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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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What could be a more tempting holiday gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. The collection will also feature an introduction by the author; a never-before-collected story, 'Unbuttoned'; and a new interview with David Sedaris.
Author
Publisher
TLS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ’ ALAIN DE BOTTON ‘ Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare … another one-sitting wonder’ STEPHEN FRY David Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was such a thing as a Superhero Dad who chased off Death. Unfortunately...
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called "The Lost City of Z." --from publisher description.
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A revealing look at David Bowie, including rarely seen photos, draws on interviews with his lovers, girlfriends, business associates, groupies, and band members to shine a light on the life and career of this hypnotic performer.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
“A lifetimes worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son” (Kirkus Reviews)the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an unusual woodworking projectconstructing, with his father, his own coffin. David Giffels grew up fascinated by his fathers dusty, tool-strewn workshop and the countless creations it inspired. So when he enlisted...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, right after the publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite jest.' Based on David Lipsky's critically-acclaimed memoir "Although of course you end up becoming yourself: a road trip with David Foster Wallace."
10) The men who would be king: an almost epic tale of moguls, movies, and a company called Dreamworks
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care, offering a window into what so many kids living in poverty experience every day. When David and his siblings should be in elementary school, they are instead walking the streets seeking shelter while their mother...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Mariah Fredericks' mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in the twilight years of the Gilded Age in New York as she tracks a killer. New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage....
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered a quirky, lovable style of stop-motion animation and is behind a string of unforgettable award-winning hits including Chicken Run, the highest-grossing stop-animated film of all time, and the Wallace & Gromit series. With A Grand Success!, Lord, Sproxton, and Park tell the inside story of the 45-year history of Aardman....
15) Ike
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Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Excerpts from news clips, photographs, and other documentary material that illustrate the life and career of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Language
English
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"Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality?...as Jane Mayer shows in this powerful, meticulously reported history, a network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views bankrolled a systematic, step-by-step plan to fundamentally alter the American political system...Their core beliefs--that taxes are a form of tyranny; that government oversight of business is an assault on freedom--are sincerely held. But these...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Based on a true story, follows Forrest Tucker, who escaped from San Quentin State Prison at the age of seventy, as he commits a string of heists and embarks on a late-life romance while staying ahead of the authorities.
18) My Salinger year
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While working for literary agent Phyllis Westberg, aspiring writer Joanna Rakoff receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger.
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Language
English
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"An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Shanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel, located on the city's famous waterfront, is one of the most glamorous in the world. Built by Victor Sassoon--billionaire playboy and scion of the Sassoon dynasty--the hotel hosts a who's who of global celebrities: Noel Coward...
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