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Traces Sophia Loren's rise from slum urchin of Pozzuoli to reigning queen of the cinema world, highlighting her early poverty, illegitimacy, criminal prosecution for adultery, marriage, and fight to have a child and surveying the triumphs and tribulations of her filmmaking career.

Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman. A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner's first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition and began a close and trusted friendship that lasted until Newman's death in 2008. In "Paul and Me," Hotchner depicts a complicated, unpredictable, fun-loving, talented man, and takes the reader along on their adventures. The pair traveled extensively, skippered a succession of bizarre boats, confounded the business world, scored triumphs on the stage, and sustained their friendship through good times and bad. Most notably, they started Newman's Own as a prank and watched it morph into a major enterprise that so far has donated all its $300 million in profit to charities including the Hole in the Wall Camps worldwide, dedicated to helping thousands of children with life-threatening illnesses. "Paul and Me," complete with personal photographs, is the story of a freewheeling friendship and a tribute to the acclaimed actor who gave to the world as much as the world gave him.

St. Louis inmitten der Weltwirtschaftskrise. Der zwölfjährige Aaron Broom muss mit ansehen, wie nach einem Überfall auf ein Juweliergeschäft sein Vater in Handschellen abgeführt wird. Dabei wollte sein Pop, ein Uhrenvertreter, dort doch bloß seine neueste Kollektion vorführen! Aus seinen Lieblingsbüchern weiß Aaron genau, dass er den wahren Täter nun auf eigene Faust "detektivieren" muss, wenn er will, dass sein Pop wieder freikommt. Von unverhoffter Seite bekommt er Hilfe: von Ex-Boxer und Hauswart Vernon, von Augie, dem Zeitungsjungen an der Ecke, von einem freundlich gesinnten Anwalt für Seerecht - aber er hat auch gefährliche Widersacher. Eine spannende Abenteuergeschichte, wie von Mark Twain erfunden, nimmt ihren Lauf ..