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Book Cover for: Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life, Sean Payton

Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life

Sean Payton
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Netflix’s new movie ‘Home Team’ is more than just a bizarrely timed feel-good movie tied to Bountygate. It’s the code to decoding Sean Payton’s future. @rodger: https://t.co/EU1R0fm9rR

Paperback, 2011

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Blackbird, David Stone

Blackbird

David Stone
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Developed by the crime writer Dennis Lehane, a novelist recruited into TV by David Simon of ‘The Wire’, Apple TV’s #BlackBird is worth watching for reasons beyond its high-profile casting. @aherman2006: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/7/8/23199193/black-bird-apple-tv-plus-review-ray-liotta-taron-egerton?utm_campaign=theringer&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Paperback, 2020

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Book Cover for: Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin

Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin
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With the first season of ‘House of the Dragon’ complete, ‘Fire & Blood’ reader @zachkram reviews some of the show’s biggest deviations from George R.R. Martin’s source text, grades the book’s historians, and makes predictions for Season 2: https://t.co/L1ZkooLTwA

Paperback, Mass Market, 2021

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him, Justin Tinsley

It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him

Justin Tinsley
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In exclusive excerpt from his new book ‘It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him,’ @JustinTinsley explores the early days after the legendary MC first blew up: https://t.co/CTaSt2vhn5

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney
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‘Conversations With Friends,’ the second adaptation of a Sally Rooney novel, starts from a similar place as ‘Normal People,’ but soon veers in a different direction—one that is an inherently harder sell. @aherman2006: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/5/16/23074160/sally-rooney-conversations-with-friends-hulu-show?utm_campaign=theringer&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Paperback, 2018

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Book Cover for: American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang

American Born Chinese

Gene Luen Yang
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In its TV version, ‘American Born Chinese’ gets the Disney treatment without losing most of the message of Gene Luen Yang’s acclaimed graphic novel. @dchin25: https://t.co/CsivhXGaut

Paperback, 2021

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Kindred, Octavia Butler

Kindred

Octavia Butler
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‘Kindred,’ the FX series and the first of several planned adaptations of Octavia Butler’s work, aims to introduce her ideas to a new generation of fans—and prove their enduring relevance. @aherman2006: https://t.co/t8tSAfU8jo

Paperback, 2004

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Super Bowl, Kenny Abdo

Super Bowl

Kenny Abdo
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Introducing Super Bowl Bingo! @Fanduel created a FREE bingo card featuring Super Bowl and pop culture moments. Every card is automatically updated throughout the game, so you literally have to do nothing. Grab your card for a shot at $100,000 in prizes: https://www.fanduel.com/superbowlbingo https://t.co/H0cdNH9T0e

Hardcover, 2018

$32.79$16.40 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: White Noise, Don Delillo

White Noise

Don Delillo
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Before #WhiteNoise was a Noah Baumbach movie about a crumbling society and postmodern anxiety, it was a Don DeLillo novel about a crumbling society and postmodern anxiety. @RossScarano: https://t.co/WZLMPgk5Bl

Paperback, 1986

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Book Cover for: Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn
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Ten years to the month that Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’ was first published, the novel still looms over contemporary literature and the broader publishing industry. @ScarlettEHarris: https://www.theringer.com/2022/6/8/23158396/gone-girl-novel-10th-anniversary-gillian-flynn-impact-legacy?utm_campaign=theringer&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Paperback, 2014

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