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Welcome to the O.C., b*tch: it’s the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show’s creators, featuring interviews with the cast and crew, providing a behind-the-scenes look into…

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Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire

The first unauthorized look at the inner workings―and ultimate breakdown―of the Disney Channel machine

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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous R&B to rambunctious ska-pu…

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So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We Are Still So Obsessed with It)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of the most iconic teen comedies of all time, Mean Girls , revealing how it happened, how it defined a gen…

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From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist

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A brilliantly provocative and entertaining essay collection about the Y2K era, the generation defining period that birthed everything from AOL Instant Messenger, the Hummer H2, bling era rap, and low-…

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Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away from it? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary,” Emily Nussbau…

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Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love

By the bestselling author of Seinfeldia, a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, to coincide with the show’s twentieth anniversary.

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An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.

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