Yolana Bard, Author, Mark Bego, Author, Hans Holzer, Foreword by Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-399-15309-9
Readers who believe in fortune-telling and the spirit world will be enthralled by Yolana's tales of helping the police, saving lives and converting nonbelievers with her knack for knowing the unknowable. These readers will gobble up the many stories
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Mark Bego, Author . Taylor $25 (338p) ISBN 978-1-58979-020-9
This serviceable look at rock diva Turner is the latest in more than 40 celebrity bios ranging from the sublime (Madonna: Blonde Ambition
) to the ridiculous (Ice Ice Ice: The Extraordinary Vanilla Ice Story
) written by Bego over the last 20 years.
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Mark Bego, Author Eakin Press $12.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-89015-775-6
Readers won't be scandalized or even surprised by Bego's ( Aretha Franklin ) ``unauthorized biography'' of the pop singer extraordinaire. The author is obviously a big fan of Ronstadt's, and his biography intersperses the facts of her life with...
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Mark Bego, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-312-02863-3
Pop/soul singer Franklin refuses to discuss publicly her private life. ``There are few singing stars who could get away with such a small degree of personal exposure and still retain their popularity,'' notes Bego ( Linda Gray ) of a woman whose...
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Mark Bego, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-07719-8
Bego, author of several books on music personalities, including Madonna, Barry Manilow and Michael Jackson, is former editor of Modern Screen, the perennially popular movie-fan monthly that first appeared in 1930. He has collected here more than 70...
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Mark Bego, Author PaperJacks $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7701-0470-2
Song stylist Sade (pronounced Shar-day), 27, has topped the charts in the past two years with hit singles (""Smooth Operator'') and albums (Diamond Life, and recently moved into films (Absolute Beginners. Born in Africa to a Nigerian father and a...
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Mark Bego. Skyhorse, $16.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-61608-581-0
In this unauthorized biography, Bego (who has written books on Michael Jackson and Elton John, among many others) expands his previous books, published in 1989 and 2001, about dynamic vocalist Franklin. For this third book, Bego includes all of the...
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Mark Bego. Skyhorse, $24.99 (296p) ISBN 978-1-5107-2115-9
Music writer Bego has written or cowritten more than 60 biographies of musicians, and here, with the aid of his Rolodex, he offers readers a confusing assortment of recipes. They range from the painfully simple (Teri Nunn of Berlin’s breakfast...
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Mark Bego, Author, Rita Coolidge, Introduction by . Cooper Square $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8154-1232-8
Growing up a self-proclaimed "ugly, fat little Jewish girl with problems," Bette Midler traded in her job at a Hawaiian pineapple processing plant for a trip to the Big Apple where, in the early 1970s, she re-created herself as the Divine...
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Mark Bego, Author, Mary Wilson, Foreword by . Cooper Square $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8154-1153-6
Someone once joked that after a nuclear holocaust, the only living creatures will be cockroaches and Cher. Cherlyn Sarkisian Bono Allman (aka Cher) has certainly demonstrated her survival instincts with career successes that range from hit songs in...
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Mary Wilson and Mark Bego. Thames & Hudson, $40 (240p) ISBN 978-0-500-02200-9
Wilson, one of the original members of the Supremes, shares her collection of some of the lavish costumes she flaunted throughout the 1960s and ’70’s. The 32 pieces exhibit evolving fashion trends, from simple beginnings with matte jersey dresses...
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Mark Bego. Pegasus, $28.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-64313-313-3
Bego (Michael!) narrates the ups and downs of musician Elton John’s career and music in this fawning set of fan’s notes. Drawing on interviews with John’s colleagues and on archival research, Bego chronicles Reginald Dwight’s (he would become Elton...
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