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Just the Funny Parts

And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys' Club

par Nell Scovell ...

The true account of a nerdy girl from New England who fought her way to the top of the highly-competitive, male-dominated entertainment field.Foreword by Sheryl SandbergJust the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The ... En savoir plus

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The true account of a nerdy girl from New England who fought her way to the top of the highly-competitive, male-dominated entertainment field.Foreword by Sheryl SandbergJust the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The
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Just the Funny Parts

… And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club

par Nell Scovell ...

Lu par Amy Hohn ...

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8 heure 36 min

You’ve almost certainly laughed at Scovell’s jokes—you just didn’t know it until now.Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The Simpsons, Late Night with David Letterman, Murphy Brown, NCIS, The Muppets, and Sabrina, ... En savoir plus

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You’ve almost certainly laughed at Scovell’s jokes—you just didn’t know it until now.Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The Simpsons, Late Night with David Letterman, Murphy Brown, NCIS, The Muppets, and Sabrina,
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Our Boston

Writers Celebrate the City They Love

par Andrew Blauner, Kevin Cullen, Mike Barnicle, E. M. Swift, Charles McGrath, Madeleine Blais, George Howe Colt, Susan Orlean, David M. Shribman, Joan Wickersham0, David Michaelis1, Katherine A. Powers2, Jabari Asim3, Lesley Visser4, Hugh Delehanty5, George Plimpton6, Leslie Epstein7, Bud Collins8, Nell Scovell9, Israel Horovitz0, Shira Springer1, Dennis Lehane2, Susan Sheehan3, James Atlas4, Leigh Montville5, Tova Mirvis6, Pagan Kennedy7, Scott Stossel8, Robert Pinsky9, Bill Littlefield0, Carlo Rotella1, Neil Swidey2, Jessica Shattuck3, John Updike4, Pico Iyer5, Sally Taylor6, André Aciman0 ...

Lu par various narrators7, Peter Berkrot8, Johnny Heller9, Malcolm Hillgartner0, Jim Meskimen1, Joe Barrett2, Bernadette Dunne3, Bronson Pinchot4, Carrington MacDuffie5, Susan Boyce6, Kevin Kenerly7, Meredith Mitchell8, Ralph Lister9 ...

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10 heure 57 min

What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and ... En savoir plus

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What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and
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The Bitch is Back

Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier

par Cathi Hanauer ...

Lu par Teri Schnaubelt ...

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11 heure 23 min

More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young woman, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body-image, health, and aging: the critical flash ... En savoir plus

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More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young woman, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body-image, health, and aging: the critical flash
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Visionary Women

How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World

par Andrea Barnet ...

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19 heure 17 min

Four influential women we thought we knew well—Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters—and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movementThis is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women—linked not by friendship or field, but by their choice to break with convention—showed what one person speaking truth to power ... En savoir plus

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Four influential women we thought we knew well—Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters—and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movementThis is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women—linked not by friendship or field, but by their choice to break with convention—showed what one person speaking truth to power
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Beethoven

Anguish and Triumph

par Jan Swafford ...

Lu par Michael Prichard ...

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39 heure 7 min

Jan Swafford’s biographies have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world’s most iconic music.Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the ... En savoir plus

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Jan Swafford’s biographies have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world’s most iconic music.Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the
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All the Rage

Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

par Darcy Lockman ...

Lu par Abby Craden ...

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8 heure 53 min

Picking up where All Joy and No Fun left off, All the Rage sets out to understand why, in an age of so-called equality, full-time working mothers still carry.The inequity of domestic life is one of the most profound and perplexing conundrums of our time. In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist activism, enlightenment, and change, data show that one area of gender inequality stubbornly ... En savoir plus

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Picking up where All Joy and No Fun left off, All the Rage sets out to understand why, in an age of so-called equality, full-time working mothers still carry.The inequity of domestic life is one of the most profound and perplexing conundrums of our time. In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist activism, enlightenment, and change, data show that one area of gender inequality stubbornly
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Sex Object

A Memoir

par Jessica Valenti ...

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4 heure 6 min

NPR Great Read of 2016Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential.Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence ... En savoir plus

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NPR Great Read of 2016Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential.Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence
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True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness

A Feminist Coming of Age

par Christine Lahti ...

Lu par Christine Lahti ...

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5 heure 30 min

A fiercely intelligent, hilarious, and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories from Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award–winning actress and director Christine Lahti.For decades, actress and director Christine Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & ... En savoir plus

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A fiercely intelligent, hilarious, and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories from Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award–winning actress and director Christine Lahti.For decades, actress and director Christine Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law &
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Bringing Down the Colonel

A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington

par Patricia Miller ...

Lu par Christina Delaine ...

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13 heure 22 min

“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.”In Bringing Down the Colonel, journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won ... En savoir plus

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“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.”In Bringing Down the Colonel, journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won
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Dreaming the Beatles

The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World

par Rob Sheffield ...

Lu par Rob Sheffield ...

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9 heure 8 min

Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis ... En savoir plus

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Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis
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Failure Is An Option

An Attempted Memoir

par H. Jon Benjamin ...

Lu par H. Jon Benjamin ...

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4 heure 58 min

**“Writing this funny requires immense talent.”—AV ClubH. Jon Benjamin—the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers—helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure.**Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show business success. But he'd like to remind everyone that as great as success can be, failure is also ... En savoir plus

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**“Writing this funny requires immense talent.”—AV ClubH. Jon Benjamin—the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers—helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure.**Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show business success. But he'd like to remind everyone that as great as success can be, failure is also
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