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ONLY DULL PEOPLE ARE BRILLIANT AT BREAKFAST
Oscar Wilde · 2016
'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
THE HEROIN DIARIES
Nikki Sixx · 2017
THE BELL JAR
Sylvia Plath · 1966
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE WINTER SOLDIER
Lowenstein, Alison, Palacios, Tomas, Captain America, (fictitious Character), Captain America, (fictitious Character) · 2014
THE DIRT
Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars · 2011
Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe. Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage scandals, celebrity love affairs, rollercoaster drug addictions, and immortal music in Mötley Crüe books like Tommyland and The Heroin Diaries, but now the full spectrum of sin and success by Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, and Mick Mars is an open book in The Dirt. Even fans already familiar with earlier editions of the bestselling exposé will treasure this gorgeous deluxe edition. Joe Levy at Rolling Stone calls The Dirt "without a doubt . . . the most detailed account of the awesome pleasures and perils of rock & roll stardom I have ever read. It is completely compelling and utterly revolting."
DIRTY BLONDE
Courtney Love · 2006
GIRL, INTERRUPTED (FILM VERSION)
Susanna Kaysen · 2000
GIRL, INTERRUPTED
Susanna Kaysen · 2023
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION<br/>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR<br/><br/>‘Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women’s mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women’ SCARLETT CURTIS<br/><br/>‘Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story’ NEW YORK TIMES<br/><br/>A clear-sighted, unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane and insane, Kaysen’s extraordinary memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers.<br/><br/>In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she’d never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele – Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor and Ray Charles.<br/><br/>The bestselling memoir that inspired the cult classic film, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
FAMILY VALUES
Guzman, Michael Azerrad · 2024
THE BOOK OF ROCK
Philip Dodd · 2001
The most comprehensive encyclopedia of rock music ever compiled covers every major and minor group, from Aerosmith to ZZ Top, highlighting their achievements and influence, while providing biographical details. 50,000 first printing.
YÉ-YÉ GIRLS OF 60S FRENCH POP
Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe · 2014
VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS
Lana Del Rey · 2020
LITTLE PEOPLE BIG DREAMS JOHN LENNON
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara · 2020
THE BEATLE BOOK
Lancer Books Inc. · 1964
Free Gift Wrap: Lancer Book 1964: FREE GIFT WRAP. Doubleday Anchor (1958): PAPERBACK book in good condition. Fold-out poster is intact & still attached but is creased at one edge. Front & back cover’s corners are creased and abraded. Front cover has a diagonal crease. Both covers are finger dented with minor surface wear. Minor edge wear & surface wear. Title page is inscribed by previous Owner and inside rear cover is marked with notes from a smitten little girl. Binding tight & pages yellowed with age. Ships from California to anywhere in the world!
WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS
Ngozi Adichie Chima · 2014
A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.<br/><br/>What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay – adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name – by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’. With humour and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century – one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviours that marginalise women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences – in the U.S., in her native Nigeria – offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a best-selling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today – and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
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THE FIRST 21
Nikki Sixx · 2021
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2018
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THIS IS GONNA HURT
Nikki Sixx · 2013
JUST KIDS
Patti Smith · 2010
<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>
DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2020
COLLECTED POEMS
Sylvia Plath · 1991
ARIEL
Sylvia Plath · 2018
TATTOOS AND TEQUILA
Vince Neil · 2010
MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
CARRIE
Stephen King · 2024
REBEL GIRL
Kathleen Hanna · 2024
WHITE NIGHTS
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024
MY LIFE HAD STOOD A LOADED GUN
Emily Dickinson · 1840
<p><i>'It's coming - the postponeless Creature'</i> <p>Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. <p>One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.</p>
COURTNEY LOVE THE REAL STORY
Poppy Z. Brite · 1998
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
Chbosky Stephen · 2009
LITTLE WOMEN (FILM VERSION)
Louisa May Alcott · 2019
