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The Andy Warhol Diaries
by Pat Hackett, Andy Warhol
Now in trade paperback, the sensational national bestseller that turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time.
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Weep No More, My Lady
by Mary Higgins Clark
Elizabeth Lange has arrived at Cypress Point Spa in Pebble Beach, California, weary of heart and soul. Still grieving for her beloved sister, a famous actress who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse, Elizabeth is determined to unearth the truth about how Leila died. Dashing multimillionaire Ted Winters stands accused of her murder, but Elizabeth has doubts. Along the windswept cliffs of the... (more)
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Year of Loving Dangerously
by Ted Rall
Here's a new turn for the controversial cartoonist and commentator Ted Rall. Not only is this autobiographical but he has paired up with the acclaimed artist of Bluesman and The Castaways for fully painted art. It's the eighties and Ted is in college in New York City and slipping. His pranks, lack of focus and restlessness get him kicked out of school. Unable to find a job, rejected by his parents, he's on the... (more)
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In Someone's Shadow
by Rod McKuen
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Where I'm Calling From
Selected Stories
by Raymond Carver
A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988.
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Hollywood: Book 5
Hollywood Divorces
by Jackie Collins
In her most scandalously titillating novel since the #1 bestselling Hollywood Wives, internationally renowned author Jackie Collins once again takes her readers behind the scenes and into the bedrooms of Hollywood's glamorous world of superstardom, where narcissism is a virtue, and fidelity means not sleeping with anyone less attractive than your spouse. Leaving her readers to guess which real celebrities she... (more)
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Lonesome Cities
by Rod McKuen
A wonderful poetry book by McKuen who also wrote Feel the Warm
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Seasons in Sun
by Rod McKuen
Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows.Sydney Biddle Barrows
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Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows.
by Sydney Biddle Barrows
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The Eighties: A Reader
This first collection of writings to fully represent and analyze the 1980s features contributions by more than 30 writers, including Christopher Lasch, Eric Bogosian, and Hilton Kramer, who had enormous influence on the politics and culture of the time.
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The Sixth Doctor (Doctor Who the Handbook)
by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker
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Everything About Me Is Fake . . . And I'm Perfect
by Janice Dickinson
In Everything About Me Is Fake...and I'm Perfect, the hilarious and candid follow–up to the national bestseller No Lifeguard on Duty, Janice Dickinson tackles our society's unattainable standards of beauty and reveals the secrets behind her own lifelong struggle to achieve perfection –– from her bra–stuffing days as a flat–chested teenager through her career as the world's first supermodel to her ultimate comeback... (more)
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Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
by Jade Dellinger, David Giffels
With flowerpots on their heads, distinctive post-Kraftwerk imagery, and staggeringly catchy electro-pop riffs, Devo carved an '80s niche setting them apart from the mish-mash of punk, new wave and rock surrounding them. Dellinger interviewed band members and asso-ciates, ransacked their archives to provide illustrations, memorabilia and rare photographs documenting Devo's entire career, and re-evaluated their... (more)
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33⅓: Book 60
Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
by Jeffrey T. Roesgen
To absorb Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash is to be taken on a wild voyage with a cast of downtrodden revolutionaries. Despite this notion, the epic themes of the Pogues' second full length record have been overlooked by both critics and biographers in favor of two things: the band's penchant for combining Celtic folk with punk rhythms ("the sound") and the excesses of Shane MacGowan ("the creator"). Instead of... (more)
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Juliet, Naked
by Nick Hornby
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author, a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love. Annie loves Duncan — or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music 10 years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and... (more)
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Having it all : love, success, sex, money, even if you're starting with nothing
by Helen Gurley Brown
462 pp. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. Brown boards with qtr red cloth stamped in gold on front and spine. Glossy brown and white dj. Black remainder mark on bottom page edges. No damage noted.
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York.
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Archie Americana Series Best Of The Eighties (Archie Americana)
by Various
This 96-page full color trade paperback features many of the most hilarious exploits of Archie and Friends'from the "ME" decade, better known as the Eighties. Computers! New age music! Urban cowboys! Preppies! E.T.! Roller boogie! Michael Jackson! Cabbage Patch Kids! Breakdancing! Trivial Pursuit! Music videos! It's all here in this amazing volume!
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Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or hope. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and... (more)
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Black Swan Green
by David Mitchell
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that... (more)

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