<div>The classic New York Times bestseller: Real-life stories from prominent people talking about their experiences as alcoholics. As an alcoholic himself, PBS host Dennis Wholey set out to collect the powerful stories of well-known people who have struggled with this disease. Included in this volume are personal accounts by Jason Robards, Grace Slick, Sid Caesar, Pete Townshend, Don Newcombe, Bob Welch, Graham Chapman, Elmore Leonard, and many more. Whether they come from the worlds of entertainment, as actors, authors, comedians, or musicians, from politics or sports or other public lives, they share the private nightmare of drinking and the hard work of recovery. The Courage to Change also explores how alcoholism is truly a family disease. Rod Steiger talks about his alcoholic mother; the Reverend Jerry Falwell tells about growing up with an alcoholic father; Lois Robards, Sybil Carter, and Florence Caesar relate their own stories as wives of alcoholics. How do you know if you are an alcoholic? What are the symptoms? What should you do if someone in your family is an alcoholic? Where is the help? Is there hope? With inspiration and practical advice from members of Alcoholics Anonymous, this is a book that can save lives. &ldquo;A brave and powerful work for anyone who cares about people, who desires to be more knowledgeable about human behavior.&rdquo; &mdash;Leo Buscaglia, author of Living, Loving, and Learning &ldquo;Should be required reading in every school system in America . . . If there&rsquo;s an alcoholic in your life, one of the best investments you can make is this book.&rdquo; &mdash;Detroit Free Press</div>

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<div>Though the greats of Hollywood may fade, their secrets live on forever Fedora is dead, and movies will never be the same. A star since the early days of Hollywood, she survived the business for an unprecedented four decades before retiring to Crete. As the years wore on and her costars turned wrinkled and worn, Fedora&rsquo;s perfect features never faded. Now that she has finally passed, the secret to her longevity will be told&mdash;a shocking revelation that will raise her to the level of myth. These four novellas tell the story of Fedora and three of her costars in 1955&rsquo;s infamous The Miracle of Santa Cristi. Alongside the ageless beauty are William Marsh, whose days as a leading man are numbered; Bobbitt, a former child star still trading on his boyish good looks; and Lorna, a dim bulb who&rsquo;s too sexy for her own good. When the film was shot, they were headed in different directions, but all ended up in the same place: forgotten, loathed, and unlamented. </div>

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<div>&ldquo;A spellbinder with a twisted ending . . . You can&rsquo;t put it down&rdquo;&mdash;from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Other (Des Moines Register). In Pequot Landing, there are two sights to see: the largest elm in America, which dominates the stately old village green, and the house of Lady Harleigh. When the Great War ended, she was the most beautiful bride in the village, and though she was widowed soon after, mourning dampened neither her beauty nor her spirits. By the time the Great Depression rolls around, she is the unchallenged center of Pequot society&mdash;lovely and energetic, but subject to bouts of grim melancholy that hint at something dark beneath her surface. Woody is eight years old when he first notices the Lady, and her glittering elegance captures his heart. He spends his boyhood deeply in love with the mysterious widow, obsessed with the sadness that lies at her core. As he gets closer to her, he finds that Lady Harleigh is haunted&mdash;not just by grief, but by a scandalous secret that, if revealed, could change Pequot Landing forever.</div>

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<div>&ldquo;A slick Manhattan spin on the story of the sorcerer&rsquo;s apprentice&rdquo; from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the horror classic The Other (Chicago Tribune). Though he bills himself as the Greatest Magician in the World, Michael Hawke is painfully aware that he&rsquo;s nothing more than a sidewalk. He plies his trade outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, entrancing passing crowds with feats of conjuring and sleight of hand. One afternoon, he plays a trick on a shabbily dressed man whose beard is twisted and whose glass eye gives him a sinister leer. Offended, the man responds with magic of his own, casting a spell that causes Michael to hop like a frog, maniacally splashing in the fountain until the police have to haul him out. When he recovers from this trance, Michael knows that he has encountered a true magician, one whose secrets he will give anything to understand. But this is black magic, mysterious and deadly, and pursuing it will mean a confrontation with an evil older than civilization itself.</div>

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<div>A family flees the crime-ridden city&mdash;and finds something worse&mdash;in &ldquo;a brilliantly imagined horror story&rdquo; by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (The Boston Globe). After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land. When he and his wife search New England for the perfect nineteenth-century home, they find no township more charming, no countryside more idyllic than the farming village of Cornwall Coombe. Here they begin a new life: simple, pure, close to nature&mdash;and ultimately more terrifying than Manhattan&rsquo;s darkest alley. When the Constantines win the friendship of the town matriarch, the mysterious Widow Fortune, they are invited to join the ancient festival of Harvest Home, a ceremony whose quaintness disguises dark intentions. In this bucolic hamlet, where bootleggers work by moonlight and all of the villagers seem to share the same last name, the past is more present than outsiders can fathom&mdash;and something far more sinister than the annual harvest is about to rise out of the earth. Credited as the inspiration for Stephen King&rsquo;s Children of the Corn, Thomas Tryon&rsquo;s chilling novel was ahead of its time when first published, and continues to provoke abject terror in readers. </div>

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<div>The interlocking lives of five Hollywood leading ladies spawn &ldquo;tragedies, dark doings, jealousies, murder, passion on the grand scale&rdquo; (Chicago Tribune). Charlie Caine has been to too many Hollywood funerals. The studio system is long gone, and its stars&mdash;some forgotten, some preserved for display on a late-night show&mdash;are beginning to pass on, as well. Only a few turn out for the final performance of Babe Austrian, a peroxide-blond beauty whose red-hot talkies changed the way America thought about sex. As he gazes into her coffin, Caine remembers Babe as she was: a dynamite beauty with secrets that could have burned Hollywood to the ground. In Babe and four other interlocking novellas, Caine recalls the leading ladies of long-lost Hollywood: Belinda, whose daughter was as cruel as she was lovely; Claire, who would do anything to stay in the public eye; April, fragile, beautiful, and mad; and Maude, Hollywood&rsquo;s most respected matron, whose happy marriage had a lie at its heart. Charlie Caine knows where cinema&rsquo;s bodies are buried, and he&rsquo;s anxious to start digging. </div>

All That Glitters

<div>From horror to Hollywood, three haunting novels from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Crowned Heads and The Other. Harvest Home: After escaping New York City for the idyllic New England village of Cornwall Coombe, the Constantine family wins the friendship of the town matriarch, the mysterious Widow Fortune, who invites them to join the ancient festival of Harvest Home. But something far more sinister than the annual harvest is about to rise out of the earth in this New York Times bestseller. &ldquo;[A] brilliantly imagined horror story.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe Lady: In the town of Pequot Landing during the Great Depression, a young man becomes transfixed by a beautiful, mysterious widow. As Woody gets closer to her, he finds that Lady Harleigh is haunted&mdash;not just by grief, but by a scandalous secret that, if revealed, could change Pequot Landing forever. Lady is a New York Times bestseller. &ldquo;A spellbinder with a twisted ending . . . enchanting entertainment. You can&rsquo;t put it down.&rdquo; &mdash;The Des Moines Register All That Glitters: In five interlocking novellas, cynical writer Charlie Caine recalls the leading ladies of long-lost Hollywood: Babe, a red-hot, peroxide-blond beauty with secrets that could have burned Tinseltown to the ground; Belinda, whose daughter was as cruel as she was lovely; Claire, who would do anything to stay in the public eye; April, fragile, beautiful, and mad; and Maude, Hollywood&rsquo;s most respected matron, whose happy marriage had a lie at its heart. &ldquo;One unforgettable novel with the power to shock . . . very believable . . . [readers] will find pleasure in guessing which real-life actresses Tryon has used as models.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post</div>

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Crowned Heads

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Night Magic

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Harvest Home

All That Glitters

The Collected Novels Volume One

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