Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times
By: Dennis McDougal
3.76
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
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1. Open
By: J.R. Moehringer , Andre Agassi
4.31
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever … read more
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"Control what you can control."-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"We talk about things. We talk about nothing."-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"The most animated talks we have are about…things"-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"When they hand me the trophy I think about vomiting into it"-J.R. Moehringer, Open
2. Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System
By: Sharon Waxman
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The 1990s saw a shock wave of dynamic new directing talent that took the Hollywood studio system by… read more
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3. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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4. Duma Key
By: Stephen King
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Six months after a crane crushes his pickup truck and his body self-made millionaire Edgar Freemant… read more
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5. Johnny Carson
By: Henry Bushkin
3.68
Format: 528 pages,
An endlessly dishy and incisive account of the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and pow… read more
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6. Less Than Zero
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more
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7. The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
By: Jeffery Deaver
4.17
Format: 128 pages,
Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics -- until an ac… read more
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8. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
By: Peter Biskind
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
DOWN AND DIRTY PICTURES chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines the S… read more
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10. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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11. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
By: Robert A. Caro
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more
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12. Stick
By: Elmore Leonard
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In Stick,an ex-con trying to go straight finds himself tempted by a high stakes, sweet-revenge scam… read more
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13. 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
14. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
15. Heat 2
By: Michael Mann
4.26
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more
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16. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)
By: Don Winslow
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … 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. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
By: Shawn Levy
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second … read more
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19. Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
By: Oliver Stone
4.10
Format: 373 pages, ebook
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about… read more
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"No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value."-Oliver Stone, Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
"Destiny is never clear when it arrives. Sometimes we just refuse to do what we no longer feel good about doing. These moments are mysteries in our lives, but we know everything will change."-Oliver Stone, Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
20. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
By: Maureen Callahan
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more
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21. Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times
By: Dennis McDougal
3.76
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
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