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Lily Torrence is a Hollywood murder mystery set among people who helped create the jaded, doomed characters of the postwar movies we call film noir. Was it the tension, the suspicion, and the exploitation of war that led to these dark and devious movies? Noir -and the pulp fiction it sprang from-gloried in the cynical exploitation of sex and ambition, the enshrinement of greed and corruption, and ruefully pondered the demise of brutal thugs, s...

Zwischen Roter Sichel und Ehernem Schwert, zwischen der Grünen Ebene und dem Perlenmeer, liegt die Adelsrepublik am Born. Hier sind die Sommer kurz und die Winter lang und erbarmungslos, während der Adel mit harter Hand seine göttergewollte Herrschaft durchsetzt. Doch das Land erwacht und strebt danach, sich seiner menschlichen Bewohner zu entledigen. Uralte Geheimnisse und Mysterien ranken sich um diese Region, und in diesem Buch sind sie all...

This is Hollywood, 1948. You are a beautiful young actress. He is a rich and powerful film producer. He can make you a star or send you back to the sticks, and you have something he wants, right now. What are you willing to do? How much of yourself are you willing to give? Synopsis It is the postwar Forties. Priscilla Preston and her husband Ken are struggling New York actors when Priscilla is picked as the lead in a new movie and goes to Ho...

A GRAPHIC NOVEL WITH NO PICTURES Great comic strips sometimes come from earnest but neurotic philosophers (Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts) or seething monsters (Al Capp, L'il Abner). But the creators are seldom seen or talked about by their readers. Read it, chuckle, don't, move on to the next Skittle in your day. "The Dead Cartoonist" is fabulously successful but emotionally disturbed comic strip creator Milton Morey. Or maybe it's Nate Thurrin...

Ein armer Soldat begegnet einer Hexe, die ihm Gold verspricht, wenn er ihr ein altes Feuerzeug aus einem hohlen Baum holt. Er befördert das Gold zutage, der Hexe aber händigt er das Feuerzeug wegen eines Streits nicht aus. In der nächsten Stadt richtet er sich gut ein, gibt den Armen von seinem Gold, lässt sich jedoch von den Reichen ausnehmen. Als sein Besitz schwindet, hat er nur noch die Freundschaft der Armen - und das Feuerzeug. Als er es...

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This is Hollywood, 1948. You are a beautiful young actress. He is a ruthless and powerful film producer. He can make you a star or send you back to the sticks, and you have something he wants, right now. What are you willing to do? How much of yourself are you willing to give?"A gripping read that challenges traditional genre definitions with a multifaceted story that's hard to put down. Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review..A Broadway Baby, a d...

When are you safe? Who do you trust? When is it right to do wrong? These questions drive the characters in "Line in the Sand." Desperate choices will be made in the first few minutes of the story, and plot twists will come down to the last few pages. Packed in between are action, psychological suspense, admirable courage, and undeniable terror. Killers will be killed, authorities will be lied to, young people in their first act of adulthood wi...

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Parallel Universes: A Love Story Transcending Death is the true story of a relationship that continued after death, a different form of continuing relationship. It is a love story, a love story about Shannon's relationship with Pancho. And, it is not sad. It is a travel log of a grief confirming their continuing relationship. "Parallel Universes" describes the Quantum Mechanical nature of relationships. In Quantum Mechanical terms Shannon cons...