8 Top nonfiction books like The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock by Dan Callahan

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The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock

By: Dan Callahan

3.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first book on Hitchcock that focuses exclusively on his work with actors Alfred Hitchcock is…

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1. The Glass of Time (The Meaning of Night, #2)

By: Michael Cox

3.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Building on his haunting, superbly written debut, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox returns to a st… read more

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2. Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman

By: Dan Callahan

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

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  • film

3. Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn

By: William J. Mann

4.01

Format: 275 pages,

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4. The Leopard Hat: A Daughter's Story

By: None

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In this tender loving memoir, Valerie Steiker evokes a magical childhood on the Upper East side of … read more

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5. 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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6. 206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.98

Format: None pages,

Cold and alone, bound hands to feet, Tempe Brennan regains consciousness locked in a dark cell--or … read more

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7. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

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8. A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan #11)

By: Jane Casey

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Every mother's worst nightmare . . . When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one … read more

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9. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

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"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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10. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.09

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more

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"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

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11. A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.93

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sente… read more

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12. The Last Murder at the End of the World

By: Stuart Turton

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Wat… read more

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13. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

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"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

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14. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

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15. 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

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16. Siren Queen

By: Nghi Vo

3.68

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

“No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers.” Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate t… read more

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"I already knew that being brave didn’t mean anything unless you were willing to do it again."

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

"I'm curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right."

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

"What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?" She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being …"

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

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17. Take Your Breath Away

By: Linwood Barclay

4.04

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping ps… read more

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18. The Close (Maeve Kerrigan, #10)

By: Jane Casey

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

At first glance, Jellicoe Close seems to be a perfect suburban street – well-kept houses with prist… read more

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19. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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20. The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense

By: Edward White

3.90

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon—what define… read more

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  • film
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21. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

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"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

Cover of Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair by William J. Mann

22. Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair

By: William J. Mann

3.89

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great… read more

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23. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

By: Mark Bowden

3.92

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From Mark Bowden, a "master of narrative journalism" (New York Times), comes a true-crime collectio… read more

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24. True Crime Story

By: Joseph Knox

3.88

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. In the early hours of Satu… read more

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25. Where the Dead Sleep (Ben Packard #2)

By: Joshua Moehling

3.96

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

A small town's dark secrets turn deadly... When an early morning call brings Deputy Ben Packard … read more

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26. The House on Vesper Sands

By: Paraic O'Donnell

3.41

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So b… read more

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27. The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando

By: William J. Mann

4.09

Format: 736 pages, ebook

Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly B… read more

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  • film
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28. Tennessee Williams 101

By: Augustin J Correro

3.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Like an alchemist, Tennessee Williams would dip his pen in reality and make precious, magical ficti… read more

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29. The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock

By: Dan Callahan

3.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first book on Hitchcock that focuses exclusively on his work with actors Alfred Hitchcock is… read more

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30. The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960

By: Dan Callahan

3.65

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Some people claim that audiences go to the movies for the genre. Others say they go for the directo… read more

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  • film
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31. Vanessa

By: Dan Callahan

3.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this first-ever biography of the woman many have called our greatest living actress, the formida… read more

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Dan Callahan

4.42

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Edward White

3.90

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William J. Mann

3.89

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William J. Mann

4.09

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Amy Tintera

4.13

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Alex Finlay

3.79

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Sally Hepworth

4.04

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Garry Disher

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