This is the first overview of Schulberg's career 1937-2000 (his own autobiography, Moving Pictures, covers his life only to age 17). For more than six decades, Budd Wilson Schulberg has known success in virtually every category of American writing. Raised in the Hollywood of the 1920s as the privileged son of a pioneer studio mogul, Schulberg achieved fame as novelist, short story writer, playwright, Oscar-winning screenwriter and boxing historian. He also became a central figure in the entertainment industry's political turmoil of the 1940s and 50s, fleeing first from the Communist Party's attempts to control his writing, then testifying as a cooperating witness before the House Committee on Un-American activities, and finally emerging as a leader of the nation's non-Communist Left. Schulberg chronicled these events in the country's leading newspapers and intellectual journals. He has also known, and written about, many other American writers and their difficulties in maintaining or recapturing early success: Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Nathanael West, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Irwin Shaw and many other distinguished novelists and playwrights who were doing studio work.
Terry Jones is living what seems to be a normal life. But everything changes for him in an instant when he starts having reoccuring blackouts. Time is lost and he wonders if this could mean a split personality disorder. Terry is sent on an amazing journey...to discover the truth"--Back cover.
Is Kath about to make the biggest mistake of her life? Seventeen–year–old Kath McKenny has a date to the end–of–term party with her since–forever crush. He publicly messaged her to confirm, but there's been a recent status update: he's taking the new girl–giggly, pretty, well–developed Lana Elliot–instead. After being thoroughly humiliated in front of half the school, best friend Chay talks Kath into revenge: a scheme to create the perfect–and very fake–online guy for Lana. Once she falls for him, they'll show her what it's like to get brutally dumped. Everything is going to plan until Kath starts spending more–than–just–friends time with the other new kid in town–Lana's dreamy older brother, Sebastian. Kath finds herself getting in deep–in love and drowning in guilt, she tries to put an end to her prank, but it's taken on an unstoppable momentum of its own, with very real consequences. As her plotting begins to unravel, so do the people Kath thought she knew: Her mother has a secret online life. Her father has a whole new family. Her best friend is barely recognizable. Her boyfriend has a disturbing hidden past. And her enemy is more familiar than she knew.
One punch will shatter a town. Is anyone ready for the consequences of the truth? Callie Jones is not the kind of girl who gets drunk at school dances, and certainly not now, with her scholarship on the line. And she definitely doesn't hang around with bad boys like Rhett Barker. Especially alone, at night. But these are the circumstances she finds herself in when she witnesses a king hit that lands the town's golden boy in a coma. With his reputation, no one is less surprised than Rhett when he is accused of throwing the punch. But he didn't do it. And he knows Callie saw what really went down. He just has to convince the 'ice princess' to come forward and talk to the police – except, for once, good girl Callie doesn't seem all that interested in telling the truth. Just what is she hiding, and why? Drawn together by secrets, scandal and heartache, Callie and Rhett find themselves getting closer – even as the solution to their problems gets further away.
Exklusives und kostenloses Bonusmaterial zu REMEMBER THE FUN Es wäre eine riesige Chance gewesen – als Support Act für Gray vorzuspielen, den erfolgreichsten Musiker des Landes! Mai hasst es, ihre Band wegen einer nervigen Highschool-Prüfung im Stich zu lassen. Zum Glück hat ihre beste Freundin und Bandkollegin Lexie schon einen Plan B: Sie schleichen sich einfach in Grays Hotel ein und überreden ihn, der Band noch eine Chance zu geben. Doch das ist leichter gesagt als getan, als Mai im falschen Zimmer von einem jungen Mann mit nur einem Handtuch um die Hüften ertappt wird ... Exklusiv im E-Book und perfekt für Fans von romantischen Sommergeschichten: das Prequel zu REMEMBER THE FUN!
Mai's final high school exam should be a cause for celebration but sitting it means she's missed the opportunity to audition for the biggest gig of her life – playing support for Gray, the biggest singer/songwriter in the country. Family obligations and her own sense of responsibility means she didn't really have a choice but she hates that she's let down her whole band. When her best friend and bandmate Lexie gives her a way to make amends, she's in. Even though the plan includes sneaking in to Gray's penthouse apartment and trying to convince him to give them another chance. When she finds herself in the wrong room with a half–naked boy, she's not sure anything she can say will convince him she's not some crazy stalker fan. But, for Mai, when words fail, sometimes music speaks...
Drama, Liebe, Meeresrauschen Adelaide, Australien: Der Roadtrip zu einem Konzert nach Melbourne wird für Zoey und ihre Freunde zum Sommer ihres Lebens. Zoey, die eigentlich ihrem Ex Finn hinterhertrauert (der wiederum inzwischen mit ihrer besten Freundin Cass zusammen ist), verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in Finns Cousin Luc, der jedoch ein tragisches Geheimnis verbirgt. Ein Geheimnis, das auf der Fahrt entlang der spektakulären Great Ocean Road eine ungeahnte Verbundenheit mit Zoey entstehen lässt ...
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