Author: Elias Tobenkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The House of Conrad
Author: Elias Tobenkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
House of Hilton
Author: Jerry Oppenheimer
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0307351955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This intimate, shocking—and thoroughly unauthorized—portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family’s amazing odyssey from poverty and obscurity to glory and glamour. From Conrad Hilton, the eccentric “innkeeper to the world” who built a global empire beginning with a fleabag in a dusty Texas backwater, to Paris Hilton, his great-granddaughter, whose fame took off with a sex video, House of Hilton is the unauthorized, eye-popping portrait of one of America’s most outrageous dynasties. If you want to know how Paris Hilton became who she is, you have to know where she came from. From scores of candid and exclusive interviews, from private documents and public records, New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer has dug deeply into her paternal and maternal family roots to reveal the often shocking, tragic, and comic lives that helped shape the world’s most famous and fabulous “celebutante.” The cast of characters includes Paris’s maternal grandmother, a materialistic “stage mother from hell.” There is Paris’s maternal grandfather, who became an alcoholic housepainter. The life of Paris’s mother, Kathy Hilton, groomed by her mother to be a star and marry rich, is candidly revealed, too, as is that of Paris’s father, Rick, Conrad’s grandson. Paris’s tabloid antics are truly in the Hilton tradition. Set against a glittery Hollywood backdrop—with appearances by stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Natalie Wood, and Joan Collins—House of Hilton brings to light a cornucopia of closely held Hilton family secrets and sexual peccadilloes, such as the many affairs and the nightclub-brawling, boozing, and pill-popping life of Paris’s great-uncle, Nick Hilton. The story of his hellish marriage to Liz Taylor alone rivals any of today’s Hollywood breakups. Behind it all was Conrad Hilton, who built his worldwide empire through the Great Depression while others were jumping out of windows. A devout Catholic publicly, his personal life was that of an unrepentant sinner. His first marriage was to Mary Barron Hilton, a sexy, hard-drinking, gambling Kentucky teenager half Conrad’s age. Wife number two was the gorgeous Zsa Zsa, who, like Paris, was famous for being famous. Their tumultuous marriage and headline-making divorce are revealed here in all their juicy glory. In all, House of Hilton is a gripping American saga, from the fire and passions that built a business empire to the debauchery and amorality passed on from one generation to the next.
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0307351955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This intimate, shocking—and thoroughly unauthorized—portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family’s amazing odyssey from poverty and obscurity to glory and glamour. From Conrad Hilton, the eccentric “innkeeper to the world” who built a global empire beginning with a fleabag in a dusty Texas backwater, to Paris Hilton, his great-granddaughter, whose fame took off with a sex video, House of Hilton is the unauthorized, eye-popping portrait of one of America’s most outrageous dynasties. If you want to know how Paris Hilton became who she is, you have to know where she came from. From scores of candid and exclusive interviews, from private documents and public records, New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer has dug deeply into her paternal and maternal family roots to reveal the often shocking, tragic, and comic lives that helped shape the world’s most famous and fabulous “celebutante.” The cast of characters includes Paris’s maternal grandmother, a materialistic “stage mother from hell.” There is Paris’s maternal grandfather, who became an alcoholic housepainter. The life of Paris’s mother, Kathy Hilton, groomed by her mother to be a star and marry rich, is candidly revealed, too, as is that of Paris’s father, Rick, Conrad’s grandson. Paris’s tabloid antics are truly in the Hilton tradition. Set against a glittery Hollywood backdrop—with appearances by stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Natalie Wood, and Joan Collins—House of Hilton brings to light a cornucopia of closely held Hilton family secrets and sexual peccadilloes, such as the many affairs and the nightclub-brawling, boozing, and pill-popping life of Paris’s great-uncle, Nick Hilton. The story of his hellish marriage to Liz Taylor alone rivals any of today’s Hollywood breakups. Behind it all was Conrad Hilton, who built his worldwide empire through the Great Depression while others were jumping out of windows. A devout Catholic publicly, his personal life was that of an unrepentant sinner. His first marriage was to Mary Barron Hilton, a sexy, hard-drinking, gambling Kentucky teenager half Conrad’s age. Wife number two was the gorgeous Zsa Zsa, who, like Paris, was famous for being famous. Their tumultuous marriage and headline-making divorce are revealed here in all their juicy glory. In all, House of Hilton is a gripping American saga, from the fire and passions that built a business empire to the debauchery and amorality passed on from one generation to the next.
The House of Dust
Author: Conrad Aiken
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Book of Frank
Author: CAConrad
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517492
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A portrait equal parts hope and cruelty, this searing, compelling book is an enduring fan favorite by Philadelphia-based poet CAConrad.
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517492
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A portrait equal parts hope and cruelty, this searing, compelling book is an enduring fan favorite by Philadelphia-based poet CAConrad.
7 Seconds
Author: Karen Conrad
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781543908206
Category : Home staging
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Statistics prove that a home buyers' decision is made within the first 7-10 seconds of walking through the door. Karen has experienced overwhelming success with listings that were on the market for 100 days or more, with countless going under contract in 6 days or less using her 7-Second Home Selling System. 7 Seconds is full of practical steps and templates you can use to bring out the fullest potential in your listings ... without the extra costs of remodeling"--Page 4 of cover
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781543908206
Category : Home staging
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Statistics prove that a home buyers' decision is made within the first 7-10 seconds of walking through the door. Karen has experienced overwhelming success with listings that were on the market for 100 days or more, with countless going under contract in 6 days or less using her 7-Second Home Selling System. 7 Seconds is full of practical steps and templates you can use to bring out the fullest potential in your listings ... without the extra costs of remodeling"--Page 4 of cover
It's Not Summer Without You
Author: Jenny Han
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416995560
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In Jenny Han's follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly finds out what comes after falling in love. Now available in paperback!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416995560
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In Jenny Han's follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly finds out what comes after falling in love. Now available in paperback!
Conrad's Reading
Author: Helen Chambers
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331976487X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's many fictional representations of reading, illuminates his childhood, maritime and later shore-based reading. After an overview of the empirical evidence of Conrad's reading, his sparsely documented twenty years reading at sea and in port is reconstructed. An examination the reading practices of his famous narrator Marlow then serves to link Conrad's own maritime and shore-based reading. Conrad's subsequent networked reading, shared with his closest male friends, and with literate multilingual women, is examined within the context of Edwardian reading practices. His fictional representations of reading and material texts are highlighted throughout, including genre trends, periodical reading, reading spaces and their lighting, and the use of reading as therapy. The book should appeal both to Conrad scholars and to historians of reading.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331976487X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's many fictional representations of reading, illuminates his childhood, maritime and later shore-based reading. After an overview of the empirical evidence of Conrad's reading, his sparsely documented twenty years reading at sea and in port is reconstructed. An examination the reading practices of his famous narrator Marlow then serves to link Conrad's own maritime and shore-based reading. Conrad's subsequent networked reading, shared with his closest male friends, and with literate multilingual women, is examined within the context of Edwardian reading practices. His fictional representations of reading and material texts are highlighted throughout, including genre trends, periodical reading, reading spaces and their lighting, and the use of reading as therapy. The book should appeal both to Conrad scholars and to historians of reading.
Where Is Home?
Author: Marvin T Cook
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426955979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A young girl has an accident leaving her with multiple head injuries. She collapses and goes unconscious. She is found lying by the roadside by a young man. He takes her to the hospital. Over time they become friends then lovers then married. She does not know who she is. So, the Man and her develop a name for her, get a Social Security card, drivers license and a job. She gets an apartment. They go through many of lifes problems together. They eventually by a home and settle down. The girl learns her true identity and is really surprised to learn who she really is and where she came from.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426955979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A young girl has an accident leaving her with multiple head injuries. She collapses and goes unconscious. She is found lying by the roadside by a young man. He takes her to the hospital. Over time they become friends then lovers then married. She does not know who she is. So, the Man and her develop a name for her, get a Social Security card, drivers license and a job. She gets an apartment. They go through many of lifes problems together. They eventually by a home and settle down. The girl learns her true identity and is really surprised to learn who she really is and where she came from.
The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad
Author: J. H. Stape
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521484848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Leading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521484848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Leading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.
The Politics of Home
Author: Rosemary Marangoly George
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520220126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"A groundbreaking move beyond the first generation of postcolonial criticism."—Nancy Armstrong, Brown University
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520220126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"A groundbreaking move beyond the first generation of postcolonial criticism."—Nancy Armstrong, Brown University