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George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992 (Hardcover)

By Mark A. Vieira, Sharon Stone (Foreword by)

$65.00

ISBN: 9780762450398

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Published: Running Press Adult - November 12th, 2013

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An almost unbearably gorgeous book full of almost impossibly glamorous people. One of the ancillary art forms spawned by Hollywood in the studio era was the studio star portrait, and probably the master of them all was George Hurrell. Lighting, makeup and wardrobe helped, but look at what there was to work with (see freckled Joan Crawford's before-and-after portraits)!

Gary

1775: A Good Year for Revolution (Paperback)

By Kevin Phillips

$20.00

ISBN: 9780143123996

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Published: Penguin Books - September 24th, 2013

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How and why did the farmers, hill people, city lawyers, wealthy plantation owners and other completely disparate peoples - some  of them extremely contrary - join the American revolution?  It's a complex, fascinating story, way beyond the handy school version, and Phillips has done a superb job of laying it all out.  A valuable addition to the ongoing historical record.

Gary

Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers (Hardcover)

By John J. Ross

$19.99

ISBN: 9780312600761

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Published: St. Martin's Press - October 16th, 2012

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Wonderfully wrought chapter-length biographies with modern-day hypothetical diagnoses.  They add a depth of insight into the work and, if anything, a greater respect for the producing of literary classics in the pre-antibiotic days.  And if Dr. Ross tires of the scalpel he can certainly take up the pen.Gary

The Postman Always Rings Twice (Paperback)

By James M. Cain

$15.00

ISBN: 9780679723257

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Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - May 14th, 1989

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Of the hundreds of lurid drug store paperbacks from the '30s to the '50s, the big three that live on are Hammett, Chandler and Cain.  The 1st two are seminal American detective literature.  Cain is deliciously raw noir melodrama, and Postman is...well, read the first line...   

Gary

Murder in the First-Class Carriage: The First Victorian Railway Killing (Paperback)

By Kate Colquhoun

$15.95

ISBN: 9781468300567

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Published: Harry N. Abrams - April 30th, 2013

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A little Eric Larson, a little Conan Doyle and a lot of the real nuts and bolts of Victorian police procedure.

Gary

My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles (Hardcover)

By Peter Biskind

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ISBN: 9780805097252

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Published: Metropolitan Books - July 16th, 2013

Golden, just golden! You like serious cinema history?  You like outrageous Hollywood dish? Page after page of nuggets dispensed over languid lunches at Ma Maison by the old master with director Henry Jaglom and others, edited by film author Peter Biskind (Easy Riders, Raging Bulls).

Gary

Pineapple Grenade: A Novel (Serge Storms #15) (Paperback)

By Tim Dorsey

$16.99

ISBN: 9780061876936

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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - July 10th, 2012

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Like Carl Hiaasen, Dorsey is a native Floridian and a newsman (so he knows the way things really work under the surface).  He expresses his rage at the rampant degradation of his state with wicked, absolutely berserk humor.  Like Hiaasen dialed up to 10.

Gary

A Feast of Snakes: A Novel (Paperback)

By Harry Crews

$13.99

ISBN: 9780684842486

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Published: Touchstone - January 7th, 1998

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For the real full-bore bloodshot weird side of folk America, the late great Harry Crews is master of the stuff Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor only hinted at.

Gary

Zoo Station (A John Russell WWII Spy Thriller #1) (Paperback)

By David Downing

$9.99

ISBN: 9781616953485

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Published: Soho Crime - May 28th, 2013

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Run through all of Alan Furst?  Caught up with Philip Kerr?  Long since read the original Eric Amblers? Despair not - David Downing's British journo/spy John Russell fills the bill nicely. Zoo Station is the first of the "Station" series (the titles reference German train stations).

Gary

One and Only: The Untold Story of on the Road and Luanne Henderson, the Woman Who Started Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady on Their Jou (Paperback)

By Gerald Nicosia, Anne Marie Santos

$16.95

ISBN: 9781573449557

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Published: Viva Editions - April 2nd, 2013

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Carolyn Cassady, Edie Parker, Joyce Johnson and other women in the Beat sphere have published memoirs, but never Lu Anne Henderson, Dean Moriarty's girl Marylou in On the Road. Kerouac biographer Nicosia (Memory Babe) interviewed Lu Anne towards the end of her life and together with her daughter has built a frankly astonishing narrative portrait and Beat myth addition/corrective.

Gary