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Carrie Fisher, author of The Princess Diarist

When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved --- plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today, her fame as an author, actress and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a (sort-of) regular teenager.

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Week of October 23, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of October 23rd include THE PRINCESS DIARIST, the late Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time --- the first Star Wars movie; THE BLACK BOOK by James Patterson and David Ellis, which poses the question How can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime?; HITLER: Ascent, 1889-1939, Volker Ullrich's biography of Hitler that puts an emphasis on the man himself --- his personality, his temperament and his beliefs; and INDELIBLE INK, the untold story of the battle to legalize free expression in America by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Kluger.

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