Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
All Those Moments
Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
He came to mainstream prominence as a machine more human than his creators in Blade Runner, terrified us as a hitchhiker bent on his own death and the death of anyone who got in his way in The Hitcher, and unforgettably portrayed a lonely king roaming the night as a wolf and pining for the love of...
My Booky Wook
A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“A child’s garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.... The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better than anyone since Jim Carroll. With the flick of his enviable pen, he can summarize childhood thus: ‘My very first utterance...
The Women Who Raised Me
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Born as a ward of the state of Maine, the child of an unmarried Yankee blueblood mother and an unknown black father, Victoria Rowell beat the odds. The Women Who Raised Me is the remarkable story of her rise out of the foster care system to attain the American Dream—and of the unlikely series of...
Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?
A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
“Steven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, who’s been influential for a whole generation of Rock ’n’ Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!”
—Sir Paul McCartney
Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? is the rock memoir to end all rock memoirs—the straight-up,...
Booky Wook 2
This Time It's Personal
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Picking up where he left off in My Booky Wook, movie star and comedian Russell Brand details his rapid climb to fame and fortune in a shockingly candid, resolutely funny, and unbelievably electrifying tell-all: Booky Wook 2. Brand’s performances in Arthur, Get Him to the Greek, and Forgetting Sarah...
Neon Angel
A Memoir of a Runaway
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
In this candid autobiography, Cherie Currie—the original lead singer of ‘70s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways—powerfully recounts her years in the band, her friendship with guitarist Joan Jett, and her struggle with drugs. An intense, behind-the-scenes look at rock music in the gritty,...
Ron Jeremy
The Life and Times of a Porn Star
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
He's the porn world's Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he's starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn's biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He's appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos,...
American on Purpose
The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
In his memoir American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson, host of The Late, Late Show, traces his journey from working-class Glasgow to the comedic limelight of Hollywood and American citizenship. Moving and achingly funny, American on Purpose moves from Ferguson’s early life as an alcoholic to his stint...
by Slash, Anthony Bozza
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll
He was born in England but reared in L.A., surrounded by the leading artists of the day amidst the vibrant hotbed of music and culture that was the early seventies. Slash spent his...
Possessed
The Life of Joan Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
New York Times bestselling author Donald Spoto has already brilliantly explored the lives and careers of numerous Hollywood stars and entertainment icons—Grace Kelly, James Dean, Alfred Hitchcock, and Marilyn Monroe, to name but a few. In Possessed, his subject is the inimitable Joan Crawford, one...
by Maria A Trapp
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman...
by Maria Menounos
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Raised by working-class immigrant parents and later exposed to Hollywood's most elite experts in every field, Access Hollywood's, Today's, and Nightly News's reporter Maria Menounos reveals her EveryGirl secrets on everything: her systems to organize life, manage time, and ascend the ladder of success;...
Modoc
True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Spanning several decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most amazing true animal stories ever told. Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again; through a near-fatal shipwreck in...
Bon Jovi
When We Were Beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The first-ever official Bon Jovi book celebrates the band’s 25th anniversary with previously untold stories straight from Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, David Bryan, and Tico Torres, and never-before-seen photographs from Phil Griffin (known for his Bon Jovi documentary When We Were Beautiful, as...