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The moving portrait of a woman stranded in her lonely fame Franny Fuller, blond, buxom, and beguiling, is the sort of woman who harnesses a power that can enthrall a nation. The legendary movie star has captured the imaginations of audiences, men, and columnist Mary Maguire, who is writing her biography. But just who is the human within the celebrity? This is the story of how Fanny Marker from Utica, New York, was transformed into Franny Fuller-a...
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"Why am I still crying over the past? Am I truly saved, delivered, and healed? Why am I allowing the enemy to take my past and bring it into my today?" For many years, these questions regurgitated each time someone or something pushed me to focus on my past.Come with me on a journey through my past. I want to share my story in hopes that my past situations and mistakes will comfort you through any past or current situation in your life. In time, God...
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Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) was a superstar: a virtuosic violinist, notorious womanizer, and reckless gambler. He was also widely believed to have sold his soul. Paganini Agitato, a novel based on his life story, was released by Fomite Press in August 2023, thirty-one years after the author's death. However, in preparing the book for eventual publication, the editor was obliged to delete portions of her original manuscript. Some of the material...
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The 1970s Rock'n'Roll Road is paved with myths and stories. Some of them are mine. In this fictional autobiography, events and names are often changed for privacy, but much of it is mostly true... From 1971-76, I crewed 1,100 shows with over-40 top rock bands, including Led Zepplin, Elvis, Linda Ronstadt, Loggins & Messina, and the Rolling Stones. I was not a musician or a roadie; I was the sound equipment Truck Driver. If I didn't get the sound gear...
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Award-winning novel ***** One of the best modern Czech novels *****Annotation:The autobiographical hero of the novel embarks on a promising career in the not-so-moral world of door-to-door sales. Success seems easy and tempting, but halfway through becoming the perfect "scumbag" the young man finds he has no stomach for this world and begins to look for another life. He starts working as an autopsy photographer. The novel is both a kind of personal...
46) Tula
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A sus veinticinco años, Tula Bowman es considerada la estrella más grande de Hollywood. Sin embargo, termina recluida en un psiquiátrico después de un colapso nervioso. ¿Cuál es la razón que desencadena su colapso nervioso? La perturbadora respuesta se encuentra en Tula, el primer libro de la serie La Época dorada de Hollywood.
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From the author of Caesar and The Sins of the Father, a fictional memoir of the celebrated Scottish Romantic writer and historical novelist.
Allan Massie recreates the life and times of Sir Walter Scott, one of Scotland's greatest writers, convincingly capturing Scott's humor, stoicism and eccentricity. Combining imaginative plausibility with his own deep knowledge of and love for Scott's work, Massie reveals the intimate thoughts of a man at...
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"Lucrezia Borgia as a living, feeling woman rather than just another bodice waiting to be ripped . . . an evident tribute . . . to its much maligned heroine." -New York Times
Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married-one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia's...
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Welch's piercing, intimate, slightly fictionalized, and posthumously published work deals with the bicycle accident that would cause his death thirteen years later At age twenty, Denton Welch was bicycling from London, where he was studying art, to Surrey to pay a visit to his aunt and uncle when he was struck by a car. The next thing he knew, he was lying on his back, unable to move, gazing up at the sky, scarcely aware of anything but the sensation...
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Edgar Allan Poe is a name that seems known to all, yet remains just as shrouded in mystery as complete unknowns. For so long, Poe has been the subject of polarizing opinions and plenty of debates, even amongst scholars. There doesn't seem to be any true debate concerning his literary value. The same, however, cannot be said about his life and character, neither of which were spared from contradictions and controversy. Delve into this illustrated biography...
51) Copier Samurai
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The new blade, one of a sharp twin pair, slices skin and lets blood out. There's hardly even a sting at first, before the foamy shaving cream turns pink, then red, and here's the sting, for real now, as if let loose by blood. Foam redder still. It's a pretty deep cut."Damn."His right hand passes the razor to his left then dives into a blue box of paper napkins by the basin and brings one-two actually, they tend to cling together-out. He presses them...
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The most important document in the history of rock 'n' roll since the liner notes to Killroy Was Here.(This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested readings, and more.)
Never Mind the Pollacks, the first novel from acclaimed humorist Neal Pollack, is an epic history of rock-and-roll told through the eyes of two rival rock critics. The novel spans the decades from the 1940s to the present day, and...
53) Sex
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Wedged between a rock and hard times, Hank finds himself in Las Vegas-the City of Sins. There he finds himself in the midst of people who would do anything to get ahead and those who'd make him seek pleasure unlike before. In the struggle to survive and write, Hank experiences more than he thought the Las Vegas could ever give.
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A woman who works in the beauty field stumbles on an astounding secret: anyone who wrongs her gets a terrible punishment in return. As a diehard Libra, who believes in truth, justice, and everyone getting theirs, she can't thank her lucky stars enough-that is, until she finds out that the person who has crossed her is someone she loves more than anyone else in the world, and that person is about to pay.
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55) Weirdly Bland
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The sequel to the novel, China Laid Bare, which describes the author's time living in Germany."I often tried to think of words to describe the German people. The best I could come up with was weirdly bland or blandly weird. In the end, I settled for weirdly bland." Book 5 of the author's Great Escape series.
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July 6, 1961What I dislike the most about electric shock is the smell. That, and the little sound it makes which I didn't hear at first. What with the humming of the machine, the doctors talking, and the patient moaning and even screaming sometimes, it was hard to hear, but once I did, once I did hear this sound, distinct from all the other sounds in the room, now I hear it all the time, I can't stop hearing it.What this sound is, is a tiny sizzle-as...
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Title: "Frontier Echoes: James Wesley Tiwater"In the rich tapestry of family history, the legacy of James Wesley Tiwater unfolds like a captivating novel in "Frontier Echoes." Penned with the imaginative spirit inspired by his own legendary tales, this narrative delves into the life of a man whose journey traverses the vast landscapes of the West, leaving behind a trail of mystery, resilience, and untold stories.Embarking on this literary odyssey,...
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Dream West is the New York Times bestselling fictional account of famed North America explorer John Charles Fremont, by David Nevin.
Upon its release over twenty years ago, Dream West was deemed a classic novel of the American West by both critics and the reading public. Telling the amazing true story of America's famed explorer, John Charles Fremont, and his beloved supporter and muse, Jessie Benton, it quickly found its way onto the New York...
59) Aterrizaje
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Una mujer atrapada en un duelo decide sumarse a un viaje a Islandia con tres desconocidos. Quieren fotografiar el fuselaje de un avión que cayó en la inmensa playa de arena negra de Sólheimasandur en 1973. Esta descabellada visita al corazón del frío y la intemperie, nacida del deseo de dejar atrás Todo Aquello, la obliga a formularse preguntas y recordar vivencias que hasta entonces habían permanecido enterradas.
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60) Beast
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When the rules of love were written, one of them stated: "Once you put a face to the hunger of your heart, your heart cannot let go."Unaware of this rule, for love had never confided in me, I recently put a face to my heart's hunger, and this was an unwise thing to do; for with the fresh sting of hope in its nostrils, its hunger grew exponentially and fast, and soon engulfed everything: my thoughts, my dreams, my room, my day, the streets, the earth,...
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