`R.E.M.`: The `Rolling Stone` Files - The Ultimate Compendium of Interviews Articles, Facts and Opinions from the Files of `Rolling Stone`

Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music is a unique oral history. Here are the recollections of many of the giants of soul—Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, Mary Wilson, Marvin Gaye, Screaming Jay Hawkins, and Wilson Pickett. These and other interviews, many of them exclusive, add up to a brilliant anecdotal portrait of the music and the life. Gerri Hirshey is the author of We Gotta Get Out of this Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock, she has also written for Rolling Stone and the New York Times.

Hollywood Husbands are hot… Hollywood Husbands are dynamic… Hollywood Husbands are sexy… Hollywood Husbands are deliciously dangerous!

Jack Python is the hottest Hollywood Husband of all. He rules nighttime T.V. and his controversial talk show burns up the ratings, while the women he encounters melt. With one expensive divorce behind him, and involved in a highly erotic affair with Oscar-winning actress Clarissa Browning, Jack Python has power, charisma, success, and money. But sometimes everything isn’t enough.

Howard Soloman, head of Orpheus Studios, is the man, the Hollywood King. Anything Howard wants, he gets. Including women. The sweet smell of power and Howard’s street-smart style reels them in. Working for billionaire studio owner Zachary Klinger, a man with a whim of iron, Howard has problems enough. And if Howard can’t deliver daytime soap megastar Silver Anderson at Klinger’s command, he may lose his footing at the top of the heap. Though in Hollywood it’s said that when you fall, you fall up — from the top Howard has nowhere to go but down.

Mannon Cable is a superstar. With great looks and a body to match, he is full of self-deprecating charm. Married briefly to gorgeous Whitney Valentine, who left him to become a television superstar, he was hit by the divorce where it really hurts — his giant ego.

Jack Python, Howard Soloman, and Mannon Cable have been competitive friends for years. Yet when Jade Johnson enters their lives, the least-expected one of the self-styled “Three Comers” may have finally met his match. Jade Johnson is a woman of the eighties. Strong, independent, a top New York model, she comes to L.A. for a series of million-dollar TV commercials.

Jade is a dangerously beautiful woman with personal integrity and a mind of her own. The Hollywood game fails to impress her, but slowly, surely, she is sucked in. And, high roller that she is, if she must play, Jade will play to win.

HOLLYWOOD WIVES, with its ten-million copy sales, and its spectacular success as a television mini-series, left Jackie Collins’ devoted audience avid for the other side of the story.

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector`s point of view: he thinks the chloroform pad no more vicious than his butterfly net, and patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste that inhibit their love to break down in the limbo of their isolation.

The Story of the Afghan Warlords.

Based on an American television show, of the same name, it brims with Michael Moore`s special brand of subversive humour that melds outright silliness with poignant realisation.

From the oh–so–obvious Serial Killer Next Door who`s ignored by his neighbours: to Mike enjoying some quality time with Dr. Kevorkian: to raising money for Charles Keating, this is a compilation of classic TV Nation that`ll make you laugh and think at the same time.

This book is a must read for anyone and everyone.

Tragická odysea mladého dobrodruha, putování, na jehož konci čekala smrt...: předloha ke stejnojmennému filmu

Zajímavá kniha amerického novináře rekonstruuje příběh mladého chlapce z dobře situované rodiny, který tragicky zahynul při své osamělé cestě na Aljašku.

Skutečný příběh z roku 1992 zaujal autora natolik, že se nejen snažil prověřit jeho poslední cestu, ale také zjistit pokud možno i motivy, které mladého chlapce k riskantnímu dobrodružství vedly. Dvaadvacetiletý student odešel po promoci od rodičů, zbavil se veškerých peněz a po vzoru Londonových hrdinů odešel do divočiny, aby tak nalezl sám sebe, oprostil se od všeho zbytečného a hlavně dokázal, že člověk může žít v souladu s přírodou bez pomůcek, které nabízí civilizace. Několik osudných chyb ho stálo život

Introducing the breathtaking new Scandinavian bestseller. EASY MONEY - the Swedish bestselling sensation, a dark and brutal account of the Stockholm underworld. Jorge knows one thing – he’s never going back inside. Mrado knows one thing – he’s not going to kill for cash anymore. JW knows nothing – and that’s why he’s in too deep. Their paths are about to cross, but are they on the same side? Whether they’re uneasy conspirators or deadly rivals, they’re all looking for the fastest way to get filthy rich. They’re about to learn the hard way that there’s no such thing as easy money... Jens Lapidus is a highly successful criminal defence lawyer. His experiences with some of the country’s most notorious criminals have made this debut novel the fastest-selling and most talked about thriller in Europe in a decade.

From the internationally bestselling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph.
The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the words “I was told that my father was killed in the war.” A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he’s left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys’ school, and his life will never be the same again.
As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line?

Maia D`Apliè,,se and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, `Atlantis` - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her sisters were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage - a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of where her story began . . . Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Epoque of Rio, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio`s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is working on a statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela - passionate and longing to see the world - convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski`s studio and in the heady, vibrant cafés of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again. The Seven Sisters is a sweeping epic tale of love and loss - the first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven books, based on the legends of the Seven Sisters star constellation - Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talent like never before.

Imagine if The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe...The Universe In Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying Sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant Black Holes. Along the way you might come to understand, really understand, the mind-bending science that underpins modern life, from Quantum Mechanics to Einstein`s theory of General Relativity.Through brilliant storytelling and humour rather than graphs and equations, internationally renowned astrophysicist Christophe Galfard has written an instant classic that brings the astonishing beauty of the universe to life - and takes us deep into questions about the beginning of time and the future of humanity.