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(classics) Bob Dylan
and The Band - Before the Flood
(live) 
From the "master of the rolling scam," here is a hilarious crime caper set in New York. A hot hustler is searching for a million-dollar Aztec sculpture that is accidentally mixed with cheap plaster copies. From Harlem to Greenwich, a motley cast chases the lost piece. Best books of the 20th Century Robertson Davies - The Deptford Trilogy : Fifth Business - The Manticore - World of Wonders "Who killed Boy Staunton?"
White Noise by Don DeLillo It's a terribly funny book, and the prose is as beautiful as a sunset through a
particulate-filled sky. Nice-guy narrator Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a small
college. His wife may be taking a drug that removes fear, and one day a nearby chemical
plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous....
Sister Carrie by Theodor Dreiser Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900. It tells the story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor... Music books The grandfather of grunge... A legend. 
Mystery & Thrillers
 Donald
E. Westlake - Don't Ask
(Dortmunder series)In his most incredible caper, Dortmunder is hired to steal the femur of a 16-year-old girl who was canonized because, 800 years ago, she was killed and eaten by her family. Now two European countries and the Catholic church are fighting like dogs over the bone. How will this free-for-all end? Don't Ask. Film books
40 years after his death, James Dean remains an icon of American pop culture. Dean, Paul Alexander claims, "brought something new to sex--an ambiguity, an openness, an androgyny that had not been there with other Hollywood stars." Boulevard of Broken Dreams explores the personal struggles of the powerful actor and explains how Dean's sexual ambivalence and hidden homosexuality affected his life and made him such a believable on-film rebel. Movies Starring: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, et al.
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Kirk Douglas in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus
