The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
By: Greg Mitchell
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood p…
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1. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
By: David McCullough
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book … read more
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"One has the feeling that if you could pick it up and turn it over, you would see MADE IN AMERICA stamped on it."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"What I wanted-what I needed-was a story wherein the principal characters took on something big and admirable and difficult, and did it right."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you. Washington A. Roebling quoted by"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Everywhere about her, lesser men, witless, vulgar, corrupt, men of narrow ambition and the cheapest of values, were prospering as never before, grabbing up power, money, or just about anything else t…"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
2. Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
By: Richard Russo
4.11
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbea… read more
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"Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"He couldn’t very well start lecturing the boy now. There was every reason to believe that the first thirty-five years of Peter’s life had been the formative ones."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
3. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
4. Bloodline
By: Claudia Gray
4.73
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars comes a thrilling prequel to St… read more
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5. Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
By: Steven J. Ross
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
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6. First Lord's Fury (Codex Alera, #6)
By: Jim Butcher
4.44
Format: None pages,
For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not b… read more
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7. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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8. From a Certain Point of View
By: Beth Revis , Pierce Brown , Jeffrey Brown , Ken Liu , Rae Carson , E.K. Johnston , Sabaa Tahir , Renée Ahdieh , Matt Fraction , Kieron Gillen , Greg Rucka , Claudia Gray , Meg Cabot , Nnedi Okorafor , Christie Golden , Chuck Wendig , Madeleine Roux , Zoraida Córdova , Daniel José Older , Alexander Freed , Paul Dini , Wil Wheaton , Cavan Scott , John Jackson Miller , Gary D. Schmidt , Elizabeth Wein , Tom Angleberger , Mur Lafferty , Kelly Sue DeConnick , Paul S. Kemp , Charles Soule , Adam Christopher , Delilah S. Dawson , None , Ben Acker , Ben Blacker , Jason Fry , Ian Doescher , Pablo Hidalgo , Ashley Eckstein , Gary Whitta , Glen Weldon , Griffin McElroy , None
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Experience Star Wars: A New Hope from a whole new point of view. On May 25, 1977, the world was int… read more
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9. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
10. 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
11. Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
By: Mary Rodgers
4.24
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Mary Rodgers Guettel--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried eve… read more
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12. Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
By: Danny Trejo
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo’s journey fr… read more
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"...even in prison I could be free."-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
"...it's hard to teach anyone anything when they think they know everything already."-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
"When you're an addict you think the only person you're hurting is you. And that's not true."-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
"Once you know where drugs and alcohol will take you, you can never enjoy them the same way again."-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
13. End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood
By: Patty Lin
3.79
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
What happens when you land your dream job and everything you've been working toward becomes a compl… read more
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14. 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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15. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
By: Buddy Levy
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more
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16. Anything You Can Imagine
By: Ian Nathan
4.34
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a… read more
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17. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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18. The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
By: Robin R. Means Coleman
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising succ… read more
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19. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
By: Chris Nashawaty
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more
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20. The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
By: Greg Mitchell
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood p… read more
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