Opium Fiend: A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction
10 best books like Opium Fiend: A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction (Steven Martin): Permanent Midnight, Prepare, Verbal Abuse: Survivors Speak Out on Relationship and Recovery, Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America), Mystery Dance: Three Novels, The Gaggle: How the Guys You Know Will Help You Find the Love You Want, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing, Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone, The Last Opium Den, The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
| Author | Jerry Stahl |
| ISBN | 0976082209 |
His byline appeared everywhere, from L.A. Style to the Village Voice, from Esquire to Hustler. He penned scripts for twisted cult classics like Cafe Flesh and Dr. Caligari. He banged out shows for TV mega-hits like Moonlighting, Twin Peaks, and thirtysomething. But even when Jerry Stahl was making...
| Author | Geoffrey Germann |
| ISBN | 0985288809 |
"...cutting-edge... skillful... high-octane..." Kirkus Reviews
As a small boy, Darren Kiel was witness to his father's corruption and contemptible misconduct. As he grew, that experience gave rise to a seething need to atone for his father's crimes, to set the world aright, to enforce...
Verbal Abuse: Survivors Speak Out on Relationship and Recovery
| Author | Patricia Evans |
| ISBN | 1558503048 |
If your partner: seems irritated or angry at you several times a week, denies being angry when he clearly is, does not work with you to resolve important issues, rarely or never seems to share thoughts or plans with you, or tells you that he has no idea what you’re talking about when you try to discuss important...
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)
| Author | David L. Ulin |
| ISBN | 1931082278 |
Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic "hall of mirrors," Aldous Huxley a "city of dreadful joy." Jack Kerouac found a "huge desert encampment," David Thomson imagined "Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying...
Mystery Dance: Three Novels
MYSTERY DANCE: An omnibus edition containing more than 200,000 words.
Features the complete text of the #1 bestselling mystery and suspense novel Disintegration, The Skull Ring, the novella Crime Beat, two short stories, a bonus chapter from Disintegration, and two essays about the novels.
DISINTEGRATION--...
The Gaggle: How the Guys You Know Will Help You Find the Love You Want
| Author | Jessica Massa |
| ISBN | 1451657536 |
Now in paperback, The Gaggle captures the zeitgeist of today's “post-dating” world where instead of traditionally dating, women find love by cultivating a “gaggle” of men.You know you’re great, so why haven’t you been on a classic dinner-and-a-movie date since . . . well, forever? Because...
The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing
| Author | Rachel Poliquin |
| ISBN | 0271053720 |
From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now?...
| Author | John Daniel |
| ISBN | 1593761058 |
In November of 2000, after the presidential election but before the final results had been handed down by the Supreme Court, John Daniel climbed into his pickup, drove to a remote location in Oregon's Rogue River Canyon, and quit civilization. The strictures were severe with no two-way human communication...
Nick Tosches trades civilization and its discontents for the possibility of one moment of pure bliss.
Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Europe to Hong Kong to Thailand...
The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0805031332 |
This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words.
The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the...
Catastrophically Consequential
| Author | Stephen C. Bird |
| ISBN | 0615566634 |
The kindred spirit / doppelgänger / protégé of "Hideous Exuberance". Incorporates non-linear plots, comical rants, unsettling inner monologues; stream of consciousness dream sequences, surrealistic scenarios and time-traveling characters. Revel in the chaotic confusion of sociopathic...
| Author | Anthony Swofford |
| ISBN | 1455506729 |
Following the success of Jarhead, Anthony Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons -- but as every veteran knows, that isn't exactly how it works. In these searing, courageous pages, Swofford struggles to make sense of what his military service meant, and to decide -- after nearly ending...
| Author | Stephen Jimenez |
| ISBN | 1586422146 |
What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard...
"A mighty fine, meandering Western" ~ Kirkus Reviews
Patrick Smithwick, Author of Flying Change: A Year of Racing and Family and Steeplechasing and Racing My Father: Growing Up with a Riding Legend:
"Reading The Mule Tamer reminded me of the same adrenalin-pumping experience I...
| Author | Michael Wallis |
| ISBN | 0312281617 |
This book is a treasure for anyone with an interest in the old Route 66. Physically it’s larger than your average book, but not quite a large coffee table tome. There are lots of photos and plenty of text.
Printed in 1990, the book itself is a great piece of history. So even the new photos are 27yrs...
| Author | Orhan Pamuk |
| ISBN | 1419704567 |
The culmination of decades of omnivorous collecting, Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence in Istanbul uses his novel of lost love, The Museum of Innocence, as a departure point to explore the city of his youth. In The Innocence of Objects, Pamuk’s catalog of this remarkable museum, he writes about...
| Author | Kirk Douglas |
| ISBN | 1453254803 |
From Kirk Douglas, Hollywood royalty and bestselling author of The Ragman’s Son and My Stroke of Luck, comes the candid story of the making of Spartacus, the blockbuster film that broke the blacklist
One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished...
| Author | Claire Robinson |
| ISBN | 0446572098 |
Claire Robinson, the hot new Food Network star of 5 Ingredient Fix and Food Network Challenge, helps people get dinner on the table with little fuss and a few great ingredients.
The quest for simple, affordable, and fresh, mouthwatering food is over. 5 INGREDIENT FIX helps put delicious and...
A collection of reminiscences that reaveal the private Michael Kirby. Speaking in his own voice, he opens up as never before in a beautifully written, reflective and generous memoir - one that Michael Kirby's many admirers have been waiting for.
Michael Kirby is one of Australia's most admired...
| Author | Jane George |
| ISBN | 0985130717 |
LOVE IS A DRUG.
In 1980 NYC, eighteen-year-old J.J. Buckingham is an uptight trendoid. Working as a mannequin painter and a counter girl, she moonlights as a creature of the nightclubs. J.J. falls for aloof, crazy-talented artist and bicycle messenger X-It. In order to win his love, she succumbs...
| Author | Mary Fulbrook |
| ISBN | 0199603308 |
The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers.
The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa, was a happily married...
| Author | Lauren Kessler |
| ISBN | 0670038598 |
One journalist's riveting--and surprisingly hopeful--in-the-trenches look at Alzheimer's, the disease that claimed her mother's life.
Like many loved ones of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler was devastated by the ravaging disease that seemed to turn her mother into another person...
The Queen's House: A Social History of Buckingham Palace
3.5 stars. Written in good detail by Edna Healey, the wife of former Cabinet Minister Lord Healey so she was present at some of the later going-on's at Buckingham House as it was first named. Interesting book..sometimes bogged down in to0 much detail about the expenses but the author talks about each...
When Lily Raff McCaulou traded in an indie film production career in New York for a reporting job in central Oregon, she never imagined that she'd find herself picking up a gun and learning to hunt. She'd been raised as a gun-fearing environmentalist and an animal lover, and though a meat-eater, she'd...
| Author | Karin Muller |
| ISBN | 0762702435 |
Imagine being a twenty-eight-year-old single woman, working your way up the management consulting ladder, with your own expense account a fancy gym membership and salary to spare. Now imagine throwing it all away to Hitchhike a country under the iron fist of communism with a dubious grip on the language,...
