Chandlertown
Chandlertown

Author: Edward Thorpe

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Les paysages de Los Angeles caractérisent presque autant le travail de l'écrivain Raymond Chandler, que les gangsters, charlatans et femmes riches et gâtées qui peuplent ses histoires de détectives. Cet ouvrage parcourt tout Los Angeles en compagnie de Philip Marlowe, l'un des personnages principaux des romans de Chandler.

The Dark Heart of Hollywood
The Dark Heart of Hollywood

Author: Douglas Thompson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1780574576

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book reveals the sinister true story of the Mafia in Hollywood. Crammed with legends, myths, murders, madness, mayhem, superstar tantrums, super-sexed starlets, power brokers and politics, it is an ambitious account of Hollywood’s hidden history, from the rogue cops who took on the Mob on the streets of Los Angeles to the stars who became stars because Mafia Godfathers said they would. In The Dark Heart of Hollywood, seasoned crime and entertainment writer Douglas Thompson reveals how all is masterminded by the money-obsessed Mafia, for whom everything and everyone is simply a commodity. The intense saga charges across America: from Hollywood bedrooms to the Oval Office, from California’s twenty-first century computer capital to the cocaine-connection HQs stretching from the Sunset Strip to Marseilles, Milan, Moscow, Tokyo and Beijing. In this magnificent and highly compelling volume, Hollywood is unveiled as Tinseltown without the tinsel.

Bright Flows the River
Bright Flows the River

Author: Taylor Caldwell

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1504039009

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

New York Times Bestseller: A man who gained the world but lost his soul faces a critical midlife crisis in this suspenseful and inspiring novel about love and forgiveness. On a stormy, windswept night, Guy Jerald tried to kill himself. But he did not die. Now, the fifty-five-year-old Pennsylvania powerbroker and business titan—a living example of the American Dream—lies in a bed in a psychiatric hospital. He is on suicide watch, barely able to recognize his wife and two adult children. But a visitor from his distant past will open the floodgates. During one of the most harrowing battles of World War II, Guy saved the life of fellow soldier James Meyer. Now, James is a celebrated British psychiatrist determined to repay the favor and bring his old friend back from the brink. As the source of Guy’s pain emerges, James must come to terms with his own unfulfilled goals and a mounting crisis that will test him in ways he never could have imagined. Shifting between the past and the present, Bright Flows the River is a story of faith, friendship, and the road not taken, in which a powerful, successful man may finally get the chance to become the person he long ago dreamed he could be.

Tobacco Styx Bridge
Tobacco Styx Bridge

Author: St John Enis St John

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1450204708

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Charles Abell takes a journey into the past. This Dean of Southern Maryland College, who debuted in the novel, Cuckold Creek, becomes immersed in a family mystery after he listens to an oral history tape recorded by his mother before her death. As though she is speaking from the grave, his mother's words haunt him, launching him on an investigation of an incident in his family's past. The family mystery, revealed in a painting, sends Charles on a search for truth about life at Elysium, the family farm overlooking the historic Port Tobacco Valley. The story revolves around a lynching in 1896, planned at a baseball game and carried out by upstanding members of the community. While he is caught in an undertow of problems at the institution he has helped to build, Charles is brought to the brink of personal and professional failure when Southern Maryland College faces devastating financial loss. It could lose its accreditation and be forced to close; Charles is helpless to stop it until a postcard arrives in the mail with a cryptic instruction that alters the course of his life.