![]() ![]() ![]() MCA superagent Jules Stein was one of the great Hollywood hosts to whose home Bette Davis was invited. It’s funny I was never intimidated at meeting any of the other great Hollywood ladies-Greer Garson, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert-but my first time in the Davis presence left me speechless. Of Human Bondage, The Petrified Forest, Jezebel, Dark Victory, Now, Voyager-Davis’s films had provided some of the most unforgettable moments of my life up to then. Joel introduced me, but I said virtually nothing-I was too overwhelmed. She came right over to our table, and she and Joel embraced like old lovers. One day when we were there having our regular tuna-fish sandwiches and chocolate malts, Bette Davis walked in. Joel McCrea never wanted anything that fancy, so he and I would eat across the street from NBC at Will Wright’s ice-cream parlor. Those clients included Rosalind Russell, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cary Grant, Dick Powell, Lucille Ball, and Ronald Colman, and during lunch breaks they would walk down to the Brown Derby on Vine Street. Our friendship began in 1957 when I cast her in a TV show I was producing, but I had met her 10 years earlier.Īt that time I was a young agent in Hollywood, hand-holding clients as they taped radio shows at the NBC studios at Sunset and Vine. When you dealt with Bette, 7 years could seem like 70. ![]() Describing my seven-year association with her as intense would be an understatement. I always thought of Bette Davis as a lonely lady. ![]()
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![]() The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whom have grasped, in their own way, the significance of chance: the baseball legend Yogi Berra the philosopher of knowledge Karl Popper the ancient world’s wisest man, Solon the modern financier George Soros and the Greek voyager Odysseus. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill–the world of trading– Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. ![]() This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. ![]() Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.įooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. ![]() ![]() Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is 1949 in West Texas, and the Western dream is dying, not only because of all the oilmen buying up the land: Cole’s ranch, which has been in the family since the 1870s, is about to be sold due to the death of his maternal grandfather, the dissolution of his parents’ marriage, the mortal illness of his veteran father, and his urbane actress mother’s dissatisfaction with country living.Ī preternaturally gifted horseman, Cole faces the prospect of a world that has no use for the only man he knows how to become. McCarthy’s bestselling 1992 novel is a romantic latter-day Western about a 16-year-old boy named John Grady Cole. All the Pretty Horses is apparently to Cormac McCarthy’s corpus what The Crying of Lot 49 is to Thomas Pynchon’s or The Ghost Writer to Philip Roth’s: it is the appealing vestibule to an oeuvre of appalling heights and depths, a prolegomenon to any future metaphysics. ![]() ![]() ![]() In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental army under an unsure George Washington evacuated New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. ![]() "May be one of the greatest what-if books of the age-a volume that turns one of America’s best-known narratives on its head.” -Boston Globe "Clear and insightful, Valiant Ambition consolidates Philbrick's reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction." - Wall Street Journal In the second book of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. ![]() Summary: A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the George Washington Prize A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold, f rom the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that he's found Audra, Ty has every intention of keeping her for himself. ![]() ![]() The problem? Every 30 days, she'll have to pick a new guardian. He can clearly protect what's his.Īs compassionate as he is powerful, Tyson ignites something fierce in Audra, and their connection is white-hot. A hulking, scarred figure, the other men call him a savage, but his clothes are clean, and he's holding a freshly caught rabbit. Then Audra sees Tyson at the edge of the crowd. The deal is simple, if barbaric: sex, in exchange for food and safety from the other 200 men in zone four. She can take her chances on her own, or select a guardian. If they hand over six of the new arrivals, the men won't raid. Audra Copeland is among dozens of newly convicted felons dropped off on the prison planet Rhodon, where she discovers that the women of zone four have a long-standing arrangement with the men. ![]() ![]() Natalia and Leo’s story was even more tragic than expected but wow, did they blow me away. This is a standalone written in the Mazzone Mafia world, which is one of my absolute favorites, so I couldn’t wait for this release and it did not disappoint. For readers who enjoy brother’s best friend, second chance, dark mafia, forbidden romance. This is a full-length STAND-ALONE 120k-word novel with NO cliff-hanger and an HEA. Until a twist of fate puts Natalia in his path again, and this time, he is powerless to resist. Yet he keeps his distance, dedicating himself to his new role as underboss to Bennett Mazzone, while the love of his life is married to another man. Years have passed, and his feelings remain the same. It saved Natalia from a life of hell, but his actions set her on a different course. Leo risked everything for the one woman he can never have. Until one forbidden night changes everything, and she readily hands Leo the key to her heart. ![]() He won’t allow them to give in to temptation, so Natalia is forced to love him from afar. A man with strong ambition and an even stronger resolve. So, she grabs happiness when she finds it-in the somewhat reluctant arms of Leonardo Messina. And there is nothing but torture, pain, and heartache lying in wait. It’s her duty, and she would never dishonor her beloved father.īut the man she’s promised to is a monster. ![]() As the only daughter of one of New York’s most powerful mafia dons, she knows she can’t refuse. ![]() Natalia Mazzone has grown up knowing she is promised to a made man. ![]() ![]() ![]() Munsch's other famous book, The Paper Bag Princess, has sold over seven million copies and is considered to be a feminist story, as well as a literary classic. It has since sold over 30 million copies and has been featured on the episode "The One With the Cake" from the television show Friends, as well as being mentioned by Oprah Winfrey on Late Night with David Letterman as being her favorite children's book. One of Munsch's best-known books, Love You Forever, was listed fourth on the 2001 Publishers Weekly All-Time Bestselling Children's Books list for paperbacks at 6.97 million copies (not including the 1.049 million hardcover copies). In Guelph, he was encouraged to publish the many stories he made up for the children he worked with. Munsch also taught in the College of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Guelph as a lecturer and as an assistant professor. He moved to Canada in 1975 to work at the preschool at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. In 1973, Munsch received a Master of Education in Child Studies from Tufts University. Munsch studied to become a Jesuit priest, but decided he would rather work with children after having jobs at orphanages and daycare centers. Munsch graduated from Fordham University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and from Boston University in 1971 with a Master of Arts degree in anthropology. Robert Munsch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 11, 1945. Robert Norman Munsch CM (born June 11, 1945) is an American-Canadian children's author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lawrence persuaded them to support the British and rise against their Turkish masters so that they could procure their independence after the war. ![]() The entry of the Turks into the war on the German side brought into focus the question of the allegiance of the nomadic tribes in the desert areas. He had already acquired a vast knowledge of the Near East, especially Arabia, becoming very familiar with the character of the people, their customs and their religion. For his valiant efforts in this conflict, he became known as Lawrence of ArabiaĪt the beginning of the war, Lawrence was in the British service in Egypt. Thomas Edward Lawrence (1886 – 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat and author, best known for his legendary was activities in the Middle East in the First World War. As a narrative of war and adventure it is unsurpassable.’ Winston Churchill ‘It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language. ![]() ![]() Suddenly, Graves Glen is under attack from murderous wind-up toys, a pissed off ghost, and a talking cat with some interesting things to say. ![]() With one calamity after another striking Rhys, Vivi realizes her silly little Ex Hex may not have been so harmless after all. What should be a quick trip to recharge the town's ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town's ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn't use her magic this way, but with only an "orchard hayride" scented candle on hand, she isn't worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two. ![]() Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths.and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong. Novel: The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling | Goodreads ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time, the annual award by the British Library Association (now CILIP) recognised the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject two books were occasionally cited there was no cash prize. Oxenbury is one of 14 illustrators to win two Kate Greenaway Medals (established 1955) Burningham is another. ![]() Some of her most recent work includes the illustrations for The Growing Story in the September 2008 edition of Bayard Presse's StoryBox magazine. In 1994, Tom and Pippo was adapted into a French animated series which ran for 104 two-minute episodes. Like Tom, her son would often blame his misdeeds on an accomplice (the family dog). She commented that Tom was very much like her own son in his younger years. In 1980, she created a series of books about a mischievous young boy called Tom, and his stuffed monkey, Pippo. In 1962 she returned to Britain and did some design work for ABC Television and Shepperton Film Studios.Īfter marrying the children's book author and illustrator John Burningham in 1964, she turned to illustrating children’s books herself. ![]() She worked as assistant designer at Colchester Repertory Theatre, and for three years as painter and designer for the Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel. In her adult life she embarked on a career in theatre, film and television. ![]() |