Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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FIZ
and some Theatre Giants by Eleanor Fazan
“Tell the truth,” her friend the director Lindsay Anderson urged Eleanor Fazan. “It’s seldom heard.” Nor is it easy to tell. But that’s what “Fiz” has done: delivering frank and intimate accounts of her not-always-peaceful collaborations with the ...
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5 Squares
by Bonita McIlvaine
It was Boston in the 1960’s – a time when nightclubs, bars and lounges had the city alive at night and a good time could continue after hours; and when entertainers frequented the city taking advantage of the climate. Add the world of the sporting ...
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The Real Mandrake the Magician
by Linda Mandrake and Lon Mandrake
This biography not only gives you an idea of the brilliant career of Mandrake with over 100 show photos, but also provides a glimpse behind the scenes. What was it like to live on the road with small children while constantly performing magic ...
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California Slim
The Music, The Magic and The Madness by Andrew J. Bernstein
There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors’ proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein’s California Slim aspires to far more than that—and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the ...
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I Am Tommy
On Stage and Backstage by Tom Wilson
The uncensored Insider Story of Three Decades in the Canadian Music Business. I was in a unique position. I was a musician who recorded hit songs and performed on stage in front of millions of fans. I was also an agent who met, booked and performed ...
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A Nobody's Dream ... Came True
by Gordon Crossland
When Gordon Crossland was growing up in the 1940’s in Orillia, Ontario, the town was not about to embrace a boy wanting to be a figure skater or ballet dancer. Male figure skaters were so rare that boys’ figures skates were hard to come by. However, ...
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The Canadian Nightingale
Bertha Crawford and the Dream of the Prima Donna by Jane Cooper
April 4, 1915, Bertha Crawford bowed to tumultuous applause before a glittering audience at the Tsar’s Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. How had a young soprano from Ontario become a darling of the Russian capital eight months into the First World War? ...
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Still Competition
The Listener's Guide to Cheap Trick by Robert Lawson
Following the success of his 2016 book Razama-Snaz! The Listener’s Guide to Nazareth, Robert Lawson returns with this meticulous reviewing of every Cheap Trick album, song by song. In his book, Still Competition: The Listener’s Guide to Cheap Trick, ...
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Gary Karr: Life on the G String
by Mary Rannie
Gary Karr: Life on the G String chronicles the extraordinary international career of a double-bass soloist. Launched in 1962 by Leonard Bernstein, in a Young People's Concert at Carnegie Hall viewed on television by seven million people, Karr ...
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There Are No Strangers
by Jean Price Claridge
Do you have questions about Death and Dying? Why Are We Here? What is Time? Are there Angels? If so, I feel this book may help you find some of those answers. After an amazing healing when I was young, I began my quest to answer these and all of ...
