Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
By: Caseen Gaines
4.13
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
The triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre--and the wo…
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By: Ben H. Winters
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2. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
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3. My Life in France
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5.00
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5. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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6. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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7. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance
By: John Waters
3.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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8. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
By: Shelley Puhak
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more
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9. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
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3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.05
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
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11. I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir
By: Harvey Fierstein
4.37
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
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12. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
By: Maggie Haberman
4.09
Format: 597 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more
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"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
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13. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business
By: Mel Brooks
4.24
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
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14. Making a Scene
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3.67
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15. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
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3.67
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3.80
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3.50
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3.70
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19. The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
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3.87
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
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20. Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television
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21. Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
By: Caseen Gaines
4.13
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
The triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre--and the wo… read more
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- history
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