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Best Movies of the 70s

The birth of the blockbuster: The prodigies of the 1970s revolutionize cinema The 1970s: that magical era betwixt the swinging 60s and the decadent 80s, the epoch of leisure suits and Afros, the age of disco music and platform shoes. As war raged on in Vietnam and the cold war continued to escalate, Hollywood began to heat up, recovering from its commercial crisis with box-office successes such as Star Wars,... (more)

I Need More

by Iggy Pop

With his collection of personal vignettes, I Want More , Iggy Pop gives us a highly charged and stylized view into one of rock music's more colorful and important characters. Ranging from a few terse paragraphs to several pages, the book's sections chronicle the patchwork of Iggy's early life, following Jimmy Osterberg as he makes the complete transformation into Iggy Pop. While detailing the escapades... (more)

Nine Hundred Grandmothers

by R.A. Lafferty

Beasts (Otto Penzler Books)

by Joyce Carol Oates

A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Award–winner Joyce Carol Oates. Art and arson, the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and pulp pornography, hero-worship and sexual debasement, totems and taboos mix and mutate into a startling, suspenseful tale of how a sunny New England college campus descends into a lurid nightmare.

Remember Me

The Queen of Storytellers is back - with a triumphant tale of one woman's struggle over adversity. In 1786 a fisherman's daughter from Cornwall called Mary Broad was sentenced to be hung for theft. But her sentence was commuted, and she was transported to Australia, one of the first convicts to arrive there. How Mary escaped the harsh existence of the colony and found true love, and how she was captured and taken... (more)

Dust

by Christine Bongers

This debut novel from Queenslander Christine Bongers is very much an Australian tale. It tastes, smells, sounds and of course reads, Australian— the use of colloquial language and phraseology lending a helping hand. The ambience created by the writer is peppered with the feel of the Aussie battler personae—a long-term ingredient in this country’s literature and film history. Protagonist Cecilia Maria, growing up... (more)

Crow (Penguin/Faber Audiobooks)

by Ted Hughes

Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almost funny, story in which natural forces and creatures, mythic figures, even parts of the body, act out their... (more)

Cult TV: The Comedies

by Jon E. Lewis, Penny Stempel

From kitsch to slapstick, for the past 50 years television comedy has made viewers laugh out load, smile, and guffaw. Here is the definitive A-to-Z guide to over 300 television comedies with features on actors and actresses, loads of intriguing trivia and production details, and behind-the-scenes facts and anecdotes. 90 b&w photos. National coverage in entertainment magazines.

Persepolis

The Story of a Childhood

by Marjane Satrapi

A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year” A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow... (more)

Charlotte Lamb

by Charlotte Lamb

Rip It Up and Start Again

by Simon Reynolds

Punk's raw power rejuvenated rock, but by the summer of 1977 the movement had become a parody of itself. RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN is a celebration of what happened next: post-punk bands like PiL, Joy Division, Talking Heads, The Fall and The Human League who dedicated themselves to fulfilling punk's unfinished musical revolution. The post-punk groups were fervent modernists. Experimenting with electronics and... (more)

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

by Alicia Drake

A sublime and dramatic narrative about the high-chic fashion wars of 1970s Paris, in the tradition of Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Paris in the '70s was running at full tilt--a new order was coming into view amid hedonism, ambition, and outrageous decadence. This was a fashion revolution, the beginning of fashion as rock-star spectacle, and the world went wild for it. Alicia Drake... (more)

Sula

by Toni Morrison

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and... (more)

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters... (more)

Viene clareando. (English)

by Gloria Lise?

"I just loved it because of its immense human depth and high quality of writing."-David William Foster, author, critic, and professor "Deeply endearing. . . . The author offers no apologies or heroes, only humble beings . . . whose portraits are remarkably true-to-life. All kinds of readers will recognize themselves somewhere in this compelling narrative."- Artenauta periodico de cultura March 23, 1976. Berta... (more)

The practical book of bicyclingFrances Call

The practical book of bicycling

by Frances Call, Merle E. Dowd

To Serve Them All My Days

by R. F. Delderfield

This bestselling novel that inspired a legendary "Masterpiece Theater" presentation invokes a vivid panorama of English life and history.

by Vernon E. Johnson

This bestselling recovery classic has helped untold thousands of alcoholics onto the road to recovery. Written by the founder of the Johnson Institute in Minneapolis, one of the country's most successful training programs for treatment providers, I'll Quit Tomorrow present the concepts and methods that have brought new hope to alcoholics and their families, friends, and employers. Abstinence is not the only... (more)

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

by Alexandra Fuller

In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares... (more)

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