A portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.

Presents the life of the comic actress, discussing her childhood, marriage to and divorce from Desi Arnaz, and her career on the successful television hit series "I Love Lucy."

One of the stars of "Jackass" recounts the risky and dangerous stunts that brought him fame, his downward spiral into drug and alcohol addiction, the 2008 intervention by friends that saved his life, and his path to recovery and redemption.

What is auto-tainment? Larry the cucumber is pretty sure it involves an automated set from the future, singing robotic children and some of the veggies performing bizarre renditions of classic songs. Bob and Larry learn that God still loves them even when the future doesn't work out the way they had hoped.

A town prepares for and enjoys a visit with a large group of very entertaining pigs in this rhyming tale of hospitality.

From Oscar-winning actress MacLaine ("Terms of Endearment") comes a funny and provocative collection of original essays about all the things she's over--and a few things she's not.--

Funny, irreverent, and irresistible, "This Time Together" is filled with engaging anecdotes about Burnett's childhood; her remarkable friendships with stars such as Jimmy Stewart and Lucille Ball; and the ups and down in her extraordinary career. b&w photos throughout.--

"In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, of course, along with their guards. But the fate of the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers, is less certain. Hell-bent on survival, Principal Flyer, Natasha Koskinen, will do anything to save the flyers, who are the only family she's ever known. Even if anything...

At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not...