For Crystal Wyatt growing up on a ranch in Northern California Hollywood seems a million miles away. Bold passionate & enchantingly beautiful she knows her destiny is waiting for her. But no one said it was going to be easy. Singled out for her devastating looks & captivating singing voice Crystal soon embarks on the dangerous road to stardom. Her dreams are creeping closer but then so are those determined to stop her. & when the darkest of scandals comes out Crystal must face the challenge of her life. ...

In this compulsively readable & constantly surprising book Peter Biskind the author of the film classics Easy Riders Raging Bulls & Down & Dirty Pictures writes the most intimate revealing & balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty. Famously a playboy Beatty has also been one of the most ambitious & successful stars in Hollywood. Several Beatty films have passed the test of time from Bonnie & Clyde to Shampoo Heaven Can Wait Reds (for which he won the best director Oscar) Bugsy & Bulworth. Few filmgoers realize that along with Orson Welles Beatty is the only person ever nominated for four Academy Awards for a single film -- & unlike Welles Beatty did it twice. Biskind shows how Beatty used star power commercial success savvy & charm to bend Hollywood moguls to his will. Beattys private life has been the subject of gossip for decades & Star confirms his status as Hollywoods leading man in the bedroom describing his affairs with Joan Collins Natalie Wood Leslie Caron & Madonna among many others. Biskind explains how Beatty exercised unique control often hiring screenwriters out of his own pocket producing directing & acting in his own films. He was arguably one of the most successful & creative figures in Hollywood during the second half of the twentieth century & in this fascinating biography Warren Beatty comes to life -- complete with excesses & achievements -- as never before. ...

In the beginning nothing moves in the inky silence...until the golden godchild Atum gradually unfolds from a lotus bud. From him come the gods of the air & rain & their children
- Geb god of Earth & Nut goddess of the sky. Geb & Nut are inseparable. They clasp one another & share whispered secrets leaving no space between the sky & the earth for Atum to continue creating. So Atum has no choice but to have them forcibly separated leaving Geb enraged & Nut sad & lonely... The beautiful story that follows explains according to Ancient Egyptian beliefs how day night & the starry universe were first created.
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See the night sky like you have never seen it before with this all-encompassing guide to astronomy. Learn all there is to know about the layout of the skies the positions of the main constellations & the names of the brightest stars so you can become a backyard astronomer in no time at all. With easy-to-use star charts photographs & observational drawings of objects visible from both hemispheres The Star Book will take your understanding & enjoyment of stargazing to the next level. Whether you use binoculars or a telescope or even if you have no optical aid at all there are enough celestial sights to keep anyone enthralled for a lifetime. The Star Book provides a quick & simple reference to the major stars & constellations with easy-to-use star charts finder charts high-quality images & observational drawings covering the key stars viewable from all over the world. Author Peter Grego also

Includes:: a brief introduction to the history of astronomy an easy-to-follow explanation of the life-cycle of stars from ignition to collapse & information about deep sky objects such as nebulae & globular clusters. This fascinating attractive & accessible book will become a trusted resource to make sense of the night skies & is a wonderful gift for anyone with even a passing interest in astronomy.

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Born in the Dublin slums of 1901 his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer & settler of scores Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk hes out robbing & begging often cold & always hungry but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday 1916 hes fourteen years old & already six-foot-two a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. A year later hes ready to die for Ireland again a rebel a Fenian & a killer. With his fathers wooden leg as his weapon Henry becomes a Republican legend
- one of Michael Collins boys a cop killer an assassin on a stolen bike.
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It is the year 5012 & the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force
- an elite fighting team sworn to protect & defend the galaxy. Only the brightest & most promising students are accepted into the Intergalactic Force Academy & only the very best cadets reach the highest of their ranks & become.. .STAR FIGHTERS! Summoned by a strange distress signal Peri & the rest of the Phoenix's crew head to the remote desert planet Westrenia to see if they can help. At first the main town seems devoid of life. Then the crew realise that the inhabitants are in hiding. The sheriff of Westrania has been kidnapped & a gang of outlaws is terrorising the town. It's up to Peri to think of a way to outwit the outlaws & get the sheriff back!
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Who are the best graphic designers today? Who are the emerging new superstars of the moment? Where do they get their ideas from? What are their best pieces of work? In what direction is contemporary graphic design heading? What new sources are used for inspiration? You will find the answers to these questions in Star Graphic Designers: a compilation of more than 80 of the best current international graphic designers with the aim of offering a comprehensive showcase of their most prominent works & becoming a reference manual for graphic design in the 21st Century. The result of this research is a careful presentation of 400 projects that show the path that graphic design will take in the next decade. ...

These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. Kings Lucille Eric Claptons Blackie Stevie Ray Vaughans First Wife Billy F Gibbons Pearly Gates Neil Youngs Old Black & many more. Heres the first ever illustrated history of the actual guitars of the stars that made the music. Other best selling guitar histories look at the rank & file models but this book is unique in profiling the actual star guitars"-the million dollar babies such as the 1968 Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix burned at Woodstock which sold at Sothebys auction house in 1993 for $1 300 000. Amateurs buy guitars to emulate the stars-Claptons Strat Slashs Les Paul-and this book explains the stars modifications thus showing how others can recreate those famous tones." ...

Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug-fuelled disaster. Her stunt double Ann travels everywhere with her throwing paparazzi off the scent when they get too close. But one night Anns resemblance to Cherry Pye proves too convincing
- she is kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo who only realises his mistake once it is too late to go back... From there its a fast funny & furious race against time to rescue Ann from a terrible fate. An international bestseller acclaimed as Hiaasens most hilarious gripping novel to date Star Island is an addictive read.
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One moment a man sits on a suburban hill gazing curiously at the stars. The next he is whirling through the firmament & perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun. Even Stapledons other great work LAST & FIRST MEN pales in ambition next to STAR MAKER which presents nothing less than an entire imagined history of life in the universe encompassing billions of years. ...