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  • Doctor Who: The Inside Story

    by Gary Russell ...
    Series Book 142 - DOCTOR WHO
    In March 2005 a 900-year-old alien made a triumphant return to our television screens. This book is the definitive account of how the new Doctor Who came to our screens. Gary Russell has talked to everyone on the show from David Tennant, to executive producer Russell T Davies, to the people normally hidden inside the monster suits.With unparalleled access to design drawings, backstage photographs, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Country Girls

    by Edna O'Brien ...
    Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.This new edition of The Country Girls was published to coincide with its revival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2019. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The French Dispatch

    by Wes Anderson ...
    THE FRENCH DISPATCH brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. It stars Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, and Owen Wilson. ... Read more

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  • Patrick Marber: Plays

    Dealer's Choice; Closer; Howard Katz; Don Juan in Soho; The Red Lion

    Dealer's Choice'I feel it's my duty to proclaim it from the rooftops: this is it, this is the play that will remind you, at the end of a year that has contained too few stand-out new-writing hits and far too many musicals, why we go to the theatre - and just how good it can get.' TelegraphCloser'Patrick Marber's searing follow-up to Dealer's Choice establishes him as the leading playwright of his ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Patrick Marber: Versions

    After Miss Julie; Three Days in the Country; Hedda Gabler; Trelawny of the 'Wells'; The Beaux Strategem

    After Miss Julie'Patrick Marber's sharp reworking of Strindberg's classic has lost none of its edge. It's a hurtling, brutal play, a psychosexual nightmare of gender and class division, electrified by rage, fear, contempt and self-loathing.' The TimesTrelawny of the 'Wells''Brilliantly but modestly updated and tweaked by Patrick Marber. All praise to him for this version.' Sunday TimesThe Beaux' ... Read more

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  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    In the bestselling traditions of Seinfeldia and Top of the Rock comes a fascinating deep dive into the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history, from its humble beginnings to its evolution as a critically acclaimed cult classic comedy**.**Charlie, Dennis, Mac, Sweet Dee, and Frank are deplorable characters. They will never mature, become more self-aware, or less self-involved. That ... Read more

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  • Stranger Things: The Official Cookbook

    Recipes from Hawkins and Beyond

    Series series Stranger Things
    Prepare to have your mind flayed with sixty recipes from the denizens of Hawkins in this first official cookbook for the hugely popular Netflix series.Celebrate the culinary cravings of your favorite Stranger Things characters with Stranger Things: The Official Cookbook, featuring sixty recipes from all facets of this beloved world, whether it’s ’80s mall food, a weeknight dinner at the Wheelers, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Directed By Milos Forman

    An Oral History of His Life and Films

    Often known as “ the master of human comedy,” Miloš Forman was a man of many faces and multiple talents. He acted, wrote, and directed. He made documentaries and political satire, but also biopics, musicals, and adaptations of almost operatic proportion. This comprehensive book explores all of Forman' s work— from his early Czech films Black Peter (1964), Loves of a Blonde (1965), and The Firemen' ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Beyond the Promised Land

    My Journey to Comedy Freedom by Dream or Delusion

    by Byron Bowers ...
    From a fearless comic known for tackling uncomfortable topics, a revealing and subversive memoir that explores Bowers’ life from his difficult childhood in Georgia up to his rise in the LA comedy worldByron Bowers is often referred to as a Comics’ Comic. A veteran stand-up comedian and actor, he's known for gripping material covering spirituality, race, socioeconomics, gender roles—and for ... Read more

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  • The Crossing

    El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story

    The Crossing has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Woody Allen: Life and Legacy

    A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham

    The acclaimed film biographer and author of Young Orson and Funny Man returns with the definitive look at the life and legacy of Woody Allen.The writer, director, and frequent star of more than fifty popular, award-winning, and internationally successful pictures over seven decades of filmmaking, Woody Allen is one of the most consequential American cultural figures of our time. Yet this national ... Read more

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  • Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill

    The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul

    The complete critical companion to AMC’s Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated series Better Call Saul from the author of Breaking Bad 101 and The Sopranos SessionsAcross six critically acclaimed seasons, Better Call Saul surprised audiences and subverted Breaking Bad fans’ expectations for what a prequel/sequel series could be. Bob Odenkirk reprised his role as the morally compromised defensive ... Read more

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  • Paradise, Volume 3

    The Trash Project

    by Ken Hollings ...
    The third and final volume of Ken Hollings’ personal reflections on Trash Aesthetics.In Paradise, Hollings tells the story of three kings who squandered everything they had in a grandiose spectacle of waste.King Ludwig II of Bavaria, "King of Rock 'n' Roll" Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," all shared the same doomed innocence. Their lives and early deaths were connected ... Read more

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  • Falling in Love at the Movies

    Rom Coms from the Screwball Era to Today

    Series series Turner Classic Movies
    Prepare to swoon, ugly cry, laugh, and fall in love with this officially licensed exploration of the impact and legacy of one of film's most beloved genres from Turner Classic Movies: the rom-com.Romantic comedies have had an incredible influence on popular culture, shaping everything from how we think of relationships to fashion. Often swept aside in film history, these movies are thought of as ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Giant Love

    Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film

    by Julie Gilbert ...
    A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant.The stupendous publication of Edna Ferber's Giant in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words

    by Michael Owen ...
    The man behind some of the most memorable lyrics in the great American songbook emerges from his brother’s shadow.The Pulitzer Prize–winning American lyricist Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) has been hailed as one of the masters of the Great American Songbook—songs written largely for Broadway and Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s. Now, in the first full-length biography devoted to his life, Ira ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Rod Serling at 100

    One Writer’s Acknowledgment

    The year 2024 marks the centenary of Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery. Emmy-winning writer Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars) picked this special anniversary to reflect on Serling and his contributions to television drama. An appreciation and exploration of the five-time Emmy-winning writer' s catalogue, Rod Serling at 100: One Writer' s ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Memory Palace

    True Short Stories of the Past

    by Nate DiMeo ...
    A vivid collection of surprising true stories that brings to life long-forgotten icons, heroes who never got their due, and ordinary people who never made it to the history books, from the creator of the popular podcast The Memory Palace.What was Dreamland, Brooklyn's most popular attraction, like before it burned down?Whatever happened to Shipwreck Kelly?What were the glistening orbs John Glenn ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Life's Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can't Stop Watching Gilmore Girls

    Edited by Ann Hood ...
    Fifteen leading writers explore what Gilmore Girls means to them in this delightful celebration of a contemporary TV classic.Fast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic Connecticut town of Stars Hollow. More than twenty years later, it has become ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    by Crown ...
    An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Sensual Laboratories

    Light Shows, Experimental Film, and Psychedelic Art

    An innovate counter-history that places the liquid light show at the heart of a new understanding of experimental audio-visual art in the 1960s.Throughout the 1960s the liquid light show was the quintessential mode of countercultural expression: live, interactive, collaborative, acid-bright, and ephemeral. Flowering in coffee bars and discotheques, they quickly became synonymous with the wildest ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Believe

    The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show that Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts

    by Jeremy Egner ...
    The definitive book on the TV show Ted Lasso, written by New York Times journalist and editor Jeremy Egner, celebrating the show’s improbable rise and cultural impact while never losing sight of the heart, friendship, and passion that have made it an enduring favorite for the agesWhen Ted Lasso first aired in 2020, nobody—including those who had worked on it—knew how a show inspired by an ad, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Damn Glad to Meet You

    My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches

    by Tim Matheson ...
    A “damn good” fun and revealing memoir from the acclaimed Hollywood actor, Tim MathesonFor the past seven decades, Tim Matheson has been an on-screen favorite in Hollywood. From nailing early roles in classic shows like Leave It to Beaver and delivering iconic lines like “Damn glad to meet you!” as rush chairman Eric “Otter” Stratton in National Lampoon’s Animal House, to landing a recurring role ... Read more

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  • Box Office Poison

    Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

    by Tim Robey ...
    **A riotous and revealing story of Hollywood’s most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history."Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag…”**From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Box Office Poison tells a hugely entertaining alternative history of Hollywood, ... Read more

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