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Liar By:J. R. Allison Published on 2012-08 by iUniverse Under all the glamour surrounding Beverly Hills, a sleazy underbelly quietly festers. As love for barter, lowlife scams, and trashy pickups lurk in the shadows, a small-time hustler masquerades as a big shot. Forty-year-old Joel Schebschitz is a friendly supplier of antique jewelry who knows a sexy woman when he sees one-and that doesn't include his wife. Claudia Alonzo is a voluptuous Brazilian model looking for a fast buck. When the long-legged beauty approaches Joel with the hope of selling her ruby ring, he jumps at the opportunity. But there is only one problem-Claudia is not attracted to Joel at all. A mastermind at devious manipulation, Claudia knows Joel may be very useful to her, so she happily strings him along as he trails after her heels like a lovesick puppy dog. In this scandalously provocative tale set among the bogus glitz of Southern California, steamy sex transforms into murderous hate as a diabolical war ens...

Electric Dreamland By:Lauren Rabinovitz Published on 2012-07-24 by Columbia University Press Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity. As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended society, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. Following the rise of American parks from 1896 to 1918, Rabinovitz seizes on a simultaneous increase in cinema and spectacle audiences and connects both to the success of leisure activities in stabilizing society. Critics of the time often condemned parks and movies for inciting moral decline, yet in fact they fostered women...

The Smiling Man By:Joseph Knox Published on 2019-01-15 by Crown From the acclaimed author of Sirens, damaged Detective Aidan Waits returns in a mind-bending new thriller that will have everyone asking |Who is the Smiling Man?| Aidan Waits is back on the night shift, the Manchester PD dumping ground for those too screwed-up for more glamorous work. But the monotony of petty crimes and lonesome nights is shattered when he and his partner are called to investigate a break-in The Palace, an immense, empty hotel in the center of the city. There they find the body of a man. He is dead. The tags have been cut from his clothes, his teeth have been filed down, and even his fingertips have been replaced... And he is smiling. But as Waits begins to unravel the mystery of the smiling man, he becomes a target. Someone wants very badly to make this case disappear, and as their threats escalate, Aidan realizes that the answers may lie not only with the wealthy families and organized criminals connect...

Frommer's Jamaica By:Darwin Porter,Danforth Prince Published on 2010-09-02 by John Wiley & Sons This Book was ranked at 4 by Google Books for keyword celebrity picks. Book ID of Frommer's Jamaica's Books is lbgGuAEACAAJ, Book which was written byDarwin Porter,Danforth Princehave ETAG "O9D+mcx5Y2k" Book which was published by John Wiley & Sons since 2010-09-02 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780470943465 and ISBN 10 Code is 0470943467 Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is false Book which have "288 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryTravel This Book was rated by 1 Raters and have average rate at "5.0" This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is trueand in ePub is true Book Preview

The 5 Factor Diet By:Harley Pasternak Published on 2006 by Meredith Books The author of F-Factor Fitness introduces a nutrition and diet program that involves eating five small meals a day and doing five short workouts a week, and includes more than one hundred simple recipes with five or fewer ingredients. This Book was ranked at 38 by Google Books for keyword celebrity picks. Book ID of The 5 Factor Diet's Books is EN77vQJM-gEC, Book which was written byHarley Pasternakhave ETAG "EoXQjEzxEY0" Book which was published by Meredith Books since 2006 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780696232244 and ISBN 10 Code is 0696232243 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "256 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHealth and Fitness This Book was rated by 7 Raters and have average rate at "4.0" This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PD...

U.S. News & World Report By: Published on 2000 by This Book was ranked at 16 by Google Books for keyword celebrity picks. Book ID of U.S. News & World Report's Books is jFQnAQAAIAAJ, Book which was written by have ETAG "jf1If7GowXg" Book which was published by since 2000 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is and ISBN 10 Code is Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is false Book which have " Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryUnited States This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at "" This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview

Eloquent Rage By:Brittney Cooper Published on 2018-02-20 by St. Martin's Press An Emma Watson |Our Shared Shelf| Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY: The New York Public Library • Bustle • The Root • NPR • Fast Company (|10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace|) Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: |Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed.| Roxane Gay: |I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now.| Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: |A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility.| America Ferrera: |Razor sharp and hilarious. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist.| Damon Young: |Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes.| Melissa Harris Perry: “I was waiting for an author who wouldn’t forget, ignore, or erase us black girls...I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper.” Michael Eric Dyson...

I Want to Change My Life By:Barrie Gunter Published on 2014-07-24 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Competition talent shows have been among the most popular on television in the 21st century. The producers of these shows claim to give ordinary people extraordinary opportunities to change their lives by showcasing a specific skill leading to a new career trajectory. Most participants will claim that they entered to get a big break and to develop a career they have always dreamed of. To what extent do these shows deliver on such promises? Following through what happens to leading contestants in singing, entertainment, modelling, cooking and business entrepreneur competitions, this book shows that few go on to achieve lasting success in their chosen career. Many return to obscurity or to their previous lives. Some enjoy a low level career in the new direction delivered by the competition they entered. Just a few become truly successful. The pop and entertainment themed contests have disco...