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"Charlie Besson is about to have an insane job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon. THE Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine's worst dressed list. She needs an assistant. He needs a hero. Kathi is an icon, bestselling author, and an award winning actress, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in the iconic blockbuster sci-fi film. She's also known for another role:...
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An oral history of the film that has been hailed as the greatest action movie ever made features interviews with the cast and crew, including director George Miller and stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.
It won six Oscars, but it is a miracle Mad Max: Fury Road ever made it to the screen... or that anybody survived the production. Production stalled several times; the stars clashed repeatedly in the brutal Namib Desert, and director George Miller's...
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Celebrate the greatest saga ever told with this "intergalactically awesome book" (Tiffany "Smithlord" Smith).
The first shots of the ragtag Rebels running from the monstrous Galactic Empire. Young Anakin winning the podrace. The first time we saw the crackle of Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. All of us who are deeply influenced by the epic saga of Star Wars have our favorite moments, and each time the screen goes black and we see those words-A Long...
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The complete critical companion to The X-Files, covering every episode and both films and featuring interviews with screenwriters and stars.
In Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files, TV critics Zack Handlen and Emily Todd VanDerWerff look back at exactly what made the long-running cult series so groundbreaking. Packed with insightful reviews of every episode-including the tenth and eleventh seasons and both major motion...
5) Eternal
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Eric Richards was living as close to a normal life as one could hope for. With a successful excavation business, Sara, his gorgeous archaeologist wife, and twin five year old boys, Michael and David, life was good. That was until he would be confronted with a decision to join in a fight that was not his own. A war had raged for ages behind the veil of this world. Forces greater than they could fathom would clash once again. The fate of all mankind...
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick-one of Disney's first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood's classic movie monsters.
As a teenager, Mallory O'Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite movies, Creature from the Black Lagoon, featured a monster designed by a woman, Milicent Patrick. But for someone who should have been hailed as a pioneer in the genre,...
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George Beahm, a former U.S. Army major, draws on his experience to discuss the military science of the sprawling Star Wars universe: its personnel, weapons, technology, tactics and strategy, including an analysis of its key battles to explain how the outmanned and outgunned rebels ultimately prevailed against overwhelming forces.
Contrasting the military doctrine of the real world with the fictional world of Star Wars, the author constructively criticizes...
8) Vanity fair
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Two young women, one innocent and the other clever and unscrupulous, seek husbands and happiness in Europe around the time of the Napoleonic campaigns.
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New York Times—Bestselling Authors: Diehard fans share opinions and debate questions about the beloved series from the funny to the philosophical.
• Should we pity Voldemort or hate him?
• Is Severus Snape really a hero?
• Should J.K. Rowling have left Dumbledore's sexual orientation a secret?
• Did Harry actually die in Deathly Hallows?
• Were the Slytherins too demonized, the Hufflepuffs too lame, and the Gryffindors too glorified?
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From the authors of “The Fifty-Year Mission” and “So Say We All”, comes the first and only comprehensive oral history of the “Star Wars” movie franchise.
For the past four decades, no film saga has touched the world in the way that “Star Wars” has, capturing the imaginations of filmgoers and filmmakers alike. Now, for the first time ever, Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman, the bestselling authors of “The Fifty-Year Mission”, are...
11) Hidden Eyes
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Welcome to the chilling world of "Hidden Eyes"...
Do you ever feel a shiver down your spine, as if unseen eyes are watching you? Do whispers from your past ever echo in the silent corners of your mind? Take a step into a world where your reality comes undone, a world where the past doesn't stay buried, and the invisible makes itself seen.
My latest horror offering, 'Hidden Eyes', takes you on a journey where the veil between the natural and supernatural...
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Horror can be a valuable conversation partner for the spiritual questions that animate so many of us.
Whether through a movie, television show, novel, or even myth, horror as a genre has always spoken to our deepest human fears and anxieties: fear of death, of the unknown, of knowing too much. Whether you're looking at classic narratives like Frankenstein, which shows us the consequences of stretching knowledge farther than it's safe to go, or...
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The star of the legendary sci-fi franchise shares the ultimate "Captain's Log" in this classic behind-the-scenes memoir.
A living pop culture legend and one of Hollywood's most enduring stars, William Shatner will forever be associated with the role of James T. Kirk, captain of the starship Enterprise and hero of the sci-fi series Star Trek. Beginning in 1966, Star Trek offered something entirely new to prime time TV audiences. Though it...
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It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955, where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
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Do you struggle out of bed each morning and sway lifelessly across the room, mouth agape, arms hanging slack, murmuring unintelligibly? Well, take heart: you're not alone! But these other staggering, limp, perpetually drowsy folks just happen to be zombies-and it turns out they can teach us a lot about enjoying life. And only here, between the covers of this book, will you learn their secrets to happiness. Learn how to slow down and move at your own...
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Tufa novels volume 6
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""This is real." Three small words on a film canister found by graduate students Justin and Veronica, who discover a long-lost silent movie from more than a century ago. The startlingly realistic footage shows a young girl transforming into a winged being. Looking for proof behind this claim, they travel to the rural foothills of Tennessee to find Sadieville, where it had been filmed. Soon, their journey takes them to Needsville, whose residents are...
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The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish. Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse unknown dangers. Finally, it was Bilbo -- alone and unaided -- who had to...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
An NPR Best Book of the Year
In this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited.
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...19) Freaky in Fresno
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Two estranged cousins--horror movie fanatic Ricki and online makeup guru Lana--accidentally switch bodies and share a fateful day filled with a mini-road trip and keeping up appearances for Lana's fans and Ricki's crush.
Ricki has two goals: save the Starlight Drive-in movie theater; and get her first kiss from her cinema-rescuing partner and major crush, Jake. Her cousin Lana has only one goal: grow her online makeup channel to keep her momager...