Smoke Over Malibu
Smoke Over Malibu

Author: Tim Walker

Publisher: Windmill Books

Published: 2018-02-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780099559184

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The Hon. Lucius Kluge - honourable, lucky, clever - might be the only guy in Los Angeles who's still living in the past. Lucky pines for the old days of the New Hollywood, before Star Wars and superheroes blew up the movies for good. He spends his days working for an antiques business, his nights boozing and brooding on his former life as an almost-successful screenwriter. But when his ex-best friend goes AWOL and his elderly boss is assaulted during the theft of a vintage cookie jar, Lucky and his partner Raul are spurred reluctantly into something like action. A satire of sundered friendships and frayed male egos at the Hollywood intersection of art and commerce, Smoke Over Malibu is a soft-boiled mystery, a fish-out-of-water farce, a buddy comedy, an inaction thriller, a hipster indie. It's Raymond Chandler meets Nick Hornby; it's The Big Lebowski meets Lovejoy. It is absolutely, positively not a superhero blockbuster.

Smoke on the Water
Smoke on the Water

Author: Dave Thompson

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1550226185

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It is now 35 years since Deep Purple first came together and today -- 14 musicians, 17 albums, and millions of record sales later -- the group remains a monster. Smoke on the Water is the first book in more than 20 years to tell the story of this remarkable band, from their grandiose inception in 1968 to the release of their latest album in 2003. Drawing from candid interviews with band members, associates, and fans alike, it traces the group through some of the most turbulent times that any band has survived, placing the band's own music in vivid context and illustrating just how profoundly this one group helped change the world.

Just a Fan
Just a Fan

Author: Stephen Duncan

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1617773263

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Just a Fan is an action-filled story featuring Mark Kelley-a blue-collar, suburban husband and father who enjoys collecting autographed rock-and-roll memorabilia from the artists and celebrities he admires. In one case, however, he's finding it harder than usual to obtain an autograph from semi-retired rock musician and guitarist, Gordon Pelam. Mark's quest leads him down a path of lies, deceit, and he eventually ends up arrested. Stephen Duncan's Just a Fan is a look into the extremely misunderstood world of autographed celebrity memorabilia collecting and the difference between stalkers, crazed paparazzi, and true fans. It shows just how far a real fan will go to collect an autograph from the celebrity he admires, and how far a celebrity must go to protect themselves and their family from society's evil. In many cases, someone who wants an autograph is Just a Fan.

California Sixties Volume 3 1968 - 1969
California Sixties Volume 3 1968 - 1969

Author: James Elliott McCall

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-05-02

Total Pages: 670

ISBN-13: 138778627X

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For Malibu and Kathy life changes overnight throwing them together into challenges just to live. Still faced with their denied passion for each other they find themselves forced together in an arrangement that is neither friends nor lovers but a combination of both. After living together for a year, first platonically and finally giving in to their consuming desire Kathy is at last free to become everything she and Malibu had dreamed of but now confused as to her feelings they begin to live apart. Twice Malibu asks her to marry him and she hesitates. The third time whether yes or no will be the last. Malibu in the meantime moves into a seedy hotel, works his drug business into the most lucrative in the Los Angeles area through a new partnership with a notorious mob lawyer and acquires a gorgeous harem that will stay with him for years. Then, he finds himself with his hand raised swearing to defend the Constitution. Ready to go to Vietnam, the assignment he is given instead leads him into the underworld.

At The Edge of Reason
At The Edge of Reason

Author: David Lafaille

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1493117491

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Malibu, CA, 1968. Denny Martel, a twenty-seven-year-old trial lawyer wunderkind in the Los Angeles County Public Defender's office, becomes deeply involved in the hunt for a serial killer. He soon realizes he's the target of a secret LAPD unit, and his Malibu beach cottage is no refuge. In the gritty LA trial courts, on the Venice Beach testosterone-charged "A" basketball court, in the "wilds" of Malibu, and among an amazing cadre of beautiful and complicated women, Denny seeks justice and his true self. In the summer of 1968, a serial killer is loose in Los Angeles. The press calls him the Night Slayer, and he robs "mom-and-pop" businesses in South Central LA, leaving no witnesses. As the Slayer's body count increases, the city begins to destabilize and a repeat of the Watts Riots is brewing. Denny's high school pal, Jack Hansen, is the lead LAPD homicide detective charged with catching the Slayer. As the Public Defender for many of the suspects arrested, Denny begins to formulate a profile of the Slayer. As the search continues, Denny wins and loses trials and women. He's an emerging star in the criminal justice system and is realizing the significance and vulnerability of that role. Then, using Denny's insight to the Slayer, Jack makes the arrest, and Denny will now represent the Slayer at the lineup.

Merryland
Merryland

Author: Josh Pons

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1493081349

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Third-generation Maryland horseman Josh Pons chronicles the daily adventures, challenges, thrills, and sometimes sadness facing his family's small training stable of Thoroughbred racehorses. Merryland combines the immediacy of the author's evocative diary entries with thoughts on horses, racing, America, families, and life amid the uncertainties and pressures wrought by encroaching development, casino gambling, and political ennui. Join Josh Pons as he introduces readers to the rhythmic cadence of life on a lovely little farm called Merryland in Hydes, Maryland.

StarSitter
StarSitter

Author: Andrea Dana

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0595430074

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Dinner with vegetarian gangsta-rappers? Temper tantrums over "old school" designer logos? A last minute curling-iron crisis? All in a day's work for 27 year old Grace Daniels, the unwitting guardian to Maddy Malone, Hollywood's next teenage it-girl. Plucked from her Chicago day job as an interior decorator, Grace is thrust into "starsitting" at a local movie shoot when her Aunt Lana begs off sick one day. On the set, Grace meets Maddy, the temperamental if talented young starlet. Somehow navigating the outbursts and mood-swings, Grace manages to endear herself to Maddy and Maddy's only-too-happy-to-be-absent mother. So Grace can hardly refuse when they ask her to go with Maddy to Los Angeles as her adult accompaniment. And neither can Grace's boss, Jake, who thinks it will be a great opportunity for Grace to scout out the interior design market on the west coast. Once in LA, a bewildered Grace tries to keep her Prada-toting charge happy as she shepherds her through photo-shoots, radio interviews, and morning hangovers. When Grace isn't shielding Maddy from her "fans" or helping her dodge calls from her publicist, an exhausted Grace finds herself catering to the every whim of her almost A-lister. As Grace grows more accustomed to Maddy's ways, she begins to understand that despite all the celebrity stuff, Maddy really is just a kid struggling to look cool in front of her friends without getting crushed by the pressures of Hollywood. Inspired by a true story, StarSitter depicts how handling a young celebrity may be more hazardous than glamorous to one's mental health.

Jihad Honeymoon in Hollywood
Jihad Honeymoon in Hollywood

Author: Juliet Montague

Publisher: Abbott Press

Published: 2013-04

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1458208796

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Our heroine in Part One of the Muslim Romance Trilogy—The Year I Learned to Text; Why Am I Having Sex with a Muslim in My Basement?— actress/comedian/realtor Julie, returns and is now sixty-two. Her Marriage Islam-Style husband is forty. Her chemical addiction to the black-eyed, always-tardy Persian Prince remains insatiable, as her two loyal dogs and opinionated cat watch it all go down. When the honeymooners’ salacious pillow talk turns to Taliban training camps, dropping walls on homosexuals, and killing Republican presidents, conservative Julie must choose between love of country and the greatest physical and spiritual connection she’s ever known. “A truly out-of-the-box articulate storyteller, if Ms. Montague has not yet succeeded in having the Ayatollahs issue a fatwa against her, she surely will be successful this time. Juliet’s hysterically funny romantic satire will soon become a collector’s item when Jihad Honeymoon in Hollywood is banned along with the author, when she is placed in the informal witness program along with Salman Rushdie. Be sure to take home Book No. 2 in The Muslim Romance Trilogy today, so you can say you knew her when.”- Steven Emerson,author of American Jihad; the Terrorists Living Among Us. “The Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy is an unintentionally humorous lap cat compared to the Bengal cougar of this long-awaited sequel to The Year I Learned to Text; Why Am I Having Sex with a Muslim in My Basement? Juliet Montague continues to weave more colorful erotic tales in this intentionally funny, heartbreaking saga of love gone wrong.”- C. Stephen Foster,author of Awakening the Actor Within

It’s OK
It’s OK

Author: Grace Khachaturian

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2024-01-18

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1664295852

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"We were encouraged, inspired, and uplifted by Grace’s story of finding the peace that surpasses all understanding in some of the most unexpected places. She gave us a close-up look at how our Lord lifts up those who look for Him. What a beautiful message written by such a beautiful person, both inside and out.” Al & Lisa Robertson, Authors, Speakers, and Stars of Duck Dynasty "The relatability and realness within this book is incredible. It was honestly written for everyone. It's the perfect reminder and guide to remain faithful and trust in the plan for your life." Asya Branch, Miss USA 2020 “Grace has an incredible ability to articulate God’s truths through her lived experiences! This book will inspire you to realize that in the midst of your fear and anxiety your Heavenly Father is right by your side.” Ryan Neiswender, Paralympic Gold Medalist, Wheel Chair Basketball From heartbreaks to the Miss America stage, from meltdowns on the kitchen floor to moments on mountaintops, It’s OK reveals an unfiltered reality of life infused with the hope of Jesus. Grace Khachaturian shares the obstacles she overcame and the lessons she collected on her journey to peace and purpose. Some of the insights from her life stories include: • We have to actively choose, day after day, to make this version of life worth living. • Let’s celebrate what has been and wait on the edge of our seats in eager anticipation for what will be. • Jesus’s love and power are not limited by the barricades we build. • Here—no matter where that is—is holy.