Richard E. Grant
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Richard E. Grant's acting career has included memorable roles in some of Hollywood's most critically acclaimed films, including Robert Altman's Gosford Park and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. But he attributes his success to his first film role, starring as a flamboyantly pathetic Shakespearean in the underground hit Withnail and I. As Grant explains, "I had no notion that, almost without exception, every film offered since would be the result of...
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Academy Award–nominated actor Richard E. Grant’s “genuine and compelling” (The New York Times), “moving and entertaining” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir about finding happiness in even the darkest of days.Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating...
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 4
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Imagine being so important that when you're displeased with the bathroom decor, your hotel instals a pink marble suite for you instead. Richard E. Grant discovers the lengths that top hotels will go to wow A-list guests. From Elizabeth Taylor's bespoke bathroom at London's Dorchester to Dalí's demands at Paris's Le Meurice. Plus, Grant samples the high life with an eye-watering $5,000 burger.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 8
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You can be certain that a few hoteliers will think back with alarm about the celebrity secrets they've spilled in this series. It's entirely down to the charm of our host, who is so outrageous and wildly funny that they clearly can't help but spill the beans. Grant finishes up in the French Riviera, the highlight of which is the Hotel Byblos where Bianca and Mick Jagger tied the knot.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 5
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Star Wars actor Richard E. Grant invites us to hop on his celebrity coat-tails and check into the world's most exclusive hotels. We visit London's Goring to discover the lengths it's taken to become the British Royal Family's unofficial favorite. Then it's back to LA to see how Hollywood royalty tie the knot, meeting the wedding planner who's organized weddings for Gwen Stefani and Katy Perry.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 1
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Take a tour of the rooms, restaurants and bars where the rich and famous have lived, died and fallen in love.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 7
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Oscar-nominated actor Richard E Grant heads on a madcap tour of the Emerald Isle: discovering juicy gossip about Brad Pitt's night-time eating habits at Ireland's 5-star Ashford Castle, snooping hilariously through U2 frontman Bono's bathroom cabinet in his Dublin hotel, The Clarence, and visiting the most bombed hotel in Europe.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 3
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What's your worst hotel misdemeanor? 'Accidentally' left with a towel in your bag? Sneaked something out of the minibar? Richard E. Grant's looking for something a little more… scandalous. He finds it at Hollywood's exclusive Chateau Marmont – where Jean Harlow and Clark Gable conducted a steamy affair, Lindsay Lohan amassed a $46k unpaid bill and Howard Hughes got up to no good in the penthouse.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 6
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Imagine if hotel walls could talk… Luckily they don't have to, as Star Wars actor Richard E. Grant extracts juicy details of the dangerous liaisons that have steamed up the windows of the planet's top getaways. From the secret stairway used by one of Tinseltown's most notorious ladies' men, to L'Hotel in Paris, where Serge Gainsbourg whispered more than a "je t'aime" or two.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 2
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How would you like to spend a night in the hotel where your hero has died? Sounds morbid, but Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant makes this a fascinating romp, breathlessly exploring the Bastille's L'Hotel in Paris where dying Oscar Wilde quipped "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One… of us has to go" to New York's Chelsea Hotel, where Dylan Thomas spent his last days.
11) 1st Night
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Fearing he is little more than a city suit, a frustrated amateur opera singer decides to put on an opera, and may just win the hand of a female conductor he's been pursuing.
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This epic fantasy tale, about the history of a land that never was, begins when an ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant. He falls to its darker temptations and in so doing, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, it falls to people of different ilk and culture to attempt to stop him. Among those who stand against him are a daring tomb-robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer,...
13) A Royal Scandal
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The true story of a royal marriage that fell apart - a story of adultery, bitterness and betrayal. A relationship entered into for all the wrong reasons disintegrates under the eager gaze of the press and culminates in a very public washing of private dirty laundry.
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"Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his "counting house" when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlor which confirmed Miss Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme . . ."--Provided by publisher
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Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says "I can't go on," but Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone- as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.--From back cover
16) Up and down
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Even though the penguin and the boy are close friends and do many things together, the penguin decides that he wants to fly and he wants to do it on his own
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Some of the maps in this title are best viewed on a tablet device. A classic of travel writing, 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' is Eric Newby's iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for adventure, Newby sent his friend Hugh Carless the now-famous cable - CAN YOU TRAVEL...
19) The Echo Chamber
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Transworld
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2021
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Brought to you by Penguin.
What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.
The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart
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An amusing, informative, controversial and utterly irreverent history of the world's favorite word. F, U, C and K – four letters that can cause outrage, scandal, embarrassment or instant relief if you hit your thumb with a hammer. In this wide-ranging and frequently hilarious history of the F-word, Rufus Lodge searches out the origins of our language's most popular obscenity, and chronicles its dramatic arrival in our everyday lives. As he discovers,...