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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"An unusually fresh and engrossing memoir of both Hollywood and modern womanhood." --Los Angeles Times In this searing, unflinchingly honest memoir...
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Newslady
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NewsLady is the memoir of a trailblazing African American woman journalist whose life is about "firsts." Carole Simpson was the first woman to broa...
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Newslady
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /NewsLady is the memoir of a trailblazing African American woman journalist whose life is about "firsts." Carole Simpson was the first woman to broa...
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Big Love: Reclaiming Myself, My People, My Country
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating persona...
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The Todd Glass Situation: A Bunch of Lies about My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories about My 30-Year Career in Stand-Up Comedy
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A "triumphant" (The New York Times) memoir from beloved comedian Todd Glass about his decision at age forty-eight to finally live openly as a gay m...
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It's Always Loud in the Balcony: A Life in Black Theater, from Harlem to Hollywood and Back
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Richard Wesley was witness to a revolution. As both a celebrated participant and eager student of the Black Theater Movement in the late 1960s, he ...
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Conversations with Terrence McNally
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the "Golden Age" of Broadway and the start of the Off-Broadway theater movement, Terre...
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Nigger: An Autobiography
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s million-copy-plus bestselling memoir—now in trade paperback for the first time.“Powerful and ug...
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Love of My Life: The Life and Loves of Freddie Mercury
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /'EYEWITNESS GOLD' SUNDAY TIMESWHO - OR WHAT - WAS THE REAL LOVE OF FREDDIE MERCURY'S LIFE? THE SENSATIONAL NEW BIOGRPHAY OF QUEEN'S FRONTMAN Milli...
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Black Broadway in Washington, DC
HardcoverOriginal price $40.99Original price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was kn...
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History of Milwaukee Drag: Seven Generations of Glamour
HardcoverOriginal price $43.99Original price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99Current price $39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /p>The queens that made Milwaukee famousFor over a century, drag has been an unstoppable force in Milwaukee nightlife. On June 7, 1884, The Only ...
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Kumu Hula: Challenging Journey of a Hula Master
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /There is a persistent myth about hula with its grass shirt and hip movements. But hula tells a story or has a message, and the movements of the han...
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Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$85.99$85.99 - $85.99Current price $85.99| /Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855, the third volume of Bernth Lindfors's award-winning biography, traces the American-born ...
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Faux Queen: A Life in Drag
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Faux Queen: A Life in Drag is the memoir of a ballet-obsessed girl who moves to San Francisco from the suburbs and finds her people at the drag clu...
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In a Pryor Life
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /When I was born, I weighed two pounds, three ounces. The doctor who examined me told my mother, "Congratulations, Mrs. Pryor, you have a boy No, w...
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Ross Alexander: The Life and Death of a Contract Player
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Of all the screen juveniles groomed for stardom by Warner Brothers in the 1930s, few were touted as highly by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner as Ross Al...
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Ross Alexander: The Life and Death of a Contract Player (hardback)
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Of all the screen juveniles groomed for stardom by Warner Brothers in the 1930s, few were touted as highly by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner as Ross Al...
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Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The "revelatory" (The New Yorker) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino--and a reevaluation of t...
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Richard A. Reid: The Man, The Music, and His Ministry
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Musical legend Richard A. Reid is described by his family and friends as someone you can always count on. He came from humble means, raised by his ...
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Mariko Marie Marina: My Life through Three Cultures A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In Japan I was Mariko, in Germany I was Marie, and now I am Marina. A child of three lands, proud of each, unable to say where each began and ended...
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Eu Vim Aqui Só Pra Te Ver
PaperbackOriginal price $7.81 - Original price $7.81Original price $7.81$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Em 2019, eu e duas amigas embarcamos em uma aventura que sacudiu nossas vidas: ir a todos os shows da turnê de Sandy e Junior no Brasil. Um sonho -...
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Love Found and Lost: The Kim Vui Story
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /War has a way of annihilating not just individual combatants and civilians caught in the maelstrom, but also the cultural memories of the defeated....
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Lilly: The First Latina Rockette
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"When I stepped to the center mark and that spotlight hit me, I thought, Aqui estoy mami, aqui estoy!""When I stepped to the center mark and that s...
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The Hollywood Assistant: Life Below The Line
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Micheal HaDera's The Hollywood Assistant: Life Below The Line is a shocking insider's tale about the inner workings of one man's life inside a majo...
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