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Brought to you by Penguin. It's 1956, and the two most famous women in the world are about to meet for the first and only time . . . London, October, 1956. A glittering Royal Film Premiere. The whole world is watching . . . Tonight, Elizabeth II will formally greet an array of stars. Though she...

Crystal Jackson presents a gripping novel based on the true-life story of the Black man who officially investigated Marilyn Monroe's case in 1962 and signed her death certificate. At 22 years old, Lionel "Frenchy" Grandison was on top of the world. He had married his high school sweetheart, purchased a new home in Pacoima, and landed a prestigious job at the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. Everything in his life was perfect until the famous Hollywood actress died.

‘A beautifully woven page turner’ Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz A gripping and heartwrenching novel of damage and survival, grief and unexpected solace, Marilyn and Me is a fascinating – and timely – insight into an extraordinary time and place How do you translate...

"Il braccialetto di Marilyn" è un romanzo liberamente ispirato ad alcune vicende raccontate all'autore da una simpatica coppia di veneti, emigrati negli Stati Uniti ai primi del '900 (lui) e poco dopo la Grande Guerra (lei) e rimpatriati negli anni '70 del secolo scorso. All'ascoltatore può fornire l'occasione di rammentare qualcosa di un mondo tramontato per sempre, forse con nostalgia ma senza rimpianti.

Leah never imagined her father would betray her—slipping her into the marriage bed of the man who worked seven years for her beautiful sister. She tells her father that Jacob will hate her for it and Rachel will never forgive her. She is right. While Rachel holds Jacob’s affection, Leah bears his sons. Yet despite heartbreak, betrayal, and the ache of comparison, she becomes more than the unwanted wife, carving out a life of worth apart from her family’s favor.

A deeply compassionate portrait of a cosmopolitan group of friends—a glimpse of the volatility of life under totalitarian rule, from Egypt's most celebrated contemporary novelist. It is 1964 in Alexandria. Nasser has risen to power and, faced with the upheaval of his regime, many Alexandrians...

Betts Monroe is a country music rags-to-riches story. As the daughter of the town slut, she clawed her way up from the bars of Bourbon Street to the Country Music Hall of Fame. She's America's sweetheart, darling of the media, and a multi-platinum star. But she has a secret. At the age of sixteen, she had a baby and gave him up for adoption because her boyfriend wasn't ready for fatherhood. Now she finds out that her precious baby boy has been living with his father from day one.

Maggie Bennett is a devoted and experienced emergency department nurse who works at a hectic level one trauma center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Although the work is constantly demanding, she gives everything she has to the patients in her care.

It all started in the hot summer of 1960, when Marilyn Monroe walked off the set of "The Misfits" and began to hear a haunting song in her head, "Goodbye Norma Jean"…

Dans une lettre destinée à sa sœur, la gouvernante de Marilyn Monroe s'interroge : « Est-ce moi qui l'ai tuée ? » Rien ne prédestinait Eunice Murray, issue d'une famille très pieuse de Chicago, à côtoyer la plus grande star hollywoodienne de tous les temps. Pourtant, à l'aube de ses soixante ans, après avoir traversé une vie d'errance et de deuils, la chance semble enfin lui sourire quand elle entre au service de Marilyn. Dans l'intimité de l'hacienda d'Helena Drive, les deux femmes s'apprivoisent.

I, Marilyn Monroe is a one woman theater play, written by David Serero, about Marilyn Monroe's life. Under the form of an autobiography, Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) tells her story from birth to death, to the audience of 2020.

Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe. One woman was recognized as the premiere...

What really happened when Queen Elizabeth II met Marilyn Monroe? This stunning historical novel imagines the summer that bonded the world's two most famous women, both thirty years old and chafing against the façade of global celebrity. On a cool early-autumn evening in 1956, a glittering array...

You are US Army military intelligence trainee David Dengler. Following army MI protocol, you are sent on a training exercise to a city you've never visited before and ordered to surveil a public person ("public persons" having little recourse if their privacy is invaded). You can't believe your good fortune. You draw the assignment to surveil Marilyn Monroe. It is early August 1962, and you have just been made a witness to the murder of Hollywood's biggest star.

The year is 1972. Following a fatal accident, 22-year-old Adrienne makes a chance discovery that propels her to Paris in an effort to uncover what happened to her mother, who had deserted the family home 10 years before. A man professing to be her father agrees to help her and travels with her to Paris. What Adrienne discovers is a saga that spans three decades, with its roots in the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1942.

Maggie Blanchard, a dedicated Nurse Practitioner, is in the OR working when her husband, Kerrington Blanchard—a billionaire Wall Street financial wizard—enters Saint Vincent’s Hospital and collapses, infected with a rare, highly contagious virus. As the hospital fights to contain the spread, everyone who has had contact with Kerrington faces the terrifying possibility that they might be next. Where did he get the virus?

While Joe and his relatives continue their laborious work at Darby ironworks in Coalbrookdale, his brother Richard, through his marriage to a Bridgnorth Corn Merchant's daughter, ascends the social ladder. The novel unfolds, weaving in moral and ethical complexities as it portrays the realities of 18th-century England's justice system. Through the Banghams' interactions with the law, the narrative sheds light on the grim aspects of prisoner transportation to America and the struggles of its enslaved populace, introducing the emerging anti-slavery sentiment.

Los Angeles, 1942: Normas Kindheit ist einsam, ihr Zufluchtsort das Kino, wo die Hollywood-Schauspielerinnen so viel selbstbewusster sind als sie. Mit ihrer arrangierten Ehe muss sie den Traum, selbst ein Star zu werden, aufgeben. Dennoch wird Jim ihre erste Liebe und erweckt ihre Sinnlichkeit. Dann will ein Fotograf sie als Fotomodell berühmt machen. Vor der Kamera sprüht Norma vor Lebendigkeit, alle Selbstzweifel sind vergessen. Und plötzlich weiß sie: Sie will ins Rampenlicht, nur das macht sie glücklich.

After four marriages and numerous affairs, famed author Hermione Beldame doesn't expect real life to play out like her bestselling romance novels. So she's stunned when she meets George Johnson at a party and the Louisville journalist sweeps her off her feet. The handsome, seductive younger man is the epitome of southern charm. Suddenly, Hermione, who never believed in happily-ever-after, is passionately, obsessively in love.

The latest from author George S. Corey is a hilarious homage to Marilyn Monroe—with a decidedly political twist. This satirical story reimagines the classic comedy Some Like It Hot.