christian Scientist with a buried past. The child of two alcoholic parents, Burnett presents a sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking coming-of-age: from her sadly hopeful...
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Marilyn Monroe
Written by Barbara Leaming
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: February 29, 2000
Price: $18.00
Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will forever change the way we view the most enduring icon of America sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and...
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Lady Blue Eyes
My Life with Frank
Written by Barbara Sinatra
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Price: $24.99
Thirty years after she first heard his voice singing on the jukebox at her local drive-in, Barbara Ann Blakely heard Frank Sinatra take the wedding vows that began his fourth, final, and most enduring marriage.
In
Lady Blue Eyes, Barbara Sinatra’s first public love letter to the husband she adored...
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Making Movies
Written by Sidney Lumet
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on 40 years of experience on movies ranging from
Long Day's Journey Into Night to
The Verdict, Lumet explains the...
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The Heart of a Woman
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
In
The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writers Guild, and begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for...
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