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The Big Sleep (Vintage Crime)
by Raymond Chandler Publisher Comments When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications...
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
by Truman Capote Publisher Comments On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues....
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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler Powells.com Staff Pick If you haven't yet read any of Chandler's stuff, I envy you. Start with The Big Sleep and just keep on goin. By the time you are finished with all 5 of his novels and the few collections of short stories, you'll be wishing you were back at the beginning,...
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S, M, L, XL: Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large
by Rem Koolhaas Powells.com Staff Pick There are some books that will make you into a genius as soon as you turn back the title page, and S, M, L, XL by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is certainly one of them. Once you get the hang of things, the book is a remarkable and inspiring read,...
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Pop. 1280 (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Jim Thompson Publisher Comments As high sheriff of Potts County, Nick Corey spends most of his time eating, sleeping and avoiding trouble. If only people especially some troublesome pimps, his foul-tempered wife, and his half-witted brother-in-law would stop pushing him...
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Master and Margarita (97 Edition)
by Mikhail Bulgakow Publisher Comments Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts-one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow-the novel veers from moods of wild...
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
by Luc Sante Powells.com Staff Pick While not crime fiction per se, Low Life is a great ride through the history of New York's underclass. Thieves, grifters, and skin-poppers abound, colossal gang wars destroy entire boroughs, and Sante's descriptions of life in the slums of the 1800's...
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Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West Publisher Comments In Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West's classic novel, an advice columnist for a New York City newspaper is disheartened and disillusioned by the desperate letters he receives. Eventually, he begins actually getting involved in the lives of his letter...
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The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andric Publisher Comments The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable...
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My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir
by James Ellroy Powells.com Staff Pick James Ellroy is the heir apparent to Raymond Chandler. His dark, convoluted, steroid-infused crime novels have made him the reigning king of LA Noir. Ellroy's stylized prose is "so hard-boiled it burns the pot" and his outlook is as...
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America
by Jean Baudrillard Synopsis France's leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways of the New World. Baudrillard assembles images of light, distance, endless horizontal circulation, political indifference and, above all, simulation....
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Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 Edition
by Norman Oliver Brown Synopsis Originally published in 1966 and now recognized as a classic, Norman O. Brown's meditation on the condition of humanity and its long fall from the grace of a natural, instinctual innocence is available once more for a new generation of readers. "Love's...
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Shock of the New 1991 Edition
by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos....
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My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir
by James Ellroy From Powells.com James Ellroy is the heir apparent to Raymond Chandler. His dark, convoluted, steroid-infused crime novels have made him the reigning king of LA Noir. Ellroy's stylized prose is "so hard-boiled it burns the pot" and his outlook is as cynical as a frog in...
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Trouble With Being Born (76 Edition)
by E. M. Cioran Publisher Comments In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that...
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