Product Description: A profound and moving journey into the heart of Christianity that explores the mysterious and often paradoxical lives and legacies of the Twelve Apostles—a book both for those of the faith and for others who seek to understand Christianity from the outside in...read more

Product Description: Learn About Tommy Wiseau and The Best Bad Movie Ever Made In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!! Today only, get this 1# Amazon bestseller for just $2.99. Regularly priced at $9.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device The opening chapter of Sestero's book introduces us to Tommy Wiseau, the eccentric filmmaker himself, as he treats his friend, Greg Sestero, to a celebratory dinner at Hollywood's Palm Restaurant...read more

Product Description: Nineteen-year-old Greg Sestero met Tommy Wiseau at an acting school in San Francisco. Wiseau's scenes were rivetingly wrong, yet Sestero, hypnotized by such uninhibited acting, thought, "I have to do a scene with this guy." That impulse changed both of their lives...read more

Product Description: Nineteen-year-old Greg Sestero met Tommy Wiseau at an acting school in San Francisco. Wiseau's scenes were rivetingly wrong, yet Sestero, hypnotized by such uninhibited acting, thought, "I have to do a scene with this guy." That impulse changed both of their lives...read more

Product Description: The Los Angeles Review of Books launched in April of 2011 as a humble Tumblr, with a 2600-word essay by Ben Ehrenreich entitled “The Death of the Book.” The gesture was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but we meant it to be provocative, and to ask a genuine question: Was the book dying? Was the internet killing it? Or were we simply entering a new era, a new publishing ecosystem, where different media could coexist?Since then, we’ve been enormously gratified by the response that LARB has generated from readers, writers, academics, editors, publishers...read more

Product Description: Tom Bissell started writing his novel back in his college days. In class he was asked to, "write a short story" and it was this one request from an English teacher that set him off on an adventure inside his mind! He enjoyed it so much he continued to (occasionally) write more stories and poems here and there and, ten years later, the finished article appears as a compilation of the things that popped into his head throughout the years...read more

In April 1975, as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army, former Marine officer John Bissell was glued to his television, racked with anguish and horror as his country abandoned a cause for which so many of his friends had died. This book is his son Tom's reckoning with the Vietnam War and its impact on his father, his country, and Vietnam itself. Bissell also explores the many debates about the war, and shows how the war has continued to influence American views on foreign policy more than thirty years later. At the heart of the book is John and Tom Bissell's journey back to Vietnam. As they travel the country and talk to Vietnamese veterans, we relive the war as John Bissell experienced it, visit the site of his near-fatal wounding, and hear him explain how Vietnam shaped him and so many of his generation.--From publisher description.The author describes his journey to Vietnam with his war veteran father, offering a glimpse of a land that had shaped both of their lives while reflecting on his father's war experience and the war's continuing political, cultural, and personal influence.

A debut anthology of short fiction explores the complexities of cultural conflict and misunderstanding as it focuses on the adventures and misadventures of Americans in Central Asia, in a collection that includes the Pushcart Prize-winning title story about an American journalist stranded in Afghanistan as he tries to find medicine for his companion, a sick British reporter. Reprint.

The author of fiction and journalism chronicles his harrowing journey into Uzbekistan to investigate the ecological disaster of the Aral Sea, capturing all the pathos and contradictions witnessed by an American adrift in a foreign land. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: The big little book of fake DVD commentaries, wherein well-known pundits make impassioned remarks about classic science fiction films. It's a gas!

The author chronicles his journey into Uzbekistan to investigate the ecological disaster of the Aral Sea.

Product Description: This is the novel the publishing industry was afraid to publish. The twisted, sort-of-true story of Toby, a freewheeling ten-something with too much time on his hands, The Bellybutton Fiasco forces us to confront-for, like, the fifth time-What Has Happened To Our Children? Not that many novels have the courage to attack the Loch Ness Monster myth, nor the poetic accuracy to describe its characters' dreams...read more