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The Autobiography of Frau Adolf Hitler, translated and edited by Frank Sanello

PUBLISHED: Jun.22.2012

In his new novel, Frank Sanello vividly recreates the Third Reich and World War II as seen through the eyes and daily diary of Hitler's imaginary wife, Countess Christina Bernadotte (1916-1948). The granddaughter of the king of Sweden, the countess is forced at the age of 16 to marry the 43-year-old Nazi dictator by her socially ambitious and abusive mother, an heiress to the...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.31.2011

Invisible People: History's Homosexuals Unhidden

Invisible People examines the lives of prominent historical figures who were gay or lesbian. Many of these figures didn’t hide their sexual orientation. In this nonfiction work, author/journalist Frank Sanello explores the perplexing mindset that makes homophobic historians shove famous people of the past into a closet that many of them never occupied in their lifetime. Some of the...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.2005

Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America

More than 250 crystal methamphetamine users and those who treat them were interviewed for this book. One after another, stories were told of lives destroyed by a seductive drug, the use of which typically begins on weekends or special occasions, but then ends up overwhelming the users life, relationships, and career. When friends and acquaintances learned the subject of my book,...

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Reel V. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact Into Fiction

PUBLISHED: Dec.28.2002

Reel V. Real: How Hollywood Turns Faction Into Fiction

All too often, highly fictionalized cinematic depictions of the past are accepted as the unassailable truth by those unfamiliar with the "real" account. This book profiles sixty movies that portray actual moments in history, and compares the mythologized account of each event to what really happened. Movies chronicled include The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, A Man for All...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.05.2002

Spielberg: The Man, The Movies, The Mythology

INTRODUCTION The Reluctant Jew "For a Jew, it's a shame Steven Spielberg is so white bread." -- mega film producer Don Simpson (Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun) “The conventional has always appealed to Steven." -- Leah Adler, his...

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Feb.28.2012 - 10:42 am

Reefer Sanity: What the Marijuana Lobby Doesn’t Want You to Know

Thanks for not smoking Advocates of legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana ignore research that undercuts their arguments. According to a documentary in 2011 on the...

Jan.20.2012 - 7:59 am

Golden and Tarnished Oldies: Enduring and Temporary Film Masterpieces

Critics and scholars have ranked 1939's La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game), the third greatest film of all time. Everyone has two jobs, Roger Ebert told me years...

Jan.17.2012 - 7:47 am

Close Encounters of the Lurid Kind: The Strange Private Lives of Eddie Murphy & Sharon Stone

The following account has been condensed from two biographies I wrote, Naked Instinct: The Unauthorized Biography of Sharon Stone and Eddie Murphy: The Life...

Jan.16.2012 - 12:01 pm

Do Alcohol and Drugs Reveal Our Hidden, Genuine Selves?

Alec Baldwin, email/voicemail terrorist For almost as long as grapes have been fermented or liquor distilled, many people subscribe to the ancient proverb, In vino veritas...

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Oct.02.2012 - 2:06 pm

In response to: Collective self-publishing

Joining Thoth

Thanks for considering my membership in Thoth. Frank Sanello

Sep.27.2012 - 6:16 am

In response to: Collective self-publishing

May I please join Thoth Books? :)

Hello! My name is Frank Sanello. I'm a Red Room author. Five of my 30+ books are for sale on Red Room. Here's a...

Jan.20.2012 - 9:35 am

In response to: Golden and Tarnished Oldies: Enduring and Temporary Film Masterpieces

The Iron Lady

Brenden! If I believed in the paranormal, I'd say you were psychic. I hadn't even heard about The Iron Lady until...

Jan.19.2012 - 11:16 am

In response to: “FREE” – THE NEWEST WRINKLE IN PUBLISHING

Thanks for such invaluable advice and info!

I didn't know about Amazon's KDP option. All but three of my books were published by mainstream publishers, but since...

Nov.09.2011 - 10:37 am

In response to: Heaven. The Final Destination of The Just.

Wonderfully blasphemous article, Chris!

I read an earlier draft on HubPages. Won't you get in trouble with them because they demand original content? This...

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Article: “The Zombie, the Cat and Barack Obama” – An Instant Classic in the Tradition of Dracula and Frankenstein

Why We Know So Much About Ancient and Borgia Rome

Article: Showtime Miniseries Perpetuates Nasty Myths About Lucrezia Borgia

I saw a sign in a restaurant that said, 'Breakfast served any time.' I said, 'OK, I'll have French toast during the Renaissance."”

—Steven Wright

About Frank

"The Autobiography of Frau Adolf Hitler" available in paperback ($19.95) at http://www.amazon.com/The-Autobiography-Frau-Adolf-Hitler/dp/1477581723/.... KINDLE ($9.99) available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008E78B9S Some readers found the chapters of the...

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ACLU, ASPCA, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders

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Emma, Madame Bovary, Cousine Bette, War and Peace, Day of the Locust, 1876, Anna Karenina, Great Expectations, Daisy Miller, The March of Folly, Dr. Faustus

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