Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances
By: David Thomson
3.18
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
From the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, a fascinatin…
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1. The Boys from Brazil
By: Ira Levin
4.06
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Alive and hiding in South America, Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for … read more
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"I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that's not true. It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions, and the…"-Ira Levin, The Boys from Brazil
2. 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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3. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
4. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the … read more
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- nonfiction
"It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants."-Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
5. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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- nonfiction
- film
"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
6. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
7. LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf
By: Alan Shipnuck
4.14
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insi… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- nonfiction
- film
9. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season
By: Rich Cohen
3.90
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more
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- nonfiction
10. Social Justice Fallacies
By: Thomas Sowell
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more
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- nonfiction
11. America Fantastica
By: Tim O'Brien
3.45
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more
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12. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
13. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
By: Lucinda Williams
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Kind of a Big Deal: How Anchorman Stayed Classy and Became the Most Iconic Comedy of the Twenty-First Century
By: Saul Austerlitz
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Generation Friends, featuring brand-new interviews with Will Ferrell and Adam Mc… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
15. 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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- nonfiction
- film
16. Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood
By: David Mamet
3.24
Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
17. 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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- nonfiction
18. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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19. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
By: Daniel de Visé
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
20. Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
By: Maureen Ryan
3.88
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
An exposé of patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and th… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
21. No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood
By: Erin Carlson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own —one of the most beloved basebal… read more
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- film
22. Entrances and Exits
By: Michael Richards
4.12
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved… read more
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23. Dr. No
By: Percival Everett
3.71
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more
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"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"-Percival Everett, Dr. No
24. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
By: Carrie Courogen
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"A deeply researched, psychologically astute new biography of May by Carrie Courogen...The book is … read more
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- film
25. The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
By: Joel Warner
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written—Ma… read more
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26. The Novel, Who Needs It?
By: Joseph Epstein
3.88
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
In this brief but highly engaging book Joseph Epstein argues for the primacy of fiction, and specif… read more
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27. Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood
By: Leonard Maltin
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen … read more
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- film
28. Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession
By: Andrew Friedman
3.63
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An all-access history of the evolution of the American restaurant chef Chefs, Drugs and Rock & R… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Freezing Cold Takes: NFL: Football Media’s Most Inaccurate Predictions―and the Fascinating Stories Behind Them
By: Fred Segal
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Sports fans love holding media "experts" accountable for bad predictions. Since 2015, Fred Segal h… read more
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30. Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances
By: David Thomson
3.18
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
From the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, a fascinatin… read more
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31. The King Is Dead: Stories
By: Walter Tevis
3.93
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
For the first time ever, a complete collection of short fiction the New York Times bestselling auth… read more
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