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  • Cary Grant: A Biography
    By Marc Eliot

    His wife, Margaret, a former Parisian Folies-Bergère ballet mistress, gave the Pender troupe the benest of her specialized training in movement and balance. Among the lead performers were Lomas's daughter Doris, his brothers Tom and ...

  • Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery
    By Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal

    ... 28,42,58,74, 84,100,112, 124,136,148, 160,172,182, 194,206,220, 236,246,256,265 (badges);94–95 (video game illustrations); 110-111 (title lettering/ illustrations); 263 Anna Thompson: 26–27 (lettering), 62–63 (lettering) Mark Nerys: ...

  • Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music
    By Judy Collins

    ON April 12, 1963, Jac and I went to see Bob Dylan in concert at New York's Town Hall. Dylan was singing new songs, songs that made me sit up and listen in a completely different way. Jac kept poking me in the ribs—“That one,” he would ...

  • Loser Goes First: My Thirty-Something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation
    By Dan Kennedy

    We could go on here and describe in detail all of Dan’s good-natured stabs at ambition, but he, himself, sums it all up quite nicely: “If you’ve ever tried and failed miserably at being a rock star (no guitar/talent), a professional ...

  • I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There
    By Katherine Schwarzenegger

    SoIwentto Barnes &Noble, found a book on trademarks and patents, and wrote my own patent.I persuaded a lawyer to writethe claims over a weekend fora discounted fee, because theyare the mostimportant legal part ofa patent filing, ...

  • Parcells: A Football Life
    By Bill Parcells, Nunyo Demasio

    During training camp Palmer and Bledsoe worked together almost daily in the Patriots' fifty-yard bubble facility. As a drill to help Bledsoe hold the ball higher before throws, Palmer placed several dots of different colors on a net, ...

  • Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life
    By Jonathan Gould

    The record went on to sell a million copies by June, making it a commercial breakthrough for both Conley and his producer, Otis Redding, Indeed, the only cloud on the horizon of Conley's overnight success consisted of J. W. Alexander, ...

  • Book of Ages 30
    By Lockhart Steele, Joshua Albertson, Jonathan Van Gieson

    Turned 30 : 326 B.C. Profession : Great Failed professions : Wonderful , tall , handsome , terrific , kind - hearted , timid ALEXANDER THE GREAT GOT GREECED UP BREAKTHROUGH : Having conquered Persia to rule an empire stretching from the ...

  • Bowie: A Biography
    By Marc Spitz

    He and his partners, bassist Bernard Edwards and drummer Tony Thompson, knew R & B, obviously, but they were also fans of the old and new waves of rock 'n' roll. In 1982, four full years before hip-hop integrated rock, only a handful of ...

  • The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game That Changed the NFL
    By Gary Myers

    Don Shula converted him into a wide receiver, and he was traded to the 49ers in 1978, the season before Walsh "s arrival. The 49ers dealt running back Delvin Williams to Miami for Solomon, safety Vern Roberson, and first- and ...

  • Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
    By Jonathan Gould

    528 Most important musical event W. Mann, The Times (London), 22 November 1968. 529A far more deliberate J. Wenner, Rolling Stone, 21 December 1968. 529 Sgt. Pepper was nostalgic M. Wood, Commonweal, 27 December 1968.

  • All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire®
    By Jonathan Abrams

    Idris and Wood Harris—I knew they'd knock it out of the park. JoE chappelle (DiREctor/co-Executive Producer): There was one thing I just wanted to get: a look at a certain point where they both know they are betraying one another.

  • Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker
    By Stephen Galloway

    Author interview with Jonathan Kaplan. “Out of twenty women in the focus group":Ibid. “I felt terrible about it,” she said: Authorinterview with Jodie Foster. The actress' life had been thrown into upheaval: Howell Raines,"Reagan ...

  • Memories Are Made of This: Dean Martin Through His Daughter's Eyes
    By Wendy Holden, Deana Martin

    Mother seasoned it and told me, conspiratorially, “Now for my secret ingredient: Lipton's Onion soup. My mother used it and now I'm telling you.” One would have thought it was a hundred-year-old recipe handed down through the ...

  • Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood
    By Suzanne Finstad

    It was adapted from a popular wartime novel condensed in the Ladies Home Journal, based on a tragic, operatic poem by Tennyson called “Enoch Arden.” Orson Welles, a Hollywood wunderkind from his masterpiece of four years before, ...

  • Star Wars Trilogy
    By George Lucas, Donald Glut, James Kahn

    Luke Skywalker dreamed of adventures out among the stars and alien worlds. But when he intercepted a message from a beautiful captive princess, he got more than he had bargained for--and that was how the adventure of his life began. . . .

  • Home Game: Big-League Stories from My Life in Baseball's First Family
    By Kevin Cook, Bret Boone

    Nineteen years later, Marvin Miller and the MLBPA beat it in court. Now players could finally sell their services to the highest bidder. Some fans may not like it, but what's more American than that? The end of the reserve clause led ...

  • Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
    By Pattie Boyd, Penny Junor

    Marianne Faithfull was there and also Robert Fraser. There was an American drug dealer, too, known as the Acid King, and a few others. At about three o'clock in the morning George and I drove home. No sooner had we left than thirty ...

  • The Power of Perimenopause: A Woman's Guide to Physical and Emotional Health During the Transitional Decade
    By Stephanie Bender

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  • 101 Ways to Flip the Bird
    By Jason Joseph, Rick Joseph

    So ticked off you’re at a loss for words? 101 Ways to Flip the Bird provides 101 creative ways to express exactly how you feel.