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The Making of a Hollywood Classic
Written by Walter Wanger and Joe Hyams
Afterword by Kenneth Turan
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Cleopatra faced countless problems during its filming and production: passionate casting disputes, broken contracts, a costly re-location from London to Rome, an emergency tracheotomy for its star, Elizabeth Taylor, scandal-ridden gossip surrounding relationships on set, and a budget of $2 million that ballooned to final costs of $44 million. Legendary producer Walter... Read more >
The Making of a Hollywood Classic
Written by Walter Wanger and Joe Hyams
Afterword by Kenneth Turan
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $9.99
Cleopatra faced countless problems during its filming and production: passionate casting disputes, broken contracts, a costly re-location from London to Rome, an emergency tracheotomy for its star, Elizabeth Taylor, scandal-ridden gossip surrounding relationships on set, and a budget of $2 million that ballooned to final costs of $44 million. Legendary producer Walter... Read more >
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Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
Written by Janet Wallach
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green, America’s first female tycoon. A strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth at least $100 million by the end of her life in 1916—equal to about $2.5 billion today.
Green was mocked for her simple...
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The Autobiography
Written by Rod Stewart
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $16.00
The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.
With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer...
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The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
Written by Hugh Brewster
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $15.00
THE TITANIC HAS OFTEN BEEN CALLED "AN EXQUISITE MICROCOSM OF THE
Edwardian era,” but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage, historian Hugh Brewster seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost liner’s most fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden... Read more >
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The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild
Written by Hannah Rothschild
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.95
Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had, in only five generations, risen from the ghetto in Frankfurt to stately homes in England. As a child, Nica took her...
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The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild
Written by Hannah Rothschild
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.99
Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had, in only five generations, risen from the ghetto in Frankfurt to stately homes in England. As a child, Nica took her...
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My Years Coaching Tiger Woods
Written by Hank Haney
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
Hank Haney's candid, surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Hank was one of very few people allowed behind the curtain and observed Tiger in nearly every circumstance. There's never been a book...
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Written by Lindy Woodhead
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge’s.
Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field’s in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn of the twentieth century... Read more >
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Written by Lindy Woodhead
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $9.99
If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge’s.
Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field’s in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn of the twentieth century... Read more >
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A True Story of Conjoined Twins
Written by Dean Jensen
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 12, 2012
Price: $14.99
THE LIVES AND LOVES OF DAISY AND VIOLET HILTON follows the poignant life story of twin sisters who were literally joined at the hip, set against the tumultuous backdrop of America during the first half of the 20th century. Daisy and Violet and an unforgettable cast of show-business characters come alive... Read more >
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Helping the Homeless
Written by Danielle Steel
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $20.00
In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her... Read more >
Helping the Homeless
Written by Danielle Steel
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $9.99
In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her... Read more >
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The Autobiography
Written by Rod Stewart
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $27.00
The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.
With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer...
The Autobiography
Written by Rod Stewart
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $11.99
The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.
With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer...
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The Autobiography
Written by Rod Stewart
Read by Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $40.00
The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.
With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer...
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The Autobiography
Written by Rod Stewart
Read by Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $22.50
The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.
With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer...
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The Strange and Sinister Story of the Final Years of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Written by Caroline Blackwood
Introduction by James Fox
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $11.99
Intriguing, suspenseful, and witty, this is the story of journalist and novelist Caroline Blackwood's search for the late Duchess of Windsor. It is also a provocative exploration of the often bizarre connection between heightened celebrity and approaching death--in Blackwood's words, "the fatal effects of myth." First serial to New York Times... Read more >
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The Strange and Sinister Story of the Final Years of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Written by Caroline Blackwood
Introduction by James Fox
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.00
In 1980, Lady Caroline Blackwood was commissioned by The Sunday Times to write an article on the aging Duchess of Windsor, who was said to be convalescing in her French mansion in the Bois de Boulogne. Yet what began as a curiosity was to become for Blackwood one of the most...
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A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.00
Steve McQueen is one of America’s legendary movie stars best known for his hugely successful film career in classics such as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, and The Towering Inferno as well as for his turbulent life off-screen and impeccable style. His unforgettable physical beauty... Read more >
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A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $26.00
A groundbreaking portrait of one of Hollywood’s most successful stars, from critically acclaimed and bestselling biographer Marc Eliot
Through determination, inventiveness, and charisma, Michael Douglas emerged from the long shadow cast by his movie-legend father, Kirk Douglas, to become his own man and one of the film industry’s most... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $13.99
A groundbreaking portrait of one of Hollywood’s most successful stars, from critically acclaimed and bestselling biographer Marc Eliot
Through determination, inventiveness, and charisma, Michael Douglas emerged from the long shadow cast by his movie-legend father, Kirk Douglas, to become his own man and one of the film industry’s most... Read more >
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Campfire Biography-Heroes Line
Written by Jason Quinn
Illustrated by Amit Tayal
Format: Trade Paperback, 104 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iCon! Steve Jobs and his inventions changed the world we live in. His extraordinary life story is brimming with passion, innovation and creative genius. Share his triumphs and failures, as we journey from his birth and his adoption, through the advent of the computer age and... Read more >
The Man Behind the Myth
Written by Ken Gross
Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2012
Price: $14.99
A full-length, comprehensive examination of the billionaire who would be President--written with the cooperation of Perot and his family. This biography covers the life, feelings, and character of one of the most captivating figures in American political life. Read more >
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My Life with Farrah
Written by Ryan O'Neal, Jodee Blanco and Kent Carroll
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $26.00
Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett. He was the handsome Academy Award–nominated star of Paper Moon and the classic romance Love Story. She was the beautiful, all-American Charlie’s Angel, whose poster adorned the bedroom walls of teenage boys everywhere. One of the most storied love affairs in Hollywood history, their romance has... Read more >
