Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company
By: Harry Carey Jr.
4.20
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning
By: David J. Skal , Elias Savada
4.07
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
One of the most original and unsettling filmmakers of all time -- thecreator of the horror classics… read more
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2. Searching for John Ford
By: Joseph McBride
4.40
Format: 880 pages, Paperback
John Ford’s classic films---such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Q… read more
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3. Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford
By: Scott Eyman
4.28
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, stubborn, witty, rebellious, irascible, and contradictory, John Ford remains an enduring… read more
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- biography
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4. Listening Valley
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Toni Melville, who retreats into her own "listening valley" to seek solace, is the absorbing subjec… read more
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6. Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2)
By: Miss Read
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of specula… read more
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7. The Ox-Bow Incident
By: Wallace Stegner , Walter Van Tilburg Clark
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incidentis a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violen… read more
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8. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
By: Gilbert King
3.67
Format: 348 pages, ebook
Devil in the Groveis the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Arguably the mos… read more
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9. John Wayne: The Life and Legend
By: Scott Eyman
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more t… read more
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10. The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
By: Joseph Egan
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
One of Hollywood s first scandals was nearly its last. 1936 looked like it would be a great year fo… read more
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11. Shoulder the Sky (Dering Family, #3)
By: D.E. Stevenson
3.45
Format: None pages,
A London artist tries to adjust to her new life on a Scottish farm and, in painting everything arou… read more
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12. The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms
By: Christopher Finch
3.43
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
Based on hundreds of interviews with Disney staff members past and present, this story of Walt Disn… read more
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13. The English Air
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.12
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
A son makes a devastating choice. Franz von Heiden, son of a Nazi official and an English mother… read more
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14. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
By: Jon Meacham
4.04
Format: 802 pages, Kindle Edition
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and … read more
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"No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
15. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
16. The Blue Sapphire
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.15
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
The blue sapphire is the gem which the Ancients called the hyacinthus and which Solinus described a… read more
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17. Everybody Knows
By: Jordan Harper
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more
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"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
18. Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
By: John C. McManus
4.47
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
In Fire and Fortitude--winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History--John C. McManus pre… read more
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19. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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20. Where Away: A Modern Odyssey
By: George Sessions Perry
4.37
Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition
On 4th February 1942, the USS Marblehead was with an American-British-Dutch-Australian fleet patrol… read more
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21. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
By: Mark Harmon
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more
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22. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more
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23. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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24. The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II
By: David Chrisinger
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful reckoning with the life and work of the legendary journalist Ernie Pyle, who gave World… read more
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- biography
25. Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan
By: Saul David
4.58
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning historian Saul David reveals the searing experience of the Devil Dogs of World War II… read more
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26. Memoirs of a Professional Cad
By: George Sanders
3.71
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
What might we dare to expect from an actor’s autobiography, even one from a star as personable as G… read more
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27. Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film (Screen Classics)
By: Alan K. Rode
4.24
Format: 630 pages, Hardcover
The first biography of the greatest filmmaker that nobody knows. Academy Award-winning director … read more
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28. Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company
By: Harry Carey Jr.
4.20
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
Funny, insightful, and brutally honest. Offers an intimate look at the work of Hollywood director J… read more
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29. John Ford: Poet In the Desert
By: Joseph Malham
4.07
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
John Ford:Poet in the Desert is an uncommon biography of one of America's iconic Hollywood director… read more
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30. Last of the Cowboy Heroes: The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy
By: Robert Nott
4.08
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been o… read more
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31. Three Bad Men: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond
By: Scott Allen Nollen
4.04
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Fo… read more
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