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The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
“Melissa Maerz’s brilliant oral history is the definitive account of a cult-classic movie that took a slow ride into the Seventies and defined the Nineties.” –Rob Sheffield, Rolling StoneThe definitive oral history of the cult classic Dazed and Confused , featuring behind-the-scenes stories from the cast, crew, and Oscar-nominated director Richard...
*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ****** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things bec...
Andy Greenwald
Oct 08, 2020An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar. Hired to track down a derelict author, he ends up on the trail of a girl missing in Haight-Ashbury for a decade. The tense hunt becomes obsessive as Sughrue takes a haunting journey through the underbelly of America's sleaziest...
Andy Greenwald
Mar 22, 2018From a National Book Award nominee, “a smart, subtle, moving story about the complicated business of knowing the people you love” (Book Forum). In the sibling relationship, “there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other,” says Denise Kranis. For Denise and her brother, Nik, now in their forties, no relationship is mor...
Andy Greenwald
Feb 11, 2018Gritty Central and South American lives from an underground Colombian literary voice. Santiago Gamboa is one of Colombia's most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolano, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan stories with a dose of inky dark noir that makes his novels intensely readable, his characters unforgettable, and his ...
Andy Greenwald
Sep 15, 2017A super hero story like no other. He was created to kill the Avengers - but he turned against his "father." He found a home among Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and love in the arms of the Scarlet Witch. It didn't end well. Now, the Vision just wants an ordinary life - with a wife and two children, a home in the suburbs, perhaps even a dog. But it won't...
Andy Greenwald
Aug 03, 2016Book One in the Marseilles TrilogyThe Marseilles trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale, is a classic of European crime fiction. Its publication was the catalyst for the foundation of an entire literary movement, Mediterranean noir, and made its author an overnight celebrity. Europa is Proud to reissue the entire trilogy this summer in new edition...
Andy Greenwald
Jul 11, 2016A Colombian philosophy student is arrested in Bangkok and accused of drug trafficking. Unless he enters a guilty plea he will almost certainly be sentenced to death. But it is not his own death that weighs most heavily on him but a tender longing for his sister, Juana, whom he hasn't seen for years. Before he dies he wants nothing more than to be r...
Andy Greenwald
Apr 04, 2016Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run.His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memoires and offering him his first case since he abandoned his private pra...
Andy Greenwald
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Anthony BourdainThe Long Good-bye is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime.Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox co...
Andy Greenwald
Jan 06, 2016A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and ...
Andy Greenwald
Jan 06, 2016L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Dreamland by Newton Thornburg
Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth
Chinaman's Chance by Ross Thomas
World Gone By by Dennis Lehane
Cinnamon Skin by John D. MacDonald
Free Fall in Crimson by John D. MacDonald
The Green Ripper by John D. MacDonald
The Empty Copper Sea by John D. MacDonald
The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D. MacDonald
The Turquoise Lament by John D. MacDonald
The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald
The Long Lavender Look by John D. MacDonald
A Tan and Sandy Silence by John D. MacDonald
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper by John D. MacDonald
Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald
One Fearful Yellow Eye by John D. MacDonald
Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonald
Darker Than Amber by John D. MacDonald
Bright Orange for the Shroud by John D. MacDonald
The Quick Red Fox by John D. MacDonald
A Deadly Shade of Gold by John D. MacDonald
Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald
A Purple Place for Dying by John D. MacDonald
The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald