267 Entertainment Books Featured
Only in New York
Hardcover | 208 pages | The Monacelli Press | Photography - Photojournalism; Photography
978-1-58093-248-6 (1-58093-248-7)
October 27, 2009 | $60.00
In the aftermath of World War II, New York emerged as a world-class city and the de facto national financial capital, becoming a magnet for moguls and strivers. At the same time the city remained a collection of small towns made up of people going about their daily rounds. No other...
Hardcover | 208 pages | The Monacelli Press | Photography - Photojournalism; Photography
978-1-58093-248-6 (1-58093-248-7)
October 27, 2009 | $60.00
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In the aftermath of World War II, New York emerged as a world-class city and the de facto national financial capital, becoming a magnet for moguls and strivers. At the same time the city remained a collection of small towns made up of people going about their daily rounds. No other...
Audition
Trade Paperback | 672 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Editors, Journalists, Publishers
978-0-307-27996-5 (0-307-27996-0)
May 5, 2009 | $18.95
Barbara Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, has had an amazingly full life. In the bestselling Audition, she describes her extraordinary public and private journey.
Trade Paperback | 672 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Editors, Journalists, Publishers
978-0-307-27996-5 (0-307-27996-0)
May 5, 2009 | $18.95
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Barbara Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, has had an amazingly full life. In the bestselling Audition, she describes her extraordinary public and private journey.
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Sunnyside
Hardcover | 576 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27068-9 (0-307-27068-8)
May 5, 2009 | $32.00
Glen David Gold, author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a world at war...
Hardcover | 576 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27068-9 (0-307-27068-8)
May 5, 2009 | $32.00
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Glen David Gold, author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a world at war...
Kazan on Directing
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf | Performing Arts - Film - Direction & Production
978-0-307-26477-0 (0-307-26477-7)
April 21, 2009 | $37.00
Elia Kazan was the mid-twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this book shows us the master at work.
Kazan directed virtually back to back the greatest American dramas of the era—by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams—and revolutionized theatre and film with dynamic action, poetic staging, and rigorous...
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf | Performing Arts - Film - Direction & Production
978-0-307-26477-0 (0-307-26477-7)
April 21, 2009 | $37.00
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Elia Kazan was the mid-twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this book shows us the master at work.
Kazan directed virtually back to back the greatest American dramas of the era—by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams—and revolutionized theatre and film with dynamic action, poetic staging, and rigorous...
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The Da Vinci Code
Paperback | 608 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-307-47427-8 (0-307-47427-5)
March 31, 2009 | $11.99
PREMIUM MASS MARKET EDITION
#1 Worldwide Bestseller—More Than 80 Million Copies Sold
As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpiece—from its opening...
Paperback | 608 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-307-47427-8 (0-307-47427-5)
March 31, 2009 | $11.99
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PREMIUM MASS MARKET EDITION
#1 Worldwide Bestseller—More Than 80 Million Copies Sold
As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpiece—from its opening...
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The Informers (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-47332-5 (0-307-47332-5)
March 31, 2009 | $16.95
In this seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author of American Psycho, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he first surveyed in Less Than Zero. His characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. They have sex with the same boys...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-47332-5 (0-307-47332-5)
March 31, 2009 | $16.95
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In this seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author of American Psycho, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he first surveyed in Less Than Zero. His characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. They have sex with the same boys...
Mainly on Directing
Hardcover | 192 pages | Knopf | Performing Arts - Theater - Direction & Production
978-0-307-27088-7 (0-307-27088-2)
March 10, 2009 | $28.95
From Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter, director—a mesmerizing book about theater, the art, the artist, the insider, the outsider—and the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage, West Side Story and Gypsy. It is a book profoundly enriched by the author’s two loves, love for the theater and...
Hardcover | 192 pages | Knopf | Performing Arts - Theater - Direction & Production
978-0-307-27088-7 (0-307-27088-2)
March 10, 2009 | $28.95
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From Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter, director—a mesmerizing book about theater, the art, the artist, the insider, the outsider—and the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage, West Side Story and Gypsy. It is a book profoundly enriched by the author’s two loves, love for the theater and...
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-307-45663-2 (0-307-45663-3)
March 10, 2009 | $15.95
Meet Mma Ramotswe, the endearing, engaging, simply irresistible proprietress of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, the first and only detective agency in Botswana. With persistent observation, gentle intuition, and a keen desire to help people with the problems of their lives, she solves mysteries great and small for friends and...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-307-45663-2 (0-307-45663-3)
March 10, 2009 | $15.95
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Meet Mma Ramotswe, the endearing, engaging, simply irresistible proprietress of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, the first and only detective agency in Botswana. With persistent observation, gentle intuition, and a keen desire to help people with the problems of their lives, she solves mysteries great and small for friends and...
The Yankee Years
Hardcover | 512 pages | Doubleday | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Sports & Recreation - Baseball
978-0-385-52740-8 (0-385-52740-3)
February 3, 2009 | $32.00
Hardcover | 512 pages | Doubleday | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Sports & Recreation - Baseball
978-0-385-52740-8 (0-385-52740-3)
February 3, 2009 | $32.00
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Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in eighteen...
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The Billion Dollar Game
Hardcover | 272 pages | Doubleday | Sports & Recreation - Football
978-0-385-52354-7 (0-385-52354-8)
January 6, 2009 | $27.95
Hardcover | 272 pages | Doubleday | Sports & Recreation - Football
978-0-385-52354-7 (0-385-52354-8)
January 6, 2009 | $27.95
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One hundred million spectators.
An economic footprint larger than the GDP of 25 nations.
Zero room for error.
An inside view of the 365 days leading up to the greatest event in American sport.
More Americans watch the Super Bowl than vote in presidential elections. Cities compete for the lucrative rights to host a...
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My First Movie, Take Two
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage | Art - Popular Culture
978-1-4000-7990-2 (1-4000-7990-X)
January 6, 2009 | $18.95
A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie, Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films.
Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance, found actors, searched for...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage | Art - Popular Culture
978-1-4000-7990-2 (1-4000-7990-X)
January 6, 2009 | $18.95
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A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie, Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films.
Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance, found actors, searched for...
Revolutionary Road (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-45478-2 (0-307-45478-9)
December 30, 2008 | $9.99
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a...
Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-45478-2 (0-307-45478-9)
December 30, 2008 | $9.99
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In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a...
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The Man Who Owns the News
Hardcover | 464 pages | Broadway | Biography & Autobiography; Business & Economics
978-0-385-52612-8 (0-385-52612-1)
December 2, 2008 | $34.00
If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this...
Hardcover | 464 pages | Broadway | Biography & Autobiography; Business & Economics
978-0-385-52612-8 (0-385-52612-1)
December 2, 2008 | $34.00
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If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this...
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The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II
Hardcover | 448 pages | Knopf | Music - Songbooks; Performing Arts - Broadway & Musical Revue
978-0-375-41358-2 (0-375-41358-8)
November 25, 2008 | $75.00
From every “beautiful mornin’” to “some enchanted evening,” the songs of Oscar Hammerstein II are part of our daily lives, his words part of our national fabric.
Born into a theatrical dynasty headed by his grandfather and namesake, Oscar Hammerstein II breathed new life into the moribund art form of operetta by...
Hardcover | 448 pages | Knopf | Music - Songbooks; Performing Arts - Broadway & Musical Revue
978-0-375-41358-2 (0-375-41358-8)
November 25, 2008 | $75.00
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From every “beautiful mornin’” to “some enchanted evening,” the songs of Oscar Hammerstein II are part of our daily lives, his words part of our national fabric.
Born into a theatrical dynasty headed by his grandfather and namesake, Oscar Hammerstein II breathed new life into the moribund art form of operetta by...
A History of the Future
Hardcover | 280 pages | The Monacelli Press | Architecture - History
978-1-58093-207-3 (1-58093-207-X)
November 25, 2008 | $52.00
The political, social, and economic upheaval of the early twentieth century generated an extraordinary range of proposals for the future as successive generations grappled with issues of organizing vast urban systems and humanizing dense industrial environments. As conceptual design became the vehicle for exploring ideas and presenting new movements, a dialogue...
Hardcover | 280 pages | The Monacelli Press | Architecture - History
978-1-58093-207-3 (1-58093-207-X)
November 25, 2008 | $52.00
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The political, social, and economic upheaval of the early twentieth century generated an extraordinary range of proposals for the future as successive generations grappled with issues of organizing vast urban systems and humanizing dense industrial environments. As conceptual design became the vehicle for exploring ideas and presenting new movements, a dialogue...
