The author traces the inspirational story of the late celebrity couple's early marriage, describing their passionate shared years prior to Christopher's paralyzing accident as based on interviews with people who knew them best.
Biography
- Author:Andersen, Christopher P.Summary:
- Author:Zailckas, KorenSummary:
From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it...
- Author:NAZER, MendeSummary:
The extraordinary story of a young Sudanese girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, and how, in September 2000, she finally escaped to freedom. Mende Nazer grew up in the remote Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Her happy childhood was...
- Author:Rich, Ben R.Summary:
Personal account of the work of the Lockheed Advanced Development Company.
- Author:Taussig, RebekahSummary:
Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity.
- Author:Robson, WandaSummary:
In Sister to Courage, Wanda takes us inside the world she shared with Viola and ten other brothers and sisters. Through touching and often hilarious stories, she traces the roots of courage and ambition, good fun and dignity, of the...
- Author:Hall, WilliamSummary:
Born Maurice Micklewhite, son of a Billingsgate fish porter and a charlady, Michael Caine's life has been an extraordinary rollercoaster. He is an enduring model of British cool. This biography charts the highs and lows in his...
- Author:Dye, PaulSummary:
Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving Flight Director, examines the split-second decisions that the directors and astronauts were forced to make in a field where mistakes are unthinkable, where errors led to the loss of national...
- Author:Fisher, CarrieSummary:
Carrie Fisher shares more of her life stories in a laugh-out-loud memoir--including how she's borderline addicted to her shock therapy treatments.
- Author:Wilson, JanetSummary:
This is the true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat, a Cree community in Northern Ontario, who have been fighting for a new school since 1979, when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building. It is...
- Author:Lynds, RussellSummary:
Hunter and fisherman Russell Lynds' memoir.
- Author:Jones, FaithSummary:
Educated meets The Vow in this story of liberation and self-empowerment-an inspiring and stranger-than-fiction memoir of growing up in and breaking free from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult. Faith Jones was...
- Author:Katz, JonSummary:
Relates the author's relationship with a quiet, sensitive artist named Maria Wulf and his campaign to win over Maria's fiercely protective dog, Frieda, a Rottweiler-shepherd mix who resisted all efforts to tame her.
- Author:Lesh, PhilSummary:
In time for the Grateful Dead's fortieth anniversary, Phil Lesh offers the first behind-the-scenes history of the Dead. Lesh chronicles how the Dead's signature sound emerged, flowed, and swelled to reach millions of devoted fans, from...
- Author:Griffin, John HowardSummary:
- Author:Kiedis, Anthony, Sloman, LarrySummary:
Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself. After a brief child-acting career, Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. and...
- Author:Brooks, Joanna, Cooper, AlexSummary:
Two days after Alex Cooper told her parents that she was gay, they took their daughter to a group of fellow Mormons who promised to "cure" Alex. For eight harrowing months, she was beaten and verbally abused. For the first time, Alex...
- Author:Esposito, CameronSummary:
Cameron Esposito wanted to be a priest and ended up a standup comic. In this memoir, she tells the whole, freaking queer as hell story.
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A collection of biographical essays on the twelve premiers who led the province of Saskatchewan during the twentieth century.
- Author:Millar, RuthSummary:
Twelve amazing Saskatchewan men and women: Kathleen Rice, Ernest Dufalt (alias Will James), Charlie Parmer, Big Tom Hourie, Norman Falkner, Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen, Jean Ewen, Gladys Arnold, Father John Claffey, Joan Bamford Fletcher,...