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Inspired by true events, Children of the Underworld is the thrilling, epic tale of a female private investigator’s astonishing courage and strength in searching for a missing young girl.

Born in Tehran, Sharzad dreamt of traveling the world as an investigative journalist. She’d fantasized of becoming a Persian version of Oriana Fallacci, the great Italian reporter. In her wildest dreams, she never imagined getting involved in the horrifying International child trafficking of children.From San Francisco to Malaysia and Singapore, Sharzad’s search for an innocent young girl turns into web of riveting saga of love, suspense and deceit. It exposes the dark underground bases where children are kept as sex slaves and experiments and much more.

Sharzad’s objective: Locate a young girl named Elizabeth, and bring her home. Elizabeth was born in San Francisco. Her mother was a Palestinian who was literally given to her father by her parents based on a prearranged marriage. What she didn’t know was that her mother was willing to sell her own flesh and blood into slavery to sick pedophiles for only three hundred dollars. Join Sharzad on a multinational rescue mission to rescue Elizabeth from her horrible captors.

Basing the story on her own cases over decades of finding and returning abducted children, author and international private investigator Monique Lessan spins a tale of treachery and horror that you’ll never forget.

The Big Show was an NBC house-built package and an innovation in show business deriving its name from the fact that the talent roster each week included “the biggest names in show business.” Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Phil Harris, the Andrews Sisters, Milton Berle, Judy Holliday, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor and many others were heard on the program — along with hostess Tallulah Bankhead.

It was not until the rehearsal of the premiere broadcast that Bankhead discovered the program was cleverly scheduled in an effort to kill the radio career of Jack Benny, who jumped networks for a shareholder deal. The Big Show was also a financial loss for NBC beginning from day one. To offset the lack of sponsor interest, the network purposely made the weekly program one lengthy commercial promoting their business interests, from RCA television to RCA recording artists. Ethel Merman, for example, appeared on the program multiple times, reprising a dramatic scene from her current Broadway musical, Call Me Madame, which NBC was fifty percent vested.

Since many books already paint a livid portrait of Tallulah Bankhead, this book primarily documents the history of NBC’s The Big Show, broadcast from 1950 to 1952, with briefs fosucing on the life and career of Tallulah Bankhead as it pertained to references on the radio program. This book also includes never-before-published photographs, details about the 1952 television rendition, and a reprint of her 1950 talent contract with NBC.

“Once upon a time there was a girl with moonlight in her eyes, the breeze ruffled through her hair, but that was once upon a time, and once upon a time never comes again.” A few poignant words from a special song but if you let your imagination run wild that girl can only be Marilyn. A picture is worth a thousand words, but in the case of Marilyn Monroe it is even more so. Each and every photograph or piece of artwork depicting her image is truly unrivaled in its beauty. The movies Marilyn starred in are all unique, simply because she was part of the cast. From her first image on the big screen as a mere walk on extra, to the last image she gave us from her unreleased movie, Marilyn’s image radiated and glowed. This book will take you on a special journey along with Marilyn as she always gave 100% to her legions of fans, all the while without knowing how great a movie star she truly was.

BRADYPEDIA is the newest, grooviest book about The Brady Bunch. The book tells the story of the development of the original series through its end and then delves into the many spin-offs that ensued. There’s a price guide for the memorabilia, a chapter on the 80+ songs recorded by the Brady kids, and biographical info on the actors and their families. New revelations abound. What did Chief Eagle Cloud really say to Alice in the Grand Canyon? Were Mike and Carol scripted to have a baby together? How many times was Peter Brady engaged to be married? And what if Mike and Carol had adopted a bunch of kids after theirs left home? Open the book and find out!

BRADYPEDIA is the most comprehensive reference guide to The Brady Bunch ever published.

“BRADYPEDIA is a well-researched book that is enlightening for any Brady fan…and enlightening for the people who were there. I found out some things that even I didn’t know.” –Lloyd J. Schwartz (producer)

“A fun, informative and comprehensive look into The Brady Bunch and its extended afterlife. Through BRADYPEDIA, Erika Woehlk has done an excellent job of chronicling the history of the characters, the actors, the plots: from where they came and where they are.” –Barry Williams (“Greg Brady”)

“BRADYPEDIA is an enlightening book that all Brady Bunch fans should read. It has many obscure and astonishing tidbits that have never been exposed before now.” –Wendy Winans (Brady World)

“Once upon a time there was a girl with moonlight in her eyes, the breeze ruffled through her hair, but that was once upon a time, and once upon a time never comes again.” A few poignant words from a special song but if you let your imagination run wild that girl can only be Marilyn. A picture is worth a thousand words, but in the case of Marilyn Monroe it is even more so. Each and every photograph or piece of artwork depicting her image is truly unrivaled in its beauty. The movies Marilyn starred in are all unique, simply because she was part of the cast. From her first image on the big screen as a mere walk on extra, to the last image she gave us from her unreleased movie, Marilyn’s image radiated and glowed. This book will take you on a special journey along with Marilyn as she always gave 100% to her legions of fans, all the while without knowing how great a movie star she truly was.

Kim Holston captures an obscure but telling change in our movie culture in the 1960s. The shedding of hats, negligees, and pond scenes — not to mention the appearance of navels — signals key changes in America’s social mores.

Game shows have more stories to tell than they have washers and dryers to give away. This Day in Game Show History is a remarkable four-volume set chronicling the best stories-on camera and off-and the most noteworthy milestones for every day in the year. In this volume, you’ll find out which long-running cable game show had to make new props after visible bloodstains became a problem…The film icon whose first job was testing the stunts for each episode of Beat the Clock…What lovable announcer started his career as a shock jock in Texas…Why Gene Rayburn showed up ten minutes late for a live broadcast of a game show…the legendary host who composed songs for Tammy Wynette and Ray Price…and lots, lots more!

Ever wonder what the unaired episodes of situation comedies that disappeared quickly from the air were about? Curious about those comedy series such as Rewind, The Grubbs, and The Ortegas that the Fox network announced for its fall schedule but that never premiered? Did you know that stars like Bradley Cooper, Michelle Williams, and Brad Pitt made some of their earliest appearances on short-lived sitcoms?

Forgotten Laughs: An Episode Guide to 150 TV Sitcoms You Probably Never Saw contains answers to these questions as well as others about quickly-canceled, never-aired, and short-run situation comedies. Published for the first time are episode descriptions for these forgotten shows.

This reference book contains the most complete descriptions of sitcoms such as the quickly-canceled Doc Corkle, Co-Ed Fever, and Black Tie Affair, the never-aired Misconceptions, The Singles Table, and Snip, as well as short-run comedies like Fathers and Sons and Free Country and over 140 more. Most episode descriptions were culled from the archives of the Library of Congress, the Paley Center, and the UCLA TV script collection.

In addition, Forgotten Laughs also includes insights from many producers, directors, and writers who worked on these little-known shows.

A firsthand account from the set of Humphrey Bogart’s final film, The Harder They Fall, by His Acting Coach.