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[2015]
Description
Follow Jim Henson's career as he transcended puppetry to become one of the most creative, prolific, and influential artists of his time. Witness key events unfold in his life, from his early television work with the Muppets and his commercial work in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to his breakthrough with Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and his groundbreaking fantasy films Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
""I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch." So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also...
63) Duets
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c2010
Description
"The name of the game: Johanna Patterson didn't give her trust--or her heart--easily. Certainly not to a man who lived in the public eye. So why was Sam Weaver suddenly playing a starring role in her dreams? The irritating man had a way of slipping past all her defenses and coaxing her into his arms. But Johanna had learned her lessons the hard way and was certain she could resist this man's charms ... couldn't she?"--p. [4] of cover.
"Once more...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Joan Rivers was known all over the world--from the Palace Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the footlights of Broadway, from the days of talkies to hosting talk shows. But there was only one person who knew Joan intimately, one person who the authorities would call when she got a little out of hand. Her daughter and best friend, Melissa. Joan and Melissa Rivers had one of the most celebrated mother-daughter relationships...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Kate Conway's life is only getting more complicated in the wake of her husband's death. She's busy at work and feeling more stable but growing bored with ho-hum domesticated TV shows. So when she's offered a chance to produce a documentary about lifers in the state prison, she jumps at it. It's only a matter of time before someone turns up dead. And then the heat is on while Kate races to exonerate the innocent, uncover the guilty, and keep her own...
68) Acne: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Laura Chinn tells her by turns horrifying and hilarious story of growing up with non-conformist, irresponsible parents and countless family tragedies (and really bad, chronic acne) and how she found happiness despite everything"--
69) Animal husbandry
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A comedy on a jilted woman whose misfortune leads to a new career. Jane Goodall of New York turns to studying animal-mating habits for an explanation of why her man left her. She evolves a theory applicable to humans, gets a job as a columnist and proceeds to offer advice. The public laps it up and Jane is famous.
70) Winner takes all
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Includes "Rules of the Game," in which a woman changes her mind about mixing business and pleasure when she meets a sexy new co-worker, and "The Name of the Game," in which a game show producer falls for a persistent actor.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
"Television producer Fliss Benson receives an anonymous card at work, with sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four--numbers that mean nothing to her. One the same day, Fliss finds out she's going to be working on a documentary about three crib death mothers wrongly accused of murder: Helen Yardley, Sarah Jaggard, and Rachel Hines. All three women are now free, and the doctor who testified against them, child protection zealot Dr. Judith...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Porn freak and jetsetter, John Self, is the shameless heir to a fast-food culture where money beats out an invitation to futile self-gratification. Out in New York, mingling with the mighty, Self is embroiled in the corruption, the brutality, and the obscenity of the money conspiracy.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explain it here, because that is what memoirs are for. Charting a "Homeric" decades-long "Odyssey" from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago all the way to a dramatic career that is baffling to his friends, it's almost like there are two or three Bob Odenkirks...but there is just one and one is enough, frankly. Bob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting...
77) Stealing kisses
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Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Southern nights: It was just one of those things. Barbara fell for Jock Malloy in a heartbeat, and the next thing she knew, he was asking her to marry him. Nothing doing, even if the tall Texan knew how to make the loving last. Barbara headed home to the breeze-tossed palm trees and laid-back vibe of Miami. And then...Jock shows up where she least expects to find him... One of the Boys: petra Wallis is the only woman on a New Jersey TV camera crew...
78) Jim Henson
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
Traces the life and career of the creator of the Muppets and discusses his involvement in "Sesame Street," "The Muppet Show," and other projects.
79) Missing persons
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The cause of death is "undetermined," but the cops peg Chicago television producer Kate Conway as the main suspect when her soon-to-be ex-husband, Frank, is found dead. To make matters worse-and weirder- Frank's new girlfriend suddenly wants to be friends. Happy for the distraction, Kate throws herself into a new work assignment for the television program Missing Persons: the story of Theresa Moretti, a seemingly angelic young woman who disappeared...
80) Mr. Fixer Upper
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"It's a constant battle on set between sexy home renovation reality TV star grumpy Gannon King and his no-nonsense field producer. Paige St. James has zero time for temperamental talent. Mr. Sex in a Toolbelt has made it his mission in life to get a rise out of her, but Paige is a master at locking down her temper. They're on the road together working long hours fixing houses and changing lives. When cracks in her legendary coolness start to show...