Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Written by Mindy Kaling
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $25.00
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one...
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Attempting Normal
Written by Marc Maron
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $26.00
PEOPLE MAKE A MESS. Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral cats, and emotionally...
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The Best Advice I Ever Got
Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Written by Katie Couric
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $15.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this inspiring book, Katie Couric distills the ingenious, hard-won insights of such leaders and visionaries as Maya Angelou, Jimmy Carter, Michael J. Fox, and Ken Burns, who offer advice about life, success, and happiness—how to take chances, follow one’s passions, overcome adversity and inertia, commit...
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Living with Shakespeare
Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Written by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In
Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.
We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic...
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Decoded
Written by Jay-Z
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $25.00
Expanded paperback edition of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller features 16 pages of new material, including 3 new songs decoded. Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history...
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The Great Movies II
Written by Roger Ebert
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $19.00
Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in
The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's
The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and renewed...
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Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $15.95
Revised and Expanded
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.&rdquo...
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Rod
The Autobiography
Written by Rod Stewart
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $12.99
The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.
With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer...
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The Baroness
The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild
Written by Hannah Rothschild
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.95
Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had, in only five generations, risen from the ghetto in Frankfurt to stately homes in England. As a child, Nica took her...
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