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	Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger By Bill Landis ISBN: 0060922141
Synopsis From the beginning of the underground film movement in the U.S. and Europe, through the fringe gay world of the '40s and '50s, to the '60s in London and San Francisco (when Anger was at his peak of fame), to the present, Anger takes the reader on a wild journey tracing the reclusive, countercultural life of America's most innovative and highly regarded underground filmmaker. Known worldwide for his bestselling Hollywood Babylon books and his cult film classics Scorpio Rising, Lucifer Rising and Fireworks, Anger's aesthetic vision influenced such directors as Steven Spielberg, Dennis Hopper and Martin Scorcese, and can still be felt years later in contemporary mediums such as rock videos. In this sensational story of one of the century's most creative and controversial iconoclasts, the reader encounters characters as diverse as sexuality expert Dr. Alfred Kinsey, avant-gardists Anais Nin and Marianne Faithfull, rock icons Mick Jagger and Jimmy Page and Bobby Beausoleil, the Manson murderer who was Anger's prot,g, and a star of Lucifer Rising. A powerful and compelling read, Anger is indispensable for film buffs and is sure to appeal to the burgeoning gay market. Autographed copies of this book can be obtained by contacting Bill Landis at: bill@sleazoidexpress.com Bill Landis has also written another book called: 'Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square' ************************************************************************ More of Bill Landis and his collaborator Michelle Clifford at www.sleazoidexpress.com www.geocities.com/metasex Exploitation and 1970s classic adult movies and the Times Square vice world documented, and much more.

	Another Day in Paradise By Eddie Little ISBN: 0140267727 (USA) ISBN: 0099768313 (UK)
In the tradition of Jim Carroll's Basketball Diaries, Eddie Little's debut novel traces the outlaw life of a young Irish American. A teenage speed freak and petty thief, Bobbie and his Puerto Rican girlfriend, Rosie, are taken under the wing of an all-round criminal opportunist named Mel (who is old enough to be Bobbie's father) and Mel's girlfriend, Syd. Bobbie's chance to get back on his feet begins as the inside man in a pharmaceutical company break-in. The ensuing crime spree takes the foursome across the Midwest and California of the early '70s - and deeper into the dark world of heroin addiction. View film details

	Basketball Diaries By Jim Carroll ISBN: 0613132610 / 0140249990 (USA)
True story of Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high school kids. View film details

	Beating Heroin By Dr Neil Beck (3rd Edition 2006) ISBN: 0957798113 192 pages
Heroin Addiction and Drug Addiction Treatment and the underlying disorders which come with and often cause addiction. Outpatient Detox, Triple Diagnoses and Triple Therapy. • Opiates (heroin, morphine, oxycontin, homebake codeine) • Amphetamines (speed, ice/ crystal meth) • Benzodiazepines (benzos, valium, serapax, mogadon, rohypnol, xanax) • Cannabis (marijuana, hash) • Alcohol Find out what the underlying disorders are which may be making it near to impossible for you to get clean. Find out about our amazing diagnosis and treatment system that will save you money. Visit his website at: http://beatingheroin.com

	Beauty Queen By Linda Glovach ISBN: 006205161X
When we first meet 19-year-old Samantha, she sounds like a normal teenager, writing in her diary about an ex-boyfriend: "I will never fall in love again, never, ever! Why is life so cruel? Why do people like to hurt each other?" But a mere three months later - after moving into her own apartment, taking a job as a topless dancer, and becoming addicted to heroin - her tone takes on that of a grizzled drug abuser: "I've been shooting in my bony hip area... toward my groin, so no one can detect the needle points on my rear when I wear my G-string, and I'm getting terribly numb there." Samantha's story is told entirely in the form of her journal entries, which vividly reflect this young woman's rapid descent into the seedy world of addiction. Author Linda Glovach creates a likable, believable character in Samantha: we recognize her humanity as a girl genuinely troubled by her mother's alcoholism (as well as by her mom's lascivious boyfriend); we feel the unconditional love she harbors for her diabetic Maine coon cat; we shake our heads as her greed for money and flippant attitude about her addiction cause Sam to make naive decisions. As Sam spirals further downward - still unaware of how far gone she really is, even though she can't complete a journal entry without shooting up - readers will feel the remorse of what could have been, and may learn a valuable lesson in the process.

	Blues Dancing By Diane McKinney-Whetstone ISBN: 0688149952
From the beloved author of 'Tumbling' and 'Tempest Rising' comes a new novel, Blues Dancing - a richly spun tale of love and passion, betrayal, redemption, and faith, set in contemporary Philadelphia. In the early seventies, Verdi, a pampered, cloistered daughter of a southern preacher, heads to Philadelphia to enroll at the university. There she meets Johnson, a city boy. Their differences draw them together - he loves her gentility, she is seduced by his charisma. Their relationship is pure sweetness until Johnson teaches her the one thing that will change her life irrevocably - how to love heroin. Enter Rowe, the conservative black professor who rescues Verdi from her overwhelming addiction and then falls desperately in love with her, leaving his sophisticated wife for this confused southern girl. Rowe and Verdi live a comfortable existence for twenty years, even though he attempts to strain Verdi's relationship with her first cousin and dearest friend, Kitt. As the novel opens, Kitt tells Verdi that Johnson is back in town and Verdi feels her safe and protected world teeter off balance. Once they lay their eyes on each other, they realize that the years have not dulled their passion as they skid uncontrollably toward the desires of their youth. Blues Dancing makes for rich interplay as the author allows time to inform her characters' lives in provocative ways.

	Buffalo Soldiers By Robert O'Connor ISBN: 0679415084
Take a dark journey into the seedy world of skag, kodak film cannisters, and life in army barracks in Germany. Army man Ray Elwood, battalion commander's clerk and troop heroin dealer, struggles to deal with peacetime boredom while stationed in the no-man's-land of Mannheim in the Federal Republic of Germany. View film details

	Candy By Luke Davies ISBN: 0345423879 (USA) ISBN: 0099268698 (UK)
Like Trainspotting, Candy depicts heroin addicts in a British subculture, but it is set in Australia, not Scotland. "Candy" is the slang name of the unnamed narrator's two great loves: his girlfriend and heroin. He introduces her to the drug, and they descend from being high on life, love, and drugs, to being shamed through prostitution, crime, addiction, and recovery. With a string of scams to score money and heroin: some hilarious, some desperate, and some both at once. One scam starts when they answer a ringing public phone that the caller mistakenly believes is a suicide prevention line. Candy and the narrator are ruthless but human; their likableness and the immediacy of their dramas make them sympathetic even when pathetic.

	Confessions of an English Opium Eater By Thomas De Quincey ISBN: 014043061X, 0486287424
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is a central figure of English Romanticism. 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater', his best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction. De Quincey lived his full three score years and ten. But few would have predicted it, for his father and numerous of his siblings were carried off by tuberculosis. He owed his survival to opium: its powers kept the disease at bay, but in trade it kept De Quincey its slave. When the physical life hangs by a thread, nature often compensates with another gift. With De Quincey, it was his intellect, from which came this offering which lives to this day.

	Diary of a Drug Fiend By Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0877281467
Diary of a Drug Fiend was Aleister Crowley's first published novel. To the reader of 1911 it presented a shocking look at a little known phenomenon. Today, while we are more familiar with drugs because of their widespread use in our culture, Diary of a Drug Fiend remains one of the most intense, detailed and accurate accounts of drug addiction and the drug experience. The book was written by Crowley after years of deep personal study and experimentation with drugs. It is the story of a young man and woman who fall madly in love and whirl through Europe in a frenzied haze of heroin/cocaine adventure. Their ecstasy is brought to an abrupt end when their drug supply is cut off and despair replaces joy. Through the guidance of King Lamus, a master Adept, they free themselves from the entanglements of addiction by the application of practical magic. The narrative carries the reader aloft through the brilliance of the imagery created by this master of language; his prose development parallels the growth and increasing depth of his characters in an uncanny fashion. This is a book to be read and reread. It will also prove a useful document to doctors, lawyers, police and addicts for its unique and precise presentation of the psychology of addiction and the possibility of its cure through the development of the True Will.

	Dopefiend By Donald Goines ISBN: 0870679953
For twenty-three years of his life Donald Goinse lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age of thirty nine. He had worked up to a hundred dollars a day habit and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend! It is the shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addict. Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend- both handsome, talented, and full of promise- are inexorably pulled into death of the hardcore junkie!

	Dope Girls By Marek Kohn ISBN: 0853157723 (USA) ISBN: 1862074062 (UK)
This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Bille Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace. Around them in the streets off Shaftesbury Avenue and in Chinatown there swirled a raffish group of seedy and rebellious hedonists. Britain was horrified and fascinated. The drug problem was born, amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail.

	Drug Addiction 'No Way I'm an Addict' By John Hicks ISBN: 0761302026
A book for teens at risk for substance abuse and dependence. Drug Addiction: No Way I'm an Addict is a valuable tool to help young people learn about their relationship to substances. For those who are thinking about trying drugs, this book will serve as an example of what they can expect, and may convince them it's not what friends promise it will be. For those who have tried drugs and are experiencing some confusion about what is happening, or are having problems in other areas of their life, this book should help them become aware of how their use is affecting their lives. And for those who identify with the young people who so truthfully relate their experiences of addiction, this book will serve as a guide to the resources that can help them begin the difficult process of recovery.

	Drugs and Death Profiles of Illegal Drug Abuse By Joseph C. Rupp ISBN: 0967095905 (USA)
Drugs and Death is an interactive, multimedia CD-ROM on the dangers and unforeseen consequences of illegal drug abuse. It is intended for use by parents, teenagers, or anyone working with young people who are at risk for using illegal drugs. The presentation contains information on the effects of drug use not generally known to those outside the medical community. Adults and teens will find this CD-ROM to be powerful and educational. Drugs and Death is presented in a graphic and easily understood manner. Written by forensic pathologist and medical examiner Joseph C. Rupp, M.D., the material is based on drug-related deaths from medical examiner case files. Photographs from the scenes and autopsies of these deaths are used to demonstrate the damaging effects of illegal drug use on the human body. Please Note: Due to its graphic content, this presentation may not be appropriate for pre-teenagers. Viewer discretion is advised.