Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: James Naremore
3.72
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually a…
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1. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.19
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more
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"To say goodbye is to die a little."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
2. Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
By: Eddie Muller
4.26
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Dark City, urban landscape of the imagination. A place where the men and women who creat… read more
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"The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after" films. But some victors didn't feel too good about their spoils. They'd see…"-Eddie Muller, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
3. The Prone Gunman
By: Jean-Patrick Manchette , James Brook , None , None
3.61
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
Manchette at the height of his powers in a corrosive parody of "the success story." read more
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4. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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5. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
By: Harlan Ellison
5.00
Format: 398 pages, ebook
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It… read more
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6. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
7. The Postman Always Rings Twice
By: James M. Cain
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more
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8. The Zone of Interest
By: Martin Amis
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more
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9. The Cats of Ulthar
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.81
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnam… read more
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10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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11. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more
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12. Journey Into Fear
By: Eric Ambler
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul boit… read more
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13. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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14. The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.29
Format: 375 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here. "Another world is… read more
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"Crivens!"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
"That'll do"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
"Witches are naturally nosy,"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
"(...) or there will be a reckoning!"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
15. Laura
By: Vera Caspary
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious… read more
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16. The Call of Cthulhu
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more
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17. The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Chandler's 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter… read more
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18. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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19. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
By: Naomi Alderman
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more
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20. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
21. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
22. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
23. Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller)
By: Simon Scarrow
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1940. The world holds its breath and hopes for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s grip on po… read more
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24. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
25. So Shall You Reap
By: Donna Leon
4.07
Format: 262 pages, ebook
In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more
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"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap
"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap
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26. ベルセルク 41 [Berserk 41]
By: Kentaro Miura
4.83
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
花吹雪く王ダナンの術によって、長い悪夢から目覚めたキャスカは、忌まわしき記憶に苛まれ、未だガッツと対面できずにいた。 一行が妖精島で身体を休める中、シールケとファルネーゼは、新たな力を求めて修行場… read more
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27. Maigret's Revolver (Maigret #40)
By: Georges Simenon
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. 'His artistry is sup… read more
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28. Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: James Naremore
3.72
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually a… read more
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29. Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film
By: Helen O'Hara
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores women's roles - bot… read more
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30. The Venetian Sanctuary
By: Philip Gwynne Jones
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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31. Gun Crazy: The Origin of American Outlaw Cinema
By: Eddie Muller
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
GUN CRAZY: THE ORIGIN OF AMERICAN OUTLAW CINEMA examines the history of the extraordinary 1950 film… read more
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