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10 best books like Eve in Hollywood (Amor Towles): Madeline and the Old House in Paris, A Good Hard Look, Golden Days, What You See in the Dark, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Keeper of the King's Secrets, Girl Mary, The Nowhere City, The Impersonator

Madeline and the Old House in Paris
AuthorJohn Bemelmans Marciano
ISBN0670784850
Madeline and her favorite companion in mischief, Pepito, embark on their wildest adventure yet. When ghostly moans lead them to the attic of the old house in Paris, they discover Felix de La Morte, who has lingered there for hundreds of years, waiting for the return of a certain comet. With the comet due...
A Good Hard Look
AuthorAnn Napolitano
ISBN1594202923
Heartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own courses in life. In the aftermath of one tragic afternoon, they are all forced to look at themselves and face up to the observation that the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach...
Golden Days
AuthorCarolyn See
ISBN0520206738
Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marvelously imaginative, hilarious, and original work...
What You See in the Dark
AuthorManuel Muñoz
ISBN1565125339
The long-awaited first novel by the award-winning author of two impressive story collections explores the sinister side of desire in Bakersfield, California, circa 1959, when a famous director arrives to scout locations for a film about madness and murder at a roadside motel. Unfolding in much the...
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark
AuthorRobert Hough
ISBN0802140432
In the 1910s and '20s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and...
Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald
AuthorR. Clifton Spargo
ISBN1468304925
In this evocative and meticulously detailed novel about the last romance of one of America's greatest literary couples, R. Clifton Spargo crafts an exhilarating portrait of the passionate yet tragically dysfunctional relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

In 1939 Scott...
Keeper of the King's Secrets
AuthorMichelle Diener
ISBN1439197091
The second elegant and gorgeously written historical novel from new author Michelle Diener, featuring King Henry VIII’s  deadliest courtier and  a royally commissioned artist caught in a web of Tudor court intrigue.

A priceless jewel. A royal court rife with intrigue. A secret deal,...
Girl Mary
AuthorPetru Popescu
ISBN1416532633
A hauntingly beautiful novel, bringing to life one of history’s most mysterious characters, Mary of Nazareth, as a beautiful, complicated, utterly believable girl in love.

• In a bestselling tradition: Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, Francois Mauriac’s...
The Nowhere City
AuthorAlison Lurie
ISBN0805051791
Not even joking, I read this book in a day.
I absolutely loved the shit out of this book.

Granted, I am an overall fan of Allison Lurie's writing, having read several of her novels and nonfiction books thus far. And I will acknowledge that, as someone who herself has experienced the circumstance...
The Impersonator
AuthorMary Miley
ISBN1250028167
In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl,...
Life at the Marmont: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Legendary Hotel of the Stars--Chateau Marmont
AuthorRaymond Sarlot
ISBN0143123114
Back in print after two decades, the story of Hollywood’s most exclusive hotel and its star-studded guest list  Raymond Sarlot bought the Chateau Marmont in 1975, but what was originally a business purchase became a love affair as he delved into the hotel’s incredible history. From its perch...
The Knights of the Cornerstone
AuthorJames P. Blaylock
ISBN0441016537
Calvin Bryson has hidden himself away from the world, losing himself in his work and his collection of rare and quirky books. He never meant to let so much time go by without visiting his aunt and uncle in the tiny town of New Cyprus, California. When he gets there, he'll discover the town's strange secrets...
Three and a Half Deaths
AuthorEmma Donoghue
An accident, a suicide, an act of criminal negligence and a near-death experience. Published by Picador as a 'Short Reads' ebook in December 2011, bringing together four fact-inspired stories from France, the USA and Canada.

What the Driver Saw is inspired by a freak accident on Nice’s...
A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck
AuthorRoger Ebert
ISBN1449410251
Roger Ebert's I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie and Your Movie Sucks, which gathered some of his most scathing reviews, were best-sellers. This new collection continues the tradition, reviewing not only movies that were at the bottom of the barrel, but also movies that he found underneath the barrel.A...
West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
AuthorMark Arax
ISBN1586483900
Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West," and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the cliches. This is California as only a native...
Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003
AuthorKevin Starr
ISBN0679412883
In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr-widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the "Atlantic Monthly" has called "breathtaking"-probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990--2003. In a series of compelling chapters,...
The Coming and Going of Strangers
AuthorSimon Van Booy
Another poetic tale by Van Booy. The story, although somewhat mundane, is spruced up with incredibly beautiful language and thought-provoking statements. His analysis of different aspects of life, love, youth, the past, the present and death is magnificently crafted into gorgeous tales of an Irish...
The Windsor Faction
AuthorD.J. Taylor
ISBN1605984787
If Wallis Simpson had not died on the operating table in December 1936, Edward VIII would not be King of England three years later. He would have abdicated for “the woman he loves,” but now, the throne is his. If Henry Bannister’s car had not careered off the Colombo back-roads in the summer before...
Vintage Hughes
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN1400034027
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.

“Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia...
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: A Secret History of the Far North
AuthorLael Morgan
ISBN0945397763
In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde, that "half world" of prostitutes, dance hall girls, and entertainers...
We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
AuthorEric Olsen
We Wanted to be Writers is a rollicking and insightful blend of original interviews, commentary, advice, gossip, anecdotes, analyses, history, and asides with nearly thirty graduates and teachers at the now legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop between 1974 and 1978. Among the talents that emerged...
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
AuthorDavid L. Ulin
ISBN0520273729
In Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban space, a history of the city’s built environment,...
Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels
AuthorJustin Vivian Bond
ISBN1558617477
"Like Bond, the memoir is droll, pensive and filled with zingers teetering between funny and ferocious."—The New York Times

Hailed as “the greatest cabaret artist of [V’s] generation” in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and...
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
AuthorMax Shulman
ISBN0891909826
Not exactly a household word, Max Shulman is nonetheless one of the great stealth writers in American pop culture. He cowrote The Tender Trap, which became a big-screen vehicle for Frank Sinatra, and his hilarious, Elvis-intensive satire Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! also made it to Hollywood, pairing...
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