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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls's memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, was his abettor. As the two of them dragged the family around the country on the run from creditors and from one bad idea ...
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Da Vinci Code
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A sequel to ANGELS & DEMONS, THE DA VINCI CODE starts off with a bang and doesn't quit, leaving the reader gasping to keep up with the twists and turns of this amazingly popular academic thriller. The naked, spread-eagled corpse of a senior curator is found in the Louvre's Grand Gallery, next to a mysterious message written in his blood. The ...
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Big Russ & Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life
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Tim Russert (Read by)
Journalist Tim Russert looks back at his childhood in Buffalo, NY, in the 1950s. Raised a Catholic by parents who taught him a combination of moral values and common sense, Russert grew up in a world with marked differences from today's, and he describes it with affection, eloquence, and humor. In particular, he concentrates on his father, Tim, Sr ...
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Arthur Golden
In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his nine-year-old daughter to an elite geisha house in Kyoto. So begins the remarkable first-person account of how the lovely child, Chiyo, became the accomplished and much sought-after geisha Sayuri, with the help of a kindly mentor and despite the malice of a rival; and of how Sayuri struggled to balance ...
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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
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Chelsea Handler
In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.
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Bridges of Madison County
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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, the highly romantic tale of a roaming photographer and a lonely housewife, was Robert James Waller's first novel. Its sensitive exploration of a four-day encounter between star-crossed lovers touched hearts everywhere, and gallons of tears were shed at the sad ending. By the time its popularity began to ebb, the book ...
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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World
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Bob Sehlinger
This "unofficial" (i.e. unbiased) assessment of Disney World, updated for 2002, offers concise descriptions of its various theme parks, along with area hotels, for the visitor.
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
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Sidney Poitier
Here, the celebrated, Oscar-winning screen actor looks back over his childhood in the Bahamas and the difficult path that led him to become a breakthrough actor in Hollywood--one of America's first successful African-American actors.
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead.
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Tom Stoppard
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is the fabulously inventive tale of "Hamlet" as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to ...
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Neil Postman
A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
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Official Pokemon Handbook
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Maria S Barbo
This colorful Pokemon game handbook includes card trading tips, trivia, and a character name pronunciation guide.
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Death in the Afternoon
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's non-fiction account of bullfighting as an art form reflects his fascination with the ritual of it, and with death and violence.
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Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
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Syd Field
Here are easily understood guidelines to make film writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements to every good screenplay. He presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writng the script that will succeed: How do you collaborate successfully ...
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Confessions of a Video Vixen
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Karrine Steffans
Hip-hop video dancer Karrine Steffans' tell-all autobiography is a litany of sexual favors and conquests, drug-induced ecstasy, and often horrifying physical and mental ill-treatment. Steffans is liberated from her sadistic mom in her early teens, but, after embarking on a career as a stripper in Phoenix, she swiftly descends into the mother of ...
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide
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An invaluable tool in navigating the plethora of movies available on the steadily mushrooming number of cable TV channels, as well as in deciding which DVD or video rental is worthy of a trek down to the store to spend your hard-earned cash, LEONARD MALTIN'S MOVIE GUIDE 2005, its eponymous editor's ever-expanding compendium of movie reviews, has ...
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
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Nikki Sixx
Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the cofounder of Motley Crue offers an unflinching and utterly gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction.
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My Friend Leonard
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James Frey
In this sequel to A MILLION LITTLE PIECES, in which he chronicled his addictions, James Frey writes about a friend he met in rehab, a former gangster named Leonard. An exploration of trust and friendship and what they can mean, especially to someone in crisis, MY FRIEND LEONARD is also a tender and compelling portrait of an extraordinary person.
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Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet
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Gail Grant
From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide and cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions also included.
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The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit
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Shirley MacLaine
The famous actress and best-selling writer takes a 500-mile spiritual journey in Spain during which she learns of past lives (and loves) and of the ancient civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria.
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An Actor Prepares
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Constantin Stanislavski, Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Translator)
The first volume of Stanislavski's enduring trilogy on the art of acting defines the "System", a means of mastering the craft of acting and of stimulating the actor's individual creativeness and imagination.
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Story : substance, structure, style and the principles of screenwriting
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Robert McKee
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress, and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. In "Story", McKee expands on the concepts he teaches in his seminars, providing readers with the most comprehensive, integrated explanation of the craft of ...
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No More Dead Dogs
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Gordon Korman
Here's one for every reader weary of being assigned novels in which the dog dies. For expressing his true views of "Old Shep, My Pal, " eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace earns a detention that takes him off the team and plunks him in the auditorium, where his English teacher is directing a theatrical version of "Old Shep, My Pal."
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Cider House Rules
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John Irving
Wilbur Larch is an abortionist at St. Cloud's orphanage who, in addition to doing his job humanely and conscientiously, struggles with his relationship with his apprentice and adopted son, Homer Wells. The debate over abortion is an important aspect of this novel, in which both sides are presented with sympathy.
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Ball Four
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Jim Bouton
This classic baseball memoir and behind-the-scenes tell-all upset the hero-worshiping press, public, and officials of Major League Baseball when it was first published in the early 1970s--but it has been a perennial seller ever since. Its anecdotes of fellow players on and off the field are filled with humor and the love of the game, and it makes ...
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The Sopranos Family Cookbook
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Artie Bucco (Compiled by), Allen Rucker, Michele Scicolone
Featuring fabulous Southern Italian recipes, photos, and lore from HBO's hit show, this cookbook will have millions of fans eating like America's favorite mob family. The history of Neapolitan cuisine is included plus 100 recipes created with the characters in mind.
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