"A twisted road movie in which Alabama, a hooker, and Clarence, a young comic-book store clerk, fall in love, get married, and hit the road in a purple Cadillac.They are going to L.A. to start a new life - with a suitcase full of cocaine accidentally stolen from Alabama's defunct ex-pimp. Guided by the spirit of Elvis, Clarence attempts to sell the coke to a top Hollywood director, putting himself and Alabama in the middle of a standoff between the narcs and the Sicilian gangsters who rightfully own the cocaine."--Back cover.
Parodies the romance comics of the 1940s to the 1970s and offers irreverent dating attitudes and romantic advice, updating ten DC Comics romance stories with new word balloons and captions to accompany the original artwork.
Winner of the 2018 Christy Award Book of the Year After a devastating heartbreak three years ago, genealogist and historical village owner Nora Bradford has decided that burying her nose in her work and her books is far safer than romance in the here and now. Unlike Nora, former Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient John Lawson is a modern-day man, usually 100 percent focused on the present. But when he's diagnosed with an inherited condition, he's forced to dig into the secrets of his past and his adoption as an infant, enlisting Nora to help him uncover the identity of his birth mother. The more time they spend together, the more this pair of opposites suspects they just might be a perfect match. However, John's already dating someone and Nora's not sure she's ready to trade her crushes on fictional heroes for the risks of a real relationship. Finding the answers they're seeking will test the limits of their identity, their faith, and their devotion to one another.
The definitive biography of emo rock band My Chemical Romance, based on hours of exclusive, unpublished interviews by the journalist who knows them best
True Love Really Exists. Love Is Blind: A True Romance is a true biographical love story about two people afflicted with different disabilities. It shows that for a long-lasting, successful relationship, true love is what's important. In fact, it's all that really matters. The lead characters are Grant and Valerie Hyde. Little Grant Hyde was born prematurely in 1950 and placed in an incubator infused with pure oxygen. Unfortunately this undiluted oxygen was too much of a good thing as it also caused retinopathy, severe vision impairment that would only worsen over time. Yet, Grant strove to live as "normal" a life as possible. He played sports, dated, drove a car, played in a band, got a good job, got married and divorced. He even had two sons. Valerie Boyer was born in 1959. The bright, attractive child and young woman seemed to have everything going for her. Suddenly, Multiple Sclerosis changed everything! In the span of three short years she went from a person who had just graduated college, completed a post-graduate training course, and started a promising career in banking to a woman who could no longer work, was confined to a wheelchair and even required the assistance of full-time caregivers to attend to the daily tasks of living. By the summer of 1993 both Grant Hyde and Valerie Boyer had learned to deal with their respective disabilities and settled into the routines of living in their respective southern California communities. Grant in Chula Vista, a suburb of San Diego, and Valerie in one of the nation's original planned communities - Irvine. By the time the 90's rolled around, Val in her early 30's and Grant in his early 40's, after enduring life's trials and tribulations and dodging its slings and arrows, each still had the belief that their lives were destined to be more. They hadn't given up on love, on finding that special person with whom they could feel totally comfortable, who would accept them for who they were. Both Grant and Valerie were
My Chemical Romance are the most significant band in alternative rock for the last decade, selling 5 million albums and selling out arenas worldwide until their split after twelve years together. Author Tom Bryant has been given unparalleled access to the band over the course of their extraordinary career and has a unique archive of interviews with Gerard Way and his brother Mikey, Ray Toro and Frank Iero, as well as their friends and those closest to them, allowing him to go behind the scenes and bring their stories to life. From their New Jersey beginnings to international superstardom, from the demons they have battled to the power of their lyrics and their extraordinary connection with their fans, this is the definitive biography of the most adored rock band this century, a story of self-belief and the pursuit of dreams.
Is he for real or Too Good to Be True? Since Stacy's marriage failed, she hasn't had much luck with dating. However, she has a great job, wonderful friends, and a huge stack of romance novels to get lost in. What more does she really need? When she's asked to train her boss's nephew, she expects him to be no different from her other trainees. She certainly didn't expect him to be a hot, younger man like the hero in her current book club pick... Nick moved from Florida to Michigan to take a temporary job working for his aunt. He doesn't intend on staying, and he certainly didn't intend to fall for the older woman who was assigned to train him. If only she'd stop fighting their attraction and give him a chance... Stacy desperately tries to convince herself that Nick isn't the guy for her. Besides being her boss's nephew and several years younger than her, he's only in Michigan temporarily. What good would it do to get involved with him? Never mind that he's sweet, sexy, and smart, and he makes her toes curl. Just like the heroes in her romance novels, he must be...Too Good to Be True. Too Good to Be True, an older woman younger man romance, is book one of the Kiss & Tell Book Club series.
Not since Martin Scorsese in the mid-1970s has a young American filmmaker made such an instant impact on international cinema as Quentin Tarantino, whose PULP FICTION won the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix Award. A manic talker, Tarantino obsesses about American pop culture and his favorite movies and movie makers.
