Just as Holly & her friends start to make their way back to Coral Kingdom with the magic crystals for Queen Neptuna a storm whipped up by the evil Mantora throws them right off course! Holly & her fellow Sisters of the Sea are lost but they must find their way home as quickly as possible in order to complete their important mission. Holly must be very brave so she can help her mermaid friends & save the turtless home from danger. ...

The King & Queen of Fairyland are all in a fluster. Jack Frost is up to his old tricks & has kidnapped the Christmas elves. Without the elves to make the presents & decorate the trees there wont be any Christmas this year. Can Rachel & Kirsty save the day with a little help from Holly the Christmas Fairy? ...

The death of a celebrity is often as fascinating as
- & sometimes more fascinating than
- a stars actual life. From the grisly

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Los Angeles: the City of Angels. Whether this epithet evokes sunshine & beaches glamorous movie stars or the possibility of fame many around the world have a fantasy of this enchanting impossible place stored in their minds. Its reality is as much the record of the place on film as the real Los Angeles. This is because Los Angeles is first & foremost a city of cinema both in the movies that are made there & the filmed image of the place either recorded on location or recreated in a studio set. In Hollywood Cinema & the Real Los Angeles Mark Shiel explores Los Angeles from the invention of motion pictures in the 1890s to the decline of the studio system in the 1950s describing the ever-changing cinematic image of the city & the ways in which its representations reflected & manipulated its physical geography. Shiel shows how the construction of studios helped to change the shape of Los Angeles & how Hollywood not only contributed to but also complicated its economic political social & cultural life. The author describes the incredibly popular films that were produced during this time from the early slapstick comedies to film noir arguing that the histories of Los Angeles & its film industry cannot be understood in isolation from each other. Shiel gives a close analysis of narrative mise en scene cinematography editing & other elements of film style concentrating on the ways in which filmmakers engaged with the architecture of the city both inside the studios & on location in California. Written by an expert in the history & theory of cinema & the city Hollywood Cinema & the Real Los Angeles in a must-read for anyone interested in Hollywood movies or the history & architecture of Los Angeles. As well as being illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs the book offers an in-depth view of the city that has never been seen before. ...

This landmark book celebrates for the very first time the costume designers contribution to the telling of the cinematic story in 100 years of Hollywood. Rocking the conventions of what is considered costume Hollywood Costume reveals what is hidden in plain sight: that films are about people & it is the art of the costume designer who helps create those characters. This book looks at this process of transformation by analyzing some of the finest & most eclectic costumes from the most beloved films of the last 100 years. As well as essays by a wide variety of leading scholars archivists & private collectors the book incorporates contributions by key costume designers actors & directors working in Hollywood today. Fabulous golden age of Hollywood costumes are juxtaposed beside all the contemporary classics including The Tramp Ben Hur Cleopatra The Wizard of Oz Gone with the Wind Pirates of the Caribbean Oceans Eleven Sherlock Holmes & Avatar. ...

For the streetwise cops of Hollywood Station dealing with the panhandlers prostitutes & costumed crackheads of the boulevard is all in a days work. If theyre lucky surf-mad partners Flotsam & Jetsam can spend the morning calming the crazies & the afternoon policing the babes on the beach. But beyond the lights & the crowds on the Walk of Fame the real Los Angeles simmers dangerously. & when things heat up even veterans like Viv Daley will see things that theyll wish they could forget. In the hills above town its a different world where sports-car-studded driveways lead to sprawling villas stuffed with clothes & jewels. Up here pickings are easy for the Bling Ring
- a group of photogenic young addicts who knock off celebrity cribs to fund their next fix. Even experienced cop & wannabe filmstar Nate "" Hollywood"" Weiss has struck gold in the hills. Leona Bruger wife of an Industry Mover & Shaker has taken a fancy to him. Although he knows the Hollywood maxim
- you dont pet the cougars especially if they belong to the boss
- Nate reckons that a leg-over might be just the leg-up he needs. What Weiss doesnt realise is that his new flames crooked art-dealer is about to pull a forgery scam right under his nose. & when a pair of desperate junkies hit on a foolproof plan to pay their drug debts with a stolen painting things get very complicated indeed...""


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Run with Hollywood Hulk Hogan on the streets of Tampa where a bass guitar became his salvation. Fight alongside him in the wrestling arenas of Japan where opponents try to bite his fingers off to make a name for themselves. Slide into the ring with Hogan against 700-pound Andre the Giant who later became Hogans best friend after he found out he couldnt beat him down. Learn why Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura hates his guts. Go head-to-head with dennis Rodman in a hard liquor-drinking contest & see what its like to share a dressing room with Liberace. Hogans no-holds barred autobiography takes you on a roller-coaster ride through all the highs & lows of his extraordinary career. Find out what makes Hogan cry like a baby what makes his blood boil & what scares the living hell out of him. Then you can say you know the man called Hollywood Hulk Hogan. ...

Hollywood certainly isn't your typical police precinct but in Hollywood Moon follow-up to Hollywood Station & Hollywood Crows the cops of that surreal place seem called upon to deal with an even greater share of weirdness than normal. Drag queens in delicto flagrante behind dumpsters dead hobos pushed around in wheelchairs men in massage parlours receiving unspeakable injuries from Barbie dolls. That's not to say that the cops themselves don't have their own peculiarities: Hollywood Nate still dreams of movie stardom but worries as he gets older that he's too good-looking to be a character actor. Then there's Aaron Sloane forever lusting after his beautiful partner Sheila Montez & Dana Vaughn a tough no-nonsense cop who can't stand the fact that former chauvinist pig turned 'guardian angel' Lee Murillo won't stop following her around after she saved his life. But there's a darker side to all that weirdness
- & when the enigmatic crook Dewey Gleason known variously to his associates as ' Jacob Kessler' & ' Bernie Graham' hatches an audacious kidnap plan without knowing that one of the hired help lives a double life as a serial sex attacker things start to get very dangerous indeed.
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Legend tells of the Clan of the Scorpion four mighty meerkats who are armed to the teeth with ninja-know-how. They are sworn to protect the world from their longtime nemesis the Ringmaster... Bruce is thrilled
- his favourite Hollywood action star Vin Pain is starring in a new film! But the film also features a surprising new acting talent
- none other than Doris the Dancing Dog the Ringmaster's faithful hound. Just what is the Ringmaster up to? The Clan jet off to Hollywood.. .but they'll need to move faster than a clapperboard if they're to thwart his evil plans this time...

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Scandalous. Glamorous. Sexy. Victoria Foxs sassy sparkling debut puts the bonk back into bonkbuster! Written with humour style & panache Hollywood Sinners takes you into a world of film moguls glitz glamour contract marriages & the dirty underbelly of celebrity Supported by a huge publicity campaign with Midas PR across womens magazines & marketing activity that will target the summer reading market & fans of fashion & glamour A glorious sexy story of high-octane Hollywood intrigue Lulu Taylor ...