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Popular Culture November 2018
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| Fashion Climbing: A Memoir With Photographs by Bill CunninghamWhat it is: a charming posthumous memoir from New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham that captures his idiosyncratic, uncompromising style.
Want a taste? "I never go down the street or enter a room without automatically deciding what the woman should wear."
Don't miss: irreverent anecdotes of Cunningham's antics, including the time he sneaked into the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to see Queen Elizabeth. |
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Videocracy: How YouTube Is Changing the World -- With Double Rainbows...
by Kevin Allocca
What it's about: Remember "double rainbow"? "Charlie bit my finger"? Friday? Combining a history of YouTube with an exploration of the site's influence on pop culture around the world, Videocracy is an entertaining tour of all that the video-sharing platform offers.
Did you know? YouTube was created in part to help developers meet women; the first video posted was of a trip to the San Diego zoo; the company has a Culture and Trends department, and the author of this book heads it.
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Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
by Eric Idle
Published to commemorate the troupe's 50th anniversary, the Monty Python founding member and creator of the Tony Award-winning Spamalot shares riotous celebrity and family anecdotes from his boarding-school childhood and landmark career in comedy. Illustrations. Tour
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The book of books : explore America's 100 best-loved novels
by PBS
Illustrated with original-manuscript and first-edition covers, a companion to the PBS 2018 summer series reveals America's 100 best-loved novels, profiling each for author stories, social relevance, media adaptations, rejections and bannings. 70,000 first printing. TV tie-in.
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| The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History by Megan Mullally and Nick OffermanWhat it's about: In this frank and bawdy transcript, "mismatched" couple Megan Mullally (Will and Grace) and Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) chat about their lives and love.
Chapters include: "You're Just Trying To Get In On The Action Because Your Family Is Like A Norman Rockwell Painting;" "I Came Out Of The Womb In a Top Hat And Tap Shoes."
Don't miss: the couple's tips for domestic bliss (like investing in a good mattress and enforcing a "two-week rule" for spending time apart). |
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| Tetris: The Games People Play by Box BrownWhat it is: the complicated origin story of Tetris, "the game that escaped the USSR" in 1984 after its Russian creator sneaked it out of Moscow.
What sets it apart: Bestselling author and illustrator Box Brown (Andre the Giant: His Life and Legend) presents the tale in a whimsical and engaging graphic narrative.
Art alert: straightforward illustrations feature hard edges and minimal coloring meant to evoke the visuals of the game's earliest iterations. |
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Minecraft for dummies
by Jesse Stay
Provides readers with tips, techniques, and strategies for Minecraft, including how to understand biomes, explore and trade in villages, mine redstone, and survive hunger through farming and mining
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| Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation by Blake J. HarrisWhat it's about: the battle for market dominance between "Goliath" Nintendo and upstart Sega that revolutionized the video game industry in the 1990s.
For fans of: behind-the-scenes business stories like Moneyball and The Accidental Billionaires.
Media buzz: Console Wars is set for a forthcoming documentary adaptation to be co-directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (who also wrote the book's foreword). |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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