Movies by the Book: The Hound of the Baskervilles    by Alonso Delarte
Price: $0.99 USD. 13590 words. Language: American English. Published on July 14, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » History & Criticism.
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the most adapted novels in the literature. This book examines three film adaptations of the classic Sherlock Holmes story for faithfulness to the source material.

250 Recent Movies You Will Like If You See Film as Art    by William A. Adams
Price: $0.99 USD. 74700 words. Language: English. Published on July 1, 2012. Nonfiction » Reference » Consumer guides.
Reviews of 250 feature-length movies are listed. Reviews are short, to give a sense of what the movie is about and if you would like it. The movies are artistic and thoughtful, which does not necessarily mean “serious.” There are plenty of humor, horror, romance, animation, musicals, documentaries, and kids’ movies. You will find a lot to like.

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.

The Pawn Business    by Michael Harry
Price: $4.99 USD. 12660 words. Language: English. Published on June 11, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » History & Criticism.
New Image! New Image! New Image! Remember the days of the seedy looking pawnbroker in the dingy looking store that just looked like they were ready to rip you off? Remember how embarrassing it was if someone knew that you or someone you knew had even entered a pawn shop. The thoughts that you had to be desperate broke, on drugs or alcohol, a thief, or just a person with a questionable morals.

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.

Jazz Expose: The New York Jazz Museum and the Power Struggle That Destroyed It    by howard fischer
Price: $9.99 USD. 51400 words. Language: English. Published on May 7, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » Music.
Have you ever heard of the New York Jazz Museum? Most people have not.Yet between 1972 and 1977 it was the most significant institution for jazz in the world! This book looks back to present the story of a Lost Museum.It was situated in its own two-story building in mid-town Manhattan and had a small staff, an archive that eventually numbered about 25,000 items and extensive programs in New

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.

Mama and Me    by Bette Nunn
Price: $5.99 USD. 300220 words. Language: English. Published by Fideli Publishing on April 11, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » History & Criticism.
Includes many of the “Mama and Me” and “Bette’s Barbs” columns written for The Martinsville Reporter and The Reporter-Times in Martinsville, IN, for the last half century. The columns talk about things that happened—births, deaths, schools, store openings, fires, crimes, store closings, historical events, tragedies, wars, events in Martinsville and Morgan County, and stories about local people.

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.