In the tradition of John Greens The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, this incredibly moving and harrowing true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer is a resounding affirmation of how music can lift ones spirits beyond gray skies and bad news (Kirkus Reviews).
To honor the twentieth anniversary of beloved comedienne Gilda Radner's death from ovarian cancer comes a commemorative edition of her memoir, It's Always Somethingfeaturing an updated resource guide for people living with cancer and a tribute by Radner's former colleagues at Saturday Night Live.
Emmy Awardwinning actress Sharon Gless tells all in this laugh-out-loud, juicy, ';unforgettably memorable' (Lily Tomlin) memoir about her five decades in Hollywood, where she took on some of the most groundbreaking roles of her time.
In her powerful and inspiring memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin ';Magic' Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever.
In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create a candid and insightful tribute to her father.
';With this charming, sardonic debut, stand up comedian and actor Todd Barry makes readers laugh as hard as the audiences at his shows' (Publishers Weekly) in this hilarious book of travel essays from his time on tour in the US, Canada, and Israel.
This book is about opening your mind and freeing the spirit within by understanding concepts to broaden the way you think about general things of life.
Lift Evry Voice and Sing is an anthology that consists of short biographies of several African Americans in history who have provided America with their extraordinary gifts and talentssuch as music, sports, art, literary works, theatre, politics, and other endeavors.
The Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles' music through a cross-disciplinary hybrid of reflections, drawing from both, musical practice itself and academic research.
The greatest backup group in the history of recorded music undoubtedly was the Jordanaires, a gospel group of mostly Tennessee boys, formed in the 1940s, that set the standard for studio vocal groups in the '50s, '60s, '70s, and beyond.
The “poet laureate of the New York underground scene” chronicles three decades of electrifying artistic expression Once dominated by Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, by the 1970s and ’80s, New York City’s creative scene had given way to a punk rock–era defined by figures like Debbie Harry and Richard Hell.
A cinematic and vibrant coming-of-age memoir, Chasing the Panther captures the thrilling and, at times, heartbreaking early years of Carolyn Pfeiffer, a pioneering film producer and one of Hollywood's first female executivesa ';mini-mogul' in the words of the Wall Street Journal.
This story of The Author's unconventional lifestyle gives valuable lessons to the many people who leave school and University with no plans for their careers, and are just content to be buffetted along life's highways, waiting for the miracle which will never happen.
The essence of this, offers the way to hammer-out the creases of contradiction, of divided beliefs, with a white-hot, iron fist, forged in the raging fire of pure awareness.
Kimberly Beam was a middle school Language Arts teacher in Massachusetts and an English teacher in Maryland before being diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma.
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.
This book is a carefully documented combination of my free transcendental thoughts, including many of my life experiences recalled and written precisely as creative stories.
Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner tells the story of how a young widow in the summer of 1813 made two large flags for Fort McHenry in Baltimore.
This book is a Custom Magazine Limited Edition Exclusive Auto Biography about myself that has already gotten most successful people award from Covington and is an auto bio part into a documentary into my life that I own my own copyrights called True crime and Model Inc.
Alec Parker was only trying to make enough money to finish college when his all-American good looks caught the eye of an agent of one of New Yorks most prestigious modeling agencies.
In 1963 a woman by the name of "e;Evgenia Smetisko,"e; an immigrant who purportedly entered the United States from Roumania according to her 1928 naturalization papers, published "e;Anastasia: The Autobiography of HIH The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia.
Four years ago, the author started out on a journey to learn Irish set dancing, at an age, he says When most men and women are pulling the stool closer to the turf fire and dreaming of life when life was young.
The fortuitous nature of life cannot be better exemplified than through this fascinating account of one young woman's experiences and travels in Switzerland and Europe during the tumultuous times around World War II.
This is a womans survival story that begins with life in Europe, loss of her father convicted of being a spy and sent to Siberia, her flight to Poland, where she becomes a prisoner of the Germans.
The 1960s starlet, immortalized on the silver screen as Juliet, tells her story in this celebrity biography-with a forward by director Franco Zeffirelli.
