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“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 ...
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Andy Greenwald
Oct 08, 2020The Last Good Kiss
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An 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, 2018Return to the Dark Valley
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Gritty 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, 2016Night Prayers
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A 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, 2016Dancing Bear
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Detective 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
Feb 26, 2016Also recommended by
Anthony BourdainAnimals
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It is the moment every twenty-something must confront: the time to grow up. Adulthood looms, with all it's numbing tranquility and stifling complacency. The end of prolonged adolescence is near.Laura and Tyler are two women whose twenties have been a blur of overstayed parties, a fondness for drugs that has shifted from cautious experimentation to ...
Chinaman's Chance
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"It was while jogging along the beach just east of the Paradise Cove pier that Artie Wu tripped over a dead pelican, fell, and met the man with six greyhounds."- from Chinaman's ChanceThus begins what may be the most popular of Ross Thomas's unique stories. The combination of Wu, pretender to the Imperial throne of China, and Quincy Durant, who has...
Andy Greenwald
Jul 13, 2015World 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