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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights
Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
Written by Stella Adler
Edited by Barry Paris
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $16.95
Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
Written by Stella Adler
Edited by Barry Paris
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $16.95
Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo.
This long-awaited companion to her book on the master European playwrights...
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I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students.
Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to... Read more >
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students.
Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Enchantment
The Life of Audrey Hepburn
Written by Donald Spoto
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
Her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace. Over the course of her extraordinary life and career, Audrey Hepburn captured hearts around the world and created a public image that stands as one of the most recognizable and beloved in recent memory. But despite her international fame and her tireless... Read more >
The Life of Audrey Hepburn
Written by Donald Spoto
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
Her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace. Over the course of her extraordinary life and career, Audrey Hepburn captured hearts around the world and created a public image that stands as one of the most recognizable and beloved in recent memory. But despite her international fame and her tireless... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Creating Characters with Personality
Written by Tom Bancroft
Introduction by Glen Keane
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
From Snow White to Shrek, from Fred Flintstone to SpongeBob SquarePants, the design of a character conveys personality before a single word of dialogue is spoken. Designing Characters with Personality shows artists how to create a distinctive character, then place that character in context within a script, establish hierarchy, and maximize... Read more >
Written by Tom Bancroft
Introduction by Glen Keane
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
From Snow White to Shrek, from Fred Flintstone to SpongeBob SquarePants, the design of a character conveys personality before a single word of dialogue is spoken. Designing Characters with Personality shows artists how to create a distinctive character, then place that character in context within a script, establish hierarchy, and maximize... Read more >
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Stay, Illusion!
The Hamlet Doctrine
Written by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $25.00
The Hamlet Doctrine
Written by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $25.00
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the ghost haunts Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane. Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us. Everyone knows at least six words from Hamlet, and most people know many more. Yet the play—Shakespeare’s longest—is more than “passing strange,” and it becomes even more complex...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Wonderful Tonight
George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
Written by Pattie Boyd and Penny Junor
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $14.95
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
For the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells her incredible story
Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, finally breaks a forty-year silence and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical... Read more >
George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
Written by Pattie Boyd and Penny Junor
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $14.95
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
For the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells her incredible story
Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, finally breaks a forty-year silence and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Insanity Defense
The Complete Prose
Written by Woody Allen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
Comprising the classic bestsellers Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, this definitive collection of comic writings is from a man who needs no Introduction. Really–this book has no Introduction.
The Insanity Defense reveals many sides of Woody Allen as he holds forth on the most human of urges (“Why does... Read more >
The Complete Prose
Written by Woody Allen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
Comprising the classic bestsellers Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, this definitive collection of comic writings is from a man who needs no Introduction. Really–this book has no Introduction.
The Insanity Defense reveals many sides of Woody Allen as he holds forth on the most human of urges (“Why does... Read more >
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The Guitar Handbook
Written by Ralph Denyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 1992
Price: $28.95
The most comprehensive resource available for beginning and experienced guitarists alike, whether acoustic or electric. Completely redesigned and with many more full-color photos than the original, this new edition surveys recent models and profiles current masters, includes an expanded lesson section, and encompasses 10 years of technological change in recording and... Read more >
Written by Ralph Denyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 1992
Price: $28.95
The most comprehensive resource available for beginning and experienced guitarists alike, whether acoustic or electric. Completely redesigned and with many more full-color photos than the original, this new edition surveys recent models and profiles current masters, includes an expanded lesson section, and encompasses 10 years of technological change in recording and... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
