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You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With!

An Outsider's Inside Look at the Outside of Hollywood

By: Nicholas Kolya

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You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With!

An Outsider's Inside Look at the Outside of Hollywood

By: Nicholas Kolya

Hollywood isn't all about the A-list internationally famous actors and directors, highly paid writers, powerful producers. No, it's also about the failures, the inhabitants of the periphery, the bottom layers of the entertainment pyramid. That's the role Nicholas Kolya reluctantly played for the last decade. Follow his struggle at the margins of the entertainment industry, a nether region inhabited by washed-up game show hosts and once-perky child stars, professional monkey writers and drug-addicted talent agents. From the crummy sets of direct-to-video puppet movies to pitch meetings at major studios, laugh at his failures as he reaches, and reaches, and reaches, for that elusive golden ring Hollywood success.

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iUniverse

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0595249671

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9780595249671

Hopeful Monsters

By: Nicholas Mosley

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Hopeful Monsters

By: Nicholas Mosley

This Whitbread Book of The Year Award winner for 1990 is the final novel of the "Catastrophe Practice" series. Set in the 1920s and 30s it tells the story of two young radicals, Max and Eleanor, who meet, love, separate and come together again during the maelstrom of the Spanish Civil War.

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723

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A&C Black

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1448209919

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9781448209910

NOC - Non-Official Cover

British Secret Operations

By: Nicholas Anderson

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NOC - Non-Official Cover

British Secret Operations

By: Nicholas Anderson

WE WERE INSTITUTIONAL KILLERS in disruptive actions on the black, that is to say we made illegal entries across borders to perform dirty work, then returned home mostly without the knowledge or connection to the local British embassy's staff assigned to other covert affairs. The main job description was called deep cover within SIS, though the U.S.-led NATO preferred NOC or non-official cover - either description was undeclared. I served in various divisions in charge of different continents, often living like a mole...

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387

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MIURA!

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1732966109

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9781732966109

Object of Virtue

A Novel

By: Nicholas B.A. Nicholson

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Object of Virtue

A Novel

By: Nicholas B.A. Nicholson

A dazzling debut about the power of family and the pain of betrayal set within Manhattan's Fifth Avenue apartments, the opulent mansions of the new Moscow, and the pre-revolutionary palaces of Saint Petersburg. Sasha Ozerovsky is a young expert in Russian art at Leighton's, an exclusive Manhattan auction house. When a dealer arrives from Moscow with an exquisite 1913 Fabergé figurine, Sasha immediately recognizes a rare masterpiece. But in the high stakes art world, the price of an object is tied to its history. If Sasha can determine for whom the bejeweled piece was made and where it has been hiding for the past century, its value -- and Sasha's career -- will soar. But as Sasha moves between New York's high society and Russia's new rich, he discovers that the piece once belonged to his family, and he must face questions about their past that he never dared to ask. Superbly plotted and evoking the elegance of Russia's gilded age, Object of Virtue is an enthralling tale that explores what happens to a family torn between vanity and virtue.

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301

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Simon and Schuster

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074326942X

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9780743269421

Writers at Work

Russian Production Novels and the Construction of Soviet Culture

By: Mary A. Nicholas

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Writers at Work

Russian Production Novels and the Construction of Soviet Culture

By: Mary A. Nicholas

The cost of constructing Envy: Iurii Olesha and the Soviet production novel -- How she worked on Hydrocentral: Marietta Shaginian and the changing Soviet author -- Building "Novye Vaiuki": Ilf and Petrov map the production novel -- (Re)constructing the production novel: Boris Pilniak, Mahogany, and The Volga Falls to the Caspian Sea -- Finding space in Time, forward! Kataev and writers at work -- Deconstructing Soviet work: Andrei Platonov and the end of the production novel.

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359

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Bucknell University Press

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0838757391

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9780838757390

Resurrections

Vignettes About Discovery, Relationships, Personal Empowerment, And Preternatural Experiences

By: Nicholas Smeed

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Resurrections

Vignettes About Discovery, Relationships, Personal Empowerment, And Preternatural Experiences

By: Nicholas Smeed

A Resurrection can be: a defining moment or incident, a restoration of balance, an epiphany, a spiritual awakening, a solution, an escape from distress or simply leaving behind a life of quiet desperation. It might even be realizing that what you have or what you are is pretty good after all. Or it may be as perplexing as trying to understand the dream that helped you to resolve a difficult problem. Resurrections may result from focusing your attention and every conceivable resource to work your way through a troublesome situation. Or, it may be discovering you have insights or abilities beyond your wildest dreams. A resurrection may be like being in the Zone, occasionally teasing you with a glimpse of what is preternaturally possible but remaining elusive and mysterious. Resurrections can be changes, improvements or discoveries. They may include recognizing and understanding the significance of signs, details, nuances, implications and suggestions; occurring when we finally "connect the dots" and solve the riddles. A resurrection can be effectively dealing with adversity, perhaps in a way beyond our immediate comprehension, challenging everything we ́ve learned, believed and thought we knew. People are said to be "wired" differently, and there is every reason to believe that discovering and developing our unique areas of strength and ways of "seeing" may produce what we can now only label as extrasensory perceptions or intuitions. It may be that when we are under duress, our minds can extend their range and perhaps show us what they can really do. It may be exactly like the miraculous physical feats of strength people have been known to perform under extreme conditions. Those who may have experienced very unusual mental insights would naturally be hesitant to say anything, and an otherwise normal individual who discovers atypical abilities would be well advised to keep it to themselves. They should learn to understand and develop them quietly, but certainly not inadvertently dilute, discourage, suppress or exorcise a "gift" because it may be startling, unsettling or it isn ́t explainable in familiar terms and contexts. The following fictitious vignettes are inspired by real experiences and then embellished. Although the stories are very different, they have several common threads. They involve people who don ́t suppress their insights, they actively explore their worlds, and they face conflicts and difficult issues head on. They allow their instincts, intuition, reasoning, curiosity and innate abilities to flourish, empower and help them. You will find adventure, deceit, romance, honest talk, real issues and psychic/supernatural influences in the stories. Each vignette can stand on its own, and the characters ́ lives often intersect and continue as the various stories unfold. Please sit back and enjoy a very different and stimulating intellectual ride. Some of these incidents can stretch the limits of our imaginations. We can ignore them or we can choose to explore their significance and perhaps learn something new. We all try to categorize events in our minds in an orderly fashion, but perhaps we ́re overly constrained by our limited number of words, the few concepts we have to work with, and the unknown manner in which events/actions may actually influence one another. If chance, randomness and chaos are the natural order of things, then all the more reason to take as much control as you can. Why not try and summon and focus any and all possible energies to help organize events you can have control over to help achieve your purposes? Use superstitions, rites, objects, prayers, meditating or whatever, there ́s every reason to try, it may indeed do some good; provided you also supplement those efforts with tangible action. We simply don ́t know what ́s possible if we are able to put our conscious and subconscious efforts to work simultaneously. Scientists and philosophers all seem to agree

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266

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462800491

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9781462800490

Russian Monks on Mount Athos

The Thousand Year History of St Panteleimon's

By: Nicholas Fennell

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Russian Monks on Mount Athos

The Thousand Year History of St Panteleimon's

By: Nicholas Fennell

The Aegean Sea laps the shores of the Holy Mountain of Athos, a self-governing monastic republic on a peninsula in Northern Greece. Twenty ruling monasteries comprise the republic; one of those is the monastery of St Panteleimon, where services are conducted in Slavonic. It has become known as the Russian monastery on Mt. Athos.St Panteleimon, fully restored in recent years, can accommodate up to 5,000 men, reflecting the scale of the settlement at its apogee in the nineteenth century, prior to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 it has experienced a strong revival and is now one of the most numerous of the twenty. The vast buildings and its sketes and dependencies seen today are really only a reflection of the history of the past two centuries.In this first comprehensive account of the monastery in the English language, that stretches back more than one thousand years, Nicholas Fennell has drawn from previously inaccessible archival materials in gathering the wealth of information he shares in these pages. The history of the community is seen to interact with the wider worlds of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires and the modern nation state of Greece, together with that of a Russian homeland whose political character is constantly evolving. It covers the distinct phases in this history: From the tenth to the twelfth centuries when Russian Athonites inhabited the ancient Russian Lavra of the Mother of God, known as Xylourgou; through the six hundred years from the mid-twelfth to the mid-eighteenth century, when the monastery of St Panteleimon was commonly referred to as Nagorny or Old Mountain Rusik; and into the most recent 250 years with their fluctuating fortunes and the questioning of its ethnic identity. Themes explored include the Pan-Orthodox ideal, the role of money and political pressure, sanctity and heroism in adversity, ethnic relations, and the importance of historical memory and precedent.

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250

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Holy Trinity Publications

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1942699425

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9781942699422

You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With...

An Outsider's Inside Look at the Outside of Hollywood

By: Nicholas Kolya

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You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With...

An Outsider's Inside Look at the Outside of Hollywood

By: Nicholas Kolya

Hollywood isn't all about the A-listinternationally famous actors and directors, highly paid writers, powerful producers. No, it's also about the failures, the inhabitants of the periphery, the bottom layers of the entertainment pyramid. That's the role Nicholas Kolya reluctantly played for the last decade. Follow his struggle at the margins of the entertainment industry, a nether region inhabited by washed-up game show hosts and once-perky child stars, professional monkey writers and drug-addicted talent agents. From the crummy sets of direct-to-video puppet movies to pitch meetings at major studios, laugh at his failures as he reaches, and reaches, and reaches, for that elusive golden ringHollywood success.

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iUniverse

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1469747855

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9781469747859

Book's by Nicholas Kolya

You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With!

You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With!

Hopeful Monsters

Hopeful Monsters

NOC - Non-Official Cover

NOC - Non-Official Cover

Object of Virtue

Object of Virtue

Writers at Work

Writers at Work

Resurrections

Resurrections

Russian Monks on Mount Athos

Russian Monks on Mount Athos

You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With...

You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With...

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