Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| CAROL DOUMANI | UNTITLED, NUDE -
A Venice, Calif. artist's passion for his young model leads to deception and danger. The two lovers get caught up in the middle of the theft of a priceless Michelangelo torso from Malibu's J. Paul Getty Museum. The thieves, a tainted art dealer and a ruthless collector, collude to bury them in a pit of deceit.
Written from an insider's perspective of the L.A. art scene, this dynamite first novel is a fast-paced tale of ambition, forgery, love, and lucre. | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $24 | No | T |
| JAMES ELLROY | AMERICAN TABLOID -
Tough, brutal and staccato, Ellroy delivers a might-have-been tale of corruption bubbling under Camelot's bright image.
Behind JFK's assassination lurk three bent lawmen -- two FBI agents and a rogue ex-L.A. sheriff. Their cynical parts fit a crazy pattern of circumstance as the novel speeds toward that fateful day in Dallas in 1963.
"Hard-bitten...ingenious...Ellroy segues into political intrigue without missing a beat." (The New York Times)
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(14T,21H) | $48 | No | T |
| JAMES ELLROY | CRIME WAVE -
Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no other writer has mapped that field with greater savvy than James Ellroy. Now, in his new book, the author of L. A. CONFIDENTIAL portrays the city as a smog-shrouded netherworld where "every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, prostitute, pillhead, pothead or pimp." From the 1950s scandal sheets to this morning's police blotter, and from his mother's unsolved murder to the slaying of Nicole Brown Simpson, Ellroy investigates true crimes and restores humanity to their victims. Shocking and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, CRIME WAVE is Ellroy at his most majestically excessive. | Y
(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| JAMES ELLROY | L.A. CONFIDENTIAL -
Los Angeles, 1953: six innocent people gunned down at an all-night diner. Three policemen arrive to investigate: Ed Exley, goaded by his father's success on the force, burning to eclipse him; Bud White, witness to his mother's murder, a time bomb with a badge; and Jack Vincennes, former addict, a shake-down artist who works celebrities. Worse yet, these three see themselves as rivals. Their own rage mirrors that of the killers they seek, all players in a game without rules or survivors.
"James Ellroy is a fictional sculptor who carves a universe without beauty, laughter or remorse. L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is his finest work yet." (People)
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(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| JAMES ELLROY | L.A. NOIR (part 1) -
Detective Lloyd Hopkins takes on three mesmerizing cases as he prowls Los Angeles's mean, dark streets. In BLOOD ON THE MOON, 20 women have been killed seemingly randomly...until Hopkins detects a pattern that will lead him straight to the heart of madness. In BECAUSE THE NIGHT, a pre-Civil War revolver is the weapon of choice as Hopkins tracks a killer...and a missing cop. Hopkins leads a manhunt for a violent kidnapper in SUICIDE HILL, as corruption and betrayal among his police colleagues expose a horrifying conspiracy. Packed with taut suspense and compelling action, these novels are the work of James Ellroy at his unparalleled best.
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(14T,21H) | $48 | No | T |
| JAMES ELLROY | L.A. NOIR (part 2) -
"One of the great American writers of our time." (Los Angeles Times Book Review) | Y
(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| JAMES ELLROY | THE BIG NOWHERE -
Los Angeles, 1950. Red crosscurrents and a string of brutal killings. Three men caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit.
The characters: Danny Upshaw--a sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs that nobody cares about. Mal Considine--DA's office brass, climbing on the Red scare bandwagon to advance his own career. Buzz Meeks-- bagman, ex-goon and pimp for Howard Hughes, a man who fights communism for the money. All three have purchased tickets to a nightmare worse than their darkest dreams.
"Stark, brutal, tender and powerful...a remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place." (Publisher's Source)
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(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| JAMES ELLROY | WHITE JAZZ -
Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns -- it's all in a day's work for Lt. Dave Klein in the LAPD of 1958. But when the Feds announce a full-scale investigation of police corruption, things go haywire.
Klein is hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat comes from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass and from racketeers, all bent on keeping their own dirty secrets hidden. For Klein, "42 and going on dead," it's dues time. He helped create this world of greed, ambition and perversion, but now he'll be lucky to get out of it alive.
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(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| KEN FOLLETT | THE HAMMER OF EDEN -
The broadcast, by a controversial talk-radio host, of a terrorist threat to create a man-made earthquake in California is seen as folly by most people. But not so by Judy Maddox, a young FBI agent with an agenda. Nursing the terrifying suspicion that the threat may be all too real, Judy, against orders, begins to investigate. She quickly discovers, with the help of a maverick seismologist, that indeed it is possible to trigger an earthquake deliberately. In fact, the technology is available to anyone who knows where to look for it. When a tremor in a remote desert region shows signs of being machine generated, Judy's suspicions are confirmed. Racing the clock, Judy must track down the elusive Stop Now group before they can carry out their promise to level San Francisco. With an all-too-chilling-credibility, best-selling author Ken Follett takes the contemporary thriller to a new level of earthshaking excitement.
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(9T,13.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| FREDERICK FORSYTH | ICON -
It's 1999 and Russia, wracked with famine and crime, nears anarchy. For Igor Komarov, a charismatic right-winger, opportunity knocks. He waits in the wings for the next election, promising a Russia reborn. What's his agenda?
Elder statesmen in the West secretly recruit the one man who can find the truth: Jason Monk, ex-CIA and the best agent-runner money can buy. His official mission: stop Komarov, whose manifesto is pure Mein Kampf, and make way for an icon worthy of the Russian people. But Monk's also got a personal score to settle in Moscow. Can he stay focused?
"Another strong performance, another memorable protagonist." (Publishers Weekly)
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(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| BARBARA LEAMING | BETTE DAVIS -
She was the tempestuous, strong-willed woman who ignited the movie screen with her legendary performances in Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, and All About Eve. Off-camera Bette Davis fought endless contractual battles with studios and survived four disastrous marriages, earning a larger-than-life reputation as an actress to be reckoned with. In this extraordinary biography, fans and film historians will discover a different, darker side of Bette Davis: a woman beset with scarring personal and professional doubts, a daughter whose mother was devoted to her success, and a mother who loved her own daughter to distraction. Obsessive and compulsive, Davis was happy only when she was working, but did not always choose her projects wisely. She fought a lifelong battle with alcohol, and she had an insatiable need to be loved, often at great emotional cost. A legend, a star, a remarkable woman, Bette Davis lived her life as if it were a coveted role she was desperately afraid she might not win... | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| GEORGE SAYER | JACK: C. S. Lewis and His Times -
Numerous biographies have been written about this great poet, theologian, literary critic and historian, imaginative novelist, and writer of children's stories. We have read several, including A.N. Wilson's recently-published volume, and found Sayer's to be the best.
Sayer helps us see clearly Lewis's early years. And, while hinting at the flashes of childhood brilliance and eccentricity that would later become Lewis's hallmarks, he sheds new light on Lewis's academic career; discusses his transforming Christian experience and objectively assesses the role of religion in his life; deals frankly with his controversial relationship with Mrs. Moore; and provides a revealing passionate account of his marriage to Joy Davidman. | Y
(10T,15H) | $28 | No | T |
| DONALD SPOTO | MARILYN MONROE: BIOGRAPHY -
More than thirty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe still beguiles the world and her image enthralls millions. Many books have attempted to explain her allure and tell her story, but none has succeeded... until this.
Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto's exhaustive research uncovers a conspiracy of silence, allowing him to present the facts, free from often-repeated myths and speculation. Granted access to more than 35,000 pages of formerly sealed files containing letters, diaries, appointment books, and other intimate papers, he also interviewed nearly two hundred people who had never before spoken on the record. from the papers of Marilyn's psychiatrist and her medical files, to recently declassified government documents, the truth emerges and provides a moving, often shocking picture of the real Marilyn Monroe-including the horrifying, bizarre truth
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(16T,24H) | $40 | No | T |
| ANNE TYLER | BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS -
At 53, Rebecca Davitch–mistress of the Open Arms, a crumbling 19th-century row house in Baltimore where giving parties is the family business–suddenly asks herself whether she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this natural-born celebrator, joyous and outgiving?
Certainly that’s how Joe Davitch saw her 30-some years ago. And that’s why this large-spirited older man, a divorcee with three little girls, swept her into his orbit. Before she knew it, she was embracing his extended family (plus a child of their own) and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms where people paid to celebrate their family occasions in style. But can Beck (as she is known to the Davitch clan) really recover the person she left behind? A question that touches us all–and one that Anne Tyler explores with characteristic humor and wisdom in a novel one wishes would never end. | Y
(6T,9H) | $14 | No | T |
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