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Wired
The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
This reissue of Bob Woodword’s classic book about John Belushi—one of the most interesting performers and personalities in show business history—“is told with the same narrative style that Woodward employed so effectively in All the President’s Men and The Final Days” (Chicago Tribune).
John...
Failure Is an Option
An Attempted Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**“Writing this funny requires immense talent.”
—AV Club
H. Jon Benjamin—the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers—helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure.**
Most people would consider H....
Girl Singer
A Memoir of the Girl Next Door
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
At the top of her form and topping the charts, Rosemary Clooney looks back at a life of triumph and tragedy more dramatic than any work of fiction.
Rosemary Clooney made her first public appearance at the age of three, on the stage of the Russell Theater in her hometown of Maysville, Kentucky,...
Stirring the Pot
My Recipe for Getting What You Want Out of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The View host and New York Times bestselling author Jenny McCarthy is like your favorite friend: honest, open, and oh-so-funny. She also speaks her mind and says what the rest of us are thinking, a characteristic that has won her millions of fans no matter how much...
by Dr. Bon Blossman
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Dr. Bon Blossman was an average American child from an affluent family in Westover Hills, Texas. As she entered high school, Bon’s experimentation with cigarettes, drugs and alcohol morphed her from an honor student to a class clown, void of ambition. At the end of ninth grade, she relocated to...
Way I See It
A Look Back at My Life on Little House
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
When other girls her age were experiencing their first crushes, Melissa Sue Anderson was receiving handwritten marriage proposals from fans as young, and younger, than she was. When other girls were dreaming of their first kiss, Melissa was struggling through hers in front of a camera. From age eleven...
by Jon Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
‘I loved Jon’s book. It’s even better than the real thing because you can’t hear his voice.’ Michael McIntyre A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the bed for seven years. It seems such...
Diana Rigg
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The true story of the award-winning actress who became an icon as Emma Peel on The Avengers.
Voted the “sexiest television star of all time” by TV Guide readers, Diana Rigg is best known as the brilliant and seductive British agent Emma Peel on The Avengers. But the Tony and Emmy Award–winning...
The View from the Bridge
Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
"Essential reading for any Star Trek and movie fan."
-trekmovie.com
When Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A bestselling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as...
by Chas Newkey-Burden
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
The full story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world. A small-town girl with an incredible talent, and the strength to realise her dream, Taylor has grown into an award-winning, chart-topping artist...
Linda Ronstadt
A Life In Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Often dismissed by rock historians as a product of the antiseptic Californian country-music scene, an artist who relied on watered-down covers of classic rock n’ roll and pop standards, this description of Linda Ronstadt couldn’t be further from the truth. Throughout a recording career that has...
Jimmy Stewart
The Truth Behind the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Many of the stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger-than-life figures held up as paragons of American virtues. Unfortunately, the private lives of actors such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Errol Flynn rarely lived up to the idealistic roles they portrayed....
There Goes Gravity
A Life in Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insider's behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.
Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem,...
Ladies Who Punch
The Explosive Inside Story of "The View"
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.
When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d...