The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan. At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary L.A. party for the pu ...Show more
Do Something - Coming of Age amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York by Guy Trebay
$50.00 AUD
Category: General
An evocative coming-of-age memoir--the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was New York City in the 1970s. Born in the Bronx, Guy Trebay was raised in an atmosphere of ...Show more
Guilty Creatures - Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman
$58.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
A NEW YORK TIMES NONFICTION SUMMER READ "A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret." --Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close From the critically acclaimed author dubbed "one of today's finest practitioner ...Show more
The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum - The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox
$64.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
America's first great organized-crime lord was a lady--a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum. "A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket's finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York."--Liza Mundy, author of The SisterhoodIn 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-yea ...Show more
Cue the Sun! - The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum
$60.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The rollicking saga of reality television--an ambitious cultural history of America's most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer "Written with a storyteller's verve, a journalist's skepticism, a critic's astuteness, and a fan's loving eye." ...Show more
Roctogenarians - Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs by Mo Rocca; Jonathan Greenberg
$60.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life. Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there h ...Show more
An Honest Woman - A Memoir of Love and Sex Work by Charlotte Shane
$50.00 AUD
Category: No Category
Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tender reckoning of what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women's studies graduate program to devote herself to sex wo ...Show more
The Future Was Now - Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer Of 1982 by Chris Nashawaty
$60.00 AUD
Category: Film
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980s cinema--how eight legendary sci-fi films changed Hollywood forever In the summer of 1982, eight science fiction films were released within six weeks of one another. E.T., Tron, Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, ...Show more
The Incorruptibles - A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld by Dan Slater
$65.00 AUD
Category: American
This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime. In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowd ...Show more
On Call - A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci
$66.00 AUD
Category: General
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents"An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story...Gripping."--The Washington Post"One of the most cons ...Show more
We Were Illegal - Uncovering a Texas Family's Mythmaking and Migration by Jessica Goudeau
$64.00 AUD
Category: American
An award-winning author's deep exploration of pivotal moments in Texas history through multiple generations of her own family, and a ruthless reexamination of our national and personal myths Seven generations of Jessica Goudeau's family have lived in Texas, and her family's legacy--a word she heard oft ...Show more
Apprentice in Wonderland - How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh
$65.00 AUD
Category: American
From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, the never-fully-told, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump and The Apprentice, the long-running reality series that catapulted him to the White House. Here for the first time is the definitive untold st ...Show more