Bargain @ $0.99-$2.99 for some arts/Hollywood/political history-related titles from assorted publishers (prices should be equivalent in Canada & the US, and available in all the regular stores):
@ 99 cents from HarperCollins:
@ $1.99 from couponable publishers
@ $1.99 from non-couponable publishers
- The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell, a memoir of the making of what was apparently a very bad old film, The Room, and itself the basis for the newer film The Disaster Artist, from Simon & Schuster
- Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson, who also writes film history/criticism books for university imprints. This is a behind the scenes making-of the iconic Breakfast at Tiffany's, from HarperCollins
- Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger. A good chunk of this is probably a stealth behind-the-scenes making of Cleopatra, also HC.
- Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter by groundbreaking African-American actor Sidney Poitier, part-memoir and part-musings on the future. If you got his other more autobiographical memoir when it was on sale last month, or are just a fan of his work, you might like to get this one as well. Also HC.
- Memories Are Made of This: Dean Martin Through His Daughter's Eyes by Deana Martin & Wendy Holden a memoir of the singer who was part of the famous Rat Pack with Frank Sinatra et al. From Crown Publishing's Archetype imprint.
@ $2.99:
- As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling by Anne Serling, a memoir of the creator of the classic The Twilight Zone series by one of his daughters, out from Kensington's Citadel imprint (couponable/VIP-eligible in Canada but not the US anymore, apparently)
- How Shakespeare Changed Everything by Stephen Marshe, one of those pop-history pop culture books, out from HarperCollins' Harper Perennial imprint
And for ~$3-4 or so each, there's a bunch of Wes Anderson-related film artbooks with interviews and behind-the-scenes from publisher Abrams Image in the current
Kobo Canada weekend sale, which might also be matched in the other stores and in the US, and some ex-Soviet Union history memoirs from the Hoover Institution (
Wikipedia), a think tank hosted by the Stanford University which publishes through the aegis of their University Press.