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Jim and Elaine Larison spent years making environmental films for the National Geographic Society. This memoir tells the story behind the adventure and describes the rather substantial personal costs of this career.

Stephen Galloway illuminates the relationship between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, one that took place against the backdrop of two world wars, the Golden Age of Hollywood, and the upheaval of the 1960s.

For the first time, Josh Peck reflects on his late teens and early twenties. Raised under a spotlight was both invigorating and cruel, leading him to first food and TV, and later, drugs and alcohol.

Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the show's cultural relevance through a book that is part oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a very personal fandom that has universal resonance still, decades later.

Anais Granofsky is known worldwide as Lucy Hernandez on the hit show Degrassi, but her childhood story of splitting weeks between the extreme wealth and extreme poverty is told here for the first time.

Anjelah Johnson-Reyes recounts funny stories from her journey--from growing up caught between two worlds to unexpectedly embracing faith to her many adventures in dating. These stories explore subjects such as navigating your racial identity, finding your place in the world, chasing your crazy dreams, the messiness of an evolving faith, and searching for belonging and meaning.

The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies--Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and well-funded startup Quibi-as they scramble to mount multi-billion-dollar challenges to Netflix.

Wil Wheaton reveals how he has charted a career course unlike anyone else and has emerged as one of the most popular and well respected names in science fiction, fantasy, and pop culture.

In this memoir, award-winning actress Viola Davis shares her story, in her own words, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to the present day.

A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn't.