Why Time Begins on Opening Day
10 best books like Why Time Begins on Opening Day (Thomas Boswell): Permanent Midnight, Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye, Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For, 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente, Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors, A False Spring, Blood Echo, Season Ticket, The Hottest State, Late Innings: A Baseball Companion
| 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...
Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
| Author | Frank Miller |
| ISBN | 1593072937 |
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The first volume of the crime-comic megahit that introduced the now-infamous character Marv and spawned a blockbuster film returns in a newly redesigned edition, with a brand-new cover by Frank Miller - some of his first comics art in years! It's...
Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For
| Author | Frank Miller |
| ISBN | 1593072945 |
The second volume of Frank Miller's signature series is now planned as the lead story in the upcoming Sin City 2! This newly redesigned edition sports a new cover by Miller - some of his first comics art in years! Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways...
| Author | Wilfred Santiago |
| ISBN | 1560978929 |
While this graphic novel was visually stunning in places, with this nearly sepia tone feel to it images, interesting paneling and a nice mix of text with more traditional comic word balloons and captions, its narrative just wasn't that interesting.
It might be that already well-aware of the...
| Author | Peter Bogdanovich |
| ISBN | 0345404572 |
Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of film - from Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh to Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Lumet. The conversations brought together in this book give us a history of the movies....
| Author | Pat Jordan |
| ISBN | 0803276265 |
In A False Spring, Pat Jordan traces the falling star of his once-promising pitching career, illuminating along the way his equally difficult personal struggles and quest for maturity. When the reader meets Jordan, he is a hard-throwing pitcher with seemingly limitless potential, one of the first...
A conspiracy that promises bloodshed and the only woman who can stop it collide in the page-turning thriller by Christopher Rice, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Bone Music.
Kidnapped and raised by serial killers, Charlotte Rowe suffered an ordeal that made her infamous. Everyone in the world...
| Author | Roger Angell |
| ISBN | 0345358147 |
Angell's absorbing collection traces the highs and lows of major-league baseball in the 1980s
Roger Angell once again journeys through five seasons of America's national pastime--chronicling the larger-than-life narratives and on-field intricacies of baseball from 1982 to 1987. Angell's...
| Author | Ethan Hawke |
| ISBN | 0679781358 |
When William meets Sarah at a bar appropriately called the Bitter End, he is a few months short of his twenty-first birthday and about to act in his first movie. He is so used to getting what he wants that he has never been able to care too deeply for anyone. But all of that is about to change. And it is Sarah--bold...
Late Innings: A Baseball Companion
| Author | Roger Angell |
| ISBN | 0671759124 |
I learned a few things from this book. One, the Kansas City Royals and Pittsburgh Pirates used to be good. Honest truth. The second thing I learned is that nobody writes about baseball better than Roger Angell. Nobody.
I wish Roger Angell was still writing baseball books, because nobody has...
