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In this moving memoir, Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share the romances, the drama, and the humor of an incredible life

He grew up in Bel Air next door to a golf course that changed his life. As a young boy, he saw a foursome playing one morning featuring none other than Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Randolph Scott, and Cary Grant. Seeing these giants of the silver screen awed him and fueled his dreams of becoming a movie star. Battling a revolving door of boarding schools and a father who wanted him to forget Hollywood and join the family business, sixteen-year-old Wagner started like any naïve kid would—walking along Sunset Boulevard, hoping that a producer or director would notice him.

Under the mentorship of stars like Spencer Tracy, he would become a salaried actor in Hollywood's studio system among other hot actors of the moment such as his friends Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis. Working with studio mogul Darryl Zanuck, Wagner began to appear in a number of films alongside the most beautiful starlets—but his first love was Barbara Stanwyck, an actress twice his age. As his career blossomed, and after he separated from Stanwyck, he met the woman who would change his life forever, Natalie Wood. They fell instantly and deeply in love and stayed together until the stress of their careers—hers marching upward, his inexplicably deflating—drove them to divorce.

Trying to forget the pain, he made more movies and spent his time in Europe with the likes of Steve McQueen, Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Liz Taylor, and Joan Collins. He would meet and marry the beautiful former model and actress Marion Marshall. Together they had a daughter and made their way back to America, where he found himself at the beginning of a new era in Hollywood—the blossoming of television. Lew Wasserman and later Aaron Spelling would work with Wagner as he produced and starred in some of the most successful programs in history.

Despite his newfound success, his marriage to Marion fell apart. He looked no further than Natalie Wood, for whom he still pined. To the world's surprise, they fell in love all over again, this time more deeply and with maturity. As she settled into a domestic life, raising their own daughter, Courtney, as well as their children from previous marriages, Wagner became the sole provider, reaping the riches of television success. Their life together was cut tragically short, though, when Wood died after falling from their yacht.

For the first time, Wagner writes about that tremendously painful time. After a serious bout with depression, he finally resurfaced and eventually married Jill St. John, who helped keep his family and his fractured heart together.

With color photographs and never-before-told stories, this is a quintessentially American story of one of the great sons of Hollywood.

Author: Robert J. Wagner, Scott Eyman
Hardcover:  336 pages
Company: HarperEntertainment  (2008-10-01) (2008-09-23)
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Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. The only certainty is that it kept getting worse. Simply put: Cory Friedman's life was a living hell.

AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE is the true story of Cory and his family's decades-long battle for survival in the face of extraordinary difficulties and a maddening medical establishment. It is a heart-rending story of struggle and triumph with a climax as dramatic as any James Patterson thriller. (2008)

Author: James Patterson, Hal Friedman, Cory Friedman
Hardcover:  304 pages
Company: Little, Brown and Company  (2008-10-01) (2008-10-01)
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Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.

On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. --Rebekah Warren

Author: Hunter S. Thompson
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Following his retirement in 1979, Thomas began work on an autobiography, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and his Work with Alfred Blalock, ISBN 0-8122-1634-2. (more...)

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Howard Thurman was a unique man-a black minister, philosopher, and educator whose vitality and vision touched the lives of countless people of all races, faiths, and cultures. (more...)

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im a 13 year old female. things i love: love itself(lesbian) cellos neo classical music roses (black/red/blue) the color white because it can absorb and form into any color without a change and vampires. i find them beautifully romantic. i am a lesbian like i said but the bloodthirst, dominance, mystic beauty, darkness, passion, rebellion, love, seductive controlling beautiful fantasy creatures. i am not a psycho but i am crazily obsessed with them. no one knows much about me. at school im the loudmuthed one without a friend in the world. but in my heart i feel like im in love with someone, there is no one but my life is full of fantasies . i want a girlfriend who i can whole heartedly care about. unendlessly, passionatly, with no fights, pur love. i feel like i have this but i have no one. i have myself. is this just extreme love for myself. i constantly worry. and i dont have a loving familey. infact i have the most disfunctional family i know. i feel extreme pain to care for someone. but i dont want a friend. i never had friends. there were people that act like my best friend just to see what retarted things i say/do and then tell there real friends. i hate that. but i just want 1 soulmate. i do not need a therapist and im not mentally ill. i long to be that vampire. i wish i was that beautiful vampire i described. maybe i could use this pain to write? i have written b4. and i love art. when i grow up i plan on writing japanese anime story lines, and manga/graphic noveles. i know how to speak japanese fluently. and i could write an autobiography that would leave peple breathless...i have had ALOT, almost worse than a drama series, go on im my life, its so much tht its scarry. i dont know. please help (more...)

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First off, I hate reading and have to do this for a report. Pick out of this list please! Author - Title Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart Agee, James - Death in the Family Anaya, Rudolfo, A. - Bless Me, Ultima Arnow, Harriet - The Dollmaker Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice Azuala, Mariano - The Underdogs Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain Borland, Hal - When the Legends Die Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451 Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights Brookner, Anita - Look at Me Bryant, Dorothy - Miss Giardino Buck, Pearl - The Good Earth Camus, Albert - The Stranger Candelaria, Nash - Memories of the Alhambra Carroll, Lewis - Alice in Wonderland Cather, Willa - My Antonia Chopin, Kate - The Awakening Cisneros, Sandra - The House on Mango Street Clark, Walter V. - Ox-Bow Incident Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood's End Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage Craven, Margaret - I Heard the Owl Call My Name Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities Doerr, Harriet - Stones for Ibarra Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine Faulkner, William - The Bear Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India Frank, Rudolf - No Hero for the Kaiser Gaines, Ernest J. - The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Love in the Time of Cholera Golding, William - Lord of the Flies Green, Hannah - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Greene, Bette - Summer of My German Soldier Guest, Judith - Ordinary People Hale, Janet Campbell - The Owl's Song Hammet, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon Hardy, Thomas - The Mayor of Casterbridge Hawthrone, Nathaniel - Scarlet Letter Heinlein, Robert A. - Stranger in a Strange Land Heller, Jospeh - Catch Twenty-Two Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea Hesse, Hermann - Siddhartha Hinojosa, Rolando - Dear Rafe Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World Islas, Arturo The Rain God Jackson, Helen Hunt - Ramona James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw Jolley, Elizabeth - Miss Peabody's Inheritance Joyce, James - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kawabata, Yasunari - Snow Country Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algermon Kim, Richard E. - Martyred Kincaid, Jamaica - Annie John Kinsella, W.P. - Shoeless Joe Knowles, John - Separate Peace LaFarge, Oliver - Sons and Lovers Leffland, Ella - Rumors of Peace LeGuin, Ursula - The Left Hand of Darkness Lewis, Sinclair - (more...)

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/14/uselections2008-johnmccain The Republican US presidential candidate John McCain was not tortured during his captivity in North Vietnam, the chief prison guard of the jail in which he was held has claimed. In an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Nguyen Tien Tran acknowledged that conditions in the prison were "tough, though not inhuman". But, he added: "We never tortured McCain. On the contrary, we saved his life, curing him with extremely valuable medicines that at times were not available to our own wounded." McCain, who fell into enemy hands after his plane was shot down in 1967, has frequently referred to being tortured and has cited his experiences as a reason for vigorously opposing the endorsement by the Bush administration of the use of techniques such as "water-boarding" on terrorist suspects. Shortly after his release in 1973 McCain told US News & World Report that his prison guards had beaten him "from pillar to post". After being worked over at intervals for four days, he said, he had become suicidal and agreed to sign a "confession" admitting to war crimes. In his 1999 autobiography, Faith of My Fathers, he described how after his capture he was subjected to inhuman treatment in an effort to force him to disclose his ship's name, squadron number and the target of his final mission. He was threatened with the withdrawal of medical assistance and, while still suffering from his crash injuries, his guards "knocked me around a little". For his service in Vietnam and his actions as a POW, McCain was awarded the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, the Navy Commendation Medal and the Purple Heart. Tran, now 75, said McCain reached Hanoi with the worst injuries he had seen in a downed pilot. But he denied torturing him, saying it was his mission to ensure that McCain survived. As the son of the US naval commander in Vietnam, he offered a potential valuable propaganda weapon. However, recommending McCain for a medal after the war, his former cellmate, the much-decorated Colonel George Day, said the admiral's son had forced his interrogators to "drug him and torture him to get any cooperation", according to a letter in the US National Archives cited earlier this year by the Washington Post. Day said McCain suffered "torturous abuse". Tran told Corriere that McCain was sent to hospital the day after he was brought to Hanoi and stayed there for a month. "I never lost him from sight. I was frightened a doctor or nurse might do him harm." Tran dismissed as "absolutely impossible" perhaps the most famous story from McCain's autobiography: that one Christmas, a guard traced a cross in the mud in front of him. "My men were all communists and atheists," he said. As to why McCain, then 36, left North Vietnam with prematurely grey hair, Tran denied it was because of mistreatment. "It's that in prison you think too much." (more...)

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