Author: Mary Ann Norbom
Publisher: Signet
ISBN: 9780451097736
Category : Family feud (Television program)
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: Brenda Scott Royce
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1580630316
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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This fun and informative book takes fans of "Hogan's Heroes", the classic 1960s sitcom, behind the scenes to reveal the details of the show's creation, the controversy surrounding its unlikely premise, interviews with the stars and crew, a detailed guide to each of the 168 episodes, and much more. 25 photos.

Author: George W. S. Trow
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871136749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Written originally for a special issue of The New Yorker and reissued here with a new forward by the author, Within the Context of No Context is George W. S. Trow's brilliant exposition on the state of American culture and twentieth-century life. Published to widespread acclaim, Within the Context of No Context became an immediate classic and is, to this day, a favorite work of writers and critics alike. Both a chilling commentary on the times in which it was written and an eerie premonition of the future, Trow's work locates and traces, describes and analyzes the components of change in contemporary America -- a culture increasingly determined by the shallow worlds of consumer products, daytime television, and celebrity heroes. "This elegant little book is essential reading for anyone interested in the demise, the terminal silliness, of our culture." -- John Irving, The New York Times Book Review; "In this elegant, poignant essay, written with the grace of a master stylist, George Trow articulates the accelerated impermanence of American culture with a precision that is both flaunting and devastating." -- Rudy Wurlitrer; "Within the Context of No Context is a masterpiece of the century that belongs on a shelf next to Theodore Adorno's Minima Moralia and Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle." -- Michael Tolkin; "Within the Context of No Context may appear to be a book of the mind, for it is suffused with such a keen intelligence, but it is actually a book of the heart -- passionate, brave, and stirring." -- Sue Halpern.

Author: John Hook
Publisher: Get Hooked Media
ISBN: 9781944194253
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The 1978 murder of actor Bob Crane remains unsolved. Hook retested the original blood evidence, and searched for the identity of the killer. He shows how police mistakes and missing evidence impacted the investigation, and raises new questions in the search for truth.

Author: David Baber
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476604800
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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This unique work profiles the private lives and careers of 32 American game show hosts, including the originals (e.g., Bill Cullen, Peter Marshall), the classics (e.g., Bob Barker), and the contemporaries (e.g., Regis Philbin). Organized by host, each chapter includes birth and family information and a complete career history. The most significant developments of each host's early life and career are highlighted--complete with successes, failures, and scandals. Many of the biographies are accompanied by interviews with the host or his family and friends.

Author: Richard Bowker
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
ISBN: 1614173796
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Unshaven, unkempt, and an avid Boston Red Sox fan, Alan Simpson is a reluctant psychic and tracker of persons, missing or dead. When the mayor's son is kidnapped, Alan is brought in to investigate the crime. From the start, Alan is haunted by the image of a beautiful and troubled young woman named Julia—a woman he is fated to love. But Julia is part of the crime and the pawn of Seth Stone, a powerful psychic questing for ultimate power. REVIEWS: "A page-turner." ~Midwest Book Review "...an immensely likable hero" ~Booklist THE PSYCHIC THRILLER SERIES, in recommended order Summit Marlborough Street OTHER TITLES by Richard Bowker Senator Pontiff SCIENCE FICTION TITLES by Richard Bowker Replica Forbidden Sanctuary Dover Beach (The Last P.I. Series, Book 1) The Distance Beacons (The Last P.I. Series, Book 2)

Author: A. Ashley Hoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990880028
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Author A. Ashley Hoff has interviewed the writers, directors, producers, celebrity panelists, and surviving hosts to present the behind-the-scenes story of "Match Game," America's (and the UK's, and Australia's) favorite seventies TV game show.

Author: Dirk Wittenborn
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125206
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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"Welcome fledging Social Climbers! Allow us to show you the way. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, so what's the big deal? You shouldn't be punished for wanting to improve your lot in life! This is America, after all. In the grand tradition of True Prep and The Hipster Handbook, The Social Climber's Bible will teach you everything you need to know to become a pro Mountaineer: The Art of Social Climbing at gallery openings, cocktail parties, and funerals Social Climbing as a family How to handle sex, dating, marriage, and love Your social climbing IQ and how to improve it How to spot a Big Fish, Whale, Turtle or Unicorn, and what they can do for you Johnson & Johnson heiress Jazz Johnson is a lifelong insider in that rarefied world that fans of both Downton Abbey and Gossip Girl dream about. Raconteur Dirk Wittenborn is old enough to remember when sex was safe and cocaine wasn't addictive. In short, Jazz belongs to some of the most exclusive clubs in the world, whereas Dirk has been kicked out of them. Who better to guide you? "--

Author: Ann Rinaldi
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547416245
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Based on the true story of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, “this novel beautifully evokes a time, a place, and one of the more peculiar sagas in American history” (Booklist). Fanny McCoy has lived in fear and anger ever since that day in 1878 when a dispute with the Hatfields over the ownership of a few pigs set her family on a path of hatred and revenge. From that day forward, along the ragged ridges of the West Virginia-Kentucky line, the Hatfields and the McCoys have operated not within the law but within mountain codes of their own making. In 1882, when Fanny’s sister Roseanna runs off with young Johnse Hatfield, the hatred between the two clans explodes. As the killings, abductions, raids, and heartbreak escalate bitterly and senselessly, Fanny, the sole voice of reason, realizes that she is powerless to stop the fighting—and must learn to rise above the petty natures of her family and neighbors to find her own way out of the hatred . . . “Tautly plotted.” —Publishers Weekly “An absorbing story . . . Readers will be drawn to the Romeo and Juliet aspects and also learn a bit of little understood American history.” —VOYA

Author: Dirk Wittenborn
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408818728
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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It is 1950s America and madness is in the air. In a world where the 'cures' for craziness include coma therapy, cyanide treatment and full-frontal lobotomies, Dr. William T. Friedrich, a young and ambitious psychology professor at Yale, stumbles upon a tropical plant that seems to possess the secret ingredient of happiness. In Casper Gedsic, a fiercely intelligent, socially inept, near-suicidal maths student, he seems to have found the perfect guinea pig. But when his experiments goes awry, Casper's thirst for revenge turns murderous and his actions have consequences that will haunt Friedrich and his family forever...