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An Evening with Marilyn

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Publisher: Welcome Books
Keywords: marilyn, evening
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1932183736
ISBN-13: 9781932183733

Perhaps it was her girlish, whispery voice; or the way her eyes danced when she smiled; or how she seemed to have an unearthly glow about her. Whatever the reason, Marilyn Monroe remains one of the most glamorous, seductive, and charming women in Hollywood history. Worshipped for her sexuality, adored for her vulnerability and innocence, Marilyn is a celebrated movie icon whose persona continues to enthrall and delight her loyal fans. Marilyn’s ethereal beauty and irrepressible charisma are captured here in a sequence of sensual portraits taken over the course of one extraordinary evening in

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Evening Is the Whole Day: A Novel

Author: Preeta Samarasan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: novel, day, whole, evening
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 061887447X
ISBN-13: 9780618874477

Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding and already internationally acclaimed debut introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as its closely guarded secrets are slowly peeled away.When Chellam, the family’s rubber-plantation-bred servant girl, is dismissed for unnamed crimes, her banishment is the latest in a series of recent, precipitous losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha’s life. A few short weeks before, Aasha’s grandmother Paati passed away under mysterious circumstances and her older sister, Uma, departed for Columbia University--leaving Aasha alone to cope with her most

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Almost an Evening

Author: Ethan Coen
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Keywords: evening
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2009-04-07
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 030746041X
ISBN-13: 9780307460417

Three satiric plays by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ethan CoenRaising Arizona, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading–the Coen brothers’ ﬁlms are some of the most critically acclaimed and iconic of our time. Now, one half of the duo, Ethan Coen, adds playwriting to his eclectic bio. In these three short plays that ran to sold-out audiences Off-Broadway in 2008, the theme is hell–both on earth and in the hereafter.In “Waiting,” a man faces an uncertain future in an uncertain location that seems to be some kind of waiting room. The anxiety and despair hark back to dramas of

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The Evening News: A Novel

Author: Arthur Hailey
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: novel, news, evening
Number of Pages: 580
Published: 2001-07-10
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0385504241
ISBN-13: 9780385504249

Cold-blooded politics, naked power, and raw terror behind the scenes. Murder in New York, terror in South America, bloody riots in Eastern Europe. That’s the evening news as calmly reported by top TV anchorman Crawford Sloane. . .until his own life is torn apart in one dramatic moment. For when terrorists snatch his family, no one knows better than Sloane how slim are the chances of getting them back alive. Now their fate depends on Sloane’s rival, ace reporter Harry Partridge; on a beautiful and ruthless network CEO, and on Sloane’s determina

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Evening Class

Author: Maeve Binchy
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: class, evening
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1998-03-09
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0440223202
ISBN-13: 9780440223207

It was the quiet ones you had to watch. That’s where the real passion was lurking.They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take a course in Italian. It was Latin teacher Aidan Dunne’s last chance to revive a failing marriage and a dead-end career. But Aidan’s dream was headed for disaster until the mysterious Signora appeared, transforming a shared passion for Italy into a life-altering adventure for them all...bank clerk Bill and his dizzy fiance Lizzie: a couple headed for trouble...Kathy, a hardworking