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1) Cult classic
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author and Thurber Prize finalist Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic is a twisted mystery on the metaphysics of modern love, memory, and mind control in the city"--
One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite...
Author
Publisher
Epic Ink
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"With 50 food and drink recipes, The Unofficial Princess Bride Cookbook is perfect for fans who want to get a taste of the action along with some fun and interesting trivia. There are few movies that can be easily identified by a single word or quote, let alone close to forty. From 'As You Wish' and 'Inconceivable' to 'Have Fun Storming the Castle' and 'My Name is Inigo Montoya,' The Princess Bride left an everlasting mark on pop culture. In celebration...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, Raoul Duke (Thompson) and his attorney Dr. Gonzo (inspired by a friend of Thompson) are quickly diverted to search for the American dream. Their quest is fueled by nearly every drug imaginable and quickly becomes a surreal experience that blurs the line between reality and fantasy. But there is more to this hilarious tale than reckless behavior--for underneath the hallucinogenic facade is a stinging criticism...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
I{u2019}m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It{u2019}s always there. Always. Jake once said, "Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can{u2019}t fake a thought." And here{u2019}s what I{u2019}m thinking: I don{u2019}t want to be here. In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with co-stars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner....
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nanette O'Hare is an unassuming teen who has played the role of dutiful daughter, hardworking student, and star athlete for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bubblegum Reaper—a mysterious, out-of-print cult classic—the rebel within Nanette awakens.
As she befriends the reclusive author, falls in love with a young but troubled poet, and attempts to insert her true self into the world...
As she befriends the reclusive author, falls in love with a young but troubled poet, and attempts to insert her true self into the world...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Written in cooperation with Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater, an oral history of the "Dazed and Confused" cult classic provides behind-the-scenes cast and crew stories about its unlikely production and commercial success.
10) Finch
Author
Series
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic Finch. This third installment of the Ambergris Trilogy follows a besieged detective as he unravels a series of mysteries in the city of Ambergris"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making forever--featuring exclusive interviews with the producers, directors, writers and stars of the best cult classics"--
12) The Hazel Wood
Author
Series
Hazel Wood series volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
Author
Series
Ambergris trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and "eyewitness" reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose-and find-yourself again"--
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A revised and expanded version of Megan Milks's out-of-print cult classic KILL MARGUERITE AND OTHER STORIES, SLUG AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of fifteen stories that experiment in genre and explore the visceral, absurd, and queer qualities of gender, physiology, species, and identity: a woman metamorphoses into a slug; another eats her heart out; hair sprouts from the walls; and more"--
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on the 1996 cult classic film created by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, the ten episode Original Series is a supernatural crime saga that centers on bank robbers Seth and Richie Gecko, who while escaping across the Mexican border, take a detour to a strip club that is populated by bloodsucking creatures of the night.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau and a celebration of friendship and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. Based on the best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy's cult-classic disasterpiece The Room....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A ghostwriter and a struggling actor help each other on the page and in the bedroom in this steamy romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk. Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in 'ghostwriter' until she attends a signing for a book she wrote--and the author doesn't even recognize her. The evening turns more promising when she meets a charming man at the bar and immediately connects with him. But when...
Author
Publisher
Albatross Books, W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
" 'We seem to have forgotten what life is about.' So begins this heartfelt, laugh-out-loud follow-up to Máté's cult classic, A reasonable life. He warns us that, lulled by electronic pacifiers and hypnotized by sublime greed, we are sinking into a perpetual stupor: physically inert, intellectually blinkered, and devoid of deep emotion. Our unquestioned obsession with goods and gadgets has displaced true and lasting joys like our health, creativity,...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The term "cult film" is difficult to define, but one thing is certain: A cult film is any movie that has developed a rabid following for one reason or another. From highly influential works of pop art like Eraserhead and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! to trash masterpieces such as Miami Connection and Fateful Findings, thousands of movies have earned recognition as cult classics over the years, and new movies rise to cult status every year. So how...
Author
Language
English
Description
"How did the movie The Shawshank Redemption fail at the box office but go on to gross more than $100 million as a cult classic? How did The 48 Laws of Power miss the bestseller lists for more than a decade and still sell more than a million copies? How is Iron Maiden still filling stadiums worldwide without radio or TV exposure forty years after the band was founded? Bestselling author and marketer Ryan Holiday calls such works and artists perennial...
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