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Sonny Boy

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full. To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He la…

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This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America's Gilded Capital

'The great thing about Washington is no matter how many elections you lose, how many times you're indicted, how many scandals you've been tainted by, well, the great thing is you can always eat lunch …

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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American the deadly confrontation between Native Americans and coloni…

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The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

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Long Time Gone

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Like a Rolling Stone

In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and rol…

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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century,…

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The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series.From "America's …

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Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day, eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is now avai…

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De Niro: A Life

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Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorised Biography

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Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes baccarat game in an effort to take down Le Chiffre, a financier for the villainous SMERSH. Things get mo…

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In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some

A heartfelt and hilarious collection of essays from the comedian and entertainer known for voicing Olaf in Disney's Frozen and for his award-winning turn as Elder Cunningham in the Broadway smash hit …

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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece

Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema…

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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal…

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Mike Nichols: A Life

A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges--some of the worst largely unknown until now--by …

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The Moon's a Balloon

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The Fifties

The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of …

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Source Code: My Beginnings

The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age.

The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who …

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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on th…

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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

Explores the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie…

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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense

In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon—what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to…

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