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Putting One's Head Above the Parapet: My Autobiography

Putting One's Head Above the Parapet: My Autobiography

David Bret

French-born David Bret is one of Britain’s leading show business biographers and now dishes the dirt on himself.
Morrissey: Scandal and Passion

Morrissey: Scandal and Passion

David Bret

This biography of David Bret includes revelations; accusations of racism and fascism; confessions of physical abuse; High Court royalty battles and the public shaming, and more.
Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life

Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life

David Bret

In this highly entertaining book David Bret tells Tallulah's story in the only way it could be told: with shocking honesty and wit.
The Piaf We Loved: A Two-Act Play

The Piaf We Loved: A Two-Act Play

David Bret

David Bret is an authority of the chanson and has written two best-selling books about Edith Piaf.
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend - 1932-2011

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend - 1932-2011

David Bret

Elizabeth Taylor was the very last of the Hollywood greats. As David Bret writes, 'Most of her contemporaries - Garbo, Streisand and Dietrich excepted - were compelled to walk in the shadow of her sun.
George Formby: An Intimate Biography of the Troubled Genius

George Formby: An Intimate Biography of the Troubled Genius

David Bret

COTTRELL, Dorothy: Interview with David Bret, 1998. DANCE MUSIC POLICY COMPANY: Minutes (unpublished, 1944). DUNN, JH: Letters from Palestine ( unpublished, 1943). ELLIS, SqdLeader Frank: Letters from North Africa ( unpublished, ...
Rock Hudson: The Gentle Giant

Rock Hudson: The Gentle Giant

David Bret

Published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the actor’s death, in Rock Hudson: The Gentle Giant, David Bret has produced a rewarding portrait of a warm-hearted, wonderful man who, though atrociously maligned by the media back in 1985 ...
Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications

Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications

Norman Lawrence

bret = DlgSet(dlg,IDC_COMBO1, 3, DLG_NUMITEMS) bret = DlgSet(dlg, IDC_COMBO1, "y = a + x", 1) bret = DlgSet(dlg,IDC_COMBO1, "y = a + x + x^2", 2 ) bret = DlgSet(dlg,IDC_COMBO1, "y = a + x + x^2 + x^3", 3) bret = DLGSET (dlg ...
The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the ...

The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the ...

Bret Hinsch

Western stereotypes portray a culture that values conformity and denigrates the individual, but Bret Hinsch convincingly explodes this facile myth.
Women in Imperial China

Women in Imperial China

Bret Hinsch

Rather than providing an exhaustive chronicle of this vast subject, Bret Hinsch pinpoints the themes that characterized distinct periods in Chinese women’s history and delves into the perception of female identity in each era.
Murder Mystery & Mayhem

Murder Mystery & Mayhem

Bret Herholz

Confessions * Peculiar Boy ...and Other Stories by Bret M. Herholz *The Stone- Toe Enigma of Ankleshire pg.03 ... written by Joshua Michael Stewart, gray tones by Rori Shapiro, lettering by John Shawer pg58 *The Year the Peduliar Boy ...
The Heaven of Animals: Stories

The Heaven of Animals: Stories

David James Poissant

... Kevin Wilson, Claire Vaye Watkins, Clyde Edgerton, Matthew Pitt, Shannon Cain, Alissa Nutting, Erin Stalcup, David Scrivner, Lance Cleland, and Rachel Cantor. Bret Anthony Johnston, patron saint of young writers, you're an inspiration.
Home Game: Big-League Stories from My Life in Baseball's ...

Home Game: Big-League Stories from My Life in Baseball's ...

Bret Boone

Along the way, his book also touches on Boone family lore, from Ray playing with his hero Ted Williams and Bob winning a World Series with the 1980 Phillies to Bret’s flop in a nationally televised home-run derby and Aaron’s historic ...
Patient Care Management Lab: A Workbook for Prescription ...

Patient Care Management Lab: A Workbook for Prescription ...

Richard Finkel

Pt. Name: Bret Harris Gender: M Age: 74 Dx: HTN, angina 1EDICATION SIG. PRESCRIBER NTG 1/150 #C | sl prn Thomas Dyazide #30 | qam Thomas Dr. Erin Thomas 988 North Ridge, New York, NY 88364 813-555-7554 Name Bret Harris ...
The ultimate guide to Chinese tea

The ultimate guide to Chinese tea

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Original Illustrations by Allen Y. Yu Photography by Bolin Huang © Bret Hinsch 2008 ISBN 978-974-480-129-6 The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Tea Bret Hinsch.
Diary of the Black Widow

Diary of the Black Widow

Bret M. Herholz

Will they solve the mystery behind these murders, or will the Black Widow strike again? Combining the illustrative style of Edward Gorey and the humor of Monty Python, Bret M. Herholz crafts a tale of mystery, humor, and suspense.
Souviens-toi de moi comme ça

Souviens-toi de moi comme ça

France Camus-Pichon

Avec ce premier roman prochainement adapté au cinéma, Bret Anthony Johnston s'impose comme l'un des jeunes romanciers américains les plus talentueux. « Je suis admiratif du talent déployé par Bret Anthony Johnston dans ce roman ...
Doris Day: A Reluctant Star

Doris Day: A Reluctant Star

David Bret

From her German Jewish parents to her donation to an airlift of cats and dogs in Louisiana, as well as full discography and film lists, this is a captivating look at a resilient American icon.
Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics

Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics

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Bret Mulligan and Robert Germany put the peak population at 43,000 but agree that the total dropped by over half by the end of the war, to 18,500. See Bret Mulligan and Robert Germany, “The Population of Athens during the War,” Haverford ...
Justins Heimkehr: Roman

Justins Heimkehr: Roman

Bret Anthony Johnston

Mit psychologischem Feingefühl und sehr spannend erzählt Bret Anthony Johnston in seinem Debütroman von einer Familie unter Schock. Vor vier Jahren ist Justin Campbell, damals zwölf Jahre alt, entführt worden. Seine Eltern und sein ...
Greta Garbo: A Divine Star

Greta Garbo: A Divine Star

David Bret

Though there have been numerous biographies of Garbo, this is the first to investigate fully the two so-called missing periods in the life of this most enigmatic of Hollywood stars: the first during the late 1920s, forcing MGM to employ a ...
Who's Wealthy in America

Who's Wealthy in America

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JAMES WOEHLER, DEBORAH L WOKASIEN, RONALD L WOLFE, DON WOLFE, VERDA WOLFF, M L WOMACK, JACK W WONG, ... SHAWN M ALLEN, BRET D ALLEN, ELIZABETH A ALLEN, JAMES L ANDERSON, CHARLES ANDERSON, DAVID R ANDERSON, ... DONALD J FILA, SHARON G JR FILSHTINSKY, MICHAEL S FLETCHER, JENNIFER S FLUEGEMAN, DAVID С FLYNN, DEANNE W ...
Valentino: A Dream of Desire

Valentino: A Dream of Desire

David Bret

Traces the celluloid film icon's brief but history-making career, describing his frustration with his public image as a Latin sex symbol, his fourteen major films, and his highly sensationalized death at the age of thirty-one.
Anthropology Newsletter

Anthropology Newsletter

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Papers: Bret D Gustafson, Nobuko Adachi, Leon A Arredondo, Frederick David Bronkema, Walter Edward Little, Catherine ... Invited Session: Forced of Suffering (General Anthropology Division) Organizers: Ann M Rynearson, Don F Seeman.
Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi

Bret Anthony Johnston

'A GORGEOUS, ACCOMPLISHED DEBUT' DAVID MITCHELL (Independent Books of the Year) In Corpus Christi, Texas - a town often hit by hurricanes - parents, children, and lovers come together and fall apart, bonded and battered by memories of loss ...
Geological Society of America News and Information

Geological Society of America News and Information

Geological Society of America

Other Successful Applicants. Other applicants who were recommended for funding are the following: David S. Adlis, Mark H. Anders, R. Scott Anderson, Steven D. Balsley, Jeffrey L. Bannon, Karen Wetmore Barrett, Paul W. Bauer, Bret S. Beall, ...
Confessions of a Peculiar Boy

Confessions of a Peculiar Boy

Bret M. Herholz

If you're a fan of Edward Gorey's art and Poe's writing - this book may just be for you!

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