What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career
By: Joseph McBride
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915–1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane…
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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
By: William Gibson
3.89
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more
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"Boy, I was daid."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Things aren't different. Things are things."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
2. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.86
Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more
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"Why should I discuss it with you?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
3. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
4. Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.11
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impo… read more
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"... обнадеждена безнадеждност..."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
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"Госпожица Уилоуби не обичаше провинцията. Намираше я за провинциална."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
5. The Jaws Log
By: Peter Benchley , Carl Gottlieb
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the now-classic Steven Spielberg film, a new expanded edit… read more
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6. Endless Night
By: Agatha Christie
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
Strapped by a chauffeur's wages, Michael Rogers' want of a better life seems out of reach. Especial… read more
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7. 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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8. Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more
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9. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
10. At the Mountains of Madness
By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more
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11. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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12. The Names
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Namesis considered the book which began t… read more
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13. Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)
By: Agatha Christie
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of Eng… read more
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14. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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15. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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16. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
By: Grady Hendrix
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more
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17. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more
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18. 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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19. Stanley Kubrick and Me
By: Simon Marsh , None , Filippo Ulivieri
4.00
Format: 131 pages,
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20. 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
21. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
22. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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23. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more
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"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
24. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
By: Arnold Schwarzenegger
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more
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"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
25. 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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26. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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27. Sontag: Her Life and Work
By: Benjamin Moser
4.21
Format: 832 pages, ebook
The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing a… read more
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28. Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
By: Kenji Miyazawa
3.90
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
It is time that Kenji Miyazawa, long recognized as a writer of genius in his own country, enjoyed t… read more
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29. Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
By: W. Scott Poole
3.80
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
From Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Get Out, Dark Carnivals tells the panoramic story of the fil… read more
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30. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career
By: Joseph McBride
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915–1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane… read more
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31. Michelangelo Antonioni: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
By: Bert Cardullo
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In the 1960s and 1970s, Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) forged a cinematic language that reflect… read more
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