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Book cover of Brando Unzipped

Brando Unzipped

Marlon Brando: Bad Boy, Megastar, Sexual Outlaw

by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2006

That ongoing, barely under control drama known as Marlon Brando--Hollywood's Ultimate Bad Boy, Megastar, and Sexual Outlaw--with a special focus on his early rise to fame and his social and sexual associations with the A-list legends of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Brando Unzipped is the definitive gossip...
Book cover of Katharine The Great: Hepburn: Secrets of a Life Revealed

Katharine The Great: Hepburn: Secrets of a Life Revealed

Hepburn: Secrets of a Life Revealed

by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004

Katharine Hepburn was the world's greatest screen diva--the most famous actress in American history. But until the appearance of this biography, no one had ever published the intimate details of her complicated and ferociously secretive private life. Thanks to the deferential and obsequious whitewashes...
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams

by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014

God had a talent for creating exceptional women--Helen of Troy and Cleopatra come to mind. So does Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who lives again in this "warts-and-all" portrait. It's being released on the 20th anniversary of the tragic death, in 1994, of the icon who changed America's...
Book cover of Blondie: Parallel Lives
by Dick Porter, Kris Needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017

Parallel Lives is the definitive biography of Blondie, the iconic New York band led by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. One of the most iconic groups of their generation, Blondie experienced an unparalleled rise to global superstardom during the late 1970s, topping charts and breaking...
Book cover of Steve McQueen, King of Cool: Tales of a Lurid Life
by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009

The truth about Steve McQueen is spectacularly different from the legend projected by his screen persona and Hollywood's media machine. Lurid aspects of McQueen's early life include a gothic horror of a childhood and stints as both a porno performer and pay for play hustler to both men and women....
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Inside Linda Lovelace's Deep Throat

Degradation, Porno Chic, and the Rise of Feminism

by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

The notorious Linda Lovelace was America's first Queen of Porn, presiding over a fast-developing multi-billion-dollar film industry during the decadent 1970s. Her movie, Deep Throat, redefined the nation's views on obscenity and was credited with changing America's sexual attitudes more than anything...
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Pepyss London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

by Stephen Porter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

Samuel Pepyss London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought the reopening of the theatres, with women appearing on the stage for the first time, and the period saw...
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Pink Triangle

The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages

by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

One hot summer night in 1945, three young American writers, each an enfant terrible, came together in a stuffy Manhattan apartment for the first time. Each member of this pink triangle was on the dawn of world fame—Tennessee Williams for A Streetcar Named Desire; Gore Vidal for his notorious homosexual...
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Katherine the Queen

The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII

by Linda Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010

The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty-years-old...
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One Day as a Tiger

Alex MacIntyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism

by John Porter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

A revelatory and poignant memoir showing mountaineering at its extraordinary best and tragic worst as it draws an unforgettable picture of a dazzling, argumentative and exuberant climbing legend. In the autumn of 1982, a single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and struck...
Book cover of The Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print

The Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print

All the Gossip Unfit for Print

by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011

No other book in the history of publishing has assembled in one volume 80 years of pansexual scandals associated with the Kennedys-all in one guilty pleasure of a sizzling book. Meticulously researched, it showcases the indiscretions and extramarital romps of America's most famous political clan....
Book cover of The Santa Claus Library (Illustrated and active TOC)
by Charles Dickens, L. Frank Baum, Mary Louisa Molesworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018

The santa claus library is a collection of books for Christmas to spend the Christmas hollidays with the most grandiose stories
Book cover of The Sheikh's Chosen Queen (Harlequin Comics)
by Jane Porter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Jesslyn just wants to enjoy her summer vacation in peace. But in order to protect one of her students, she needs her ex-lover’s help. Sharif, the sheikh of a desert kingdom, will protect the lad if she tutors his little girls over the summer. But Jesslyn still hurts from the loss of Sharif. Months...
Book cover of Not Fit for A King? (Harlequin Comics)
by Jane Porter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

No matter how much we look alike, the prince will never love me. Hannah, an American secretary, agrees to switch places with Princess Emmeline, just for two hours. There must be a reason that made her ask me for such a favor. Besides, it’s only for a few hours. But Emmeline doesn’t return for days, and Hannah ends up having to meet King Zale of Raguva, pretending to be the princess!
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