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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
All our yesterdays	John Peel	Discusses the characters, popularity, and individual episodes of the well-known television series.	OL1000298W
Comfort food	Kate Jacobs	Shortly before turning the big 5-0, boisterous party planner and Cooking with Gusto! personality Augusta "Gus" Simpson finds herself planning a birthday party she'd rather not—her own. She's getting …	OL11869812W
Television series and specials scripts, 1946-1992	Thousand Oaks (Calif.). Library. American Radio Archives.	"Many early radio stars, writers, and producers later migrated to television, leaving the American Radio Archives with a treasure trove of television documents. The collected scripts span more than 4…	OL13427162W
Stephen Fry In America	Stephen Fry	Britain's best-loved comic genius, Stephen Fry, turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his chariot of Englishness, a black London ca…	OL13647745W
Girlfriend in a coma	Douglas Coupland	A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just…	OL14854128W
Whatcha got?	Jennifer Dussling	When Megan learns that "Very Vintage," her favorite television show is coming to her hometown, she decides to search her house for antiques to take to the show.	OL15042599W
Mockingjay	Suzanne Collins	Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge…	OL15413843W
iAm famous!	Laurie McElroy	"Carly and Sam go on the spending spree of their dreams after they get paid big money for promoting a new sneaker on iCarly. But when they realize that the sneakers have serious problems, the iCarly …	OL16036577W
All in This Together	Scott Thomas	When the Disney Channel aired its original movie High School Musical in January 2006, they were expecting a fairly solid ratings response. What they got was a cultural phenomenon that not only launch…	OL16070012W
Lifestyle media and the formation of the self	Jayne Raisborough	""Be the best you can be" urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent …	OL16114358W
The Stewart/Colbert effect	Amarnath Amarasingam	"The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the issues engendered by the popularity of entertainment news, including the role of satire in politics, the declining level of trust in t…	OL16116790W
Analyzing Mad Men	Scott Frederick Stoddart	"The 12 critical essays in this collection offer a broad, interdisciplinary approach to this highly relevant television show, examining Mad Men as a cultural barometer for contemporary concerns with …	OL16142019W
The television world of Pushing daisies	Alissa Burger	"Pushing Daisies was one of the most successful network television shows in recent history. This collection of 10 essays addresses the off-beat elements that made the show a success. Divided into thr…	OL16167031W
Encyclopedia of television shows, 1925 through 2010	Vincent Terrace	"This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also covers programs generally not covered …	OL16486252W
Working it out	Abby Rike	"When Abby Rike faced an unbearable tragedy, she turned to food for comfort. Her journey through grief and from obesity, via the reality show The biggest loser, is a thrilling and inspirational read"…	OL16575800W
Top of the rock	Warren Littlefield	From 1993 through 1998, NBC exploded every conventional notion of what a broadcast network could accomplish with the greatest prime-time line-up in television history. Here is the funny, splashy, irr…	OL16634618W
Animal Planet Puppy bowl yearbook	Tracey West	Every year since 2005, fans have gathered in front of their televisions, not to watch the football championship, but to see adorable puppies frolic, tumble, and race around a puppy-sized football fie…	OL16686959W
Deadwood	Jason Jacobs	"Jason Jacobs' study of Deadwood explores an in-depth history of the groundbreaking HBO American Western drama from acclaimed writer David Milch. From the show's production to its universally positiv…	OL16688511W
If hooks could kill	Betty Hechtman	"When a television crew comes to Tarzana, Molly Pink and the rest of her crochet group, the Tarzana Hookers, deal with the inconvenience as best they can. But when one of their own goes down, Molly h…	OL16714894W
The War [videorecording]	Ken Burns	Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which t…	OL16811479W