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From big screen to small, the stage to the airwaves...if it's entertaining, we've got it. Browse our highlights for the best in entertainment.
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Ball of Fire
The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
Written by Stefan Kanfer
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $16.00
As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, “queen of the B-pluses.” But on the small screen she was a superstar–arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy’s genius and places it in the... Read more >
The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
Written by Stefan Kanfer
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $16.00
As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, “queen of the B-pluses.” But on the small screen she was a superstar–arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy’s genius and places it in the... Read more >
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The Intent to Live
Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor
Written by Larry Moss
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $16.00
“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”
–Larry Moss, from the Introduction
When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a... Read more >
Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor
Written by Larry Moss
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $16.00
“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”
–Larry Moss, from the Introduction
When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Beethoven's Hair
An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
Written by Russell Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $15.95
Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was... Read more >
An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
Written by Russell Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $15.95
Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was... Read more >
Also available as 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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Jimmy Stewart
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $16.00
Jimmy Stewart’s all-American good looks, boyish charm, and deceptively easygoing style of acting made him one of Hollywood’s greatest and most enduring stars. Despite the indelible image he projected of innocence and quiet self-assurance, Stewart’s life was more complex and sophisticated than most of the characters he played. With fresh insight... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $16.00
Jimmy Stewart’s all-American good looks, boyish charm, and deceptively easygoing style of acting made him one of Hollywood’s greatest and most enduring stars. Despite the indelible image he projected of innocence and quiet self-assurance, Stewart’s life was more complex and sophisticated than most of the characters he played. With fresh insight... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Art of Practicing
A Guide to Making Music from the Heart
Written by Madeline Bruser
Foreword by Yehudi Menuhin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 2, 1999
Price: $14.95
This landmark book enlightens amateur and professional musicians about a way of practicing that transforms a sometimes frustrating, monotonous, and overly strenuous labor into an exhilarating and rewarding experience. Acclaimed pianist and teacher Madeline Bruser combines physiological and meditative principles to help musicians release physical and mental tension and unleash their... Read more >
A Guide to Making Music from the Heart
Written by Madeline Bruser
Foreword by Yehudi Menuhin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 2, 1999
Price: $14.95
This landmark book enlightens amateur and professional musicians about a way of practicing that transforms a sometimes frustrating, monotonous, and overly strenuous labor into an exhilarating and rewarding experience. Acclaimed pianist and teacher Madeline Bruser combines physiological and meditative principles to help musicians release physical and mental tension and unleash their... Read more >
His Way
An Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra
Written by Kitty Kelley
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2010
Price: $7.99
This is the book Frank Sinatra failed to stop, the unauthorized biography of one of the most elusive public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatra's life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, personal friends). Fully documented, highly detailed and... Read more >
An Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra
Written by Kitty Kelley
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2010
Price: $7.99
This is the book Frank Sinatra failed to stop, the unauthorized biography of one of the most elusive public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatra's life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, personal friends). Fully documented, highly detailed and... Read more >
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Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition
Written by Daylle Deanna Schwartz
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $21.95
For everyone interested in starting a record label–to market new talent or to release and promote their own music–there has never been a better time to do it!
Music can be released, distributed, and promoted for a fraction of traditional costs. Veteran author and music-business consultant Daylle Deanna Schwartz (who started... Read more >
Written by Daylle Deanna Schwartz
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $21.95
For everyone interested in starting a record label–to market new talent or to release and promote their own music–there has never been a better time to do it!
Music can be released, distributed, and promoted for a fraction of traditional costs. Veteran author and music-business consultant Daylle Deanna Schwartz (who started... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Frank
The Voice
Written by James Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $19.95
The Voice
Written by James Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $19.95
Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma. Now James Kaplan brings deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable voice, from Sinatra’s...
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Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
Written by Loretta Lynn
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $11.99
Loretta Lynn’s classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry.
Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and a grandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become one... Read more >
Written by Loretta Lynn
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $11.99
Loretta Lynn’s classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry.
Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and a grandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become one... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
