Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| V.C. ANDREWS (© 1979) | FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC - FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC is V.C. Andrews' dark, terrifying tale of passion and peril in the lives of four innocent children, locked away from the world by a selfish mother scheming for an inheritance.
But children grow up, and their injuries turn sour. Revenge replaces innocence.
"The first in a quartet of horrific tales, FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC introduces not only the Dollanganger children and a tale of consequence, but an author whose style and accessibilty suggest additional entrancements in the years ahead." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
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| V.C. ANDREWS (© 1980) | PETALS ON THE WIND - Second in Andrew's Dollanganger quartet, continues the lives of four innocent children locked away from the world by a selfish mother scheming for an inheritance.
Cathy knew what to do. She knew it was time to show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten. Show them once and for all!
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| V.C. ANDREWS (© 1981) | IF THERE BE THORNS - Chris and Cathy make a loving home for 14-year old Jory, and for Bart, who has quite a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights come on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black is there, watching them, guarded by her strange old butler.
Bart's transformation begins, fed by hints about his past. These revelations unhinge him, and Bart totters on the edge of madness. His parents can only wait for the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic whose thorns are still tipped with fire.
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| V.C. ANDREWS (© 1984) | SEEDS OF YESTERDAY - The final, haunting novel, in the extraordinary story that has enthralled millions!
The horror began with Flowers in the Attic, the terrifying tale of four innocent children locked away from the world by a cruel mother.
The shocking fury continued with Petals on the Wind and If There be Thorns. Now V.C. Andrews has created the last dark chapter in the strange, chilling tale of passion and peril.
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| STEPHEN HUMPHREY BOGART (© 1995) | IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER - Writing with the encouragement of his famous mother, Lauren Bacall, Stephen calls on his memories, and takes full advantage of the extraordinary access he has had to friends and colleagues of his father. The result is an intimate and personal profile of an enigmatic man whose tough image contrasted with very human ambitions and vulnerabilities. It is also a vastly entertaining book, filled with fascinating stories involving Frank Sinatra, Katherine Hepburn, "Swifty" Lazar, John Huston, Stephen Bogart's stepfather, Jason Robards, and many others.
Here is Humphrey Bogart, the pro's pro on the set and the Hollywood renegade off it. The man's man, the ladies' man, the hard worker, and the man who liked to drink too much. The husband in three roller-coaster marriages and finally one perfect match, the proud father and absentee parent, the good friend and even better enemy. Here are eye-witness accounts of his most celebrated public misdeeds and moving testimonies of his most unexpected private moments. And finally, in perhaps the most compelling chapter of this shining saga, here is the close-up of Bogart's last months, where his courage, dignity, and humor made his most stirring celluloid roles seem to pale in comparison.
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| WILLIAM BOYD (© 1981) | A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA - The protagonist is a boozer and a womanizer and an absolute amoral slob. By no means is he a good man, and, at least at the beginning of the film, he couldn't care less.
Morgan Leafy hates his job and hates Kinjanja, and through a combination of sloth, incompetence and bad karma, manages to make a fine mess of nearly everything he touches. For the most part, Leafy's tenure has been uneventful, allowing him to pursue his vices with dedicated zeal. But the discovery of oil off Kinjanja's coast has prompted British High Commissioner Fanshawe to embark on a mission to Kinjanja to secure the rights to the reserves.
To this end, Fanshawe assigns Leafy the task of persuading Kinjanja's leading candidate for president, Professor Adekunle, to sell the rights to the British. But the cagey Adekunle catches his scheming wife in flagrante delicto with Leafy, and using the bumbling diplomat's indiscretion as leverage, forces him to try to bribe Dr. Murray into approving a development deal that will make Adekunle millions. All this double-dealing is a bit of a shock even to Leafy. Up till now, his personal brand of corruption has been sleazy but rather passive. He's a cad and a liar, but until he meets Murray, who is too principled to be bought off, he could at least look at himself sideways in the mirror. To Leafy, Murray is the last good man in Africa, and after several chance encounters with this bristly Scot, Leafy begins to think about turning his life around.
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| SCOTT EYMAN (© 1984) | THE SPEED OF SOUND - Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930. Although film and the movies had existed for some years prior, it was D.W. griffith's The Birth of a Nation, released in 1915, that turned what had been a flickering novelty into a transformational art form. In the years following that first epic film, that art form had been refined and reinterpreted many times and in many ways, and the masters of the silent film had emerged to create movies that were visual works of art.
And then in 1926 came sound and with it, at least in the eyes of many, came the end of art. Certainly it marked the end of moviemaking as its creators had known it. Their careers and those of many others who had been celebrated during hollywood's silent era were over. It was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period in which America's most popular industry reinvented itself.
For the first time ever, here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies-that moment when movies were totally transformed and the american public cemented its love affair with Hollywood. Here is the first and last word on the missing chapter in the history of Hollywood, the ribbon of dreams by which America conquered the world.
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| WARREN G. HARRIS (© 1994) | AUDREY HEPBURN - Beginning with her harsh childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland (and including startling new facts about her parents), Warren Harris chronicles Audrey Hepburn's meteoric rise to stardom in Hollywood: her chance encounter with Colette that led to the lead role in the Broadway version of GIGI, and her first starring role in ROMAN HOLIDAY. Hepburn went on to make such memorable films as SABRINA, FUNNY FACE, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, and MY FAIR LADY. She played opposite William Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, and Cary Grant, the leading men of the day.
Warren Harris traces Hepburn's affairs and her unhappy marriages, as well as her later work as goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. Throughout the book he illuminates her special ability to exude grace and style, both on screen and off. | Y
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| PAULINE KAEL (© 2001) | I LOST IT AT THE MOVIES - I Lost it at the Movies is vintage Kael on such classics of post-War cinema as On the Waterfront, Smiles of a Summer Night, West Side Story, The Seven Samurai, Lolita, Jules et Jim etc. Her comments are so fresh and direct, it's as if the movies had only been released last week.
'She is a good critic, wonderful in the way she combines intimate practical knowledge with unbuyable human reflection.' John Updike
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| PHILIP NORMAN (© 1981) | SHOUT! THE BEATLES IN THEIR GENERATION - The Beatles came to America in the early sixties and have been an integral part of our culture ever since. Philip Norman, a journalist who began covering the Fab Four in 1968, tells the fascinating story of four unknowns from Liverpool and how they became world-famous rock'n'rollers -- figures more adored, more influential, and more troubled than any in the history of the pop music. From the days of Stu Sutcliffe, the brilliant and short-lived "fifth Beatle," to the comeback thwarted by John Lennon's murder, Philip Norman reveals the personal triumphs and torments that produced four legends.
"The definitive biography." (The New York Times)
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| ANNE TYLER (© 1998) | A PATCHWORK PLANET - Something is wrong with Barnaby Gaitlin, A 30-year-old lovable loser. In trouble with the law since adolescence, Barnaby had this habit of breaking into other people's houses -- not to steal car keys and booze -- he just liked to sift through other people's mail and browse through their photo albums. But for the last eleven years Barnaby has been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, doing chores for old folks and shut-ins. Still, his family, ever mindful of what it took to buy off his victims, can't forget. Nor can his ex-wife, who would just as soon Barnaby not visit their little girl. Even Sophia, his "guardian angel", doesn't fully trust him. With her sharp, funny and tender perceptions on how all people, even lost souls like Barnaby, fit into this patchwork planet, Anne Tyler keeps us enthralled from start to finish.
"A wonderful novel!" (New York Times Book Review)
Anne Tyler is at her most beguiling in this story of Barnaby, a 30 year-old lovable loser who works for Rent-a-Back, doing chores for old folks and shut-ins, while trying to get his life in order.
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| ANNE TYLER (© 1989) | THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST - Macon Leary hates to travel. So he is singularly equipped to make his living as an author of passport-size guidebooks whose ideal reader is the businessman abroad who longs for a king-size bed in Madrid, Sweet 'n' Low in Tokyo and a Rome restaurant that serves Chef Boyardee.
Leary is someone who travels through life accidently. Things just happen to him--the senseless death of his child, the baffling desertion of his wife, even his involvement with Muriel, the frizzy-haired, stiletto-heeled, non-stop talker from the kennel where he boards his dog.
"What seems like accident becomes tinged with purpose, the comfortably familiar disturbed by the impulse to escape. Only Anne Tyler with her original view could make Leary irresistible, and produce so lovely and singular a story." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
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| ANNE TYLER (© 1988) | BREATHING LESSONS - Maggie is scattered, impetuous, soft; Ira is competent, patient, infallible. They have been married for 28 years.
A hot summer day finds them driving to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, 90 miles from their home in Baltimore, to the funeral of Maggie's best friend's husband. But the journey is a metaphor for their own lives, with the tensions, disappointments and frustrations that a long marriage brings.
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