A classic look at Hollywood and the American film industry by The New Yorker's Lillian Ross, and named one of the "Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century."Lillian Ross worked at The New Yorker for more than half a century, and might be described not only as an outstanding practitioner of modern long-form journalism but also as one of its inventors. Picture, originally published in 1952, is her most celebrated piece of r...

Donald and Sadie MacIntosh who emigrated West from PEI in Eastern Canada, spent nearly four years on the Alberta prairies where they gambled everything they had investing in two quarters of land to raise their precious wheat crop. Between dust storms, hailstorms, prairie fires, Black Blizzards the dreadful May 19 blizzard, and a difficult landlady, Donald and Sadie were beaten into submission. Loading their few possessions they moved north in a railroad boxcar to the bushland to face new c...

The real story of Frank (Cougar) Wright tells of a loud, brash, irreverent, pioneer to the Canadian Northwest from Wisconsin and the forests of Washington. Cougar swore like a trooper, and didn't believe in a higher power than his own strength, but he loved his family and wanted them to join him in his struggle to tame the wilderness in Canada. The book is filled with romance, adventure, even a ghost story, and there is a thread of mystery winding through its pages. Tempers run high in a d...

Quaranta anys d'una normalitat apassionada i d'un periodisme trencador en un sol llibre de memòries. Lillian Ross explica la insòlita història de la vida que va compartir amb William Shawn, llegendari editor del New Yorker, al mateix temps que revela les seves connexions amb desenes d'icones il·lustres de l'època que encara avui tots coneixem: Charlie Chaplin, Hannah Arendt, Marlene Dietrich o Federico Fellini, per esmentar-ne només quatre.Shawn estava casat, i mai va deix...

The fur trade that rode the Canadian river highway from York factory to the West was dwindling, and the settlers, following the missionaries, are moving in to claim the new land.John and Adolphe, among these early pioneers, emigrated from Scotland and France to travel west, where they meet Father Lacombe, Louis Riel, and the women who will teach them how to straddle two cultures. Métis women, fairer than the men, and uncommonly pretty, open the eyes of these voyagers, their minds, and thei...

The book starts in PEI, Canada, where the Macintosh Family decide to move West, where the pot-o-gold was a stretch of black fertile soil alive with a sea of golden wheat waving before them. This typical family, part of a vibrant group of Canadian dreamers and visionaries braved the dark lean days on the prairies to carve out a new life for themselves. While gambling their lives to fulfill their dreams they meet black blizzards, drought and Influenza but there is comedy as well, much seen t...

A Full House is a historical novel of farm life in Alberta, Canada, in the 1930’s, 1940’s and ’50’s. The book follows the historical novels: Book #1 The Gentle Gamblers, and book #2 The Tender Years. The MacIntosh Family moves into their homestead in the northern bushland after trials in a series of rented houses. Here, this pioneer family, along with friends and neighbours, rides out the Depression as one by one their children grow up, and we share their struggles, their joys and their tr...

El agudo instinto de observación de la periodista estrella de The New Yorker encontró en las tripas de la industria del cine un drama fascinante de personajes, egos y conflictos. «Era como una novela desplegándose ante mí», recordaría entusiasmada Ross en sus memorias.A las complicaciones tradicionales de un rodaje (evocadas con un desesperado sentido del humor por Álex de la Iglesia en el prólogo de este libro) se sumaron el desafío logístico que implicaban las escenas bélicas con ...

When true crime author Allison McKinnon is offered the chance to capture the untold story of Lillian Ross, a convicted double murderer, she is sure it's the story of her career. Little does she know that Lillian's story mirrors traumatic events from her own life and she is left wondering if her path will lead to the same inevitable conclusion.Lillian Ross, a woman born into a wealthy family, is on Death Row, sentenced to death for murder. After years of silence, she has chosen Alli...

When true crime author Allison McKinnon is offered the chance to capture the untold story of Lillian Ross, a convicted double murderer, she is sure it’s the story of her career. Little does she know that Lillian’s story mirrors traumatic events from her own life and she is left wondering if her path will lead to the same inevitable conclusion.Lillian Ross, a woman born into a wealthy family, is on Death Row, sentenced to death for murder. After years of silence, she has chosen Allison to w...

Ten personal narratives reveal the shared and distinct struggles of being Black in the Church, facing historic and modern racism.It’s uncertain that Howard Thurman made the remark often attributed to him, “I have been writing this book all my life,” but there is little doubt that he was deeply immersed in reflection on the times that bear an uncanny resemblance to the present day, which give voice to the Black Lives Matter movement.Our “life’s book” is fill...

Seventeen-year-old Sarah lives with her mother in one of the finest suburbs in Paris. But since her father left to escape her mother’s violent temper, Sarah has had to endure her mother’s unpredictable moods and promiscuous lifestyle.With no one to turn to or confide in, Sarah must fend for herself as best she can. On Sarah’s final holiday with her mother before finishing school, her mother’s reckless pursuit of strange men nearly gets Sarah raped.Sarah completes her A level...