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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters
The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
2018
EN
New York Times–Bestseller: "A lush picture of the complicated relationship between . . . Jackie Onassis and Lee Radziwill. . . . Gossipy gems are studded throughout." — Vanity FairWhen sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept inconsolably. Then Jackie's thirty-eight-page will was read. Lee discovered that substantial cash bequests were left to family members, friends, and employees—b...
Runaway Train
or, The Story of My Life So Far
2024
EN
In this brutally candid memoir, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts pulls no punches about the ups and downs of his career and his sometimes stormy relationship with his famous sister, Julia.Eric Roberts grew up in Georgia, spending most of his teens away from his mother and sisters, Lisa and Julia. Instead, he stayed with his controlling father, a grifter jealous of his early success. At age 17, Eric moved to New York to pursue acting, where he wor...
Furious Love
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
2010
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"[An] entertaining, blow-by-blow account of the life and times of an epic Hollywood couple . . . There is no shortage of saucy anecdotes in Furious Love." — Wall Street JournalFrom veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is th...
When I Was Cool
My Life at the Jack Kerouac School
2009
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First student of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Sam Kashner tells with humor and grace his life with the Beats. But the best story is Kashner himself -- the coming-of-age of a young man in the chaotic world of the very idols he hoped to emulate.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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Elizabeth Taylor * Richard Burton The Marriage of the Century
2013
EN
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A tough Welshman, he was softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman: she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were the king and queen of Hollywood.Yet their two marriages to each other represented much more than outlandish romance. Together, Elizabeth and Richard were a fascinating embodiment of the mores and transgressions of their time and even luminaries like Jacquelin...
Life isn't everything
Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends.
2019
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An intimate portrait of the legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, as told by his closest friends in show business and the arts.Featuring candid conversations from the likes of Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Lorne Michaels, and many more.The work of Mike Nichols pervades American cultural consciousness: The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Angels in America, The Birdcage
Runaway Train
or, The Story of My Life So Far
- Narrated by
- Eric Roberts
Unabridged
7 hours 54 min
2024
EN
**This program is read by the author, Golden Globe–winning actor Eric Roberts.In this brutally candid memoir, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts pulls no punches about the ups and downs of his career and his sometimes stormy relationship with his famous sister, Julia.**Eric Roberts grew up in Georgia, spending most of his teens away from his mother and sisters, Lisa and Julia. Instead, he stayed with his controlling father, a grifter jealous of his early su...
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters
The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
- Narrated by
- Bernadette Dunne
Unabridged
10 hours 40 min
2018
EN
A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else—Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill—from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept inconsolably. Then Jackie’s thirty-eight-page will was read. Lee discovered that substantial cash bequests were left to family members, friends, and employees—but nothing...
Furious Love
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
- Narrated by
- Paul Boehmer
Unabridged
17 hours 36 min
2010
EN
From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal letters and journals, and he and Schoenberger have also interviewed the Burton family at length, including Burton’s actress daughter Kate. This is t...
Life isn't everything
Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends.
- Narrated by
- Stephen Bel DaviesSuzanne Toren
Unabridged
11 hours 36 min
2019
EN
"Superb narrators Stephen Bel Davies and Suzanne Toren make the listening informative and entertaining...A perfect vehicle for audio." — AudioFile MagazineAn up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts—from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels.The work of Mike Nichols p...
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A celebration of Ms.—the most startling, most audacious, most norm-breaking of the magazine's groundbreaking pieces on women, men, politics (sexual and otherwise), marriage, family, education, work, motherhood, and reproductive rights, as well as the best of the magazine’s fiction, poetry, and letters. • Featuring Billie Jean King, Alison Bechdel, and Audre Lorde, among many others.**“I’ve been a Ms. reader since its earliest days. The magazine’s ...
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