Doonesbury Dossier: The Reagan Years

10 best books like Doonesbury Dossier: The Reagan Years (G.B. Trudeau): Carmilla, The Tommyknockers, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, The Valachi Papers (aka The Canary That Sang), Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness, The Visible Filth, Triumph of the Darksword, Lost Books of the Bible for Dummies, Darksword Adventures

Carmilla
AuthorJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN0809510839
Bloody relevant to read!


BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS...

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula....
The Tommyknockers
AuthorStephen King
Librarian's Note: This is alternate cover edition #2
ISBN 10: 0451156609
ISBN13: 9780451156600
See: Original Record Here

Late Last Night and the Night Before ...
... Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door.

Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's...
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
AuthorThomas L. Friedman
ISBN0374292795
A timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most...
The Valachi Papers (aka The Canary That Sang)
AuthorPeter Maas
The First Inside Account of the Mafia

In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos,...
Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
AuthorThe Harvard Lampoon
ISBN0451452615
A quest, a war, a ring that would be grounds for calling any wedding off, a king without a kingdom, and a little, furry "hero" named Frito, ready - or maybe just forced by the wizard of Goodgulf - to undertake the one mission which can save Lower Middle Earth from enslavement by the evil Sorhed...Luscious...
Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness
AuthorBerkeley Breathed
ISBN0316103098
As an '80s kid of little means, I would stare at the shelves of the most cutting-edge section of my local Waldenbooks- the comics section. I didn't have the nerve to pick up volumes of Maus, or do more than skim Matt Groening's pre-Simpsons Life is Hell, or vocally covet collections of newspaper comic strips...
AuthorNathan Ballingrud
ISBN0957548192
When Will discovers a cell phone after a violent brawl his life descends into a nightmare.

Affable, charismatic and a little shallow, he’s been skating across the surface of life in a state of carefully maintained contentment. He decides to keep the cell phone just until the owner returns...
Triumph of the Darksword
AuthorMargaret Weis
ISBN0553274066
I love the final book! The sudden but hinted-at crossover between fantasy and science fiction was intriguing, and the characters came together in a way that I wasn't at all expecting, which is always nice in fantasy, which can sometimes suffer from being a bit too predictable. I thought the ending was...
Lost Books of the Bible for Dummies
AuthorDaniel L. Smith-Christopher
ISBN0470243805
Lost Books of the Bible For Dummies is your one-stop guide to once-hidden works that add a new dimension to Biblical teachings. Most people have heard about the discovery of strange ancient religious writings that are not part the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament, such as the Gnostic Gospels. Now, you...
Darksword Adventures
AuthorMargaret Weis
This is the book that introduced me to roleplaying. Having just finished the Darksword trilogy at age 13, I picked up this -- the only other Darksword book I could find on the bookstore shelves -- not realizing that it was a rulebook for an RPG. This book sold me on the idea of roleplaying games and started...
Doom of the Darksword
AuthorMargaret Weis
ISBN0553271644
Nacido sin Magia, Joram es uno de los Muertos. Durante varios años vive entre proscritos, subsistiendo gracias a su ingenio y sus habilidades. Poseedor del secreto de la piedra oscura, decide regresar al reino encantado de Merilon para reclamar sus derechos al trono. En el camino, un encuentro fortuito,...
Bloom County: Loose Tails
AuthorBerkeley Breathed
ISBN0316107107
The words that you are reading here replace a cockamamie publisher's blurb that appeared on the original printing of this tome. It's an acknowledged bit of wisdom that authors all learn at one time or another: Don't let your publisher write the promotional material. Words like "countless millions,"...
The Bloom County Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982
AuthorBerkeley Breathed
ISBN1600105319
Berkley Breathed's Bloom County was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed newspaper strips of all time. Bloom County ran from December 8th, 1980 to August 6th, 1989 and was published in an astounding 1200 newspapers on a daily basis. The huge popularity of Bloom County spawned a merchandizing...
Serpico
AuthorPeter Maas
ISBN0060738189
The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called...
The Assassini
AuthorThomas Gifford
ISBN0553287400
It is 1982.  In the Vatican, priestly vultures gather around the dying Pope, whispering the names of possible successors.  In a forgotten monastery on Ireland's gale-swept coast, a dangerous document is hidden, waiting to be claimed.  And in a family chapel in Princeton, New Jersey, a nun...
Cold Comforts
AuthorPeter Crowther
I don't like that this is the first Goodreads review of this book. I feel bad because my review won't be that favorable. So if someone else read this and enjoyed it, please give the author credit and review it. Anyway, I found this book on my bookshelf and initially had forgotten where or how I obtained it....
A Rumor of War
AuthorPhilip Caputo
ISBN1250117127
The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—with a new foreword by Kevin Powers.

In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed...
Stiletto
AuthorDaniel O'Malley
ISBN0316228044
In this spirited sequel, The Rook returns to clinch an alliance between deadly rivals and avert epic—and slimy—supernatural war.

When secret organizations are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the fearsome powers—and the bureaucratic finesse—to...
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