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The Christmas TV Companion: a Guide to Cult Classics, Strange Specials and Outrageous Oddities    by Joanna Wilson
Price: $2.99 USD. 38830 words. Language: English. Published on June 20, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » Television.

Christmas on TV is wilder, weirder, and more wondrous than you think! The Christmas TV Companion is a funny, engaging look beyond the same Christmas specials that air every year to the cult TV rarities, over-the-top made-for-TV holiday specials, and bizarre, spacey shows that truly expand the notion of Christmas spirit.
Mel Gibson's Breach of Faith    by David Hazony
Price: $0.99 USD. 2570 words. Language: English. Published by Matá  on May 10, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » History & Criticism.

Few Hollywood figures are as divisive today as Mel Gibson. He's been accused of anti-Semitism, of mistreating others, and of religious fanaticism. In this 2004 essay, written at the height of the scandal surrounding The Passion of the Christ, David Hazony asks whether he is also betraying the ideas and principles on which he built his fame. A must read today as it was then.
Vivid Scribe Collected Features volume 2    by Kate Krake
Price: Free! 15660 words. Language: English. Published on April 25, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » History & Criticism.

A second volume of pop culture themed feature articles from Vivid Scribe, plus an all new essay written especially for this book.
Vivid Scribe Collected Features volume 1    by Kate Krake
Price: Free! 12990 words. Language: English. Published on April 3, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » History & Criticism.

A collection of pop culture themed feature articles from Vivid Scribe, plus an all new essay exclusive to this book.
The Eternal Return: Oedipus, The Tempest, Forbidden Planet    by David Sheppard
Price: Free! 33850 words. Language: English. Published on March 15, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » History & Criticism.

The Eternal Return is Volume II of the Tales of the Mythic World series. This narrative discusses the relationship between Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (429 BC), Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611), and the Adler/Hume movie Forbidden Planet (1956). It also delves into the relationships between the authors' lives and their work.
Pop Thinking: User Friendly Essays on Popular Culture vol. 1    by Kate Krake
Price: Free! 12730 words. Language: English. Published on March 12, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » History & Criticism.

An anthology of user friendly essays on popular culture, written by the team at Vivid Scribe. Topics cover TV, music, film, literature, comics and collecting pop culture merchandise.
Jason and Azazel Extras    by V. J. Chambers
Price: $1.50 USD. 21360 words. Language: English. Published on March 12, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » History & Criticism.

Extra character sketches, outlines, and essays written by the author of the Jason and Azazel books.
Four Science Fiction Masters: Herbert, Pohl, Simak & Dickson    by D.R. Martin
Price: $1.99 USD. 25330 words. Language: English. Published on February 23, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » History & Criticism.

This book includes lost interviews with four masters of post-war American science fiction—Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak, and Gordon Dickson. This compact volume catches them all in their primes, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their trenchant, prescient observations still resonate three decades later.
Il Cinema Horror dei Teenagers    by Amodio Tortora
Price: Free! 1170 words. Language: Italian. Published on February 10, 2012. Screenplays » Horror.

Il Cinema Horror dei Teenagers degli anni 80
Katniss the Cattail: An Unauthorized Guide to Names and Symbols in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games    by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Price: $0.99 USD. 21890 words. Language: English. Published on February 7, 2012. Nonfiction » Children's Books » Literary Criticism & Collections.

Who was Cinna? What do the hawthorn and primrose symbolize? Or President Snow’s roses and Peeta’s bread? What about Katniss’s last name? Bringing details from myths, herbal guides, military histories, and the classics, English professor and award-winning pop culture author Valerie Estelle Frankel sheds light on the deeper meanings behind Panem’s heroes and villains in this hottest of YA trilogies.