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"Sólo era un viaje de unos meses para cursar un máster de Arquitectura en Los Angeles y de repente me encuentro en una relación con un actor atractivo y problemático… ¿qué debo hacer?".
Miriam acaba de llegar a la capital del cine y un inesperado accidente le lleva a entablar contacto con el mundo del séptimo arte, del que lo ignoraba todo y en el que ahora va a cursar un acelerado máster cuando conoce en circunstancias desternillantes al...
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"The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn...
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New York in den 40er Jahren - von den schillernden Nachtclubs in Manhattan zu der dröhnenden Marinewerft in Brooklyn. Krieg liegt in der ölgetränkten, rauchigen Luft. Die Männer sind an der Front, nun stehen die Frauen in der Fabrik. Doch die junge Anna verfolgt beharrlich ihren Traum: Sie will Marinetaucherin werden. Mutig schwimmt sie gegen den Strom und taucht unter die gigantischen Kriegsschiffe an den Docks. Allein die Gedanken an ihren verschwundenen...
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Barely four years after winning an Oscar, Charlie has sunken into the ranks of Hollywood bottom-feeders. But one day at his weekly Debtors Anonymous meeting, he meets a mysterious ex-CIA agent who proposes to resuscitate Charlie's foundering career in the beyond-surreal world of reality TV. Charlie puts his tap shoes on to sell a show about a ruthless Uzbek warlord and his family—“The Osbournes meets The Sopranos”—to a rogue division of ABC...
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An isolated ocean-view village on the dunes above South Santa Monica Bay, Manhattan Beach grew with the arrival of railroads. This quaint, upscale jewel of the Los Angeles County coast has been known for its cottage-style living, the Metlox Pottery Company and the iconic pier. These diverse stories mix the city's controversies, including the still unsolved 1936 murder of Reid Russell, with true tales of pioneering women, controversial politics and...
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Jennifer Egan and best-selling Celeste Ng come together for a compelling discussion of their new novels, Manhattan Beach and Little Fires Everywhere, two stories of family secrets and the children who discover them. Performances by Cindy Cheung (Mistress America) and Susannah Rogers (The Diary of a Teenage Girl).
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Geological Survey water-supply paper volume 1461
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157 photographs, many never before reprinted, show the vitality and variety of old Brooklyn, Manhattan's first suburb: waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Heights, Ebbets Field, Luna Park, Gravesend Race Track, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach Hotel, and more from the Long Island Historical Society collection.
10) Flamenco killer
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Lola, ex agente del FBI, viuda y madre soltera, e hija de un guitarrista gaditano, ahora enseña flamenco en su academia en Manhattan Beach. Sus habilidades adquiridas en el FBI le darán un trabajo secundario inesperado: terminar con los hombres despreciables que arruinan las vidas de sus alumnas.
Pero pronto estos asesinatos la involucrarán en un complot más grande que traerá sombras amenazantes del pasado.
11) After The Child
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After The Child is the final book of The After All Trilogy. The surviving characters from the first two books come together in Manhattan Beach, California to begin forming a new civilization. Having children becomes the core mission of their small community. However, a shortage of men and a mentally unstable teenager bring conflict and danger to the new world these few survivors had hoped to create.
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THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR is book #9 in a new psychological suspense series by author Blake Pierce, which begins with The Perfect Wife.
In an exclusive and wealthy neighborhood in Manhattan Beach, a new neighbor moves into a luxury home-only to be found dead soon thereafter. The case brings Jessie into another wealthy beach town, evoking bad memories of her marriage and forcing her to confront her own demons-while trying to unmask the lies of this seemingly...
13) Lola Returns
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Lola, viuda y madre soltera, enseña flamenco en Manhattan Beach, Los Ángeles. Antes fue agente del FBI, y sus habilidades en ese campo le darán un trabajo secundario inesperado: terminar con hombres despreciables que arruinan las vidas de mujeres.
En esta segunda entrega, Lola se enfrenta a nuevos retos y al más ambicioso de todos: matar sin matar al mandatario más importante del mundo. Nuevos personajes pondrán a prueba el temple de la bailaora...
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Dans un quartier riche et huppé de Manhattan Beach, une nouvelle voisine emménage dans une maison luxueuse, mais on l'y retrouve morte peu après. Cette affaire oblige Jessie à se rendre dans une autre ville balnéaire riche, ce qui réveille de mauvais souvenirs relatifs à son ex-mari et la force à combattre ses propres démons alors qu'elle essaie de dévoiler les mensonges de cette ville à la perfection trompeuse.
Est-ce que ce meurtre est...
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Walking L.A. is your portable guide to 40 walking tours exploring historic stairways, hidden streets, public artwork, and architecture, much of which even lifelong Angelenos probably never even knew existed. Completely updated, the third edition of this award-winning book expands and improves upon most of the existing routes with completely revised points of interest, including brand-new trips to Palos Verdes Peninsula, Manhattan Beach, Highland Park,...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I lived with Tommy and his girlfriend, Nikki, in 1981. We were broke, with only a few decimated possessions to our name. We couldn't afford to repair the window, so we left it broken. The house was crawling with vermin.
#2 We lived in a house with a small kitchen sink, a bathroom with no toilet paper, and a bedroom with a mirrored closet. We thought we were very cool...
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Since the first rustic vacation retreat for hunters and fishermen was built in 1871, Okoboji and the Iowa Great Lakes have been a drawing card for families, generation after generation. Over the decades, dozens of vacation resorts, from the magnificent Hotel Orleans on Big Spirit Lake to the iconic Inn on West Okoboji, have lured happy summertime visitors. Just mentioning the name of a resort often evokes memories of swimming, boating, fishing, waterskiing,...
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THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR is book #9 in a new psychological suspense series by bestselling author Blake Pierce, which begins with The Perfect Wife, a #1 bestseller with nearly 500 five-star reviews.
In an exclusive and wealthy neighborhood in Manhattan Beach, a new neighbor moves into a luxury home-only to be found dead soon thereafter. The case brings Jessie into another wealthy beach town, evoking bad memories of her marriage and forcing her to confront...
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Bestselling author and photographer Gray Malin's new collection of aerial beach photography, highlighting coastal locations from around the world.
A return to Gray Malin's famed aerial beach photography, Coastal celebrates the beaches of the United States, from the East Coast to the West and Hawaii, as well as some international beaches. This book includes stunning, never-before-published photographs from the luminous waters of Maui to the pebbled...
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Understanding Jennifer Egan is the first book-length study of the novelist, short-story writer, and journalist best known for the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. Alexander Moran examines each of Egan's varied published works, analyzes how her journalism informs her fiction, excavates her literary and intellectual influences, and considers her place in contemporary fiction.
Moran argues that because Egan's fiction is not...