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Featured Arts & Entertainment Books
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Ann Handley
Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Jessica Luther
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Robert Iger
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Random House, 2019.
New Arts & Entertainment Books
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Christopher J. Miller
We are Designed to Create. 2020.
Robert Iger
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Random House, 2019.
Kassia St. Clair
The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.
Diana Pavlac Glyer
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings. Black Squirrel Books, 2016.
Jason Schreier
The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made. Harper, 2017.
Thomas C. Foster
A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between. Harper Perennial, 2020.
Judith Flanders
A Curious History of Alphabetical Order. Basic Books, 2020.
S.A. Bradley
How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy. Coal Cracker Press, 2018.
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Jessica Luther
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Will Storr
Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better. Collins, 2019.
Victoria Finlay
A Natural History of the Palette. Random House, 2003.
Stephen Cavalier
The World History of Animation. Quarto Publishing, 2011.
Nancy C. Andreasen
The Science of Genius. Plume, 2006.
Mel Brooks
My Remarkable Life in Show Business. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Daniel Coyle
52 Tips for Improving Your Skills. Bantam, 2012.
Oliver Roeder
A Human History. W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Trending Arts & Entertainment Books This Week
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Kavitha A. Davidson
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Ann Handley
Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Robert Iger
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Random House, 2019.
Melba Kurman
The New World of 3D Printing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.
Victoria Finlay
A Natural History of the Palette. Random House, 2003.
Ed Catmull
Overseeing the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. Random House, 2014.
Alex Stone
Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind. HarperCollins, 2012.
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Games People Play
Eric Berne
A psychoanalytical analysis of the relationships between people with an emphasis on spouses, parents, and children, and the manipulative “games” they play to get what they really want.
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