Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality

Neal Gabler

"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." --"The New York Times Book Review" From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell, the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour, and melo...

Love, Simon (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Film Tie-In) #1

Becky Albertalli

Straight people should have to come out too. And the more awkward it is, the better. Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is - and what he's looking for. But when one of his emails to the very distracting Blue falls into the wrong hands, things get all kinds of complicated.Because, for S...

Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998

Peter Carey

The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. Writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hyp...