Anne Edwards
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Anne Edwards is the author of several bestselling biographies of notable figures, including film stars Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as Queen Mary and Gone with the Wind novelist Margaret Mitchell. A fastidious researcher and accomplished writer, Edwards received a Pulitzer prize nomination for her book Early Reagan: The Rise of an American Hero. In this new memoir, Edwards turns the spotlight on herself, chronicling her...
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“Streisand: A Biography” is much more than the story of the world's greatest living performer, how she got there, and why she remains at the top after three decades, it is also, in Anne Edward's sure hands, a compelling chronicle of a woman's fight to validate her appearance, her talent, and her right to love and be loved. Time and time again Streisand has demonstrated the ability to reinvent herself to keep pace with the continuing changes in...
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Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imagination, indeed, it is the basis for the legend she created. Gone With the Wind took the American reading public by storm and went on to become the most popular motion picture of all time. It was a phenomenon whose success has never been equaled, and it shattered Margaret Mitchell's private life. In...
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In “Royal Sisters”, Anne Edwards, author of the bestselling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject. From birth to maturity, they were the stuff of which dreams are made.
"I'm three and you're four," the future Queen, then a child, imperiously informed her sister....
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The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world's oldest reigning dynasty. For nearly eight hundred years, from the elegant Genoese Rainier I to the current Prince Albert II, the Grimaldis, "an ambitious, hot-blooded, unscrupulous race, swift to revenge and furious in battle", have ruled Monaco. Against all odds, they have proved themselves masterful survivors, still in possession of their lands and titles despite the upheavals...
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At the age of five, Shirley Temple became the world's most famous and acclaimed child, the most talented, beautiful child performer ever to capture the public's imagination. By the time she was ten, she had either met or had received words of admiration from almost everyone of distinction. Nine-tenths of the world could recognize her on sight. She single-handedly cheered an entire nation caught in the firm grip of a depression. Her films saved a major...
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He was an actor, newly divorced, whose controversial tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild was drawing more attention than his fading film career. She was a contract player at MGM, unmarried and rapidly growing too old to play the starlet. It was time, she decided, to settle down and become Mrs. Somebody Important. So, Nancy Davis contrived an introduction to Ronald Reagan, and the Reagans march into history began.
“The Reagans: Portrait...
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Many Canadians say that British Columbia is the zaniest political province. It's too diverse, too polarized-geographically, demographically and ideologically. But the British Columbia political arena is lively, and it has often led the way in electing women to parliaments-as respected spokespeople for the public and as equal people.
In Seeking Balance, Anne Edwards shares her conversations with more than eighty British Columbia women politicians,...
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First published in 1986 and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, “Early Reagan” is still the most in-depth portrayal of the pre-government years of the late president. The book uncovers Reagan's formative years: childhood poverty, film stardom, and his politicization via the Screen Actors Guild. Anne Edwards interviewed more than two hundred people important in the life of Reagan as well as those of his two wives, Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis. The...
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This is the story of the actress who became a Hollywood legend by winning the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara in “Gone with the Wind”, and whose circle included both theatrical and political celebrities, from Winston Churchill to Noel Coward, John Gielgud, and Marlon Brando. But behind the dazzling exterior lay the sinister shadow of another Vivien Leigh, a shadow which pursued her throughout her aristocratic upbringing, her frustrating first...
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Katharine Hepburn: grande dame of American actresses, fierce individualist, and living legend. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards and winner of four, Hepburn achieved stardom against formidable odds. The woman behind the legend emerges in this sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of her exceptional life and loves. Filled with accounts of her relationships with Spencer Tracy, Howard Hughes, and many others, here is the fascinating story of a determined...
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Edwards's biography presents a complete picture of the late actress, and not just the boozing, drug-addicted caricature of a woman central to lesser biographies. We learn, for example, that Garland saw it as her duty to provide for her family financially, a generosity that her mother Ethel exploited with disastrous results. Above all, Judy Garland sought to please, whether it was an audience or a studio head, and therein lies her powerful and heartbreaking...
14) Decide to Live
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When it hurts too much to live, how does one find the strength to stay alive and find hope again?Reiko Nakano has a charmed life. Not only does the twenty-three-old come from a life of luxury because of her celebrity parents and supermodel sister, she's best friends with the biggest brother and sister pop duo in the world- Gio and Gem Grove. But what the public assumes is wrong different because of what Reiko suffers in private. She feels she's an...
15) Yearning to Live
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A self-proclaimed ordinary average girl meets the one larger than life person who will make her yearn for so much more.Natalie Benton has nursed more than enough heartbreak in her twenty-one years. But she doesn't like to complain, even though her parents' marriage might be falling apart, and she's still mourning her brother, who committed suicide five years ago. On top of that, she was recently ghosted by her lover, an emotionally detached tattoo...
16) What If
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"A startling unique spin on Peter Pan with mystery and romance, and staying true to yourself." – # 1 NY Times Bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout"Real and honest, sweet and heartbreaking, WHAT IF is an excellent YA read."- NY Times Bestselling author Monica MurphySixteen-year-old Wendy Wyman is bereft over the death of her best friend, Peter Preiss, whose body has been found at the bottom of the town lake. She blames herself because she allowed...
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Evelynn Faust suffers from horrible insomnia and paranoia. The summer before her senior year of high school should be one of the best summers of her life. But she's tormented by guilt and an addiction that haunts her every waking moment. Evelynn is a drug dealer who also craves the drug she sells. The money and the popularity that come with it aren't bad either. But when she's caught dealing on school property by Eric Wagner, the respected and admired...
18) Let Me Live
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The one person he trusted destroyed everything. Trusting again won't be easy.
Eighteen-year-old Marshall's bright future shattered the day his once friend and lover opened fire on their campus, killing twelve and leaving Marshall with a shoulder wound and devastating guilt over the part he played in the massacre. The press may have dubbed him a hero, but Marshall has nowhere to turn, no one to help him through the anxiety and depression closing...
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The ultimate savvy, spiritualist's 'business bible', Starting a Spiritual Business will put you on the path to living your dream. Presenting case studies, lashings of inspiration and business advice, Starting a Spiritual Business will have you grasp the bull by the horns and give you the courage you need to accomplish your true purpose: starting a spiritual business and setting up your own practice. Reiki, Angelic Healing, Mediumship? Or, something...
20) Rage to Live
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Finding the Strength: Book OneCan a young woman reveal her traumatic past to the woman who wants her to release the bubbling rage inside… her rage to live? Charlie is attempting to start over after a horrifying, life-altering event pushed her and her family to the breaking point. Living with relatives in a different state might be her chance at something normal, something better. Charlie may be broken, but she's a survivor. Even retaking her senior...