Historical Fiction: Landsman (Peter Charles Melman)
Brooklyn author Melman's first novel stars a whoremongering, card-sharking, Jewish street tough who enlists in the Confederate Army to escape a New Orleans murder rap. As you bounce between the retributive eye-gougings of the French Quarter and the impersonal grotesqueries of the battlefield, you'll find yourself asking, "Wait, did you say there'd be whoremongering?"
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New Age Nonfiction: American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch (Matthew Polly)
The author, a self-professed wussy, dropped out of Princeton to study kung fu with monks in pre-Internet, post-Tiananmen Square China. His true-life account chronicles not only his own lurch towards enlightenment, but also China's plodding towards Westernization, best represented by this monk who pulls a truck by a rope attached to his balls.
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Film History: The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the P*rn Film Industry (Legs McNeil)
Legendary punk journalist McNeil tells the sweeping story of smut, using accounts from the players themselves: directors, producers, mobsters, FBI agents, actors, actresses, and actresses' scumbag ex-boyfriends. Despite being composed entirely of interview responses, Hollywood reads like a novel -- if you can put it down, it'll only be because you've popped in a DVD of the source material.
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Sports: Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond (Paul Shirley)
If you hated I Can't Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence, you'll be riveted by the saga of this epically mediocre journeyman, which takes him from the end of the Suns' bench to Kazan, Russia -- the kind of place where a 6'10" Midwesterner can thrive, mainly because the best Russians are off playing in the NBA.
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Conversational Fodder: 5 People Who Died During Sex: and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists (Karl Shaw)
Inappropriate trivia categories, including historic drunks (17th President Andrew Johnson), phobias of the famous (Brad Pitt's ichthyophobia), and ten alternative uses of Coca Cola (e.g., as a spermicide, diminishing your chances of fathering a drunk with an unnatural fear of fish).
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Self Help: How to Roll a Blunt for Dummies (R. Prince)
If you buy only one self-published blunt rolling manual this summer, this is it.
$12 here