Résultats pour "The Star" dans Biographies et mémoires

'A true original, a genuine maverick' ROBERT SMITH (The Cure) 'An ode to creativity and thinking outside the box, as well as to rock and roll in its purest form: messy, unpredictable and wholly irresistible' TELEGRAPH 'An intriguing insight into an industry during a time of big ideas and even...

A stunning celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic career as a performer, featuring entertaining personal stories alongside full-color photographs, including exclusive images and ephemera from her archive. In Star of the Show, the culminating book in Dolly Parton’s photographic...

From the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and the New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can comes a candid, insightful, and wildly entertaining essay collection about her years in show business, featuring stories that range from the sublime to the ridiculous. Lauren Graham has...

Brought to you by Penguin. A stunning celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic career as a performer, featuring entertaining personal stories alongside 350 full-color photographs, including exclusive images and ephemera from her archive, and an eight-page gatefold listing her lifetime of...

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier “An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times...

From the star of Bravo’s hit show Summer House and In the City, Lindsay Hubbard’s Activated is a hilarious, drama-filled, surprising, and exposing look at a life lived at full speed, and at full volume on and off camera. Perfect for readers of Stassi Schroeder, How to Giggle, and Heather Gay...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour – secrets were impossible to keep. In this thrilling reappraisal of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Gareth Russell’s history...

Best known as Mr. Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise and captain of the Starship Excelsior, George Takei is beloved by millions as part of the command team that has taken audiences to new vistas of adventure in Star Trek—the unprecedented television and feature film phenomenon...

A tender, mostly autobiographical, account of youthful promise in pre-revolutionary Iran, success and prosperity in the UK and then the shock and humiliation of a six-year prison sentence for tax fraud. On the outside, a search for wisdom sees a small boy tour Iran’s ancient sites wide-eyed...

A young woman finished a doctoral thesis in 1925 and answered the oldest question anyone has ever asked about the sky: what are the stars made of? Her answer was hydrogen. Overwhelmingly, almost comically, hydrogen, with a generous helping of helium and a rounding error of everything else...

Through his extensive research, insight, and instinctive love for Michaelhouse, the deep friendships and the unique contributions of many and the triumphs and difficulties of the past 125 years have been made accessible. The crafting of this book, the clarity of its structure and a story so beautifully told, has been an immense labour of love.

'This time they'd ****ed with the wrong person. Either way, I told myself, I would survive this horrific stage of my life and I was going to document it while I did and one day, when it was all over, I was going to show people what really happened. Who I really was. My truth. My story.' THE...

The inaugural winner of Alone Australia, Gina Chick tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful and moving memoirs you'll ever read. WINNER OF THE MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 INDIE BOOK AWARDS, BIOGRAPHY OF...

WINNER OF ABIA AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR ABIA AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR ‘Unlike anything I have ever read before. I can’t wait to give this book to everyone I love. Read it.' HUGH JACKMAN Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her...

Bloomsbury presents Stars to Steer By: Celebrating the 20th century women who went to sea, written and read by Julia Jones The extraordinary stories of the fearless women who set their sights on the sea in an all-male world, paving the way for the female sailing superstars of today. Gender...

In this stunning and compulsively readable memoir, the Oscar-winning star of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies, and Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ke Huy Quan, tells the story of his journey from Vietnamese refugee to 80s child star to the most inspiring comeback in Hollywood...

Learn the Inspiring Story of the Toronto Raptors' Rising Star, Pascal Siakam! In Pascal Siakam: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Rising Stars, you will learn the incredible story of one of basketball's emerging stars, Pascal Siakam. Since being selected in the late first round by the Raptors in the 2016 NBA Draft, Siakam has quickly risen as a meaningful player in the evolving league. In 2019, his value to the Raptors was clear as he alongside Kawhi Leonard and Kyle Lowry helped the franchise capture its first NBA Championship.

Eclipse of the Mourning Star is a powerfully emotional coming-of-age memoir, equal parts gutting and humorous in its recounting of murder, racial healing, glamour, romance, and even black holes. It begins when Robert Eujean Ogden’s sister is stabbed to death on his eleventh birthday. Later in life, his mother dies in what Robert originally thought was an accident. Later still, he deals with the loss of his father from an aggressive cancer, and the death of his brother. Through it all, the book conveys that laughter is a potent medicine, but love is the cure.

The outrageous inside story of the music video revolution, told by the maverick director who brought David Bowie, Queen, The Cure, The Bangles, Wam!, Hall & Oates, and more to our screens Tim Pope was there from the beginning, before music videos became slick corporate products, when anything felt possible. I Shoot Rock Stars is his music-obsessive-turned-guerrilla-filmmaker’s wild ride inside the birth of the pop video —smuggled cameras, blown budgets, and no idea too strange to try.

From one of the world’s leading casting directors, learn about how seeing others deeply and channeling your passion can help you spot potential and empower you to shine in your own work and life Seeing Stars reveals the transformational power of seeing and being seen, no matter who you are or...