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Author: Caitlin Crews Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 1489258396 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 392
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Heiress Behind The Headlines Desperately hiding from the paparazzi's relentless cameras, heiress Larissa Whitney escapes to a small secluded island. But she's not alone and finds herself face–to–face with Jack Endicott Sutton... Now she's trapped on an island with a man she had a wild affair with five years before. A man she's still achingly attracted to. A man who knows the outrageous truth! No More Sweet Surrender Billionaire philanthropist Ivan Korovin has a serious PR problem to take care of; outspoken Miranda Sweet has ruined his repuation by labelling him 'Caveman #1' in her bestselling book. The solution? Give the ravenous public what they want – to see the enemies become lovers! From the red carpet in LA to black–tie charity balls in Moscow, they play out their pretend love story. But beneath the glare of the spotlight, it's getting harder to tell what's real and what's for show... A Royal Without Rules Royal PA Adriana Righetti is no stranger to scandal, but Prince Pato takes it to a whole new level. Her latest assignment, keeping the playboy prince out of the headlines before his brother's wedding, is mission impossible. Particularly as Pato is intent on ruffling her seemingly uptight feathers! But when the cameras aren't looking, Adriana sees behind his careless facade, and wonders – is there more to this rebel royal than the world knows?
Author: Caitlin Crews Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 1489258396 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
Heiress Behind The Headlines Desperately hiding from the paparazzi's relentless cameras, heiress Larissa Whitney escapes to a small secluded island. But she's not alone and finds herself face–to–face with Jack Endicott Sutton... Now she's trapped on an island with a man she had a wild affair with five years before. A man she's still achingly attracted to. A man who knows the outrageous truth! No More Sweet Surrender Billionaire philanthropist Ivan Korovin has a serious PR problem to take care of; outspoken Miranda Sweet has ruined his repuation by labelling him 'Caveman #1' in her bestselling book. The solution? Give the ravenous public what they want – to see the enemies become lovers! From the red carpet in LA to black–tie charity balls in Moscow, they play out their pretend love story. But beneath the glare of the spotlight, it's getting harder to tell what's real and what's for show... A Royal Without Rules Royal PA Adriana Righetti is no stranger to scandal, but Prince Pato takes it to a whole new level. Her latest assignment, keeping the playboy prince out of the headlines before his brother's wedding, is mission impossible. Particularly as Pato is intent on ruffling her seemingly uptight feathers! But when the cameras aren't looking, Adriana sees behind his careless facade, and wonders – is there more to this rebel royal than the world knows?
Author: John Berendt Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0679429220 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 417
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
Author: Colleen McCullough Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061990477 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 689
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One of the most beloved novels of all time, Colleen McCullough's magnificent saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian outback has enthralled readers the world over. The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three generations of Clearys—an indomitable clan of ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family. It is a poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit. Most of all, it is the story of the Clearys' only daughter, Meggie, and the haunted priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart—and the intense joining of two hearts and souls over a lifetime, a relationship that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma.
Author: Michael Gross Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0767917448 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 580
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From the author of House of Outrageous Fortune For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day, it is steeped in the purest luxury, the kind most of us could only imagine, until now. The last great building to go up along New York’s Gold Coast, construction on 740 Park finished in 1930. Since then, 740 has been home to an ever-evolving cadre of our wealthiest and most powerful families, some of America’s (and the world’s) oldest money—the kind attached to names like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Bouvier, Chrysler, Niarchos, Houghton, and Harkness—and some whose names evoke the excesses of today’s monied elite: Kravis, Koch, Bronfman, Perelman, Steinberg, and Schwarzman. All along, the building has housed titans of industry, political power brokers, international royalty, fabulous scam-artists, and even the lowest scoundrels. The book begins with the tumultuous story of the building’s construction. Conceived in the bubbling financial, artistic, and social cauldron of 1920’s Manhattan, 740 Park rose to its dizzying heights as the stock market plunged in 1929—the building was in dire financial straits before the first apartments were sold. The builders include the architectural genius Rosario Candela, the scheming businessman James T. Lee (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s grandfather), and a raft of financiers, many of whom were little more than white-collar crooks and grand-scale hustlers. Once finished, 740 became a magnet for the richest, oldest families in the country: the Brewsters, descendents of the leader of the Plymouth Colony; the socially-registered Bordens, Hoppins, Scovilles, Thornes, and Schermerhorns; and top executives of the Chase Bank, American Express, and U.S. Rubber. Outside the walls of 740 Park, these were the people shaping America culturally and economically. Within those walls, they were indulging in all of the Seven Deadly Sins. As the social climate evolved throughout the last century, so did 740 Park: after World War II, the building’s rulers eased their more restrictive policies and began allowing Jews (though not to this day African Americans) to reside within their hallowed walls. Nowadays, it is full to bursting with new money, people whose fortunes, though freshly-made, are large enough to buy their way in. At its core this book is a social history of the American rich, and how the locus of power and influence has shifted haltingly from old bloodlines to new money. But it’s also much more than that: filled with meaty, startling, often tragic stories of the people who lived behind 740’s walls, the book gives us an unprecedented access to worlds of wealth, privilege, and extraordinary folly that are usually hidden behind a scrim of money and influence. This is, truly, how the other half—or at least the other one hundredth of one percent—lives.
Author: Michael Gross Publisher: Broadway ISBN: 076793265X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 562
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A history of lucrative real estate in Los Angeles shares the lesser-known contributions of a range of figures from Douglas Fairbanks and Marilyn Monroe to Howard Hughes and Ronald Reagan. By the best-selling author of Rogues' Gallery.
Author: Degna Marconi Publisher: Guernica Editions ISBN: 9781550711516 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 284
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The daughter of Guglielmo Marconi draws upon her father's personal journals and letters as well as from scientific and historical records to chronicle the life and profession of the internationally known inventor.
Author: Thomas Schatz Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 324
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The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.
Author: Michael Gross Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476763488 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 416
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“This thoroughly absorbing narrative dazzles with the most profound investigation and research. Focus is an enthralling and riveting read.” —Tim Gunn “Smart, well-researched…engaging…canny” (New York Times Book Review), Focus is a “fast-paced—and clearly insider—look at the rarefied, sexy world of fashion photography” (Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada). New York Times bestselling author Michael Gross brings to life the wild genius, egos, passions, and antics of the men (and a few women) behind the camera, probing the lives, hang-ups, and artistic triumphs of more than a dozen of fashion photography’s greatest visionaries, including Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bill King, Helmut Newton, Gilles Bensimon, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, and Bob and Terry Richardson. Tracing the highs and lows of fashion photography from the late 1940s to today, Focus takes you behind the scenes to reveal the revolutionary creative processes and fraught private passions of these visionary magicians, “delving deep into the fascinating rivalries” (The Daily News) between photographers, fashion editors, and publishers like Condé Nast and Hearst. Weaving together candid interviews, never-before-told insider anecdotes and insights born of his three decades of front-row and backstage reporting on modern fashion, Focus is “simply unrivaled…a sensation….Gross is a modern-day Vasari, giving us The Lives of the Artists in no small measure” (CraveOnline).
Author: Caitlin Crews
Author: Caitlin Crews
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Author: Michael Gross
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Author: Michael Gross