Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

A Wonderful Life

Illustrated with candid photographs, publicity shots, and movie stills, this biography pays tribute to the life and celebrated career of the debonair and mulit-talented performer.

Fred Astaire

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Stated first edition. #nonfiction #biography #autobiography #hardcover #bio #lincoln #firstedition #history #civilwar #slavery

Kansas

The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln

Examines how the sixteenth president transformed himself in the 1830s and 1840s from a backwoods storekeeper into a sophisticated political figure, a process that was seriously thwarted more than once. 15,000 first printing. First serial, The Atlantic Monthly.

Honor's Voice

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Try Not to Stare

The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir--wise, complex, smart, funny--a version of the American experience different from anything we've read Gabourey Sidibe--"Gabby" to her legion of fans--skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels's acclaimed movie Precious. In This is Just My Face, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she's played onscreen. With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibe tells the engrossing, inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex "talker." And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star, alongside "a superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom's apartment." Sidibe's memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight ("If I could just get the world to see me the way I see myself," she writes, "would my body still be a thing you walked away thinking about?"). Irreverent, hilarious, and untraditional, This Is Just My Face takes its place and fills a void on the shelf of writers from Mindy Kaling to David Sedaris to Lena Dunham.

This Is Just My Face

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#hardcover #actress #bio #blackauthor #blackgirlmagic #blackwoman #empire #nonfiction 

Virginia

Oregon

Being American in the World We've Made

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A former White House aide and close confidant to President Barack Obama—and the author of The World as It Is—travels the globe in a deeply personal, beautifully observed quest for answers. In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they had worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outward. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that was tearing America apart. Along the way, a Russian opposition leader he spoke with was poisoned, the Hong Kong protesters he came to know saw their movement snuffed out, and America itself reached the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a second chance. Part memoir and part reportage, After the Fall is a hugely ambitious and essential work of discovery. In his travels, Rhodes comes to realize how much America’s fingerprints are on a world we helped to shape, through our post–Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism and our post-9/11 nationalism and militarism; our mania for technology and social media; and the racism that fueled the backlash to America’s first Black president. At the same time, Rhodes learns from the stories of a diverse set of characters—from Barack Obama himself to Cuban rebels to a rising generation of international leaders—that looking squarely at where America has gone wrong makes clear how essential it is to fight for what America is supposed to be, for our own country and the entire world.

After the Fall

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The dust jacket has some tearing and curling, but the book is in excellent shape. #hardcover #dickclark #biography #bio #rocknroll #radio #autobiography #americanbandstand #music #rocknrollhistory 

Indiana

Rock, Roll & Remember

#hardcover #bio #nonfiction #backstory #memior #moviestar #samueljackson 

The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood

A fascinating exploration and celebration of the life and work of the coolest man in Hollywood, Samuel L. Jackson--from his star-making turns in the films of Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino to his ubiquitous roles in the Star Wars and Marvel franchises, not to mention the cult favorite Snakes on a Plane--by the bestselling author of The Tao of Bill Murray. Bad Motherfucker explains why Jackson's embodiment of cool is not just inspirational, it's important. It lays out how that attitude interacts with his identity as an African-American man, why being cool matters in the modern world, and how it applies to the current social and cultural moment in which everyone is losing their cool. Edwards details Jackson's fascinating personal history, from stuttering bookworm to Black revolutionary to crack addict to A-list star. The book features original reporting and explores not only the major events of Jackson's life but his obsessions: golf, kung fu movies, profanity. Bad Motherfucker also includes a detailed filmography of Jackson's movies--133 of them and counting! The book provides a must-read road map through the vast territory of his filmography and more: a vivid portrait of Samuel L. Jackson's essential self.

Bad Motherfucker

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Spencer Tracy, Tragic Idol

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

The Films of Gene Kelly

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#bio #kathieleegifford #memoir #hardcover 

Make the Next Act of Your Life the Best Act of Your Life

A New York Times bestseller! It's never too late to unearth your hidden passions, rewrite your story, and live with a renewed purpose. Former Today show host Kathie Lee Gifford shares stories from her remarkable life in a beautiful reminder that God is still dreaming big for our years ahead.

When Kathie Lee Gifford stepped down as cohost of the fourth hour of the Today show with Hoda Kotb, you might have thought her best days were behind her...but it turns out that she was just getting started. As Kathie Lee says, "I'm not retiring; I'm refiring!"

Taking us from her Chesapeake Bay childhood when she first heard God's calling, to her skyrocketing fame with Regis, to her decision to leave television for Nashville, Kathie Lee inspires us to pursue what really matters. Because it's never too late to forgive, to dance the cha-cha, or to make a difference in the world.

God placed His dreams in your heart for a reason. And like Kathie Lee, you might just discover that the best is yet to come. Whether you're an empty nester, newly single, navigating a career change, or just eager for any change, Kathie Lee helps you hear God's loving calling. It's Never Too Late includes:

 * Touchstone moments in Kathie Lee's life that have led her to where she is now
 * Inspiration and motivation to live out what's next and rewrite your story
 * Encouragement to pursue what really matters in life

Is it time for you to rewrite your story, unearth your hidden passions, and live with a renewed purpose? It's never too late.

It's Never Too Late

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#hardcover #bio #true #climbing #mteverest #disaster

New York

A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

Into Thin Air

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#paperback #memoir #autobio #bio #nonfiction 

Rhode Island

A Memoir

Actress, model and wife of Ryan O'Neal, Cynthia was living the dream life - married to a famous Hollywood star, mother of two young sons, resident of The Dakota and owner of the successful Ginger Man restaurant. Then things changed suddenly. The AIDS epidemic hit the arts community hard. But with the support of longtime friend Mike Nicholas Cynthia founded Friends in Deed. Talk softly is the story of a life well-lived - with compassion and passion, in celebration of the joy of each moment and with the ability to surprise oneself when it's least expected.

Talk Softly

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Mississippi

#2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* • “Rogen’s candid collection of sidesplitting essays . . . thrives at both explaining and encapsulating a generational comedic voice.”—The Washington Post A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people’s searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks for bearing with us!) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • New York Post • Marie Claire • Self • BookRiot Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and shit like that, so… here it goes!!! Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it’s likely the former, which is a fancy “book” way of saying “the first one.”) I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like. I also talk about some of my adventures in Los Angeles, and surely say things about other famous people that will create a wildly awkward conversation for me at a party one day. I hope you enjoy the book should you buy it, and if you don’t enjoy it, I’m sorry. If you ever see me on the street and explain the situation, I’ll do my best to make it up to you. *I was beaten by Bill O’Reilly, which really sucks.

Yearbook

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#hardcover #sylviapath #bio #stevenson #botm #booktok #bestseller #vintage 

Life of Sylvia Plath

"In a book that The New Yorker's Janet Malcolm called "by far the most intelligent and the only aesthetically satisfying" Plath biography, the poet Anne Stevenson narrates and illuminates the ways in which Sylvia Plath created her own legend in life and in poetry, one at odds with the posthumous myth that has grown up around her since her suicide in 1963."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Bitter Fame

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#hardcover #bio #blackauthor #blackgirlmagic #nonfiction #actress 

#hardcover #nonfiction #bio #hollywood #filmstar 

An Oscar-winning Hollywood star reminisces on the people, places, and events that have inspired her life, from her loving relationships with her family members, to her early successes on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, to the spiritual side of her career.

A Lotus Grows in the Mud

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#hardcover #nonfiction #music #biography #bio #musical

Arkansas

A personal account of the "King of Hearts" platinum singer documents his more than seven-decade career in entertainment, describing his favorite memories with numerous fellow celebrities, his experiences as a Las Vegas headliner, and his nostalgic variety show.

Moon River and Me

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Texas

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
"Newsweek"/The Daily Beast - The Huffington Post" - Kansas City Star - Time Out New York - Kirkus Reviews"
This extraordinary collection of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction. Written over a sixty-year period, these letters, the vast majority of them never before published, are funny, moving, and full of the same uncanny wisdom that has endeared his work to readers worldwide.
Included in this comprehensive volume: the letter a twenty-two-year-old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from a German POW camp, recounting the ghastly firebombing of Dresden that would be the subject of his masterpiece "Slaughterhouse-Five;" wry dispatches from Vonnegut's years as a struggling writer slowly finding an audience and then dealing with sudden international fame in middle age; righteously angry letters of protest to local school boards that tried to ban his work; intimate remembrances penned to high school classmates, fellow veterans, friends, and family; and letters of commiseration and encouragement to such contemporaries as Gail Godwin, GUnter Grass, and Bernard Malamud.
Vonnegut's unmediated observations on science, art, and commerce prove to be just as inventive as any found in his novels--from a crackpot scheme for manufacturing "atomic" bow ties to a tongue-in-cheek proposal that publishers be allowed to trade authors like baseball players. ("Knopf, for example, might give John Updike's contract to Simon and Schuster, and receive Joan Didion's contract in return.") Taken together, these letters add considerable depth to our understanding of this one-of-a-kind literary icon, in both his public and private lives. Each letter brims with the mordant humor and openhearted humanism upon which he built his legend. And virtually every page contains a quotable nugget that will make its way into the permanent Vonnegut lexicon.
- On a job he had as a young man: "Hell is running an elevator throughout eternity in a building with only six floors."
- To a relative who calls him a "great literary figure" "I am an American fad--of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop."
- To his daughter Nanny: "Most letters from a parent contain a parent's own lost dreams disguised as good advice."
- To Norman Mailer: "I am cuter than you are."
Sometimes biting and ironical, sometimes achingly sweet, and always alive with the unique point of view that made him the true cultural heir to Mark Twain, these letters comprise the autobiography Kurt Vonnegut never wrote.
Praise for "Kurt Vonnegut: Letters"
"Splendidly assembled . . . familiar, funny, cranky . . . chronicling Vonnegut's] life in real time."--Kurt Andersen, "The New York Times Book Review"
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" This collection is] by turns hilarious, heartbreaking and mundane. . . . Vonnegut himself is a near-perfect example of the same flawed, wonderful humanity that he loved and despaired over his entire life."--"NPR"
"Congenial, whimsical and often insightful missives . . . one of Vonnegut's] very best."--"Newsday"
"These letters display all the hallmarks of Vonnegut's fiction--smart, hilarious and heartbreaking."--"The New York Times Book Review"

Kurt Vonnegut - Letters

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Journalist's Education

Lead Time

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A Writer's Life

When Raymond Carver died at age fifty, readers lost a distinctive voice in its prime. Carver was, the Times of London said, "the Chekhov of middle America." His influence on a generation of writers and on the short story itself has been widely noted. Not so generally known are how Carver became a writer, how he suffered to achieve his art, and how his troubled and remarkable personality affected those around him.

Carol Sklenicka's meticulous and absorbing biography re-creates Carver's early years in Yakima, Washington, where he was the nervous, overweight son of a kindly, alcohol-dependent lumbermill worker. By the time he was nineteen, Ray had married his high school sweetheart, Maryann Burk. From a basement apartment where they were raising their first child and expecting their second, they determined that Ray would become a writer. Despite the handicaps of an erratic education and utter lack of financial resources, he succeeded. Sklenicka describes Carver's entry into the literary world via "little magazines" and the Iowa Writers' Workshop; his publication by Esquire editor Gordon Lish and their ensuing relationship; his near-fatal alcoholism, which worsened even as he produced many of the unforgettable stories collected in Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. She examines the dissolution of his first marriage and his partnership with poet Tess Gallagher, who helped him enjoy the full measure of his success.

Carol Sklenicka draws on hundreds of interviews with people who knew Carver, prodigious research in libraries and private collections, and all of Carver's poems and stories for Raymond Carver. Her portrait is generous and wise without swerving from discordant issues in Carver's private affairs. Above all Sklenicka shows how Carver's quintessentially American life fostered the stories that knowing readers have cherished from their first publication until the present day.

Raymond Carver

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New Hampshire

#hardcover #nonfiction #duckdynasty #autobiography #sirobertson #threebookslot #duckcommander #hunting #bio #humor 

Missouri

Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle

A star of the hit A&E show Duck Dynasty brings together his best tall tales, crazy exploits and quirky one-liners in a single raucous collection.

Si-Cology 1

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Book  has a few marks on top as pictured , does not affect reading and in excellent condition 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

The author draws on Rockefeller's own papers to provide a biography of the legendary oilman, capitalist, and philanthropist

Bill Adler

Fred Astaire

Douglas Lawson Wilson

Honor's Voice

Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe

This Is Just My Face

Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe

This Is Just My Face

Ben Rhodes

After the Fall

Dick Clark; Richard Robinson

Rock, Roll & Remember

Gavin Edwards

Bad Motherfucker

Bill Davidson

Spencer Tracy, Tragic Idol

Tony Thomas; Fred Astaire (Foreword by)

The Films of Gene Kelly

Kathie Lee Gifford

It's Never Too Late

Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air

Cynthia O'Neal

Talk Softly

Seth Rogen

Yearbook

Anne Stevenson

Bitter Fame

Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe

This Is Just My Face

Goldie Hawn; Wendy Holden (As told to)

A Lotus Grows in the Mud

Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe

This Is Just My Face

Andy Williams

Moon River and Me

Kurt Vonnegut; Dan Wakefield (Editor)

Kurt Vonnegut - Letters

Garry Wills

Lead Time

Carol Sklenicka

Raymond Carver

Gavin Edwards

Bad Motherfucker

Si Robertson

Si-Cology 1

Ron Chernow

Titan