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Winner of Best Screenplay Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. In another family drama, after his internationally acclaimed Sense and Sensibility success, director Ang Lee takes his moving and comic sensibility to the American suburbs of the 1970s. 20 b/w photos.The Newmarket Shooting Script(tm) Series features an attractive 7 x 9 1/4 inch format that includes a facsimile of the film's shooting script, as... (more)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award, New York Library Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Los Angeles Times Book AwardJoe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City.His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to... (more)

Pulp Fiction

by Quentin Tarantino

The screenplay of the recently released film 'Pulp Fiction'.

World's Fair

by E. L. Doctorow

"Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair . . . From the Paperback edition.

Ironweed

by William Kennedy

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now a movie directed by Hector Babenco ( Kiss of the Spider Woman) starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, a man trying to make peace with the ghosts of his past and present. 8 pages of photos.

The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld

The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld

by Herbert Asbury

Published to coincide with the release of Martin Scorsese's film, Gangs of New York, starring Leonard DiCaprio, The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and... (more)

Reservation Road

by John Burnham Schwartz

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller."-- Los Angeles Times "Haunting. . . . A powerful and affecting novel."-- The New York Times A tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz's riveting novel Reservation Road . Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an... (more)

PS Your Cat is DeadJames Kirkwood

PS Your Cat is Dead

by James Kirkwood

Stone Cold (Jesse Stone)

by Robert B. Parker

Tony and Brianna Lincoln just moved into Paradise, but friendly they aren't. In fact, these urbane thrill killers are knocking off the neighbors one by one, and Jesse Stone is next.

Poe & Fanny: A Novel

by John May

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary…" —from "The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe In 1845, Edgar Allen Poe published "The Raven," was embraced by the New York literati, founded his own magazine, and allegedly began an affair with Frances "Fanny" Sargent Osgood. By the end of the year, Poe would leave New York City a ruined man, deeply in debt, and a virtual outcast spurned by a... (more)

The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition

The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition

by Karen Zeinert

Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad, their apprehension, and long trial which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court.

Three Shirt Deal (Shane Scully Novels)Stephen Cannell

Three Shirt Deal (Shane Scully Novels)

by Stephen Cannell

On the grind

by Stephen J. Cannell

On the heels of Three Shirt Deal, a New York Times bestseller, comes an electrifying new thriller from Stephen J. Cannell in which Lt. Shane Scully is accused of evidence tampering and his wife, Alexa, discovers Shane’s been having an affair with a beautiful movie star. Charged with felony misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Lieutenant Scully is faced with an impossible decision:... (more)

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The Ice Storm: A Novel

by James Schamus, Rick Moody