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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Me Talk Pretty One Day

By David Sedaris ,

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Glass Houses
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Glass Houses

By Rachel Caine ,

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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
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The Ten-Cent Plague

By David Hajdu ,

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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
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What the Dog Saw

By Malcolm Gladwell ,

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The Secret Life of Puppets
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The Secret Life of Puppets

By Victoria Nelson ,

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The National Enquirer: Thirty Years of Unforgettable Images
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The National Enquirer

By Editors of National Enquirer ,

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Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween
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Death Makes a Holiday

By David J. Skal ,

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The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture
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The Immediate Experience

By Robert Warshow ,

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Black Popular Culture
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Black Popular Culture

By Michele Wallace ,

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Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic
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Soul Babies

By Mark Anthony Neal ,

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

By Chuck Klosterman ,

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The Age of American Unreason
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The Age of American Unreason

By Susan Jacoby ,

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Denver Then and Now
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Denver Then and Now

By Joshua Dinar ,

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The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms
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The Secret Parts of Fortune

By Ron Rosenbaum ,

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Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers
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Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers

By John Reilly (editor) ,

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Tom Strong - Book 1
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Tom Strong - Book 1

By Alan Moore ,

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Deep Space Nine Companion
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Deep Space Nine Companion

By Terry J. Erdmann , Paula M. Block ,

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Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984
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Supercade

By Van Burnham ,

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Water, Stone, Heart
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Water, Stone, Heart

By Will North ,

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The Stammering Century
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The Stammering Century

By Gilbert Seldes ,

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The West Wing
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The West Wing

By Edward Gorey ,

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Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
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Cuba in the American Imagination

By Louis A. Pérez ,

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Jimbo in Purgatory
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Jimbo in Purgatory

By Gary Panter ,

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Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
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Feeling Very Strange

By James Patrick Kelly (editor) , John Kessel (editor) ,

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Nova the Robot Builds a Friend
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Nova the Robot Builds a Friend

By David Kirk ,

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Wolves of the Calla
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Wolves of the Calla

By Stephen King ,

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Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen
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Sacred Terror

By Douglas E. Cowan ,

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©
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Jean-Michel Basquiat

By Lisane Basquiat (contributor) , Jeanine Heriveaux (contributor) , Nora Fitzpatrick (contributor) , Ileen Gallagher (contributor)

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Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon
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Canyon of Dreams

By Harvey Kubernik , Scott Calamar (editor) , Diltz Henry (photographer)

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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
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Flapper

By Joshua Zeitz ,

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Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood
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Laurel Canyon

By Michael Walker ,

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In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
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In Search of the Black Fantastic

By Richard Iton ,

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Go to Hell: A Heated History of the Underworld
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Go to Hell

By Chuck Crisafulli , Kyra Thompson ,

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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
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X Saves the World

By Jeff Gordinier ,

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V.I.
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V.I.

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