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Deanne Stillman's Horse Lattitudes: The Last Stand of the Wild Horse in the American West, "a narrative history of the wild horse including Custer's horse Comanche, Robert E. Lee's horse Traveler, and the fabled Great White Steed of the frontier." Stillman also investigates a massacre of 34 wild horses outside Reno, Nevada in 1998.

Bob Eubanks with Matthew Scott Hansen's It's in the Book, Bob, an autobiography of the television personality who was a popular Los Angeles radio DJ in the 1960s and who promoted the Beatles first concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

Former Hollywood assistant Robin Henley's debut novel The Assistants, "a wicked look at the lives of five miserable souls toiling in Tinseltown"