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[2023]
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English
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"In deeply personal essays drawn from his life, as well as his career on Broadway and in Hollywood, Rannells argues that we all pretend we are constantly succeeding--for friends, partners, parents, and others--that we are constantly succeeding in the process known as "adulting." But if this acting is leaving us unfulfilled, then we need new markers of time, new milestones, new expectations of what adulthood is and can be"--
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"An intimate and light-hearted memoir by viral sensation and three-time Emmy-nominated musical comedian Randy Rainbow that takes readers through his life-the highs, the lows, the lipstick, the pink glasses, and the show tunes. Randy Rainbow, the man who conquered the Internet with a stylish pair of pink glasses, an inexhaustible knowledge of Broadway musicals, and the most gimlet-eyed view of American politics this side of Mark Twain finally tells...
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From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing
It's easy to be yourself, when who and what you are is in vogue. But, growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy Porter was slaying red carpets and giving an iconic Emmy-winning performance in the celebrated TV show Pose, before he was the groundbreaking Tony and Grammy Award-winning...
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[2019]
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English
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"Elissa and Rita have forever struggled to find their place in each other's worlds. Rita, an overreaching, makeup-addicted, narcissistic Manhattan singer couldn't be more different from Elissa, her gay, taciturn New England writer daughter. Stuck in an outrageous maelstrom of codependency, mother and daughter cannot seem to extricate themselves from the center of each other's lives. Motherland is their universal story: a kaleidoscopic journey built...
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Essays on American literary journalists whose writings appeared from 1945 to 1995. During this period, literary journalists and novelists-turned-journalists produced nonfiction writing of enduring aesthetic, cultural and political significance, reshaping the contours of contemporary American letters. These journalists achieved a notoriety and status in literature, winning major journalism and literary prizes.
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2021
Language
English
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Stand strong. Be loud. Be proud. This unique graphic novel is a tribute to the lives and accompaniments of those who are proud to stand up for those who arent afraid to live authentically. Superstar artist George Amaru provides a stunning one of three covers that link together to showcase the Pride Flag.
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, is the son of intellectuals. After graduating from Harvard and...
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[2021]
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English
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"Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen times in as many years. Though imperfect in every way, her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange, and as nurturing as it was difficult. At the age of five, Brandi contracted bacterial meningitis, which almost took her life, leaving...
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