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Popular Culture September 2018
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Recent and Upcoming Releases |
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In Pieces
by Sally Field
The Academy Award-winning actress shares insights into her difficult childhood, the artistic pursuits that helped her find her voice and the powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and mother.
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Whiskey in a Teacup
by Reese Witherspoon
An Academy award-winning actress, producer and entrepreneur invites readers into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.
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Live Long and . . . : What I Might Have Learned Along the Way
by William Shatner
The Star Trek legend and New York Times best-selling author reflects on his career and the health scare that informed and reinforced his beliefs about living a good life, sharing engaging stories about his childhood, personal setbacks and iconic successes.
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Olivia De Havilland and the Golden Age of Hollywood
by Ellis Amburn
Superbly researched and full of delicious anecdotes about Clark Gable, John Huston, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Montgomery Clift, Errol Flynn, David Niven, and Bette Davis--particularly the bloody, bone-crunching fistfight Flynn and Huston waged over Olivia--this book not only profiles one of the finest actresses of her time, but also the culture of the film industry's Golden Age.
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Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times
by Mark Leibovich
The award-winning New York Times Magazine chief national correspondent, best-selling author of This Town and lifelong Patriots fan presents a scathing analysis of professional football in the present climate of high success, dangerous injuries and scandal.
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The Great American Read: The Book of Books
by PBS
Illustrated with original-manuscript and first-edition covers, a companion to the PBS 2018 summer series reveals America's 100 best-loved novels, profiling each for author stories, social relevance, media adaptations, rejections, and bannings.
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Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
by Craig Brown
Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays on Princess Margaret, the author offers a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography and a meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Hillside Public Library 155 Lakeville Rd New Hyde Park, New York 11040 (516) 355-7850 hillsidelibrary.info |
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