If you enjoyed reading about The Lady of 6,000 Songs in the best seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, you will love going behind the scenes to learn more about how the remarkable entertainer and her husband successfully juggled their marriage, her Hall of Fame music career, his sign business, and at the same time, raise ten children.
Raised from the Dead is the personal account of award winning TV news anchor Frank Turners triumphant journey through abandonment, sexual abuse, drug addiction and three fatal cocaine overdoses.
Reginald Hach offers the reader the story of his transition from beginning conservatory music student to performer on the worlds stages, who learns to circumvent the debilitating nature of stage fright and go on to a successful career as a composer, performer, and teacher of music.
In this classic work on music biography, Sacheverell Sitwell narrates Franz Liszt's rapid ascent to European fame - and the effect that this incredible early success as a wonderfully gifted pianist had on his later life - with insight, sympathy and humanity, One of the very first studies of Liszt to be published in English, this remarkable biography uses the full force of Sitwell's poetic talent to bring this brilliant and difficult man's world vividly to life, and captures the artistic mood of the era in extraordinary detail.
¿Qué es una imagen, cómo se hace una obra, qué significa lo abstracto y cómo se confronta la vida con la gran corriente del Caos que desafía a los artistas?
Step into the Spotlight: How Ordinary People Transformed into Household NamesIn a world captivated by the glow of fame, Rise to Fame: Stories & Strategies of the Self-Made Celebrity serves as both a beacon and a roadmap for those daring enough to dream of the spotlight.
James Joyce, Rome and other Stories outlines the months in which Irish author James Joyce (Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) lived in Rome, between 1906 and 1907.
Semi-detached Griff relives freezing bus journeys to school and the impulsive stealing of that half-a-crown from Charlie Hume s money box; sitting outside Butlins at Clacton (longing to be inside and on the Waltzer instead of stranded on the pebbles with his dad); hazy summer afternoons spent with feral gangs in the woods, or storming the mud flats singing extracts from the Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band.
The first time Harris met Flora (though they shared friendly looks and teaching techniques, as they were only a room apart), he saw no indication that her past was fraught with tragedies and heartaches.
Summary, Analysis & Review of Chip and Joanna Gaines's The Magnolia Story with Mark Dagostino by Instaread Preview: The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Jo Gaines, with Mark Dagostino, is the true tale of how the husband-and-wife team, stars of the HGTV show Fixer Upper, built a life together in Waco, Texas.
This is a story of a man who basically grew up poor in the streets of New York City, who is one of five children, and his struggle to create a better life for himself.
No Place for a Lady charts Thea Rosenbaums turbulent life from a little girl escaping the Soviet Army with her mother in Berlin in 1945 to becoming Germanys first woman stock broker at Oppenheimer and Co.
When author Steve Burton heard the plan for transforming a relatively untouched bird sanctuary in the Middle Eastern emirate of Abu Dhabi into a complex, global entertainment and premier yachting destination within thirty months, he thought the idea was impossible.
How Good Should I Dream of Bright Quang, a Vietnamese-American creator, opens new way of his life's Happiness, Source of life, and Sorrow in order to bury the hatchet.
There are so many stories that I have to share that are a result of my upbringing, my home, schools I attended and my Catholic faith that the only way to do them justice is to continue the remainder of the book in vignettes.
"e;Wooden Leg was one of the sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Sioux against Custer at the legendary Battle of the Little Bighorn.
David McKee is known as the progenitor of the McKee family of Noble County, Ohio; however, with our current lifestyles and social terms, Martha, David's wife, may well be included in this status.
Special 20th Anniversary EditionWhen Marilyn Monroe died in October 2003, she left behind the first volume of her memoirs (1926 to 1962), award-winning performances, and the memories of a thirty-five-year marriage.
Her memoirs cover the pre WWII period of the 1930s in her birth country, Bulgaria and her growing up in the German and Russian cultures of her parents and that of Bulgaria.