Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
You Never Give Me Your Money
The Beatles After the Breakup
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
“Peter Doggett’s book about the Beatles’ split is a real page-turner.” — Annie Lennox
“Enthralling… Impossible to put down.” — The Independent
Acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett recounts the previously untold story of the dramatic final chapter in the lives, loves,...
Between a Heart and a Rock Place
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
One of the best-selling female rock stars of all time, the incomparable Pat Benatar writes about her life, rock ’n’ roll, and how her generation changed music forever in Between a Heart and a Rock Place. The first solo female rocker ever to appear on MTV, Benatar writes with the same edge and...
Here's the Story
Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, had it all—style, looks, boys, brains, and talent. No wonder her younger sister Jan was jealous! For countless adolescents across America who came of age in the early 1970s, Marcia was the ideal American...
by Bill Zehme, Hugh M. Hefner
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
"[A] breezy, charming chronicle."
—Time Out New York
The legendary founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner invites you into his world with Hef's Little Black Book, an illustrated treasury of advice and maxims. The only book ever written by the iconic publisher and unabashed...
by John Leguizamo
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Fans of John Leguizamo's smash-hit one-man shows (Mambo Mouth, Spic-o-rama, Freak, and Sexaholix) have already gotten a glimpse into his life, but this book tells the whole story, carrying readers along on a wild journey from his childhood in Queens to his current home at the top of the Hollywood...
by Bernie Mac
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
By the tender of age of five, Bernie Mac had found his calling:making others laugh. Now this amazing comedian delves deep inside to share the poignant story of his childhood and the people who shaped him into the strong, self-reliant man and ruthlessly funny comedian he is today.
When Bernie...
Baby, Let's Play House
Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
[Alanna] Nash belongs in the pantheon of great music writers, and [Baby, Let’s Play House] is a fascinating study.” —Rosanne Cash
Just in time for Elvis Presley’s would-be 75th birthday comes a new book by Elvis expert, journalist, and Country Music Association Media Achievement Award...
Fabulosity
What It Is & How to Get It
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Fabulosity (n): 1: a state of everything that is fabulous 2: a quality ascribed to that which expresses glamour, style, charisma, power, and heart
Kimora Lee Simmons knows what it means to have fabulosity -- and she wants to tell you how to get it.
In this empowering new book, Kimora...
Deconstructing Sammy
Music, Money, and Madness
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Sammy Davis Jr. lived a storied life. Adored by millions over a six-decade-long career, he was considered an entertainment icon and a national treasure. But despite lifetime earnings that topped $50 million, Sammy died in 1990 near bankruptcy. His estate was declared insolvent, and there was no possibility...
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented...
The Hit Charade
Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Without Lou Pearlman, there would have been no Backstreet Boys, no *NSYNC, and possibly no Justin Timberlake. In the late 1990s, Pearlman's boy bands ushered out guitar-and-angst-driven grunge music, and *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys began to dominate the television and radio airwaves. At the core of...
The Legs Are the Last to Go
Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
It's conventional wisdom that Hollywood has no use for a woman over forty. So it's a good thing that Diahann Carroll—whose winning, sometimes controversial career breached racial barriers—is anything but conventional.
Here she shares her life story with an admirable candidness of someone...
Ask Me Again Tomorrow
A Life in Progress
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From her fame as the Oscar-winning actress who uttered the famous line in Moonstruck, "I know who I am," to her lauded role as Mrs. Madrigal, the landlord of indeterminate gender in Tales of the City, to being the cousin of Michael Dukakis, presidential candidate, Olympia Dukakis has captured...
by Jason Clarke, David T. Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Watching Michael Moore in action—passing off manipulating facts in Bowling for Columbine, spinning statistics in Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, shamelessly grandstanding at the Academy Awards, and epitomizing the hypocrisy he's made a king's fortune railing against—has spurred...