The story of a remarkable time & place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles` success in the late Seventies. ` Hotel California` is an epic tale of songs & sunshine, drugs & denim, genius & greed, & is the first in-depth account of the LA Canyons scene between 1967 & 1976. Hoskyn`s history of this vital period in the development of today`s great musical influences spans the rise of Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, The Eagles, James Taylor & Jackson Browne, & focuses on the brilliance & determination of David Geffen, the man who linked them all. Covering genius, drug-crazed disintegration, & the myriad relationships between these artists & the songs that issued from them, & drawing on extensive interviews with countless stars, singers, writers, managers, executives & scenesters, ` Hotel California` is a pop-culture classic. ...

Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist & holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself & her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals & remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women & minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, & her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed... This book is the winner of the Booker Prize in 1984. ...

Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders & engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid's chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists & writers. It is here that six people meet & find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material & a new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious young journalist hungry for love & experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa & Gerda Taro, idealistic & ground-breaking young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making & are inventing moder photojournalism in the process. & Arturo Barea, chief of the Republican government's foreign press office, & Ilsa Kulcsar, his Austrian deputy, are struggling to balance truth-telling with their loyalty to their sometimes-compromised cause
- a struggle that places both of their lives at risk. Hotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples
- & a host of supporting characters from Antoine de Saint-Exupery to John Dos Passos
- living as intensely as they had ever done, against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. Amanda Vaill has mined teh raw material of unpublished letters, diaries, & reels of film
- including Martha Gellhorn's personal papers, which shed new light on her & Hemingway's activities during the war, & Capa & Taro's recently rediscovered ' Mexican Suitcase' negatives, which permit an unprecedented frame-by-frame close-up of their experiences. The result is a narrative of love & reinvention that is, finally, a story about truth, finding it, telling it
- & living it, whatever the cost.




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Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders & engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid`s chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists & writers. It is here that six people meet & find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material & a new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious young journalist hungry for love & experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa & Gerda Taro, idealistic & ground-breaking young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making & are inventing moder photojournalism in the process. & Arturo Barea, chief of the Republican government`s foreign press office, & Ilsa Kulcsar, his Austrian deputy, are struggling to balance truth-telling with their loyalty to their sometimes-compromised cause
- a struggle that places both of their lives at risk. Hotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples
- & a host of supporting characters
- living as intensely as they had ever done, against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. It is a narrative of love & reinvention that is, finally, a story about truth, finding it, telling it
- & living it, whatever the cost.



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All the establishments featured have been officially inspected & rated for quality by the AA`s professional inspectors, each graded with 1 to 5 Stars, with AA Red Stars highlighting Inspectors` Choice Hotels. There are more establishments offering more choice than competing guides & over 500 budget hotels are featured, ideal for overnight stops. Plus, up-to-date details of room prices, credit cards, parking, directions & leisure facilities throughout. Central reservation telephone numbers are featured for the major hotel groups. ...

In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute & a middle-aged man from his room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the first gesture of a long seduction. The mysterious man lives quietly as a translator on an island off the coast. A widower, there are murmurs around town that he may have murdered his wife. Mari begins to visit him, but as he initiates her into a dark realm of both pain & pleasure, she finds herself also attracted to his earnest young nephew. As Mari's mother & the police begin to close in on the illicit affair, events move to a dramatic climax. ...

Hotel K by Kathryn Bonella, tells the gripping inside story of Bali’s most notorious jail & its inmates. The darkness within its walls conceals tales of violence like the killings passed as suicides; of corruption of the guards organizers of ‘sex nights’; of the bizarre jail’s ecstasy factory. This is the squalid reality shared by people from across the globe & from different backgrounds whose lives tragically converge here. Hotel K is a shocking story & its murky unravelling stands in striking contrast with the long, sunny beaches & shimmering ocean Bali is associated with; a real drama that will have your heart pounding from start to end. ...

Few foreigners have been lucky enough to set foot on Tibetan soil
- Alec Le Sueur spent five extraordinary years there, working
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After the end of the First World War, Gabriel Dan is released from a POW camp in Russia & begins making his way home to Austria. He comes to an industrial town in Pol&, & checks in the ramshackle Hotel Savoy while awaiting financial aid from his family. Here he meets a kaleidoscope of characters, a microcosm of society in which rich & poor, itinerants, dissidents & malcontents live lives of hope, expectancy & despair in an atmosphere pregnant with revolutionary fervour. ...

For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla Guide to the Norse Worlds will whet readers` appetites for The Hammer of Thor. It is a 176-page, smaller format book with black-&-white illustrations throughout. Helgi
- the hotel manager
- created this book for each hotel guest, so that he wouldn`t have to answer so many questions at the front desk. It has short entries about the deities, mythical beings, & fantastic creatures from the nine Norse worlds, & also contains bonus material, including interviews, newspaper articles, short stories & more. The tone is humorous, complementing Rick`s series.

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