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A Lotus Grows in the Mud
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Goldie Hawn
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Goldie Hawn's life is an ongoing tableau of stories, and she has a born knack for telling them....
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A Positively Final Appearance
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Alec Guinness
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Audio Cassette
In A Positively Final Appearance, written from the summer of 1996 through 1998, Guinness--reinvigorated by a successful cataract operation--observes Britain in the tumultuous times of Princess Diana's death and Tony Blair's election as prime minister.
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Catching the Big Fish
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David Lynch
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In this rare work of public disclosure, filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.
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Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
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Dave Barry
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Audio Download | Audio CD ($20.76)
A brilliantly funny exploration of the tumultuous recent past from the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.
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Here, There and Everywhere
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Geoff Emerick
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The legendary recording engineer behind groundbreaking Beatles albums including "Revolver, Sgt. Pepper" and "Abbey Road" takes listeners inside the studio during the creation of these masterpieces…
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I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
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Margaret Cho
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Comedian and activist Margaret Cho's righteous comic rage finds its targets with pinpoint accuracy and is meant not only to entertain but also to champion the civil liberties…
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Jim Morrison
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Stephen Davis
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As an artist and persona, Jim Morrison epitomized the late 1960s, bridging a burgeoning counterculture and popular culture, while acting out the iconoclastic rage, rampant libido, and spectacular flameout of a tumultuous era.
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Kate Remembered
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A. Scott Berg
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For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the 20th century, reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon....
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Lessons in Becoming Myself
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Ellen Burstyn
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One of the great performers of our time recounts her personal, professional, and spiritual lives, from her troubled childhood in Detroit to her triumphant film career as an award-winning film and stage actress.
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Me of Little Faith
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Lewis Black
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Audio CD ($23.96)
From the hilariously mad-as-hell Daily Show regular and New York Times– bestselling author comes a ferociously funny exploration of religion and faith.
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Microthrills
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Wendy Spero
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From a critically acclaimed writer comes a book of clever and profoundly funny true stories about the smaller highs in life. This budding young comedian's world has never been dull.
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My Name Escapes Me
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Alec Guinness
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Audio Cassette
This eighteen-month diary, from January 1995 to June 1996, from one of the most distinguished--and beloved--actors of stage and screen, reveals the octogenarian spryness of a civilized mind and a beguiling mixture of the meditative and the hedonistic.
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No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club
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Virginia Ironside
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This wonderfully astute audiobook based on the author's own experiences is the funny--and often poignant--fictionalized diary of an older woman . . . a decade or two past her prime and content to leave it all behind her.
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The Areas of My Expertise
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John Hodgman
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Borges meets the bathroom book in John Hodgman's bestselling almanac of complete (and fabricated) world knowledge.
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The Odyssey
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Homer
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If "The Iliad" is the world's greatest war story, then "The Odyssey" is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life.
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The Penguin Podcast
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The Penguin Podcast is a fortnightly episode of book extracts, author interviews and features from Penguin Books UK.
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The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog
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Dave Barry
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Read by the author! From the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist comes one of the funniest, warmest, most delightful Christmas stories ever
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The Tao of Willie
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Willie Nelson
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Country music's laid-back legend shares his greatest lessons from a lifetime of writing songs, making friends, and surviving untold challenges.
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The World in Six Songs
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Daniel J. Levitin
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Audio CD ($27.96)
Daniel Levitin follows up his acclaimed New York Times–bestselling first book, This Is Your Brain on Music, with The World in Six Songs, an audacious look at how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms and gave rise to human culture.
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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Daniel J. Levitin
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Audio Download | Audio CD ($23.96)
Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods?
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Why We Suck
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Denis Leary
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Audio CD ($23.96)
With his patented high-speed ranting and killer comic instinct, Leary has become a beloved antihero whose bracing invective and outrageous riffs have earned him a huge following.
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