Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
10 best books like Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland (James St. James): Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder, Bully: a True Story of High School Revenge, BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All, The Day the President Was Shot: The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan, Tomorrow, Maybe, Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters, The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale, Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography, True Stories from the Files of the FBI, The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder
The Black Dahlia murder hit post-War Los Angeles like a bombshell and this impenetrable mystery was the haunting crown jewel of LAPD's unsolved murders. Even before her savage death, beautiful 22-year old Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué, was known as the Black Dahlia....
Author | Jim Schutze |
ISBN | 0380723336 |
Bobby Kent was a bully--a steroid-pumped 20-year-old who dominated his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. But on a summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of...
Author | Bruce Porter |
ISBN | 0312267126 |
BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from...
Author | Bill O'Reilly |
ISBN | 1627796991 |
The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service and medical professionals saved the president's life. Mere days after his near-death experience, Reagan's personal strength...
Author | Brian James |
ISBN | 0606296115 |
There is a girl named Chan, she lives on the streets in New York. She ran away from home because of her step-mother. While living on the streets, Chan met a young 6 year old girl that ran away from her home because her father abused her. They took care of each other as if they were sisters. They had a problem raising...
Author | John Waters |
ISBN | 0394755340 |
I'll forever love John Waters for the following reasons
1. He has subscriptions to Jet and Women's Wear Weekly magazines.
2. He hates MCI (remember them?)
3. He attended a matinee of the Carebears movie, it was for research.
4. I now know that Baltimore once had an angry lesbian...
Author | Jan Bondeson |
ISBN | 0306811588 |
"The facts in this case are so bizarre that no novelist would have dared to invent them," said the Philadelphia Inquirer. Indeed. A century before Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London, another predator held sway: a "vulgar-looking man" who slashed at female pedestrians with a knife while uttering...
Author | Rick Ross |
ISBN | 1499651538 |
Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography is an intimate look at the day-to-day dealings of a drug kingpin in the heart of the ghetto. It's also the story of a boy born in poverty Texas who grew up in a single-parent household in the heart of South Central, who was pushed through the school system each...
Author | W. Cleon Skousen |
ISBN | 1489503528 |
Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step back into downtown Chicago of the 1930s and retrace the steps of some of America's most notorious mobsters. True Stories from the Files of the FBI was written by...
The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Author | Irving Wallace |
ISBN | 1851522387 |
This encyclopedia looks at the sexual habits, deviations and quirks of nearly 200 famous, notorious or otherwise distinguished people from all walks of life. Each entry describes the subject's fame and achievements, and within this context examines their sexual activities. The entries are preceded...
Author | Justin Vivian Bond |
ISBN | 1558617477 |
"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...
Author | Stephen Fried |
ISBN | 0671701053 |
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, in Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club while redefining the industry's...
Author | Frank Owen |
ISBN | 0767917359 |
Outrageous parties. Brazen drug use. Fantastical costumes. Celebrities. Wannabes. Gender-bending club kids. Pulse-pounding beats. Sinful orgies. Botched police raids. Depraved criminals. Murder.
Welcome to the decadent nineties club scene.
In 1995, journalist Frank...
Author | Kirk Read |
ISBN | 0142002992 |
With bold Southern humor, journalist and performer Kirk Read takes readers on a guided tour of his precocious and courageous adolescence. Recalling his years as an openly gay high school student, Read describes how he navigated the hallways with his sense of humor and dignity intact. He fondly recalls...
The basis for the Oscar-winning film, Boys Don't Cry!
All NEW introduction by the New York Times bestselling author!
Living as a man, twenty-one-year-old Teena Brandon hit the dust bowl town of Falls City, Nebraska, on the run from her family in Lincoln - and from the law for forging...
Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
Author | Courtney Love |
ISBN | 0865479593 |
A multi-textual memoir chronicling the life of one of our most potent pop icons.
Groundbreaking rock musician. Award-winning actress. Perceptive songwriter and author. Mother. Wife of a rock god. Fashionista and trendsetter. Provocateur. In each and every one of these roles Courtney...
“Invisible Darkness: The Horrifying Case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka” by Stephen Williams tells the real-life, true-crime horror story that took place in the 90s. The author was one of the only journalists allowed in the court room, and he tells the story in its entirety, from the couple’s...
Author | Lisa Crystal Carver |
ISBN | 1932360948 |
In this eye-opening memoir, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in 1987 and the wild events that followed: leaving small-town New Hampshire to tour Europe at 18, becoming...
Author | Patty Schemel |
ISBN | 0306825074 |
A stunningly candid and inspiring memoir of recovery from addiction and the '90s, by Hole drummer Patty Schemel
Patty Schemel was a drummer at the epicenter of the Seattle grunge scene in the early '90s, best known for her work with the alternative rock band Hole.
Hit So Hard begins...
Author | Steve McVicker |
ISBN | 0786869038 |
To escape from a Texas jail or prison once is unusual. To do it four times is incredible. To do it four times in five years and always on a Friday the 13th is the stuff of legend. Welcome to the world of Steven Russell. Con artist. Thief. Swindler. Embezzler. Hopeless romantic.A husband and father, Russell...
A snarky, fact-filled look at the people and places that made the indie/punk scene what it is today
The American underground music scene is exploding everywhere—not just in New York City and L.A. (although we've got those cities covered too!):
In Washington, D.C. . . . Ian MacKaye...
Scary Monsters and Super Freaks: Stories of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll and Murder
Author | Mike Sager |
ISBN | 1560255633 |
Mike Sager is to drugs, porn, and crimes of desperate delusion what Dominic Dunne is to the society murder. In addition to his long-classic Rolling Stone story "The Devil and John Holmes" (which helped inspire the upcoming Val Kilmer film, Wonderland) and his groundbreaking GQ piece about murdered...