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  • Temple of Doom
    Mike Sager
    Temple of Doom: And Other Stories of Kids and Crime, by the award-winning journalist Mike Sager, is a pocket collection of true stories-first published in Rolling Stone, G​​​​​​​Q, and Esquire-that shed light on the incredible intersection between underage kids and adult crimes and punishments. In the title story, police are baffled when eight Thai Buddhist monks and one nun ar...
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    8,67 €

  • Jesus is Alive!
    Mike Sager / Pastor Mike Sager
    'Jesus is Alive!' is a consolidated, compact book about the story of Easter, sharing the truth of the Christian gospel with both believers (to build on their faith) and non-believers (to present a challenge). The book contains the story of Easter and why it matters so very much to every single one of us. ...
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    4,98 €

  • The Someone You’re Not
    Mike Sager
    Bestselling author Mike Sager’s fourth collection showcases his deftly-written journalism at its best and most mature, a riveting marriage of crime reportage and you-are-there literary anthropology. The book’s centerpiece examines the rise and fall of football RoboQuarterback Todd Marinovich-a previously unpublished, thirty-plus thousand-word 'nonvella' version of his ASME-awar...
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    13,18 €

  • The Pope of Pot
    Mike Sager
    The Pope of Pot: And Other True Stories of Marijuana and Related High Jinks is a pocket collection, by the award-winning journalist (and former Rolling Stone drugs correspondent) Mike Sager, highlighting his dispatches from the cannabis underground. In 'When Should a Man Stop Smoking Weed?' Sager looks back on a half-century of pot smoking, starting on a humid night in summer a...
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    9,57 €

  • The Rise and Fall of a Super Freak
    Mike Sager / TBD
    The Rise and Fall of a Super Freak: And Other True Stories of Black Men Who Made History, is a pocket collection of stories, by award-winning journalist Mike Sager, about American Black men whose lives significantly affected the direction and zeitgeist of American culture. Rick James, known to all as Super Freak, was the first to wear African-inspired braids; his powerful funk ...
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    12,25 €

  • A Boy and His Dog in Hell
    Mike Sager
    Mike Sager has made a career 'finding the quotidian within the extreme, the tender amid the grotesque,' according to author and popular Columbia Journalism School professor Sam Freedman.A Boy and His Dog in Hell collects 19 stories that Sager-a best-selling author and veteran of the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Esquire-calls 'my milestones, the pieces that have defined a...
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    16,36 €

  • Hunting Marlon Brando
    Mike Sager
    From the start, it sounds ridiculous: Go to Tahiti and find Marlon Brando.But the worldwide search for the legendary Method actor, the star of such classic movies as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, On the Waterfront, and Mutiny on the Bounty, soon becomes an obsession. The story of one man’s coming of age.When we first meet him, Sager is 30 years old, divorce pending, no longer ...
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    8,65 €

  • Shaman
    Mike Sager
    Some say he was a breakthrough academic and visionary shaman. Others say he was a sham. Either way, Carlos Castaneda shaped a generation of mystical thinkers and magic mushroom eaters.In 1968, at the height of the psychedelic age, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, the first of twelve books describing his apprenticeship to an Indian shaman,...
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    7,63 €

  • The Devil and John Holmes
    Mike Sager
    Now with new cover, new interior art, and vintage movie posters added.'John Holmes was every man’s gigolo, a polyester smoothie with a sparse mustache, a flying collar, and lots of buttons undone. He wasn’t threatening. He chewed gum and overacted. He took a lounge singer’s approach to sex, deliberately gentle, ostentatiously artful, a homely guy with a pinkie ring and a big di...
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    9,41 €

  • Janet’s World
    Mike Sager
    “Janet Cooke was a warning shot, a harbinger of all kinds of journalistic scandals to come.” —Howard Kurtz, author and media criticJanet Cooke caused one of the biggest scandals in the history of journalism when her Pulitzer Prize-winning article, about an eight-year-old heroin addict, turned out to be a fabrication. Cooke, a reporter for the Washington Post, worked under the l...
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    8,65 €

  • The Bootleggers Lady
    Ed Sager / Frye Mike
    This is the story, not simply of one woman's brave struggle in the wilderness, but of the pioneer spirit that opened up that wilderness for future generations. Edith Julia Bronson married an outlaw at the beginning of this century. This courageous pioneer woman bore her lawless husband, Fred Frye, nine children, drove a freight wagon 2,000 miles from North Dakota to BC on a...
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    24,29 €

  • Vetville
    Mike Sager
    Mike Sager has been called “the Beat poet of American Journalism.” Vetville collects the best his stories about the Marine Corps. Together this tetralogy of long form pieces charts a life story arc of the modern Devil Dog. It begins at Camp Pendleton, CA, on field exercises with Lieutenant Colonel Bob Sinclair and his BN One-Four—the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment—as they p...
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    7,96 €

  • Revenge of the Donut Boys
    Mike Sager
     From ground zero of the deadliest wildfire in California history to the cozy living room of super-spokesmodel Brooke Burke; from the recording studio with gangsta-rap pioneer Ice Cube to the tour bus with the Satanic metal band Slayer; this tough but lyrical collection of seventeen stories, by award-winning Esquire and Rolling Stone writer Mike Sager, brings into sharp focus ...
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    13,80 €

  • The Lonely Hedonist
    Mike Sager
    Best-selling author Mike Sager has been called “the Beat poet of American journalism, that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality.” The Lonely Hedonist: True Stories of Sex, Drugs, Dinosaurs and Peter Dinklage is Sager’s sixth collection of true stories—sixteen intimate profiles of larger-than-life Americans, both famous and obscure:  The founder of a Bever...
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    13,49 €

  • Stoned Again
    Mike Sager
    'In Stoned Again, Mike Sager refers to himself as a 'drugs correspondent,' but that's legitimately humble smoke that belies what's really going on here. While there's plenty of weed, heroin, ‘shrooms, and crack (not to mention plenty of Ricky James, bitch) in these pages, what is most evident on every page is the remarkable reporting, empathy, craftsmanship, and sto...
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    13,46 €

  • Scary Monsters and Super Freaks
    Mike Sager
    Mike Sager is to drugs, porn, and crimes of desperate delusion what Dominic Dunne is to the society murder. In addition to his long-classic Rolling Stone story “The Devil and John Holmes” (which helped inspire the upcoming Val Kilmer film, Wonderland) and his groundbreaking GQ piece about murdered Irish investigative reporter Veronica Guerin (also the subject of a major film st...
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    21,14 €