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All Of Me
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Claire Richards is loved by women everywhere for her warm and genuine personality. Now she writes honestly about her life, taking us from the bullied schoolgirl who dreamed of peforming at Wembley to finding stardom with Steps. She reveals the secrets of the music industry and what it's really like...
Candy Darling
Memoirs of an Andy Warhol Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A look into what moved Andy Warhol’s greatest muse
Located at 33 Union Square West in the heart of New York City’s pulsing downtown scene, Andy Warhol’s Factory was an artistic anomaly. Not simply a painter’s studio, it was the center of Warhol’s assembly-line production of films,...
Suicide
The Final Curtain in the World of the Famous
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Contents
Introduction
Peg Entwistle 1908 –1932
Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
Tony Hancock 1924 – 1968
Paul Williams 1939 – 1973
Nick Drake 1948 – 1974
Freddie Prinze 1954 – 1977
Ian Curtis 1956 – 1980
The Von Erich Family 1960...
Learning to Sing
Hearing the Music in Your Life: An Inspirational Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
“My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.”
–CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing
When he was a kid singing in his church...
Life at the Marmont
The Inside Story of Hollywood's Legendary Hotel of the Stars--Chateau Marmont
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Raymond Sarlot bought the Chateau Marmont in 1975, but what was originally a business purchase became a love affair as he delved into the hotel's incredible history. From its perch overlooking the Sunset Strip, the glamorous Marmont reigned for decades as the spot for artists, writers, musicians,...
Otto Binder
The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary chronicles the career of Otto Binder, from pulp magazine author to writer of Supergirl, Captain Marvel, and Superman comics. As the originator of the first sentient robot in literature ("I, Robot," published in...
Chuck Klosterman IV
A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman assembles his best work previously unavailable in book form—including the ground-breaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored...
The Great Shark Hunt
Strange Tales from a Strange Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style.
Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers” is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s...
Stranger Than Fiction
True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.
At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people...
by Anna Quindlen
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural,...
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
From the bestselling author of The Rum Diary and king of “Gonzo” journalism Hunter S. Thompson, comes the definitive collection of the journalist’s finest work from Rolling Stone. Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the roller-coaster of a career at the magazine that was his literary...
Fear and Loathing in America
The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
From the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson.
Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly...
The Disappointment Artist
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—from western films and comic books, to the music of Pink Floyd and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these "voyages...
Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society
A Collection of Previously Published Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Chuck Klosterman IV; and Eating the Dinosaur, these essays are now available in this ebook collection for fans of Klosterman’s writing on living and society.