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    Tinseltown

    Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

    by William J. Mann ...
    Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 55 min

    The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true account of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Black Dahlia

    Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

    by William J Mann ...
    New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder—the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history.The brutal murder of Elizabeth Short—better known as the Black Dahlia—in 1947 has been in the public consciousness for nearly eighty years, yet no serious study of the crime has ever been published.Short has been ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    The Contender

    by William J. Mann ...
    Narrated by Will Damron ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 57 min

    Based on new and revelatory material from Brando’s own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before.The most influential movie actor of his era, Marlon Brando changed the way other ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Wars of the Roosevelts

    The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family

    by William J. Mann ...
    The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America's greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair.Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent "illegitimate" branch ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • All American Boy

    A Novel

    by William J. Mann ...
    A gay man who fled his hometown in a cloud of scandal and guilt returns home to his estranged family—and the boy he left behindThe first call is from Wally Day's estranged mother, begging him to come home. The second is from Sebastian Garafolo, a Brown's Mill cop Wally last spoke to when he confessed to having underage sex in the old apple orchard. Today, Garafolo is calling about something else ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tinseltown

    Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

    by William J. Mann ...
    New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Esperanto Essentials: 3 Classic Books on the Universal Language

    Classic Essays on Grammar, Linguistic Neutrality, and Global Fellowship

    by Richard Bartholdt, A. Christen, Walter John Clark, William W. Mann ...
    Esperanto Essentials gathers three classic interventions in the history, practice, and promise of Esperanto, the most influential of the planned international languages. Moving between lucid exposition, practical instruction, cultural advocacy, and reflection on linguistic reform, the volume situates Esperanto not merely as a grammar to be learned but as an experiment in transnational ... Read more

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  • The Biograph Girl

    A Novel of Hollywood Then and Now

    by William J. Mann ...
    Award-winning author William J. Mann blends fact and fiction in this unconventional novel about the nature of celebrityThe Biograph Girl is Florence Lawrence, who gets her first big break in vaudeville as a tiny tot who can whistle like a man. By 1910 she's a legendary movie star, pursued by thousands of rabid fans. Just a few short decades later, she's all but forgotten, reduced to walk-ons at ... Read more

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    50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 10: More Than 25 Hours of Classic Science Fiction

    Legendary Authors. Timeless Stories. Endless Imagination.

    by Arthur C. Clarke, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Robert Silverberg, Robert Bloch, Harry Harrison, Fritz Leiber, Alfred Bester, A. E. van Vogt, Brian W. Aldiss, Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Edward Page Mitchell, Jack Williamson, Tom Godwin, Robert Sheckley, Michael Shaara, Francis Stevens, A. H. Gibson, Gene L. Henderson, H. F. Arnold, Richard R. Smith, Frank M. Robinson, Manly Wade Wellman, William Bender Jr., Thomas S. Gardiner, James Bell, Beta McGavin, Alfred Connable, Jack Sharkey, Ron Goulart, Victoria Lincoln, Nelson S. Bond, Ray Cummings, Morton Klass, Elisabeth R. Lewis, John W. Campbell Jr., James Blish, Roger D. Aycock ...
    Narrated by Scott Miller ...
    Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi Anthologies

    Unabridged

    25 hours 47 min

    50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 10: More Than 25 Hours of Classic Science FictionStep into the golden age of imagination with 50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 10. Featuring more than 25 hours of classic science fiction, this extraordinary collection brings together fifty unforgettable tales from the visionary authors who helped shape one of the world’s most beloved genres.Blast off on daring space ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Men from the Boys

    A Novel

    by William J. Mann ...
    Series Book 1 - The Jeff O'Brien Series
    This classic novel by bestselling author William J. Mann features a gay man trying to come to terms with sex, friendship, aging, and falling—and staying—in loveThis stunning slice of gay life at the turn of the millennium introduces thirtysomething Jeff O'Brien. After six years, his lover, Lloyd, has just announced that the passion between them has died. Terrified of ending up alone, Jeff turns ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Hollywood, The True Story: Bogie and Bacall

    by William J. Mann ...
    Narrated by William J. Mann ...

    Unabridged

    36 min

    William J. Mann is the author of ten books, including his most recent, Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime for Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, and the Lambda Literary Award for Biography for Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines. He is also the author of ... Read more

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  • Bogie & Bacall

    The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair

    by William J. Mann ...
    From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart—capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before.InBogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a deep and comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and the unlikely love they shared. Mann details ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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