Rare Bird Books: 181 books
Brat Pack America
A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From the fictional towns of Hill Valley, CA, and Shermer, IL, to the beautiful landscapes of Astoria and Brownsville, OR, from the iconic suburbs of the San Fernando Valley to the seemingly scary inner cities of Chicago, '80s teen movies had one thing in common: locations mattered. Perhaps moreso...
by Mark Fleischman
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up hundred-dollar bills. In the early eighties, Mark Fleischman...
by Jason Leopold
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
In News Junkie, the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Jason Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed some of the biggest corporate and political scandals...
Thirsty
William Mulholland, California Water, and the Real Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Thirsty is an exploration of Los Angeles' storied history in regards to water. Starting with William Mullholland and his aqueducts, through the 1926 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, which killed hundreds, and on through to the profound implications Los Angeles' path has for today. Where Marc Reiser's...
by Howard Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Before Timothy Leary, before free love, before the word hippie became a part of the preferred nomenclature, Howard Bloom and his band of explorers were pushing boundaries and minds.Embarking on a great journey that took him from his home in Buffalo, NY, to Washington, to California, to Israel, to New...
Permanent Midnight
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Jerry Stahl's seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in Hollywood, Permanent Midnight is a classic along the lines of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. Illuminating the self-loathing and self-destruction of an addict's inner life, Permanent Midnight follows Stahl through the dregs of...
Old Guy Dad
Weird Shit Happens When You Don't Die Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
OG (Old Guy) Dad recounts the adventures of a man who, in the proverbial autumn of his years, or at least the pre pre-autumn, discovers his girlfriend is pregnant. And having a baby. Whereupon hijinks, cosmic and mundane, ensues. A collection of celebrated columns on The Rumpus with new material and never-before-told tales, OG (Old Guy) Dad is Jerry Stahl at his finest and most domestic.
Growing Global Executives
The New Competencies
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
THE CENTER FOR TALENT INNOVATION (CTI) is an NYC-based think tank which focuses on global talent strategies and the retention and acceleration of well-qualified labor across the divides of gender, generation, geography, and culture. CTI’s research partners now number 86 multinational corporations and organizations.
Here She Comes Now
Women in Music Who Have Changed Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Whether it was Patti Smith's angry moan, Nina Simone's guttural growl, or Dolly Parton's towering hair and sweet voice, women have been a musical force to be reckoned with, inspired by, and paid attention to. In Here She Comes Now, today's biggest and brightest writers tackle their favorite female...
My British Invasion
The Inside Story on The Yardbirds, The Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, The Troggs, The Kinks, The Zombies, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Co-founder of Rhino Records, Harold Bronson, tells his story. As a passionate music fan who explored the British music scene and met many of the performers whose music he loved, and in some cases got to know them as a music journalist, music executive, or friend, Harold gives an insiders account of London's...
The Power of "OUT"
LGBT in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Until now, the line has not been clearly drawn between the corporate closet and the revolving door. New research from the Center for Work-Life Policy quantifies the loss to U.S. companies that fail to create a workplace hospitable to their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. Our data show...
Saturnalia
Traveling from Cape Town to Kampala in Search of an African Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
In the Spring of 2012, reporter and travel junkie Justin Chapman threw his cares to the wind and, by himself, set off on an epic journey across eight countries in Africa - from Cape Town, South Africa, to Mityana, Uganda - by bus, train, and boat. Along the way, he narrowly escaped being locked away...
by Antonia Crane
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
A small town girl leaves her troubled family and starts stripping - which introduces her to a community that keeps her sober and saves her life - but a roller-coaster lifestyle ensues. She gets drugged, does enema shows, and unionizes the club. When she tries to quit and go to graduate school, her...
Girlvert
A Porno Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Proclaimed "girl-pervert" Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and her own firebrand of what it means to live ecstatically. From accolades to agony, Girlvert illuminates the surreality of a life lived beyond all comprehension.