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  Mr Wilder and Me - A Novel

  Jonathan Coe

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  A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE  FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ROTTERS’ CLUB AND MIDDLE ENGLAND  In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good.  While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realization that his star may be on the wane. Rebuffed by Hollywood, he has financed his new film with German money, and when Calista follows him to Munich for the shooting of further scenes, she finds herself joining him on a journey of memory into the dark heart of his family history.  In a novel that is at once a tender coming-of-age story and an intimate portrait of one of cinema’s most intriguing figures, Jonathan Coe turns his gaze on the nature of time and fame, of family and the treacherous lure of nostalgia. When the world is catapulting towards change, do you hold on for dear life or decide it's time to let go?  “Outstanding... In a sense, the novel toward which Coe’s fiction has always been heading.”—Los Angeles Review of Books

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  The Faith of Elvis

  Ken Sanders Billy Standlee

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  Elvis Presley was a brother to Billy Standlee and a devout Christian. 
  One thing never changed from the day Billy Standlee arrived at Graceland and was given a bear hug by the King of Rock and Roll and their final conversation: Elvis's desire to reach as many people as he could with the love of God. 
  Billy sheds light on Elvis's Christian path in The Faith of Elvis, detailing everything from the notes he made in his treasured Bible to his problems with sin as his reputation grew to his extraordinary charity toward both fans and Hollywood stars.

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  Still True - The Evolution of an...

  Reagan E J Jackson

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  Through this collection of essays, author and activist Reagan Jackson, chronicles her journey into the world of journalism. Art, cinema, social justice, feminism, Black reparations, health & reproductive rights, dance, education—while Jackson’s subjects range far and wide, her writing brings an intimacy & immediacy to all. 
  Equal parts personal testament, structural interrogation, and social criticism, Reagan Jackson’s Still True inspires in its singularity. Jackson writes with a powerful sense of history and a wide-ranging vision, capturing a Seattle in flux, where processes of inequality, gentrification, and police violence occur alongside community struggle, vivid resistance, and countless episodes of joy. We should all hope that voices like hers blossom throughout our communities. This book is a gift to all readers and writers—aspiring, established, or otherwise. ~Sonora Jha, author of The Laughter 
  Reagan Jackson writes from the crossroads of journalism, memoir, activism, and everyday life in these raw and wild times. Jackson is a pioneer for what “writing the first draft of history” looks like in an intersectional world and a model of how media can help build the communities and worlds of the future.  
  ~Sarah Stuteville, Co-Founder of the Seattle Globalist

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  My Life in the News - From...

  Michael Clayton

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  Journalist and Editor Michael Clayton worked his way up from local newspapers to BBC war correspondent, with radio and magazine experience inbetween.   
  From the sharp end of the action in Vietnam, to the violence of the Troubles in Belfast and the tragedy of the East Pakistan revolt, Clayton    is well placed to compare the varying challenges of journalism on different media platforms.   
  The rivalry between the BBC and ITV, the bravery of war cameramen, dealing on assignment with corrupt officials, the TV preference for close-to-the action film as opposed to insightful reports of the effects of conflict: Clayton has experienced it all over a 70-year career.
  His insights into the ethos of the BBC, the colourful characters he reported and filmed alongside, and his resulting views of humanity, war and crime – Clayton's autobiography in journalism is honest, wry and full of insight.   

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  My Life My Way The Conditioning

  Carmen James

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  The meanderings and twists and turns of real-life told through the poetry of a crazy mind… or am I sane? You decide… 
   
  What if I told you all is not as it seems… 
   
  What if I told you this is the land of dreams… 
   
  Dive inside, come on, let’s see… the twists and turns of the life we see.

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  Dirty Days - True New York City...

  Kevin Patrick Corrigan

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  DIRTY DAYS is a nonfiction narrative.  The Setting - the tough Irish bars of New York City in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s.  A place where life can change in an unforeseen instant.As a Bleecker street bouncer and musician during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s in Greenwich Village, author and narrator Kevin Patrick Corrigan relives true stories of old school New York City.Kevin Patrick Corrigan has been a fixture in the New York City Irish bar and music scene for three decades.  He estimates he's been in over 200 street and bar fights.  He smiles when he says he has a record of 147 wins and 72 loses.  He has had a major record deal.  He has toured the country telling stories and singing songs.  He has also written a nationally distributed comedy series.DIRTY DAYS spans from a seven year old Kevin's interaction with Times Square hookers in the 1970s to a full grown adult helping a distraught Gulf War Marine avoid a PTSD situation on Bleecker Street in 2003.DIRTY DAYS is a journey that follows author and narrator Kevin Patrick Corrigan from bloody Halloween street fights - to being taught sage wisdom from baseball legend Yogi Berra - to opening for Alice Cooper, The Scorpions, and KISS - to being in a riot with 200 drunk sailors during Fleet week - to being asked to take a bullet for Snoop Dog.  Those are just a sample of some of the many true accounts in this book.DIRTY DAYS is a ride back in time to the underbelly of New York City's long-lost rough and tumble, grimy era.

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