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They Dream of Home
Three marines, one seaman, and a raider scout return home to Los Angeles in 1943 only to find themselves and their families irreparably changed. Beleaguered by the traumas of combat, together they struggle to restore the dreams that brought them home.
Jet
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
The Gentleman from California
In politics, the rise to the top can also correspond to the erosion of one's moral core. Ask Aline Cleary Belshaw — her father was an honest and popular senator and she grew up immersed in the excitement of political life, believing in the unshakable fiber of the political process. So when she marries a grass-roots lawyer with political ambitions, she is happy to support him in every way. Until, of course, she discovers that his integrity is disappearing along with every toehold. Clay Belshaw thinks he is doing what he needs to do in order to make his way in the "the hair pulling and groin kicking of everyday politics." Although his wife is shaken by the devious compromises he is willing t...
The Actor
A has-been stunt man and actor unflaggingly seeks a way back into a profession for which he was once flawlessly suited. In the wings are his devoted wife and his estranged son whose stories intertwine and overlap in this moving saga about the fight for success and coming to terms with oneself in the gold-drenched realm called Hollywood.
California Street
This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.
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No Place for a Hero
John Charles Fremont — military officer, explorer, and politician — unpredictable and unstable, gifted, imperious, ambitious and hopelessly complex — is the perfect subject for this Bicentennial novella written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1976.
The Carrington Incident
Mr. Big, the leader of a powerful and dangerous new movement in Germany, is a seductive orator with a godlike remoteness intent on luring Bertha Carrington to his lair using a handsome young captain as bait. Bertha―tall, blond, Junoesque―is a teacher from America who is visiting Germany as the chaperon of a rich young woman and, flattered to be chosen over her beautiful companion, begins an affair with the captain and soon finds herself the captive of the demonical prophet. Written and published at the outbreak of World War II, The Carrington Incident, is a staggering forecast of the events in Germany that were already in motion and about to stun the world.
The Hate Merchant
Caspar Damion Splane, pitchman extraordinaire, had a voice so compelling that no one could pass within earshot without looking to see what kind of man was talking. He could sell anything. At a time when nylon stockings were impossible to find and very expensive, Caspar popped open his sample case, hawked silk rejects as the real McCoy, and sold them all in one afternoon. His power over people became an obsession, a tool for control and power, a compensation for years of loneliness and suffering. At the Kinderwall Sunshine Mission, revivalist Ma Kinderwall saves souls and feeds the poor from her soup kitchen. Followers flock to hear her. She has a gift, they say. During a down and out period ...
A Girl's Got To Breathe
The actress Teresa Wright (1918–2005) lived a rich, complex, magnificent life against the backdrop of Golden Age Hollywood, Broadway and television. There was no indication, from her astonishingly difficult—indeed, horrifying—childhood, of the success that would follow, nor of the universal acclaim and admiration that accompanied her everywhere. Her two marriages—to the writers Niven Busch (The Postman Always Rings Twice; Duel in the Sun) and Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy; I Never Sang for My Father)—provide a good deal of the drama, warmth, poignancy and heartbreak of her life story. “I never wanted to be a star,” she told the noted biographer Donald Spoto at dinner in 197...
