Books like Fallen Angels by Kirk Crivello

Dan Brown's bestselling mystery‑thriller introduces college professor Robert Langdon as he unravels a Vatican conspiracy involving secret societies, ancient symbols, and a single day’s frantic chase that blends history, architecture, and intrigue.

Reece Gilmore, the sole survivor of a brutal crime, seeks a quiet life in Angel's Fist, Wyoming, only to witness a violent attack that no one else can confirm. Suspense follows as she allies with a gruff loner to uncover a hidden killer.

In Regency England, an arrogant lord neglected by family courts a gentle, overlooked young woman, igniting a romance that challenges pride and expectations.

After graduating high school in Harlem, 17‑year‑old Richie Perry joins the Army in 1967, only to confront the hardships of a year spent fighting in Vietnam.

In a gritty thriller, an undercover private investigator must confront his own shadows and a lingering romance while hunting a ruthless killer linked to a mysterious past.

A nun and a cowboy fall in love on a desert convent in the Western romance series Forever.

When Scotland’s spirited Madeleina meets the dashing Jason Verney, she falls in love—and discovers he is the infamous Viscount Deveryn, The Fallen Angel—bringing scandal, romance, and redemption to Regency society.

In a near‑future where anti‑technology forces dominate Earth, a struggling orbital and lunar colony fights to survive while Earth‑bound scientists risk everything to rescue downed astronauts.

An intimate biography that explores the professional and personal intersections of Sondra Locke’s career with the motion‑picture industry, featuring insights from her collaborations with legendary director Clint Eastwood.

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"Film noir was the dark side of the movies' happily-ever-after mythology. Sinister and sexy, it forged a new icon: the tough, independent, take-no-guff dame. Determined, desirable, dangerous when cornered, she could handle trouble - or deal out some of her own.". "If you thought these women were something special onscreen, wait till you meet the genuine articles. In Dark City Dames, acclaimed film historian Eddie Muller profiles six women who made a lasting impression in this cinematic terrain - from veteran "bad girls" Audrey Totter, Marie Windsor and Jane Greer to unexpected genre fixtures Evelyn Keyes, Coleen Gray and Ann Savage. The book surveys the lives of these formidable women during the height of their careers circa 1950, as they balanced love and career, struggled against typecasting, and sought fulfillment in a ruthless business. Their personal stories - teeming with larger-than-life characters like Howard Hughes, L. B. Mayer, Robert Mitchum, Otto Preminger and John Huston - offer an illuminating counterpoint to their movies, such as Out of the Past, Detour, The Lady in the Lake, and The Killing. Then Dark City Dames revisits each one of these women today, fifty years on, to witness their hard-won - and triumphant - survival. On every page their own voices ring through, reflecting on their lives with as much passion, pain, intelligence, energy and humor as any movie script."--BOOK JACKET.

One from the heart, and about as personal as celebrity bios get, as Quirk limns his friend Norma Shearer, who was his uncle James Quirk's love while he was editor-publisher of Photoplay (1914-1932). Despite this closeness to his subject, Quirk writes warmly but unworshipfully, always giving Shearer's performances the compliment of honest opinion. A Scot-English Canadian from Montreal, Shearer was first trained as a pianist, then won a beauty contest (despite poor teeth and a cast in her eye) and slipped into acting. She, her sister Athole, and mother Edith dumped their despairing failure of a dad/husband and took off for N.Y. to find stage careers for the two girls. In later life Norma was always attracted to father figures, men who made up for her father's weaknesses. Thus, after many small parts and starring roles in a string of middling features, she married Irving Thalberg, the boy wonder in charge of production at MGM, and her career took off with the choicest roles in town. Many critics found her a chilly actress, seeing her features as serenely unclouded. Quirk sees her as unique and glamorous, with intrinsic class and a compelling aura, ""an individual stamp, a shimmering radiance, and a poised self-containment"" unmatched by actresses in the late 1980's. Viewers and readers who saw her recent revival on PBS, especially in Noel Coward's Private Lives with Robert Montgomery, may agree with Quirk about Norma's great inner spark and comedic charm. When Thalberg died, the highly sexed, 36-year-old widow inherited a large block of MGM stock and kept herself in top pictures until retiring, like Garbo, at 42. As ""the First Lady of the Screen,"" she had her vanity and high-strung moments, and had many, perhaps physically unconsummated, affairs with much younger actors, including bisexual Tyrone Power. At 42, she married a very young ski instructor and lived happily ever after--almost. Her last years, in her 80's, reduced her to a blind vegetable. The Return of Norma Shearer. See it!

407 pages ; 21 cm