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Richard Bach: browse books
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Dr. Vine Deloria, Jr. [1933-2005]: browse books
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"This Land Is Their Land: Reports From A Divided Nation" [62 essays 2008] by Barbara Ehrenreich Holt 7¾x5¼ pb [4/2009] for $10.12 Metropolitan Books 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2008] for $16.49 |
  | "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of The American Dream" [2005 New York Times bestseller] by Barbara Ehrenreich Holt 8x5½ pb [7/2006] for $10.40 Metropolitan Books 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2005] for $19.20 |
  | "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America" [2001] by Barbara Ehrenreich winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize April 2002 Owl Books 9x5 pb [5/2002] for $7.80 Metropolitan 9x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] for $16.10 "Nickel & Dimed: The Play" [2002] |
mystery author James Ellroy Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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Wm. Price Fox
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Robert A. Gallinger: browse books official website
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William Gibson
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Jim Harrison
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at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
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S.E. Hinton: books official website credits at IMDb
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Denis Johnson
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Pulitzer-winner Jhumpa Lahiri
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2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction {for "Interpreter of Maladies"}
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Jo-Ann Mapson
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George R.R. Martin of Santa Fe, NM
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Al Martinez: books Los Angeles Times homepage
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"Richard Matheson: Collected Stories" [2003-2005] Edited by Stanley Wiater Volume 1: Gauntlet Press 8¼x5¼ pb [12/2003] for $11.53 Volume 2: Gauntlet Press 8x5¼ pb [2/2005] for $11.53 Volume 3: Gauntlet Press 8x5¼ pb [11/2005] for $12.71 |
  | "Noir: Three Novels of Suspense" [1988] by Richard Matheson
includes "Someone Is Bleeding" [1953], "Fury On Sunday" [1953] & "Ride The Nightmare" [1959] Forge 8¼x5¼ pb [9/2005] for $11.66 Forge 8¼x5½ hardcover [9/2005] for $21.24 |
Cormac McCarthy of Tesuque, NM
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Bill McKibben
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"Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook For Taking Action In Your Community" [2007] by Bill McKibben Holt 8x5¼ pb [10/2007] for $10.40 |
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"Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities & The Durable Future" [2007] by Bill McKibben Holt 8x5¼ pb [3/2008] for $11.20 Times Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $15.00 |
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"The End of Nature" [1989 classic; revised 1997] by Bill McKibben Random House 3rd edition pb [6/2006] for $10.17 Tenth Anniversary Edition: Anchor 8x5¼ pb [8/97] for $11.20 Peter Smith 8¼x5¼ hardcover [6/2001] out of print/used Random House 9¾x6¾ hardcover [9/89] out of print/many used |
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Pulitzer-winner John McPhee
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"The John McPhee Reader" [1976] Edited by William L. Howarth FS&G 8x5½ pb [6/82] for $15.00 FS&G 8¼x5½ hardcover [1/77] for $29.60 "The Second John McPhee Reader" [1996] Edited by Patricia Strachan FS&G 8x5½ pb [2/96] for $14.04 FS&G 8¼x5½ hardcover [2/96] out of print/used |
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William Least Heat-Moon
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"Blue Highways: A Journey Into America" [1982] by William Least Heat-Moon Little Brown 8¼x5½ pb [11/99] for $10.47 Little Brown 8½x5¾ hardcover [11/99] for $20.97 Nightingale-Conant ABR audio [11/91] for $11.20 |
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"Roads To Quoz: An American Mosey" [2008] by William Least Heat Moon Back Bay Books pb [11/2009] for $11.55  
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Lorrie Moore of Madison, Wisconsin
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"Birds of America: Stories" [1998 bestseller]
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California historian-journalist Remi A. Nadeau [b. 1920]
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Antonya Nelson of Telluride, Colorado & Las Cruces, New Mexico
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national treasure Joyce Carol Oates
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J.R. (Judith) Parker: westerns & mysteries
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Annie Proulx
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Thomas Pynchon
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"Inherent Vice: A Novel" [New York Times bestseller 2009]  
"Part noir, part psychedelic romp." Southern California private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to find himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives & passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, fellow dopers, rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists. Penguin pb [DUE July 2010] for $10.88  
Penguin Press 9x6½ hardcover [8/2009] for $18.45 book entry at Wikipedia |
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poet Adrienne Rich
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Philip Roth
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    | Roth: Novels & Stories, 1959-1962 [2005] Edited by Ross Miller
Library of America 8x5 hardcover [8/2005] for $23.10 includes novella "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Five Short Stories" [1959] & novel "Letting Go [1962] Roth: Novels, 19671972 [2005] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/2005] for $23.10 includes "When She Was Good" [1967], "Portnoy's Complaint" [1969], "Our Gang" ]1971] & "The Breast" [1972] Roth: Novels, 1973-1977 [2006] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $23.10 includes "The Great American Novel" [1973], "My Life As A Man" [1974] & "The Professor of Desire" [1977] Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy & Epilogue, 19791985 [2007] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $23.1 includes "The Ghost Writer' [1979], "Zuckerman Unbound" [1981], "The Anatomy Lesson" [1983], "The Prague Orgy" [1985] & previously unproduced television screenplay for 'The Prague Orgy' |
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Jane Smiley of Carmel Valley, CA
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"13 Ways of Looking At The Novel" [2005] by Jane Smiley Anchor 7¾x5¼ pb [9/2006] for $10.85 Knopf 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2005] for $17.79 |
sci-fi author Norman Spinrad
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screenwriter-playwright Tom Stoppard
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Lisa Tucker of Philadelphia, PA
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Luis Valdez
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El Teatro Campesino
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Vνctor Villaseρor: books official website
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"The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature" in 4 volumes [2004] Edited by Jay Parini Oxford Univ Press 11¾x9¼ hardcover set [1/2004] for $268.04 |
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"American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film" [2005] by Trevor McCrisken & Andrew Pepper Rutgers Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/2005] for $21.55 Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $62.00 |
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"The Columbia Companion To American History On Film: How The Movies Have Portrayed The American Past" [2004] Edited by Peter C. Rollins Columbia Univ Press 10½x7½ hardcover [3/2004] for $93.50 |
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"American History On The Screen: Film and Video Resources" [for grades 6-12; orig 1993, rev 2002] by Wendy S. Wilson & Gerald H. Herman looks at 14 films in detail, including "The Patriot" [2000], "Dances With Wolves" [1990], "The Grapes of Wrath" [1940], "American Graffiti" [1973], "Glory" [1989], and "Dr. Strangelove" [1964]; also worksheets & other teaching materials Walch Education 10¾x8¼ 2nd edition pb [10/2002] for $22.99 |
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"Film Nation: Hollywood Looks At U.S. History" [1997] by Robert Burgoyne Univ MN Press 9x6 pb [8/97] for $22.50 Univ MN Press 9½x6½ hardcover [8/97] out of print/used |
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"Hollywood's America: United States History Through It's Films" [1993] Edited by Steven Mintz & Randy Roberts Wiley-Blackwell 8¾x6 pb [8/2001] out of print/used Brandywine Press 9x6 pb [6/93] out of print/used |
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Woody Allen Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store has won Oscars® for "Annie Hall" [1977] {Best Picture & Best Original Screenplay}, and for "Hannah and Her Sisters" [1986] {Best Original Screenplay} — out of 21 Oscar nominations [1978-2006] |
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Robert Altman [1925-2006] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store won an Honorary Oscar® in 2006 and was nominated 7 times (1971-2002) |
The Hollywood Blacklist Pages
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writer-director-actor Mel Brooks Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store won an Oscar® for Best Original Screenplay for "The Producers" [1968] |
| Frank Capra [1897-1991] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store won an Oscar® for "It Happened One Night" [1934] {Best Director}, an Oscar® for "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" [1936] {Best Director}, and two Oscars® for "You Can't Take It With You" [1938] {Best Picture & Best Director} — out of 11 Oscar® nominations |
| Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store won an Honorary Oscar® for "The Circus" [1928], an Honorary Oscar® in 1972, and a Best Original Score Oscar® in 1973 for the re-release of "Limelight" [1952] — plus 3 Oscar® nominations (1941 & 1948) |
| Coen  Brothers:  Joel  &  Ethan Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store they won an Oscar® for "Fargo" [1996] {Best Original Screenplay}, and three Oscars® for "No Country for Old Men" [2007] {Best Picture, Best Director & Best Script Adaptation} — out of 8 Oscar® nominations [1997-2008] |
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| Walt Disney [1901-66] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store Walt received a record 64 Oscar® nominations [1932-1969], and won 22 Academy Awards and 4 Honorary Oscars® |
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| John Ford [1894-1973] Page at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore John Ford won four Oscars® for Best Director: for "The Informer" [1935], for "The Grapes of Wrath" [1940], for "How Green Was My Valley" [1941], and for "The Quiet Man" [1952] — plus two nominations (1939 & 1952) |
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| Martin Scorsese Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store won a Best Director Oscar® for "The Departed" [2006] — out of 8 Oscar nominations [1981-2007] |
| Preston Sturges [1898-1959] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar® for "The Great McGinty" [1940] and has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
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