City of Myths: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood, Paperback - Martin Turnbull

Reducere. DescriptionWhen you live in a city built on shifting sands of myth, it can be hard to know which way is up.Kathryn Massey spends her days spreading...

Reducere. DescriptionHollywood, 1939: When Tinseltown begins to woo wunderkind Orson Welles, he stashes himself at the Chateau Marmont until he's ready to ma...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the dawn of 1942, the dark days of Pearl Harbor still loom over Los Angeles. America is now at war, and posters warn home-front Holly...

Reducere. DescriptionHollywood history is more than just colorful. It's dripping with red.As World War II ends, a new boogieman emerges: the Red Menace. When...

Reducere. HOLLYWOOD...as seen through the eyes of its most infamous garden.When Marcus Adler's father runs him out of Pennsylvania, he can think of only one ...

Reducere. DescriptionSummer, 1936: Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell's first novel, takes the world by storm. Everyone in Hollywood knows Civil War pictu...

Hollywood, 1920 Alla Nazimova has reached the pinnacle of success. She is the highest-paid actress in town, with a luxurious estate, the respect of...

Reducere. Luke Valenti has never fit into his swaggering family of overbearing loudmouths. Even worse, the world is at war again and Uncle Sam has stamped hi...

Reducere. When tailor Marvin Gottschalk abandoned New York City for the brash boomtown of silent-film-era Hollywood, he never imagined he'd end up on screen ...

Reducere. "Brimming with scandal and an equal amount of heart...a sweeping yet intimate look at the lives of some of history's most notorious figures from Va...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Erik a. EvensenJourney to the frozen lands of northern Europe, where mighty gods battle fearsome monsters for control of th...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of America's during the War of 1812, Beverly Swerling's gripping and intricately plotted sequel to the much-loved...

Reducere. In 1661, Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to ...

Reducere. In this follow-up to his popular Science Secrets, Alberto A. Mart nez discusses various popular myths from the history of mathematics: that Pythago...

A history of the golden period of video games written by comedian and Twitch streaming legend Steve McNeil

Reducere. Author Claude "Paradise" Gray was raised in the South Bronx. He was cofounder of the X Clan, whose 1990 album To the East, Blackwards is an Afrocen...

Reducere. Emmy Award-winning actor, Ed Asner, recounts tales from his amazing life in this charming and hilarious memoir. From his colorful childhood as the ...

City of God, the latest installment in Beverly Swerling's gripping saga of old New York, takes readers to Manhattan's clamorous streets as the nati...

In The Genius of the System, Thomas Schatz recalls Hollywood's Golden Age from the 1920s until the dawn of television in the late 1940s, when quali...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Rebecca SacksNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 204 x 27Cover type: PaperbackRedescoper...

Reducere. At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of th...

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Amanda Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of 'Til Death Do Us Part, transports readers to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction s...

Follow Wally, if you can find him, through an extravaganza of Hollywood's classic films. This book will be irresistible to all Wally fans, old and ...

Reducere. Are you losing your way in a world of supermom myths?Are mothers destined to always compromise their cores? Or can you still choose to love your ow...

Reducere. This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Romanov, the first daughter of the...

Reducere. DescriptionThis comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak...

Beauty and glamour meet deception and revenge in this electrifying novel by New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick.Publisher: Little, Brown...

Reducere. Hey, Waldo fans Sharpen your eyes and your wits, because Waldo is taking you on a whole new star-studded adventure. That's right, you're going to H...

Lights, camera, action! Join the hunt for Wally in Hollywood in this mini edition with free magnifying glass.

Reducere. Every fan of the Universal Horror films of the 1930s knows that James Whale directed four of the best of those films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old ...

Reducere. DescriptionAt a time when the studio is making a stunning comeback, film historian Thomas Schatz provides an indispensable account of Hollywood's t...

Great leadership can make a difference to any organisation. The ten Golden Rules of Leadership is a guide to help anyone develop their capabilities...

Publisher: Hal Leonard CorporationAuthor(s): David W. HewittIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Color including Color Photograp...

A fascinating auto-biography of the life of George Stevens Jr. and his life on movie sets.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Geo...

Reducere. A slave and a cripple, A saint and a Roman officer, An Emperor and a conspirator . . . A city on fire The events surrounding the burning of Rome an...