Andrew McCarthy
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Pub. Date
2023
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An intimate, funny, and poignant New York Times bestseling travel memoir following award-winning author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam.
When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest,...
When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest,...
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Pub. Date
2015
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Outstanding stories of discovery in unexpected places by Kevin Baker, Lauren Groff, Gary Shteyngart, Paul Theroux, and many more.
In his introduction to this superb collection, guest editor Andrew McCarthy—New York Times-bestselling author of the travel memoir The Longest Way Home—offers a thrilling itinerary of great nonfiction, whether it's the story of a marine returning to Iraq a decade after his deployment, a writer...
In his introduction to this superb collection, guest editor Andrew McCarthy—New York Times-bestselling author of the travel memoir The Longest Way Home—offers a thrilling itinerary of great nonfiction, whether it's the story of a marine returning to Iraq a decade after his deployment, a writer...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
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Fans of Patti Smith's Just Kids and Rob Lowe's StoriesI Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member — and the inspiration for Brats, the Hulu documentary wirrten and directed by Andrew McCarthy.
Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink,...
Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink,...
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Fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father has a son from a brief affair, an eight-year-old boy who lives in the same New Jersey town. She begins to question everything she thought she knew about her family and life, and begins to withdraw from her friends and family. It isn't until Lucy is In Maine to visit her estranged grandfather that she begins to get to the bottom of her family's secrets and lies.
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Despite Clinton's commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an "insurance policy" against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced "dossier," secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Although acknowledged to be "salacious and unverified" at the FBI's highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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245 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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"When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de Santiago. Over the course of the journey, the pair traversed...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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xxii, 433 pages ; 24 cm
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"The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The law-enforcement and intelligence arms of government were placed in the service of the Democratic presidential bid and, failing that, were deployed against the incoming Republican administration with the goal of strangling it in the cradle. The media-Democrat "collusion narrative," scandalizing...
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Pub. Date
2012
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v, 273 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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The author, a travel writer and actor, delivers a memoir about how travel helped him become the man he wanted to be, helping him overcome life-long fears and confront his resistance to commitment. From time immemorial, travel has been a pursuit of passion, from adventurers of old seeking gold or new lands, to today's spiritual and pleasure seekers who follow in the footsteps of Elizabeth Gilbert. Some see travel as a form of light-hearted escapism...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment...
11) St. Elmo's fire
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c2001
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Seven friends, recent college graduates, search for a place in the real world and face the issues of career and commitment. Against the backdrop of St. Elmo's, their local hang-out, they save, betray and love each one another as only the closest of friends can.
12) Pretty in Pink
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2006.
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1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A poor girl falls in love with a rich guy, and it angers both their families and their friends.
13) Less than zero
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[2001]
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Julian is a boy with looks, charm, intelligence and a father who sets him up in the record business; he also has a drug habit. His best friend Clay wants to help and is willing to do almost anything for his friend, but Julian is going downhill so fast that he might take his girlfriend and Clay with him.
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2014
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4 videodiscs (approximately 730 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follows Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
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[2018]
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4 videodiscs (approximately 725 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When the standoff at the prison turns into a full-blown riot, the inmates take advantage of the confusion by conducting séances, holding prisoner auctions, and preening for the morning news. But with relationships tested and friendships starting to fray, will life at Litchfield ever return to normal?
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[2016]
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4 videodiscs (783 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A new regime has arrived at Litchfield and with it comes new business interests, spiritual movements, and parental problems that turn life behind bars upside down and ignite power struggles among Litchfield's residents and guards.
Pub. Date
[2002]
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1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Four mothers. Four daughters. Eight stories. The Joy Luck Club is four women in San Francisco who have played mah jong together on a weekly basis to for forty some years. One of them, Suyuan, has died, and her daughter June is preparing to go to China. Auntie Lindo with daughter Waverly, Auntie Ying Ying with daughter Lena, and Auntie An Mei with daughter Rose are at the going away party. Born in China, the Joy Luck Club members came to America as...
20) A Giant Problem
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Nick and Laurie have a giant problem, and it's a lot bigger than they originally thought. When Taloa sent them off to find her sisters, they discovered a single fire breathing giant, but as it turns out, that one giant is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. According to NoSeeum Jack, the blind giant killer who helped Nick, Laurie, and Jared dispatch the original giant, there are hundreds, possibly even thousands of giants underneath the surface...