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The Lyndon Technique: The 15 Guideline Map to Booking    by Amy Lyndon
Price: $4.99 USD. 11840 words. Published on January 20, 2011. .

The Lyndon Technique provides a practical approach to Auditioning and Booking the job on the first take. Each chapter provides detailed insight into each guideline of Amy Lyndon's “15 Guideline Map to Booking.” You've got the talent, you've got the training, now get the book that will help you get paid for it all! If you want to learn how to work as an actor, then this is the Handbook for you!
4 Causes 4 Conservatives & Capitalists    by Laura Crockett
Price: $6.00 USD. 52690 words. Published on March 9, 2011. .

What makes more sense? The constant political struggle between conservatives and liberals? Or a lasting transformation of the cultural that changes the way voters think? The answers are in Laura's book. By changing the voter, the future of politics changes with it, when conservatives take on one of the 4 Causes: education, entertainment, preservation and religions outside the box.
CinemaScope Two: 20th Century Fox: A Detailed Survey of 140 Wide-Screen Movies from 20th Century Fox Studios    by John Howard Reid
Price: $4.99 USD. 103240 words. Published on March 27, 2011. .

Informative, comprehensive and entertaining, all 141 movies are detailed and reviewed in John Howard Reid's inimitable style, with complete cast and crew personnel, production and release dates, alternate titles, dubbing, footage and running times. Each film also has a Synopsis, a viewer's guide, and comprehensive reviews. This is a wonderful book for all who love Hollywood's wide-screen movies.
Hollywood Gold: Famous Films of the Forties & Fifties    by John Howard Reid
Price: $4.99 USD. 109870 words. Published on April 19, 2011. .

This book's real meat lies in its extensive cast and camera credits plus background information and reviews on all 160 titles from Adventures of Mark Twain through to You Were Never Lovelier. Most enjoyable of many extras are the inside comments on Ghost of Frankenstein, Humoresque, The Killers, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Nightmare Alley, Niagara, The Thin Man, We're Not Married, Malaya, etc.
Hollywood's Miracles of Movie Entertainment: Classic Films from a Golden Era    by John Howard Reid
Price: $3.99 USD. 104130 words. Published on April 28, 2011. .

What do all Hollywood's marvelous classic movies have in common? To me, they're all miracles of entertainment. Here are 125 of the best vintage, brought together with full credits, background information and up-to-date reviews in a spellbinding book that also includes a piece on director Charles Vidor (Cover Girl, Gilda, Rhapsody, Love Me Or Leave Me, etc.) and a breakdown of The Wolf Man series.
Movies Magnificent: 150 Must-See Cinema Classics    by John Howard Reid
Price: $4.99 USD. 130390 words. Published on May 4, 2011. .

All Reid's books are interesting and useful. This one deals with an impressive range of movie landmarks, including credits, reviews and interesting background details on films like Algiers, Anna and the King of Siam, Bells of St Mary's, Best Years of Our Lives, Blood and Sand, Blossoms in the Dust, Citizen Kane, Cover Girl, Dinner at Eight, etc. Reid's notes on the films are totally fascinating.
Hollywood Office Temp    by Lisa Maliga
Price: $2.99 USD. 100180 words. Published on July 5, 2011. .

"Hollywood Office Temp" is written in an engaging diary format. We are shown the excesses of the 1990's as a bookstore clerk from Ohio tries to become a screenwriter in Hollywood.
Models: A Short Mystery Novel    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 11320 words. Published by WMG Publishing  on July 31, 2011. .

Kendall Dee disappears on her first day as a professional hairdresser at a New York Fashion Week runway show. When she turns up murdered, her friend Corry Lindstrom decides to find out what happened. Chosen by the readers of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as one of the top five stories of the year, “Models” takes place in a world not often seen by outsiders.
Rather See You Dead    by Rick Shefchik
Price: $2.99 USD. 127290 words. Published on September 16, 2011. .

Rock 'n' roll history may be rewritten when a beautiful singer with a troubled past is investigated by a network TV talent show, and the deadly trail points back to Elvis and the Beatles.
HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS Index of Movie Titles BOOKS 1-16: "A" - "Z"    by John Howard Reid
Price: $0.99 USD. 12510 words. Published on September 20, 2011. .

Illustrated with no less than 35 classic movie posters from the author's own collection, here is a full list of all the films (over 2,000 of them) extensively detailed and reviewed in books 1 through 16 of the acclaimed Hollywood Classics series. Details include the years of original release and title changes. Also listed are articles such as Best Movies of All Time, Raymond Chandler On Screen.