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  • Audiobook

    Vegas

    A Memoir of a Dark Season

    Narrated by Griffin Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 30 min

    "In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada." So begins John Gregory Dunne's neglected classic of first-person writing, a mordant, deadpan, grotesque tale that blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, confession and reportage.Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time And Myth

    by John S. Dunne ...
    What is man, apart from the things of his life, apart from loving and fighting and dying?In his exploration of that fundamental question, John S. Dunne considers the different ways in which man strives throughout his life for immortality.Growing out of the 1971 Yale University Thomas More lectures which Father Dunne delivered in that year, Time and Myth analyzes the man’s confrontation with the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Vegas

    A Memoir of a Dark Season

    “The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne’s] grotesqueries aren’t drug-induced, they’re very real. His is the genuine Vegas.” (Esquire)“In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.” So begins John Gregory Dunne’s neglected classic of first-person writing, a mordant, deadpan, grotesque tale that blurs the line between autobiography and ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence

    The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change

    Edited by Dunne D. John, Daniel Goleman ...
    Powerful conversations between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and leading scientists on the most pressing issue of our time.Engage with leading scientists, academics, ethicists, and activists, as well as His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Karmapa, who gathered in Dharamsala, India, for the twenty-third Mind and Life conference to discuss arguably the most urgent questions facing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rethinking Money

    How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity

    This study reveals how our monetary system reinforces scarcity, and how communities are already using new paradigms to foster sustainable prosperity.In the United States and across Europe, our economies are stuck in an agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. Yet solutions already exist, not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. These ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theology, Religion, and Twin Peaks

    Edited by John Anthony Dunne, Kris Song ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    Like the series' trademark pie, John Anthony Dunne and Kris Song's exploration into David Lynch's Twin Peaks leaves you hungry for more.This volume investigates the religious, theological, spiritual, and supernatural elements across the series' two original seasons (ABC, 1990), the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) film*,* and its third and final season, often referred to as The Return ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Monster

    Living Off the Big Screen

    Monster is John Gregory Dunne's mordant account of the eight years it took to get the 1996 Robert Redford/Michelle Pfeiffer film Up Close & Personal made. A bestselling novelist, Dunne has a cold eye, perfect pitch for the absurdities of Hollywood, and sharp elbows for the film industry's savage infighting. 192 pp. Author tour & national ads. 25,000 print. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nothing Lost

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A grisly racial murder in what news commentators insist on calling “the heartland.” A feeding frenzy of mass media and seamy politics. An illicit love affair with the potential to wreck lives. In his grandly inventive last novel, John Gregory Dunne orchestrated these elements into a symphony of American violence, chicanery, and sadness.In the aftermath of Edgar Parlance’s killing, the small ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • True Confessions

    A Novel

    In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jest—"The Virgin Tramp"—and suddenly a "nice little homicide that would have drifted off the front pages in a couple of days" becomes a storm center. Two brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy, are at the heart of this powerful novel of Irish-Catholic life in Southern California just ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Studio

    In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like "Dr. Dolittle," "Planet of the Apes," and "The Boston Strangler." The result is a work of reportage that, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Human Galapagos

    Boundaries, Territories and Places

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the spatial configuration of the Galapagos Islands from the human dimension and the socio-ecological interactions of the borders, territories, and places that build up the archipelago, using San Cristóbal Island as a case study. It does not limit itself to the division of the colonized area versus the national park but examines the dynamics that exist ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Abandoned - An Anthology of Vacant Spaces

    Legion of Dorks presents, #4

    Series Book 4 - Legion of Dorks presents
    Abandoned places can be intriguing, creepy, and forsaken, but are they always empty?In this fourth anthology in the Legion of Dorks presents series, fifteen authors poke around in vacant places and let us see what turns up.You'll discover:· the wreckage of an enormous, ancient, alien craft and what it hides· a young woman looking for a shopkeeper, but who runs into a genie instead· an old ... Read more

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