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  • Confessions of a Prairie Bitch

    How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

    Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is Alison Arngrim’s comic memoir of growing up as one of television’s most memorable characters—the devious Nellie Oleson on the hit television show Little House on the Prairie. With behind-the-scenes stories from the set, as well as tales from her bohemian upbringing in West Hollywood and her headline-making advocacy work on behalf of HIV awareness and abused ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • There's a Bug In My Room

    You find a large bug crawling across the floor of your bedroom.  Do you squish it? Do you hide from it? Do you keep it as a pet? What do you do to move that bug from your room?? “There’s A Bug In My Room” teaches children compassion by promoting kindness toward earth's small creatures.  "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." -Aesop “There’s A Bug In My Room” is a picture book ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

    by Al Franken ...
    From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum -- comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that."Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ali in Wonderland

    And Other Tall Tales

    by Ali Wentworth ...
    Mix 1 oz. Chelsea Handler, 1.5 oz. Nora Ephron, finish with a twist of Tina Fey, and you get Ali in Wonderland, the uproarious, revealing, and heartfelt memoir from acclaimed actress and comedian Ali Wentworth. Whether spilling secrets about her quintessentially WASPy upbringing (and her delicious rebellion against it), reminiscing about her Seinfeld “Schmoopie” days and her appearances on The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Robin

    by Dave Itzkoff ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICEA SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"A generous, appreciative biography of Robin Williams by a New York Times culture reporter. The author, who had access to Williams and members of the comedian’s family, is an unabashed f... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Year of the Chick (Book 1 in the Year of the Chick series)

    by Romi Moondi ...
    Series Book 1 - Year of the Chick
    [Book 1 in the "Year of the Chick" series. There's a bit of a cliffhanger to end this book, but the sequel addresses any unanswered questions]An awkward family homecoming at Christmas.A humiliating public weigh-in, with two judging parents as the audience.The announcement of a deadline for arranged marriage doom.And that's just the first two chapters.In "Year of the Chick," Romi Narindra must find ... Read more

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  • By Myself and Then Some

    by Lauren Bacall ...
    The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to project an audacious spirit and pursue on-screen excellence. The product of an extraordinary mother and a loving extended family, she produced, with Humphrey Bogart, some of the most electric and memorable scenes in movie history. After tragically losing Bogart, she returned to New York and a brilliant career in the theatre. A ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hamilton

    The Revolution

    A backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, including the award-winning libretto, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, and exclusive footnotes from composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda, now streaming on Disney+ with the original cast.Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Dean and Me

    (A Love Story)

    In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin.They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Girl Walks into a Bar . . .

    Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle

    by Rachel Dratch ...
    In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four.Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten part as Jenna on the pilot of 30 Rock, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Home Work

    A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

    by Julie Andrews ...
    In this New York Times bestselling follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria.In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Leonard

    My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man

    New York Times BestsellerLeonard Nimoy and William Shatner first crossed paths as actors on the set of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Little did they know that their next roles as Spock and Captain Kirk, in a new science fiction television series, would shape their lives in ways no one could have anticipated. In seventy-nine television episodes of Star Trek and six feature films, they grew to know each ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Funny Business

    Comedic Epistemology, #1

    by Jared Wynn ...
    Series Book 1 - Comedic Epistemology
    Most people learn to write comedy through trial and error, an intuitive process that can take years to develop. But what most people don't know is that formulas and techniques exist which can cut that process down to about a month. Whether you're a novelist, essayist, blogger, journalist, speechwriter, ghostwriter, or advertiser, if you're looking for ways to integrate more humor into your writing ... Read more

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  • Hamlet

    The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's incomparable tragic play."To be, or not to be: that is the question"There is arguably no work of fiction quoted as often as William Shakespeare's Hamlet. This haunting tragedy of a troubled Danish prince devoted to avenging his father's death has captivated audiences for centuries.This title in the Signet Classics Shakespeare series includes:• ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rabbit

    A Memoir

    Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work"An absolute must-read" – Shondaland“[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor” – New York TimesThey called her Rabbit.Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. One of five children, Pat watched as her mother struggled to get by on... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Practical Handbook for the Actor

    For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, "this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years" (David Mamet, from the Introduction).This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Life Is Not a Stage

    From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond

    For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television.Florence's father was a dirt-poor tobacco tenant farmer who was nearly fifty years old when ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Stephen Colbert: Beyond Truthiness

    by Bruce Watson ...
    Stephen Colbert is far more than a comedian and improv genius. As head of his fanciful Colbert Nation, the quick-witted host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report has delighted fans with his wit, audacity, and innovative uses of language and the media. In this biography, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson, author of Jon Stewart: Beyond the Moments of Zen, charts Colbert's rise from boyhood ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Dramatic Writing

    Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

    by Lajos Egri ...
    Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows! Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books out there, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay.Examining a play from the inside out, Egri ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dangerously Funny

    The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"

    An unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour -- the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censors, outraged the White House, and forever changed the face of television.Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour proved there was a place on television for no-holds-barred political comedy with a decidedly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Yours Cruelly, Elvira

    Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

    The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells—told by the bombshell herself.On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays

    • World premiere in 2014 at Soho Rep (New York, Off-Broadway). Production sold out, extended, and was met with rave reviews.• Shared the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play with Appropriate, also written by Jacobs-Jenkins.• Based on An Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama by Irish writer Dion Boucicault.• Should be of interest to academic audiences interested in investigating race, ethnicity, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Power of the Actor

    In The Power of the Actor, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood.The first book from the instructor who has taught Charlize Theron, Brad Pitt, Elisabeth Shue, Djimon Hounsou, and Halle Berry, The Power of the Actor guides you to dynamic and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Jimmy Stewart

    The Truth Behind the Legend

    by Michael Munn ...
    Many of the stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger-than-life figures held up as paragons of American virtues. Unfortunately, the private lives of actors such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Errol Flynn rarely lived up to the idealistic roles they portrayed. However, James Stewart was known as the underdog fighter in many of his films and in real ... Read more

    $15.99 USD