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Released: May 7, 2013
"Entertaining beach reading for fans of humorous, breezy essays."
From comedic essayist and novelist Notaro (
It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy, 2011, etc.), another compendium of humorous, heated, autobiographical tales about the minutiae of modern American life.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"A compelling portrait of inner-city struggles."
Award-winning New Jersey crime reporter Schuppe's first book, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, follows members of a Little League baseball team and their coach as they try to succeed and survive in one of Newark's toughest neighborhoods.
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Released: May 1, 2013
"A lightweight, sometimes-funny showbiz memoir from a successful background player."
A view from the trenches of show business by a comic actor straddling the line between success and obscurity.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 30, 2013
"For horse-racing fans, an adequate follow-up to the author's previous book and a companion for Lauren Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit (2001)."
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Released: April 30, 2013
"In a blood sport littered with casualties, this is an account of an unlikely survivor."
A comedian's life is no laughing matter in this memoir of short chapters that examine the author's source of material as a series of open wounds.
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Released: April 23, 2013
"An imperfect but worthwhile addition to the Beatles bookshelf."
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Released: April 23, 2013
"An unflinching portrait that will surely satisfy Harris' fans."
A candid narrative deconstructs the turbulent personal and professional life of the late
Deadliest Catch star Phil Harris.
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Released: April 23, 2013
"A troubling look inside an enterprise as vicious and internecine as a soap opera."
A chronicle of the recent nasty struggles within and between
Today and
Good Morning America.
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Released: April 22, 2013
"An entertaining and well-intentioned biography that lacks a deeper understanding of its subject."
Journalist Cook (
The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s, 2012, etc.) gives a largely forgotten TV pioneer his due.
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Released: April 18, 2013
"A well-told account of a fascinating, and forgotten, chapter in the history of America's national pastime."
Freelance journalist Dunkel spins the colorful yarn of an improbably integrated team's wild days of independent baseball during the Great Depression.
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Released: April 16, 2013
"Often-heard, occasionally useful advice on how to be a successful mom and partner."
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Released: April 16, 2013
"Although the narrative occasionally veers into aw-shucks-I'm-just-a-country-boy territory, this is a warm account of a star who has managed to remain humble."
