Entertainment & Performing Arts

"Jon Dorenbos is a magical person. Life Is Magic shows how we can all choose happiness in the face of overwhelming odds." -Ellen DeGeneres An extraordinary and empowering story of resilience, forgiveness, and living a life of purpose in the face of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692748008Author K C MotsingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Jc PublicationsPublisher Jc PublicationsWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

James Arness was born May 26, 1923, in Minneapolis. He entered college just as World War II began and dreamed of being a naval aviator. It seemed as if every night his fraternity was having a party to send off a brother to the service. Young Arness got...

Told in classic comic-book form, this graphic biography invites a new audience to learn about Banksy-and uses a pitch-perfect medium to convey the artist's message that art is for the people. Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist of all...

From girl next door to the nation's sweetheart, this is the story of Chantelle's spectacular rise to fame and celebrity. Told in her own words, Chantelle takes us on what has been a sometimes bumpy, but a truly magical journey.As a little girl growing up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608872022Author James FrancoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 692gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 178mm...

A New York Times bestseller."My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Because it's in the messes where we learn the most-as long as we slow down enough to realize what God is trying to show us."Suddenly in the spotlight, twenty-four-year-old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102739Author Garner SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 218mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535452Author John WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307474988Author George Stevens, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 629gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102708Author Joan HerringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 217mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955754999Author Marinika BabanazarovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Silk Road MediaPublisher Silk Road Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964179Author Bill SchellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol, or sex: it was film. After moving to Los Angeles, Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and...

With his topical jokes and his all-American, brash-but-cowardly screen character, Bob Hope was the only entertainer to achieve top-rated success in every major mass-entertainment medium of the century, from vaudeville in the 1920s all the way to...

Back in print for the first time in decades-and featuring a new interview with the author, in celebration of her centennial birthday-the delectable escapades of Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland, who fell in love with a Frenchman-and then became a...

Bertrand Tavernier (b. 1941-2021) was widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s in the wake of the New Wave. In just over forty years, he directed twenty-two feature films in an...

No more than a promising actor with a handful of films to his name when he died in 1955, James Dean has since been elevated to an iconic status surpassed only by Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. And his image - a blend of '50s cool and tough-guy charm...

In his memoirs lifelong drummer Mike Rubery entertains us with tales of his early upbringing in Canwell, Sutton Coldfield through his National Service years, including atomic bomb testing on Christmas Island, and on to his hectic life on the professional...

At 22, Kate Mulgrew gave birth to a daughter. Having already signed the adoption papers, she was allowed only a fleeting glimpse of her child. Three days later, she returned to work as the star of a popular soap opera. Twenty years later, she went in...

For the casual film fan, Henry Hathaway is not a household name. But in a career that spanned five decades, Hathaway directed an impressive number of films and guided many actors and actresses to some their most acclaimed performances. He also helped...

This is the first English language study of Jules Dassin (1911-2008), who began as a contract director at MGM in 1941 and earned his reputation with the films noirs Brute Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), Thieves' Highway (1949), and Night and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956841176Author Adam RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

This day-by-day account of the legend's life-the first of its kind-succeeds in the daunting task of tracking Judy's myriad professional pursuits, the personal crises she triumphed over, and her many accomplishments. Lavishly illustrated with eighty rare...

The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1957 to 1963, Eric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679764397Author Neal GablerFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956216097Author Julie Rogers PomiliaFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Briton Publishing LLCPublisher Briton Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

A charming autobiography from the president of the Cannes Film Festival. About the AuthorGilles Jacob was born in Paris in 1930. Renowned film critic and enthusiast, he was elected general delegate in 1978, and President of the prestigious Cannes Film...

'Debris from a comet drops a fabulously valuable new metal . . . turning it into a bloody, brawling boomtown. Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing' - International bestselling author Stephen King on The Ninth MetalNamed a Most Anticipated...

Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was the greatest conductor of his generation. His reputation is legendary, and yet astonishingly, in his five decades on the podium, he conducted only 89 concerts, some 600 opera performances, and produced 12 recordings. How...

Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president. Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities-discussing sex,...

Ted Shawn (1891-1972), is the self-proclaimed "Father of American Dance" who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art. In the process, he made dancing an acceptable profession for men and taught several generations of...

With their silly puns, down-to-earth style and obvious affection for each other, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins were a defining part of 1990s popular culture. For two years their hit show, Light Lunch, was staple viewing for housewives and students up and...

With their silly puns, down-to-earth style and obvious affection for each other, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins were a defining part of 1990s popular culture. For two years their hit show, Light Lunch, was staple viewing for housewives and students up and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780924366Author Lynnette PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235725Author Brian McFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

The most wanted rebel returns in Zoraida Cordova's gripping conclusion to the Hollow Crown duology.For years, she was wielded as a weapon. Now it's her time to fight back.Reeling from betrayal at the hands of the Whispers, Renata has few options and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632280947Author Tyler MahoneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Viva EditionsPublisher Viva EditionsWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879511323Author Eve GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Vestal Press Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Vestal Press Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm)...

The Worst It Can Be is a Disaster is the autobiography of Braham Murray, founding director of the Royal Exchange Manchester which in 2006 celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. With a foreword by Sir Tom Courtenay. Born into a Jewish family, Braham Murray...