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Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
"Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's deft weave of social history and sharp entertainment reporting explains how [The Mary Tyler Moore Show] made the world safe for Lena Dunham" (Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls)—the making of a classic and groundbreaking TV show, as experienced...
by Peter Evans, Ava Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The wickedly candid New York Times bestesller that Ava Gardner dared not publish during her lifetime—“the heartbreaking memoir of the ultimate heartbreaker” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood’s biggest and brightest stars during the 1940s and ’50s, an Oscar-nominated...
Captain Phil Harris
The Legendary Crab Fisherman, Our Hero, Our Dad
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The electrifying behind-the-scenes story of the late Deadliest Catch star, from his own two sons.
Prior to his untimely death in 2010, Captain Phil Harris was a star of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch, the hit show that follows the exhilarating lives of Alaskan crab fishermen as they...
Presto!
How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Penn Jillette’s New York Times bestselling account of his “extremely funny and somewhat profane journey to discovering a healthy lifestyle…that will motivate others to seek weight-loss solutions” (The Washington Post).
More than three hundred and thirty pounds and saddled with a systolic...
by Bette Midler
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Bette Midler, also known as Divine Miss M—the indomitable and incomparable singer, actor, and musical theater extraordinaire, with a career spanning almost half a century—revisits her classic memoir, now with a new introduction.
This book was a kind of last hurrah. When I read it, I hear...
Louisa May Alcott
A Personal Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women. She had dismissed her publisher’s pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity to support her family, the book had an astounding success that changed her life, a life which turned out very differently from that of her beloved heroine Jo...
The Girl Who Walked Home Alone
Bette Davis, A Personal Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
Even a short list of Bette Davis's most famous films -- Of Human Bondage; Jezebel; Dark Victory; The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; Now, Voyager; All About Eve; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? -- reveals instantly what a major force she was in Hollywood. Her distinctive voice, her remarkable...
No Wonder My Parents Drank
Tales from a Stand-Up Dad
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
YOU’LL NEVER SLEEP IN THIS TOWN AGAIN
From Saturday Night Live to stand-up, from a blockbuster film career to the star of CBS’s hit television show Gary Unmarried, Jay Mohr is one of the funniest people in comedy today. Now, in this down and dirty tale of modern fatherhood, Mohr shares...
The Last Sultan
The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The Last Sultan is the definitive biography of a man who changed popular culture throughout the world. As the founder and head of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun signed and/or recorded many of the greatest musical artists of all time, among them Ruth Brown; Big Joe Turner; Ray Charles; Bobby Darin;...
Elizabeth Taylor
The Last Star
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
“Shimmering in blue sequins and periwinkle eye shadow, Elizabeth Taylor strode onto the stage of the Mark Hellinger Theater to present the 1981 Antoinette Perry Award for Broadway’s best musical…As she started to speak, the entire audience suddenly rose to give her a standing ovation. Wildly...
Hello Darlin'!
Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales About My Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2001
On November 21, 1980, over 350 million people worldwide tuned in to find out: Who shot J.R.? In portraying the scheming, ruthless J.R. in Dallas during its run from 1978 to 1991, Larry Hagman reached a level of fame and recognition that is rare, if not unique. Now the man behind J.R. tells his own...
Andy and Don
The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this “humorous, informative, and poignant book” celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America’s most iconic television programs and “shows how the magic was created” (Library Journal).
Andy Griffith...
by Stephen Tobolowsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
From legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky, comes a collection of memoiristic pieces about life, love, acting, and adventure, told with a beguiling voice and an uncommon talent for storytelling.
The Dangerous Animals Club by Stephen Tobolowsky is a series of stories that form a non-linear...
Madonna
An Intimate Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
Madonna!
Megastar. Lover. Mother. Opportunist. Chameleon. Role model.
She's all of these things...and more.
Yet, who is she, really?
In Madonna: An Intimate Biography, author J. Randy Taraborrelli's scrupulously researched and completely balanced unauthorized biography of one of the world's most celebrated...