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Author
Publisher
Randon House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman.
A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition and began a close and trusted friendship that lasted until Newman’s death in 2008.
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A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition and began a close and trusted friendship that lasted until Newman’s death in 2008.
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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Tatler - England's glossiest gossip magazineVanity Fair, and The New Yorker, could possibly give us the truth. Tina knew Diana personally and has far-reaching...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
Author
Series
A Vintage Book volume 133
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written in 1933 by Gertrude Stein in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover. It is a fascinating insight into the art scene in Paris as the couple were friends with Paul Câezanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. They begin the war years in England but return to France, volunteering for the American Fund for the French Wounded, driving around France, helping the wounded...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in a closet in the back of an apartment full of wrack, ruin, and filth was a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. These boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside: journals, photos, scrapbooks, manuscripts, letters. No: inside a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early seventies, and was centered on a two-story house rented...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Ernest Hemingway's friend and fellow writer A.E. Hotchner discusses the experiences he and Hemingway had when they traveled together from 1948 through 1961, the conversations they had about Hemingway's childhood, his impressions about Hemingway's suicide, and other related topics.
12) Remembering poets: reminiscences and opinions : Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett's life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore."--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"No writer has had a greater influence on the American West than Edward Abbey (1927-1989), author of twenty-one books of fiction and non-fiction. This biographical memoir by one of Abbey's closest friends is a tribute to the gadfly anarchist who popularized environmental activism in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and articulated the spirit of the arid West in Desert Solitaire and scores of other essays and articles. In the course of a twenty-year...
17) Time voyage
Author
Series
Return to Titanic volume 1
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While unpacking a special collection of Titanic artifacts at the local museum, best friends Tucker and Maya touch a canceled ticket and find themselves transported back to Queenstown, Ireland, where the Titanic is boarding--can they figure out how to save a new friend, and still get back to their own time?
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Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers--the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans.""--
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