When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence
By: Connie Bruck
3.95
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
3. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
By: Neal Gabler
4.00
Format: 502 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age o… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- business
"What Mayer did in the thirties― what he was situated to do as a Jew yearning to belong― was provide reassurance against the anxieties and disruptions of the time. He did this by fashioning a vast, co…"-Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
4. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
By: Peter Biskind
4.12
Format: None pages,
This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the 1970s introduces the young filmmakers--Coppola, S… read more
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- history
- biography
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5. The Kid Stays in the Picture
By: Robert Evans
3.95
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
From his marriage to Ali McGraw, his cocaine bust, the accusations of murder, the friendships with … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
6. Paris
By: Edward Rutherfurd
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps th… read more
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7. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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8. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
By: Michael Moss
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. They ingest 8,500… read more
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9. The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
By: David Rensin
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
It's like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for man… read more
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10. Disney War
By: James B. Stewart
4.26
Format: 112 pages,
The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner--Disney Chairman and CEO--and the scand… read more
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11. The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
By: David Nasaw
4.30
Format: 543 pages, Hardcover
In this magisterial new work The Patriarch, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full sto… read more
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12. Powerhouse
By: James Andrew Miller
4.16
Format: 384 pages, ebook
An astonishing--and astonishingly entertaining--history of Hollywood's transformation over the past… read more
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13. Where Did I Go Right?: You're No One in Hollywood Unless Someone Wants You Dead
By: David Rensin , None
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
The talent agent who worked with the likes of John Belushi, Jim Henson, Phil Hartman, and Dennis Mi… read more
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14. Adventures in the Screen Trade
By: William Goldman
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-wi… read more
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15. The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks
By: Nicole LaPorte
3.84
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came H… read more
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16. The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood
By: Tom King
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
"A crazy American epic" -Newsweek Complex, contentious, and blessed with the perfect-pitch ability … read more
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17. The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World
By: James Tynion IV
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
COLE TURNER has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn't prepared for what happens wh… read more
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"Collective belief shapes the world, so everything is a little bit true, or has the potential to be true."-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World
"The more people believe in something, the more true that thing becomes. The more reality tips in the favor of that belief."-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World
"Barack Obama contradicts the image they have in their head for what a President looks like and sounds like, and it unsettles them on a subconscious level. And then somebody presents an answer to why …"-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World
18. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- business
"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
19. The Midcoast
By: Adam White
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more
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20. Invisible Monsters
By: Chuck Palahniuk
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a su… read more
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"Sorry, mom. Sorry, God."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"Make me into anything, but just love me."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"The future is just wasted on some people."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"At this rate, we'll never get to the future."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
21. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
By: Abraham Riesman
3.75
Format: 464 pages, ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more
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- biography
- politics
- nonfiction
- business
22. Seventeen (Last Man Standing #1)
By: John Brownlow
4.01
Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition
You'll never know my name.But you won't forget my number.Behind the events you know are the killers… read more
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23. Small Mercies
By: Dennis Lehane
4.29
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more
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24. Now Is Not the Time to Panic
By: Kevin Wilson
3.69
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more
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"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
25. Ilium
By: Lea Carpenter
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap … read more
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26. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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27. When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence
By: Connie Bruck
3.95
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In When Hollywood Had a King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- politics
- nonfiction
- business
28. Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future
By: Duncan Jones
3.59
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Madi Preston, a veteran of Britain’s elite special operations J-Squad unit, is burnt out and up to … read more
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