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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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The Making of Star Wars
The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
Written by J. W. Rinzler
Format: Hardcover, 372 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $85.00
After the 1973 success of American Graffiti, filmmaker George Lucas made the fateful decision to pursue a longtime dream project: a space fantasy movie unlike any ever produced. Lucas envisioned a swashbuckling SF saga inspired by the Flash Gordon serials classic American westerns, the epic cinema of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa... Read more >
The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
Written by J. W. Rinzler
Format: Hardcover, 372 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $85.00
After the 1973 success of American Graffiti, filmmaker George Lucas made the fateful decision to pursue a longtime dream project: a space fantasy movie unlike any ever produced. Lucas envisioned a swashbuckling SF saga inspired by the Flash Gordon serials classic American westerns, the epic cinema of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present
Written by Tim Brooks and Earle F. Marsh
Format: Trade Paperback, 1856 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95
AMERICA’S #1 BESTSELLING TELEVISION BOOK WITH MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT–
NOW REVISED AND UPDATED!
PROGRAMS FROM ALL SEVEN COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORKS, MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED CABLE NETWORKS, PLUS ALL MAJOR SYNDICATED SHOWS!
This is the must-have book for TV viewers in the new millennium–the entire history of primetime programs in... Read more >
Written by Tim Brooks and Earle F. Marsh
Format: Trade Paperback, 1856 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95
AMERICA’S #1 BESTSELLING TELEVISION BOOK WITH MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT–
NOW REVISED AND UPDATED!
PROGRAMS FROM ALL SEVEN COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORKS, MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED CABLE NETWORKS, PLUS ALL MAJOR SYNDICATED SHOWS!
This is the must-have book for TV viewers in the new millennium–the entire history of primetime programs in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Mere Anarchy
Written by Woody Allen
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $15.00
Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Woody Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound questions of human existence but is also the perfect size to place under any short table leg to prevent... Read more >
Written by Woody Allen
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $15.00
Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Woody Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound questions of human existence but is also the perfect size to place under any short table leg to prevent... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Me
Written by Katharine Hepburn
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1996
Price: $18.00
Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years, four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic. Now Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence about her private life in this absorbing and provocative memoir.
A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year
A Book-of-the-Month-Club Main Selection
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Katharine Hepburn
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1996
Price: $18.00
Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years, four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic. Now Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence about her private life in this absorbing and provocative memoir.
A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year
A Book-of-the-Month-Club Main Selection
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
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Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Written by William McKeen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.00
True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett... Read more >
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Written by William McKeen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.00
True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
A Curious Man
The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
Written by Neal Thompson
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
Written by Neal Thompson
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert “Believe It or Not” Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable.
As portrayed by acclaimed biographer Neal Thompson, Ripley’s life is...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Cary Grant
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $16.99
Rigorously researched and elegantly written, Cary Grant: A Biography is a complete, nuanced portrait of the greatest star in cinema history. Exploring Grant’s troubled childhood, ambiguous sexuality, and lifelong insecurities, as well as the magical amalgam of characteristics that allowed him to remain Hollywood’s favorite romantic lead for more than thirty-five... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $16.99
Rigorously researched and elegantly written, Cary Grant: A Biography is a complete, nuanced portrait of the greatest star in cinema history. Exploring Grant’s troubled childhood, ambiguous sexuality, and lifelong insecurities, as well as the magical amalgam of characteristics that allowed him to remain Hollywood’s favorite romantic lead for more than thirty-five... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Great Movies
Written by Roger Ebert
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $17.95
America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.
For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers... Read more >
Written by Roger Ebert
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $17.95
America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.
For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers... 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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