Renaissance Literary Talent: 60 books

The novel that started it all - Cover Charge - Cornell Woolrich's first novel was published in 1926. Woolrich, had just turned 22 years old, a year younger than when his great influence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published This Side of Paradise. The period, 1917 to 1925 - the Jazz Age. The...

“Arthur Rubinstein was a seventh child—gifted not only with the extraordinary talent we all listened to but also with one of the totaller recalls which makes possible this easy, expansive memoir of his years into World War I but also and especially a very happy nature which makes itself manifest...

With a Bible belt twang and a shock of gray hair, American Idol winner Hicks resembles nothing less than the other tweeny pop stars churned out by the television megahit. In this inspirational autobiography, Hicks reveals that, before capturing televised glory (and more votes than George Bush in 2004),...

"If it doesn't freeze your blood, then you are immune to literary chills." - The Baltimore Sun "The most exciting experience in crime fiction this reviewer has had in some considerable time." - the Hartford Courant "Woolrich can distill more terror, more excitement,...

"Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. His novels and hundreds of short stories define the essence of noir nihilism."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review It’s unfortunate that Woolrich didn’t try the speculative...

While the CIA is doing its research into psychic powers - aided in their experiments by a woman who has the uncanny ability to locate the co-ordinates of Soviet submarines - the Russians have an altogether bigger and more sinister project in mind: developing a device that uses electromagnetic waves...

Master Sergeant Cesario Flores is a troubled man. A career non-com, he feels safe in his well-ordered life. So when his precious daughter Juana joins the tuned-in, dropped-out generation, Flores breaks into little pieces...with murder the result. THE ASSASSINS is set in the United States during the...

“Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir.” —Newsday “Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.” - Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review "No one has...

“Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir.” —Newsday “Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.” - Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review "No one has...

Multi-talented superstar Joan Collins returns with her most stunning novel yet--a portrait of one Hollywood icon's triumph over forces threatening both her personal and professional life.  Katherine Bennet is the star who has made "The Skeffingtons" the most watched TV soap opera in America....

Multi-talented superstar Joan Collins’ best selling novels Star Quality and Infamous are now paired together for the ultimate read! Whether it’s her portrait of one Hollywood icon’s triumph over forces threatening both her personal and professional life in Infamous, or the thriller grip of betrayal,...

Ten years after Bacall received the National Book Award for her first memoir, By Myself, Bacall wanted the world to know who she was later: not merely a famous celluloid image, or Humphrey Bogart's other half, but a woman who experienced both loss and achievement in her career as well as in her personal...

This is the autobiography of a former photographer's stylist who became an international film celebrity and married two of Hollywood's biggest names, but then seemed to throw it all away. The role of Jenny in "Love Story" brought Ali MacGraw stardom. She married producer Bob Evans and bore him a son,...

In an inside study of the acting profession, a popular actor discusses the development of his craft, describes his personal experiences on and offstage, and profiles some of the personalities he has known. Though ever striving for variety in his roles (159 to date!), York is best known in the States...