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David Morrell is best known for his acclaimed thrillers, including The Brotherhood of the Rose, Creepers, Murder as a Fine Art, and his debut novel, First Blood, in which Rambo first appeared. But Morrell is also a master of nonfiction. Twenty of his essays about iconic writers, actors, and singers are collected in Stars in My Eyes: My Love Affair with Books, Movies, and Music.

A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists.

While much has been written about his father, Sam, a titan of industry, there is no public record of Charles Bronfman’s thoughts on his own life, family, career and his significant accomplishments in sport and philanthropy. Distilled does just that, chronicling key events in the life of the heir to one of Canada’s great fortunes. Born in 1931 to the fabulously wealthy Bronfmans, Charles grew up in a 20-room mansion with many staff. Via their control of the distilling giant Seagram, the Bronfman family dominated the liquor business.

In this funny, irreverent, unique, eccentric memoir, magician Steve Spill reveals how he managed to survive decades inside a rarely profitable, sometimes maddening, but often deliciously rewarding offbeat showbiz profession - magic!

Andy Warhol's work and personality changed American visual culture forever, making him an international superstar. His rise to global fame, his entanglement with the seedy New York sexual underground, and the shocking assassination attempt that almost ended his life are chronicled in Stephen Koch's indispensible classic, Stargazer.

When Reynolds Price died in January 2011, he left behind one final piece of writing - two hundred candid, heartrending, and marvelously written manuscript pages about a critical period in his young adulthood. Picking up where his previous memoir, Ardent Spirits, left off, the work documents a brief time from 1961 to 1965, perhaps the most leisurely of Price's life, but also one of enormous challenge and growth. Price gave it the title Midstream. Approaching thirty, Price writes, is to face the notion that, "This is it. I'm now the person I'm likely to be…from here to the end."

A obra explora estudos pouco conhecidos pelos brasileiros e torna oportuno aos músicos e admiradores uma interpenetração no universo villalobiano. Essa composição dialoga com várias obras de Villa-Lobos; e em seu diapasão há importantes relações com destacadas referências musicais, culturais e literárias da Europa e da América. No audiolivro, o musicólogo realiza pesquisas quantitativas e qualitativas inéditas no Brasil...

Tiffany Haddish está de regreso con su nueva y muy esperada colección de ensayos. La última vez que los lectores se sentaron con Tiffany Haddish fue con su exitoso debut El Ultimo Unicornio Negro. Desde entonces, se catapultó a la fama como estrella de Girls Trip. Desfiló por la alfombra roja de los Oscar, estrenó exitosas comedias en Showtime y Netflix y pasó a la historia como la primera comediante negra en presentar Saturday Night Live y Shark Week. Pero no todo ha sido una fiesta. En estos ensayos humorísticos y sentidos, Tiffany se enfrenta a los altibajos de la vida.

Victoria Alonso takes listeners on her journey from Argentina to America to Hollywood and illuminates the ways everyone can live in a heightened state of possibility and use their voice for change. “If it has been done, you can do it. But if it hasn’t been done, you should.” It was these words from Victoria Alonso’s mother that imbued in her the power of possibility. First as a young person in Argentina living through a dictatorship, then as a nineteen-year-old alone in America, saying yes to possibility again and again laid the path for Victoria to become who she is today.

The Life of Singleton examines a life, gone much too soon, who made history in film in dozens of lauded projects. As of this year, nearly 100 years since the start of the Oscars, only six Black filmmakers have been nominated for Best Director. The first and the youngest was John Singleton.

Après avoir été tour à tour humoriste et animateur de télévision, c’est aujourd’hui dans l’écriture que Dany Turcotte prend plaisir. D. Turcotte et fils est son premier livre. Il y raconte son enfance à Jonquière, au Saguenay, au sein d’une famille marquée par l’alcoolisme de son père, la faillite de l’entreprise familiale, D. Turcotte et fils, et le divorce de ses parents.

Con motivo del centenario, publicamos la biografía coral del inmortal novelista y periodista, adalid del famoseo y azote de la aristocracia mundial:...

From award-winning sports broadcaster and actress Jayne Kennedy comes a compelling, inspirational, and unflinchingly honest memoir about her rise in Hollywood and beyond.

Memorias de Joni Mitchell a través de sus conversaciones con Malka Marom y de la relectura comentada por ambas de las letras de las canciones de Mitchell. Una exploración íntima de la vida y la obra de la cantautora Joni Mitchell -nombre artístico al que atiende (y tras el que se oculta) Roberta Joan Anderson- a través de las letras de sus canciones, de largas y profundas conversaciones sobre su obra musical, su poética y sus creaciones pictóricas. Cuando en 1973 se encomendó a la también cantautora Malka Marom que entrevistara a Joni Mitchell.

"Você lembra da sua mãe?" Escuto essa pergunta há muitos anos. E quase sempre em situações corridas do dia a dia, sem muito espaço para responder. Então resolvi escrever tudo ao alcance da minha memória e compartilhar como se cada ouvinte fosse um amigo ou amiga com quem tenho intimidade e tempo.

Marilyn Monroe. Un juguete sexual con triste final narra la historia de la actriz, modelo y cantante estadounidense que se convirtió en uno de los símbolos sexuales más populares de la década de los cincuenta y un emblema de la revolución sexual de la época. Rubia, diva, espectacular, pero a la vez frágil y vulnerable, luchó por ganarse un lugar en el mundo. Su belleza, simpatía, ingenio e inteligencia, sumados a su trágico final, la convirtieron en leyenda y en una figura de la cultura popular.

Carlos Ferrando es uno de los grandes nombres del periodismo de sociedad. Habrá quien le recuerde por su paso en Crónicas marcianas, otros por ser La Avispa de la Ser, unos pocos por sus columnas de Diario 16, los más adultos por su participación en Qué tiempo tan feliz y los más jóvenes por sus intervenciones televisivas. Pocos sabrán que fue jefe de prensa de películas míticas o director de Archy y Bocaccio, locales emblemáticos de la noche madrileña.

Tras más de cincuenta años en el candelabro, por fin se ha lanzado a publicar sus memorias...

Vasco Rossi, il più amato e carismatico tra i nostri rocker il 7 febbraio 2022 compie 70 anni. Il libro è un excursus sulla sua straordinaria carriera realizzato attraverso 70 date particolarmente significative. Come quando, appena tredicenne, vinse il suo primo concorso (L'usignolo d'oro, al Teatro Comunale di Modena). O il giorno in cui ebbero inizio le trasmissioni della mitica Punto Radio.

Dopo gli studi universitari in Scienze politiche a Roma e Milano, Mimma Gaspari, verso la fine del '59, a soli ventun anni, inizia la sua carriera come paroliera, a fianco di Teddy Reno. Un colpo di fortuna, ma anche un lavoro fortemente voluto, dentro al mondo della musica, che segnerà profondamente la sua vita portandola a ricoprire ruoli di grande e delicata sensibilità.

Primera biografía (autorizada) de Manu Chao, compuesta a la carrera por quien tuvo el raro privilegio de acompañarlo en sus azarosas giras por medio mundo. Durante la mayor parte de un lustro, el escritor, compositor, crítico y periodista británico Peter Culshaw tuvo el raro privilegio (pues a ningún otro cronista le ha sido concedida tal gracia) de acompañar a Manu Chao en su periplo por medio mundo desde el corazón del África sahariana a buena parte de las Américas y, de vuelta ya en el viejo mundo, de Finisterre a los Urales con el empeño de cantar sus gestas.