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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls  Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in...
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Scar Tissue
by Anthony Kiedis and Larry Sloman Publisher Comments This "New York Times" bestseller by the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a compelling story of the price of success and excess, dedication and debauchery, intrigue and integrity, and recklessness and redemption that could only come from the...
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Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life
by Tim Russert Publisher Comments Now in paperback comes the #1 bestselling Father's Day book of 2004. Tim Russert, one of America's most watched and trusted news anchors, connects with readers in this critically acclaimed memoir about growing up in the 1950s and the special bond between...
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Dancing Barefoot
by Wil Wheaton Publisher Comments Wil Wheaton--blogger, geek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher--gives us five short-but-true tales of life in the so-called Space Age in Dancing Barefoot. With a true geek's unflinching honesty, Wil examines life, love, the web, and the...
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Big Russ and Me: Father and Son -- Lessons of Life
by Tim Russert Publisher Comments NBC-TVUs senior vice Washington bureau chief and host of "Meet the Press" offers an intensely personal and charming memoir of American life in the 1950s and the special bond he shares with his fatherQthe irrepressible Big Russ. From the lessons he...
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin 
Powells.com Staff Pick At times uproarious, often sentimental, and always laced with the wit and charm we've come to expect from Steve Martin, this is a warm and enjoyable portrait of his life in stand-up from childhood to his last show in 1981. Recommended by Ann, Powells....
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Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith
by Aerosmith Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [512-516])....
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I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
by Laurie Notaro Publisher Comments Here are more scathingly funny tales from the wild side! Laurie Notaro survived the debauched ride of her twenties and the bumpy road to matrimony. Now she’s ready to take on the thirtysomething years . . . and almost middle age has never been more...
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DJ Shadow: Endtroducing (33 1/3 Series)
by Eliot Wilder Publisher Comments 33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike....
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
by Sarah Vowell
Publisher Comments One of the most popular commentators on public radio's much-loved "This American Life", Vowell explores her own life and the world around her with a discerning eye, quick wit, and a droll sense of humor. "Take the Cannoli" offers readers a great...
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Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
by Jonathan Cott Publisher Comments Thirty-one of the most significant and revealing conversations with Dylan have been compiled in this volume. Among the highlights are the seminal "Rolling Stone" interviews by Jann Wenner, Jonathan Cott, Kurt Loder, and Mikal Gilmore....
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Starring Brian Linehan: A Life Behind the Scenes
by George Anthony Publisher Comments A behind-the-curtain look at the life and times of Canadian celebrity interviewer Brian Linehan by one of his oldest friends and intimates. Brian Linehan was one of seven children growing up in the shadow of the Dofasco steel plant where his father and...
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
by Patrick Mcgilligan Publisher Comments This remarkable new biography--the first in a quarter-century--restores Hitchcock the man in all his three-dimensional glory. Here is the comprehensive film craftsman and the private man: dedicated romantic, constant trickster, impotent voyeur, devoted...
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Clint Eastwood: A Life in Pictures
by Pierre-henri (edt) Verlhac Synopsis Clint Eastwood's popularity is at an all-time high with his recent successes as an Oscar-winning director building upon his fame as the consummate tough-guy movie star. This volume offers an intimate view into the life of a Hollywood great mixing...
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Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
by John Lydon Publisher Comments "I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols...
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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
by Ann Marie Fleming Publisher Comments A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician. Who was Long Tack Sam? He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A...
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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero
by William Kalush Publisher Comments After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood. At a time...
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Mao's Last Dancer
by Li Cunxin Publisher Comments From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as...
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Sage-Ing While Age-Ing
by Shirley Maclaine Publisher Comments "I've been a questioner all my life..." So begins bestselling author and award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine, as she invites readers to join her on the most powerful, provocative journey of her life. Over the years, Shirley has firmly established...
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
by Rebecca Solnit
Publisher Comments "Solnit's best book so far" ("Chicago Tribune") is a boldly original portraitof the proto-inventor of motion pictures. The story of Muybridge--who in 1872succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically--becomes a lens fora larger story about...
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