Mark Seal
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English
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Veteran travel writer Mark Seal was tired of buying disappointing travel guides. He wanted insider information about special travel destinations - the kind of tips you'd get from the locals or people who know all the best and hippest places - like celebrities.
Sixteen years and a few hundred interviews later, Seal's Celebrated Weedend feature articles - city-by-city, star-by-star investigations of the coolest places to eat, sleep, and see - have...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man.
The story of Clark Rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man-because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. The career con man who convincingly passed himself off as Rockefeller was born in a small village in Germany. At seventeen, obsessed with getting to America, he flew...
The story of Clark Rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man-because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. The career con man who convincingly passed himself off as Rockefeller was born in a small village in Germany. At seventeen, obsessed with getting to America, he flew...
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English
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Gerald D. Hines stands at the top of the international real estate investment and development world. A Purdue graduate with a degree in engineering, Hines may have arrived in Houston in 1948 for a nine-to-five job at a heating and air conditioning company, but before long he was making the deals that would transform Houston's skyline. Later, with his revolutionary idea that great architecture was good business, he was reshaping the skylines of the...
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English
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"The incredible true story of the making of The Godfather-one of America's most popular cinematic masterpieces-featuring interviews with the director, producer, cast, and crew, just in time for the film's fiftieth anniversary"--
The Godfather: over the years, many versions of various aspects of the movie's fiery creation have been told. Seal sifts through the evidence, has extensive new conversations with director Francis Ford Coppola and several...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
The unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. Clark Rockefeller's story is a strange twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man--because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. Born in a small village in Germany, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter was obsessed with getting to America. At seventeen, he flew into the country on dubious student visa documents. Over the next thirty years, boldly assuming a series of false...
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English
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"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through true stories of excess, drama, and hope. In What Really Happens in Vegas, full of surprises for both newcomers and Las Vegas regulars, James Patterson and Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal transport readers from the thrill of adrenaline-fueled vice to the glitter of A-list celebrity and entertainment." --Goodreads.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious impostor, Christian Gerhartsreiter, and his "talented Mr. Ripley" story as Clark Rockefeller.
The unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. Clark Rockefeller's story is a strange twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man--because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. Born in a small village in Germany, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter was obsessed with getting...
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Thomas to the rescue: All the diesel trains get "bad" fuel and it's up to Thomas to get good fuel so the diesels can get back working. Henry and the wishing tree: Henry wishes that he could pull express coaches instead of logcars for one day. Squeak, rattle & roll: Diesel thinks that Gordon should be scrapped because of Gordon's awful sounds. Percy's new whistle: Percy wants a whistle thats better than Arry and Bert's.
