The Torch Singer Book One An Overnight Sensation
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The Torch Singer Book One An Overnight Sensation
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Author : Robert Westbrook
language : en
Publisher: Swan's Nest Canada
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The Torch Singer Book One An Overnight Sensation written by Robert Westbrook and has been published by Swan's Nest Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
“Robert Westbrook’s novel strips the gilt off the Hollywood Golden Age to reveal the seamier underside. The Torch Singer begins with an ending, a scene of murder and mayhem on St. Valentine’s Night in 1956 Beverly Hills and unravels the many and various threads of the lives and careers that took them there.” Time Out The Torch Singer is a sweeping historical saga that takes the reader from the horrors of Nazi-occupied Poland to the glittery excesses of Hollywood in the 1940’s and 50’s: the rise and fall of Sonya Saint-Amant, a singer who schemes her way to fame and glory breaking all the rules. Book One, An Overnight Sensation, charts the rise of Sonya from the age of 17 in 1940, a girl dreaming of being an understudy at the Krakow Opera when Nazis raid the theater. After witnessing the summary execution of her mother by German soldiers she escapes Poland and makes her way to London. Using guile and beauty, she finds passage to America in 1943 on the Mauretania, a dangerous North Atlantic crossing on a troop ship full of men. As the ship steams north into Arctic waters evading enemy submarines, Sonya almost wins at a high-stakes game of love . . . only to arrive in New York alone and desperate but determined to become a star. “A masterpiece of storytelling. A book of constant intrigue which from the outset creates that delicious paradox of it being immediately clear that nothing is ever quite as it seems.” Daily Mail “Robert Westbrook is a born storyteller and a bit of a magician.” Ally Sheedy The Torch Singer is an unforgettable journey through the shadowlands of fame.
An Overnight Sensation
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Author : Robert Westbrook
language : en
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
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An Overnight Sensation written by Robert Westbrook and has been published by Speaking Volumes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Author of the Howard Moon Deer Mysteries “A brilliant, engaging and wholly unpredictable story of courage, survival and self-reinvention . . . I was completely taken by it . . .Interesting, complicated and wholly engaging characters. [Westbrook] is obviously a born storyteller and a bit of a magician.”–Ally Sheedy TORCH SINGER is an epic drama of Hollywood in its Golden Age: the rise and fall of Sonya Saint-Amant, a singer who schemes her way to fame and riches, breaking all the rules. An Overnight Sensation, Book One, starts in 1956 with a scandalous love nest murder, then rewinds to Sonya at the age of 17 in 1940, a dreamy girl in the Royal Box of the Krakow Opera. When Sonya’s mother is hanged by the Nazis, she must grow up quickly. Using her wits and beauty, Sonya escapes Poland with the help of partisan fighters and makes her way to London during the Blitz. In 1943, she finagles a passage to America on the Mauretania, a dangerous North Atlantic crossing on a troop ship full of men. As the ship steams north into Arctic waters evading enemy submarines, Sonya almost wins at a high-stakes game of love . . . only to arrive in New York alone and desperate, determined to outwit fortune and become a star. An Overnight Sensation is a dark comedy of manners: a tale of murder, blackmail, fortune-hunters and dreamers, and the price paid for living large.
The Torch Singer Book Two An Almost Perfect Ending
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Author : Robert Westbrook
language : en
Publisher: Swan's Nest Canada
Release Date : 2014-09-14
The Torch Singer Book Two An Almost Perfect Ending written by Robert Westbrook and has been published by Swan's Nest Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-14 with Fiction categories.
Book Two in Robert Westbrook's epic "Hollywood Noir" Torch Singer Thriller series. “An Almost Perfect Ending ranks alongside the best Hollywood noir. It takes the reader on a journey which leads relentlessly towards a final, fatal conclusion.” Daily Mail Book Two, An Almost Perfect Ending opens with sultry heroine Sonya Saint-Amant at the height of her career—a glittering, triumphant appearance at Ciro’s, the clubhouse for the stars in 1950s Hollywood where everyone wants to claim her as their friend. But in 1954, popular music is undergoing a revolution in which all but the biggest stars will be cast aside. With her looks and popularity fading, Sonya believes she has come up with the perfect plan to save her career . . . if only she can maneuver a tricky path through the many dangers that beset her, a vortex of politics, sex, blackmail, and murder . . . “Pacy and unstoppable, the second book in the The Torch Singer series takes over where the first left off, grabbing your wrist, tugging you along, refusing to let go.” Evening Standard “The Torch Singer exposes the fragility of fame. The higher the edifice the greater the risk that some element of deep-set animal emotion or human baseness will bring everything crashing down . . . and watching it happen is not just compulsive—it’s addictive and unmissable.” Event Magazine “Robert Westbrook is a born storyteller and a bit of a magician.” Ally Sheedy Ambition, blackmail, murder . . . THE TORCH SINGER is an unforgettable journey through the shadowlands of fame.
The Left Handed Policeman
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Author : Robert Westbrook
language : en
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
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The Left Handed Policeman written by Robert Westbrook and has been published by Speaking Volumes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Robert Westbrook Author of the Howard Moon Deer Mysteries "The battle of wits and nerves that unfolds in this expertly paced novel as Nicky struggles to snare the serial killer, keep his job, and juggle an increasingly complex love life make for compelling reading . . . In Nicky Rachmaninoff [Robert Westbrook has] created one of the most engaging new detective heroes since Joseph Wambaugh got philosophical. About the only thing that cushions the disappointment of coming to the end of this page-turner is the knowledge that there's a sequel in the works." —Wall Street Journal Murder in Beverly Hills A killer is on the loose in Beverly Hills. Late at night, as moguls, starlets, actors, and rock stars head home after a night on the town, a Corvette pulls up beside a Rolls-Royce at a traffic light. A gun goes off—and another of Hollywood's elite lies dead. Beverly Hills cowers in terror. It's up to Police Lt. Nicky Rachmaninoff—reluctant cop, ex-hippie, divorced father, and the meanest left-handed jazz pianist in all L.A.—to trap the murderer before he dispatches all of Southern California's rich and famous. It's an assignment Nicky is reluctant to take on: He'd rather play the piano, worry about his love life, or gaze at the stars above his Hollywood Hills bungalow than search out a serial killer. Nicky's ex-wife, the beautiful blond star of TV's "Cassie and the Cop," suddenly wants Nicky back. But Nicky finds himself caught up with the lovely and well-heeled widow of one of the murder victims—even as he thinks he really does love his ex-wife. But someone else loves "Cassie," too. His name is Lawrence Ferguson and he is a nobody. After being diagnosed as terminally ill, Lawrence quits his job, withdraws his life savings, moves to the Beverly Hills Hotel . . . and buys himself a Corvette. And Lawrence has decided to exercise his final fantasy on the woman whose television image he has long worshiped. Can Nicky stop him in time? The Left-Handed Policeman is a gripping novel of life—and death—among the big names and the nameless of Beverly Hills. Novelist Robert Westbrook—himself the son of a famous Hollywood personality—explores the boulevards and back alleys, the myths and realities, of the greatest, most deadly dream factory of all: Hollywood.
Stars Illustrated Magazine March 2018
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Author : Maximillien de Lafayette
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018-02-14
Stars Illustrated Magazine March 2018 written by Maximillien de Lafayette and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-14 with Performing Arts categories.
Stars Illustrated Magazine March 2018. Published by Maximillien de Lafayette and Times Square Press, New York. Deluxe edition in full colors printed on glossy heavy stock paper, a collector's edition. Also available in economy edition. On the cover/En couverture: Karène Neuville, Richard Galliano, Alexandra Paris, Jenny J., Veronique Renier. English/French Edition. Editiom Française-Américaine publiée en France, Italie et les Etats Unis. Cover Story: Karene Neuville, accordionist of the year. Fake "followers" and "likes" on Facebook, Youtube and Instagram. Interviews with America's stars and legends (Showbiz: Theater, Television, Music). Virtuosi of the Accordion: Karene Neuville, Jenny J., Alexandra Paris, Veronique Renier, Andre Verchuren, Richard Galliano, Didier Vellezin, Sylvie Pullès. The world's 50 most interesting and delightful people you wish you could meet one day. Stars who made the world spin. How rich are evangelists today'.
All 2021 11 No 204
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Author : LiveABC編輯群
language : en
Publisher: 希伯崙股份有限公司
Release Date : 2021-10-28
All 2021 11 No 204 written by LiveABC編輯群 and has been published by 希伯崙股份有限公司 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-28 with Education categories.
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Can T Help Singing
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Author : Eileen Farrell
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1999
Can T Help Singing written by Eileen Farrell and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The long-anticipated memoir of one of the greatest and most celebrated American singers of the twentieth century
Showmen S Motion Picture Trade Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Showmen S Motion Picture Trade Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Motion pictures categories.
The Gershwin Song Collection The Real American Folk Song Is A Rag
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Author : George Gershwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Gershwin Song Collection The Real American Folk Song Is A Rag written by George Gershwin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Motion picture music categories.
Intimate Lies
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Author : Robert Westbrook
language : en
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Release Date : 1995
Intimate Lies written by Robert Westbrook and has been published by Speaking Volumes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Intimate Lies Her Son's Story F. Scott Fitzgerald, the brilliant author of The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night, was a man haunted by failure to live up to his own early successes. In 1937, desperate for money, nearly broken in spirit, he headed west for work as a Hollywood screenwriter and one last shot at staying sober There, living in Hollywood's legendary hotel, The Garden of Allah, Fitzgerald met the beautiful young gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, whose elaborate pose as a British aristocrat masked the true identity that haunted her all her life. Before her death in 1988, Graham bequeathed a Pandoras box of papers, diaries, notes, and correspondence to her son, acclaimed novelist Robert Westbrook with explicit instructions to write the full story of her life with Fitzgerald, which she herself could not tell. The result is Intimate Lies—the dramatic tale of an unusual love affair the turbulent romance between a great author at the end of his life and a false young woman escaping her past, set against the glittering ferment of 1930s Hollywood. "I was prepared to suffer any ordeal rather than reveal the truth about myself," Sheilah Graham wrote in 1958. Running from a childhood in the squalor of London's East End, desperate to hide her lack of education, Graham reinvented herself out of sheer imagination, spinning a web of daydreams and lies to those around her. But she was unable to conceal her true identity from Fitzgerald for long; he was fascinated by her mysterious past and quickly uncovered her secrets. Despite pressures of money and dwindling time, Fitzgerald set out to play Pygmalion, creating for Sheilah a fanciful "College of One.” Later he made her the heroine of his final novel, The Last Tycoon. Sheilah, in turn, instinctively understood Fitzgerald’s demons and cared for him with a survivor's strength as he alternated between wildly spectacular drunken episodes and quiet, doomed gallantry. Together they sought refuge in Hollywood, among such friends as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley John O'Hara, and Ogden Nash. With Intimate Lies, Robert Westbrook brings a personal perspective and a sure writer's hand to this mesmerizing memoir, an unforgettable love story of unrelenting power and interest. Praise for Intimate Lies “The mood should be two people—free— He has an overwhelming urge toward the girl who promises to give life back to him . . . she is the heart of hope and freshness.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, notes for The Last Tycoon “I was prepared to suffer any ordeal rather than reveal the truth about myself I thought, he has chosen me, I want him to be proud of the woman he has chosen. He must never feel that his girl is in reality a grubby little waif who has gotten to him by a series of deceptions.”—Sheilah Graham, writing in 1958