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robert-flanagan's picture
Jun.18.2012
In this new collection of stories, Robert Flanagan again works muscular magic—bobbing, jabbing, and weaving with vivid dialogue and lively movements. We come across chiseled characters boxing, acting, attending Catholic grammar school, surviving Marine Corps basic—they grunt, swear, sweat, tell...
kimberly-llewellyn's picture
Oct.09.2009
Wanted: Attractive, discreet, twenty-something female to lure disillusioned clients back to matchmaking service. Good money. Dinners included. Lucy Ladelle has big dreams -- bigger than the tiny island in Boston Harbor where she's lived her entire life. But first she needs some moolah. So when a...
bozena-intrator's picture
Dec.09.2008
A story about a young actress trying to brake up with a young doctor but ...
lawrence-grobel's picture
Nov.05.2008
  For more than a quarter century, Al Pacino has spoken freely and deeply with Lawrence Grobel on subjects as diverse as childhood, acting, and fatherhood. Here, for the first time, are the complete conversations and shared observations between the actor and the writer who,...
cynthia-brian's picture
Oct.16.2008
“NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOWBUSINESS”   Everyone wants to be in the entertainment business.  Everyone!  Everyone encounters disappointment, rejection, and roadblocks.  Everyone!   Everyone, that is, except those who employ the services of a coach, have access to an experienced mentor, or read Cynthia...
cynthia-brian's picture
Oct.16.2008
  Celestial Arts is proud to announce the publication of Be the Star You Are! 99 Gifts for Living, Loving, Laughing, and Learning to Make a Difference by Cynthia Brian.   There are no dress rehearsals in life and you only get one shot at a scene-why not make it as good as it can be?  In Be the Star...
cynthia-brian's picture
Aug.22.2008
For those who know the joys of gardening, Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul s 101 stories to sow seeds of love, hope, and laughter.If you talk to your houseplants or daydream about tomato seedlings or consider the perfect bouquet the remedy for life's hiccups, Chicken Soup for the Gardener's...
heywood-gould's picture
Jun.17.2008
A super-charged story full of bad guys, a lot badder guys (among them rogue Feds, Russian and Albanian mobsters and locally-grown mafiosi) and a not-that-bad bad guy you can come to love and root for. Jerry Lang, by name. Lang, a thief practically from when he was a toddler, usually...
evan-handler's picture
Apr.13.2008
Product Description A provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-hand combat with death. Actor and author Evan Handler’s new book, It’s Only Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of meditations on life,...