Joyce Carol Oates trasforma in romanzo tutte le vite di Marilyn Monroe: molto più di un sex symbol da calendario, con le sue contraddizioni e fragilità Marilyn è entrata nell'eternità del mito. Da adolescente solitaria a bellezza planetaria, ma anche donna insicura, giovane determinata, amante incostante, bambina innamorata, playmate e ragazza in lotta con lo specchio, attrice venerata e paziente in analisi, donna con molti amanti e poco amore,...

"In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker?the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that of an emblematic American artist?intensely conflicted and driven?who has lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood's myth and an extraordinary...

A nameless out of his depth inexperienced criminal is stuck in a bank, after a heist went wrong. How will he get out? His accomplice has been shot outside by the trigger happy police. Now with a 16 year old hostage called Maddison inside the bank, he has one move left: if his accomplice dies, he’ll kill the girl. We follow his journey to escape, whilst learning how he got into the situation in the first place. A journey that will force him to face...

"The Blonde Lady" sees Arsène Lupin (the gentleman-burglar) once again meeting his enemy, the English detective Herlock Sholmes. These two great intellects are bound in opposite directions, where one chooses to abide to the law and the other uses his power and wits to crime. This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was born...

Nineteen-year-old Burmah Adams, a hairdresser and former Santa Ana High School student, spent her honeymoon on a crime spree. She and her husband of less than one week, White, an ex-con, robbed at least twenty people in and around downtown L.A. at gunpoint over an eight-week period. But the worst of their crimes was the shooting of a popular elementary school teacher, Cora Withington, and a former publisher, Crombie Allen, who was teaching her how...

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A young boy describes his hair color as well as the hair color of his family members. Bright visuals help readers compare and contrast different hair colors in this engaging text. This nonfiction title is paired with the fiction title Hair Cut Day.

The murder of Jeff Wright was one of the most brutal and controversial in Texas history. His wife, Susan Wright, stabbed him in excess of 193 times before burying his body in a shallow grave in the back of their home.