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... Read more >

Steve McQueen
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.00

Steve McQueen is one of America’s legendary movie stars best known for his hugely successful film career in classics such as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, and The Towering Inferno as well as for his turbulent life off-screen and impeccable style. His unforgettable physical beauty... Read more >

Before Sunrise & Before Sunset
Two Screenplays
Written by Richard Linklater

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $13.99

   In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers.

   On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets... Read more >

The Ordinary Acrobat
A Journey into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present
Written by Duncan Wall

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $26.95

The extraordinary story of a young man’s plunge into the unique and wonderful world of the circus—taking readers deep into circus history and its renaissance as a contemporary art form, and behind the (tented) walls of France’s most prestigious circus school.

When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as...

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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
And Other Things I've Learned
Written by Alan Alda

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $16.00

He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his... Read more >

True and False
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
Written by David Mamet

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $14.00

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. With these words, one of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting, in a book that is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as... Read more >

Sanford Meisner on Acting

Written by Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell
Introduction by Sydney Pollack

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2012
Price: $11.99

This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Throughout these pages Meisner is delight--always empathizing with his students and urging them... Read more >

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 >

Radio Shangri-La
What I Discovered on my Accidental Journey to the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
Written by Lisa Napoli

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.00

Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan Los Angeles for a new adventure in the... Read more >

The Tragedy of Mister Morn

Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Translated by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.00

For the first time in English, Vladimir Nabokov’s earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play, introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy.

The Tragedy of Mister Morn was written in the winter of 1923­­–1924, when Nabokov was completely unknown. The...

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