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  The Death of James Dean

  Warren Newton Beath

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  With extensive research, this account of the Hollywood star and his legion of fans offers “the best narrative yet of Dean’s final ten hours” (San Francisco Examiner).   Just before sunset on September 20, 1955, James Byron Dean’s Porsche 550 Spyder collided with Donald Gene Turnupseed’s Ford Tudor on California Highway 46. At age twenty-four, America’s newest screen idol was dead. But what really happened? Drawing on original documents, including the coroner’s inquest and other previously unpublished material, author Warren Newton Beath provides a painstakingly accurate reconstruction of Dean’s final hours and tragic death.   In addition, Beath explores Dean’s life and his enduring status as a cultural icon, including Elvis Presley’s worship of him; Hitchcock’s use of Highway 46 in the famous crop-dusting scene in North by Northwest; death threats against Giant director George Stevens if he dared excise a single frame of Deans’ final performance; and many more fascinating facts about the enigmatic screen legend.   Beath’s definitive account concludes with a memorable portrait of the James Dean cult, a strangely moving record of his posthumous life in the hearts of his adoring fans.

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  Finding Myself Inside - When a...

  Niven A Neyland

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  On his thirty-fifth birthday, Niven Neyland was riding high—a thriving business, beautiful fiancée, close-knit family, loving big brother. Until one wrong decision behind the wheel resulted in his brother’s death, loss of his business, shattered dreams, and a prison sentence for alcohol-related vehicular manslaughter. But finding himself inside prison walls turned out to be the greatest of blessings because in that dark place Niv encountered the light of God’s mercy and love, and true freedom within prison walls. It became the beginning of a ministry of God’s love and redemption to other inmates that continues to this day. 
  Finding Myself Inside is a compelling narrative of the Australian prison system, the challenges inmates face in prison and re-entering society. 
    
  It will speak to every reader in need of redemption, second chances, and a way through physical, emotional, or spiritual incarceration to true and everlasting freedom. 
    
  "Niven Neyland has written his compelling story, and I can honestly say there are few other stories that are quite as honest, insightful and hopeful as this one." Tim Costello. Former CEO of World Vision Australia.

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  Victorian Anthologies: Ghosts -...

  H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton

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  Few ghost stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. Featuring work by H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, F.G. Loring and Florence Marryat, this second volume of eight enduring stories, some well-known, others less familiar, transport you to a cosy fireside to hear tales of disembodied voices, haunted objects and unknown entities lurking in the shadows cast by candlelight.

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  The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street...

  John Saumarez Smith

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  Collected mid-twentieth–century correspondence between the author of The Pursuit of Love and her former employer, the celebrated London bookseller. 
   
  Nancy Mitford was a brilliant personality, a remarkable novelist and a legendary letter writer. It is not widely known that she was also a bookseller. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in Heywood Hill’s famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it when the male staff were called up for war service. After the war she left to live in France, but she maintained an abiding interest in the shop, its stock, and the many and varied customers who themselves form a cavalcade of the literary stars of post-war Britain. Her letters to Heywood Hill advise on recent French titles that might appeal to him and his customers, gossip engagingly about life in Paris, and enquire anxiously about the reception of her own books, while seeking advice about new titles to read. In return Heywood kept her up to date with customers and their foibles, and with aspects of literary and bookish life in London. Charming, witty, utterly irresistible, the correspondence gives brilliant insights into a world that has almost disappeared. 
   
  Praise for The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street 
   
  “This volume of letters between [Nancy Mitford], then living in Paris, and G. Heywood Hill (1907–1986) is like a glass of champagne, from a good year, at a quiet garden party. It’s a beautiful day, one is among friends—but not too many—and laughter reigns.” —The New Criterion

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  At War With Waugh - The Real...

  W. F. Deedes

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  History, both political and literary, was made when W. F. Deedes met Evelyn Waugh in 1935. Both were in Abyssinia to cover a war which many in England regarded with bewildered indifference but which profoundly influenced an impending global conflict. Whilst Deedes was principally concerned with filing copy to London, the author of Brideshead Revisited had another agenda and another novel in mind, Scoop. 
   As Waugh drank, played poker and observed hacks in seedy hotel bars in Addis Ababa, he focussed on one young reporter. W. F. Deedes has always denied his association with Scoop's Boot, the innocent abroad and nature-notes writer who is accidentally dispatched to a war-zone. However, he acknowledges some similarities—particularly the tonnage of kit he shipped from London. 
   Bill Deedes considers that 'little' war and its importance with the hindsight of a further sixty-odd years of impeccably thoughtful reporting from other battlefields, whilst offering unique memories of his difficult contemporary—arguably the finest English novelist of his time. Written with characteristic wit, insight and affection, At War With Waugh is a small classic.

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  Richard Nixon - The truth about...

  Susanne Monroe

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  Do you want to learn about Richard Nixon and his life?  
  Riсhаrd Nixon's presidency еndеd in роlitiсаl disgrace, but bеnеаth thе scandal wаѕ a dеерlу соmрlеx humаn ѕtоrу. Thiѕ lesson details thе mоѕt imроrtаnt aspects of Nixon's реrѕоnаlitу and hоw they ѕhареd hiѕ соntrоvеrѕiаl political саrееr.  
  In contemporary Amеriсаn politics, thе nаmе of Riсhаrd Nixоn, 37th Prеѕidеnt оf thе Unitеd States frоm 1969 tо 1974, hаѕ bесоmе ѕуnоnуmоuѕ with political scandal аnd boundless ambition. On Junе 17, 1972, burglars undеr thе еmрlоу оf Nixon аѕѕосiаtеѕ broke intо the Watergate Hotel in order tо рlаnt wiretaps in thе Democratic Nаtiоnаl Committee's headquarters. After twо years оf invеѕtigаtiоn, Nixоn resigned thе рrеѕidеnсу оn Auguѕt 9, 1974. Whilе thе Wаtеrgаtе scandal dеfinеd Nixon's рrеѕidеnсу аnd his public image, Nixon's реrѕоnаlitу rеflесtеd a fаr more соmрlеx man.  
  Nixоn came from a рооr fаrm fаmilу in California, mеаning that he hаd tо rely on hiѕ intеlligеnсе аnd hard wоrk to succeed in lifе. Hе еаrnеd excellent grаdеѕ throughout grаdе ѕсhооl аnd was highlу ѕuссеѕѕful in ѕtudеnt еlесtiоnѕ, but wаѕ forced tо turn dоwn a ѕсhоlаrѕhiр from Hаrvаrd bесаuѕе his family соuld not аffоrd to send him thеrе bу trаin. Inѕtеаd, hе ѕеttlеd for Whittiеr Cоllеgе аnd thеn attended Dukе Univеrѕitу Lаw Sсhооl. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... Who was Richard Nixon аnd whаt hе did? Biographical аѕресtѕ of his lifеRichard Nixon’s Еduсаtiоn and Beginnings Philosophy abоut Роlitiсѕ and Militаrу Riѕing Роlitiсiаn Dеаth аnd Funеrаl Much,much more!

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