Posts Tagged ‘biography’
This Is A Call
From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitter rivalry, from breathless highs to lifeless lows, Paul Brannigan gives an unparalleled, intimate and extraordinary account of the life and times of Dave Grohl.In 1990, little-known punk-metal upstarts Nirvana added a new drummer to the band. They were soon to become a global phenomenon – but…
Read MoreFuriously Happy
#1 New York Times Bestseller In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest: “I’ve often thought that people…
Read MoreMember of the Family
In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most notorious criminals and life as one of his “girls.”…
Read MoreShark Assault
One of the most dreadful experiences humans fear is a shark attack. This horrifying agony is exactly what happened to Nicole Moore. Surviving gruesome misery, including the amputation of her left arm and attempts to rebuild her disfigured leg, she fought on to become a source of inspiration for those facing seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Read MoreUnrepentant
A kid raised by his father’s fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell grew up watching the local bikers ride past, making him wonder what that kind of freedom and power would feel like. He soon found out. At the age of 17, he became the youngest-ever member of the Satan’s…
Read MoreGet Happy
A compelling portrayal of the Hollywood superstar covers Garland’s childhood, her struggles to establish herself in one of the industry’s great studios, her often traumatic love affairs, and much more. By the author of Capote. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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A Newfoundler in Canada
Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time. Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book, Alan Doyle turns his perspective outward from Petty Harbour…
Read MoreThe Great Nadar
A dazzling, stylish biography of a fabled Parisian photographer, adventurer, and pioneer. A recent French biography begins, Who doesn’t know Nadar? In France, that’s a rhetorical question. Of all of the legendary figures who thrived in mid-19th-century Paris–a cohort that includes Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Gustave Courbet, and Alexandre Dumas–Nadar was perhaps the most innovative, the…
Read MoreNearly Normal
In her bestselling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace and candour about her unconventional childhood—her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family; the numerous misadventures she survived with her mother and her mother’s boyfriends; and the bold escape Cea made from her family at the age…
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