Backwards & In Heels: The Past, Present And Future Of Women Working In Film (Incredible Women Who Broke Barriers in Filmmaking)
By: Alicia Malone
4.02
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
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1. Ida Lupino: A Biography
By: William Donati
3.49
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
British-born actress, singer, director, and producer Ida Lupino (1918-1995) cut one of the most all… read more
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- biography
- film
2. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Possible: 101 Stories about Using a Positive Attitude to Improve Your Life
By: Amy Newmark
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Possible will inspire readers to follow their hearts and dreams, w… read more
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3. The Pillowman
By: Martin McDonagh
4.30
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more
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"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
4. Legally Blonde
By: Amanda Brown
5.00
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
The hilarious novel that inspired the blockbuster movie-including what's next for Elle Woods! Elle … read more
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5. The Adolescent
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky's novel The Adolescent(first published in English as A R… read more
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6. I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
By: Nora Ephron
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shar… read more
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7. Steve & Me
By: Terri Irwin
2.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Terri Raines was twenty-seven years old, she took a vacation that changed her life. Leaving be… read more
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8. Mason & Dixon
By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more
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9. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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10. Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
By: Quentin Tarantino , None
4.17
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
Quentin Tarantino - director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" - won the Palme d'Or … read more
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11. A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Now, Voyager, Stella Dallas, Leave Her to Heaven, Imitation of Life, Mildred Pierce, Gilda...these … read more
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12. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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- nonfiction
- womens
- adult
- audiobook
13. Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
By: Janet Malcolm
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” ―Charles… read more
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- biography
"La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas."-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
"Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser."-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
14. Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
By: Steve Martin
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin’s cinematic legacy―an illustrated memoir of his legendary act… read more
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- adult
- biography
15. Out There Screaming
By: Jordan Peele
3.79
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more
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- adult
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"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
16. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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- cultural
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- media tie in
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17. Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
By: Melissa Maerz
4.40
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
“Melissa Maerz’s brilliant oral history is the definitive account of a cult-classic movie that took… read more
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- history
- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
- adult
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"Richard Linklater: First, we became a midnight film. We would play for an entire year at certain theaters. They would turn it into a mini-concert where you go in the theater and you could smell the p…"-Melissa Maerz, Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
18. 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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- history
- film
- media tie in
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19. Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
By: Brian Raftery
4.07
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of … read more
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- media tie in
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20. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
By: Anna Bogutskaya
3.72
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- adult
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"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
21. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
By: Sherronda J. Brown
4.53
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality—and an … read more
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- history
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22. So Fetch
By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
3.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of th… read more
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23. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
By: Dana Stevens
4.19
Format: 432 pages, ebook
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more
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24. When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today
By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia tells the little-known story of four trailblazi… read more
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- biography
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25. A Caribbean Heiress in Paris (Las Leonas, #1)
By: Adriana Herrera
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Paris, 1889The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe… read more
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26. 50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars & Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins (Turner Classic Movies)
By: Dave Karger
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exclusive look behind the scenes of the Academy Awards as top stars and filmmakers discuss their… read more
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27. Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
By: Karina Longworth
4.08
Format: 576 pages, ebook
In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings o… read more
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28. From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
By: Scott Meslow
4.03
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tra… read more
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29. Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
By: Kliph Nesteroff
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the preeminent historian of modern comedy comes an expansive history of showbiz and the cultur… read more
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30. Backwards & In Heels: The Past, Present And Future Of Women Working In Film (Incredible Women Who Broke Barriers in Filmmaking)
By: Alicia Malone
4.02
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Number #1 New Bestseller!"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just d… read more
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31. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
