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Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person … Cher
herself.
After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own
terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a
two-part memoir.
Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top
Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an
Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and
an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by
the Kennedy Center.
She is a longtime activist and philanthropist.
As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in
often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors and a mother
who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship.
With her trademark honesty and humour, Cher: The Memoir traces how this
diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to
become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore
for more than half a century.
Cher: The Memoir, Part One follows her extraordinary beginnings through
childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono – and reveals the highly
complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually
drove them apart.
Cher: The Memoir reveals the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover,
the mother and the superstar.
It is a life too immense for only one book.
The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book by the TikTok
and Spotify star Drew Afualo.
Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s 'Crusader for Women' and is
at the head of a new generation of entertainment’s rising stars, with
more than nine million followers across her social platforms. She soon
realized that men on social media were creating sexist content aimed at
disparaging women, and also containing rampant fatphobia, racism, and
other forms of bigotry with very real-life consequences. It didn’t take
long for her to step into the role of unofficial watchdog for misogyny,
and her signature laugh is now recognized as a feminist call to arms.
Loud is part manual, part manifesto and part memoir. It is a summoning
cry to rid the internet (and our hearts, minds, and lives) of terrible
men and create a space to fight outdated patriarchal ideals. Above all,
it makes it clear that behind Drew’s fearsome laugh is a mission and a
life philosophy, a strategy for self-confidence from the inside out,
and a pathway to once and for all remove men from the centre of how
women and fems think about themselves.
Against an authoritarian backdrop of Apartheid’s racial discrimination
and the legacy of forced removals, Anwar Mc Kay is born into Islam, the
youngest of three boys.
Labelled a ‘moffie’ (South African slur for gay), this boy from Bramble
Way gets buried alive under the weight of emotional violence targeted
at him from members of his own community in Bonteheuwel on the Cape
Flats, rendering him invisible and voiceless.
Anwar is Tyra’s cherished last born and she dotes on him. After being
abandoned by his father at the age of two, it is his mother Tyra who
becomes his only glimmer of hope. Through the power of a
resilient personality and never-say-die attitude against enormous odds,
Anwar manages to overcome his childhood descent into emotional
disorders.
As destiny would have it, Anwar – who once felt most invisible –
married one of South Africa’s most visible and beloved comedians, Marc
Lottering, and lives a very public life today.
The Invisible Boy from Bramble Way is a story of hope, inspiration,
dignity and the power of the human spirit.
In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten--aka the Barefoot Contessa,
author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network
personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon--shares her
personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.
Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate,
entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina's
gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have
been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite
attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story
like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a
high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades of
personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected
career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of
playfulness and purpose.
From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey,
and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job
in Washington, D.C., to answering an ad for a specialty food store in
the Hamptons, from the owner of one Barefoot Contessa shop to author of
bestselling cookbooks and celebrated television host, Ina has blazed
her own trail and, in the meantime, taught millions of people how to
cook and entertain. Now, she invites them to come closer to experience
her story in vivid detail and to share the important life lessons she
learned along the way: do what you love because if you love it you'll
be really good at it, swing for the fences, and always Be Ready When
the Luck Happens.
One of the most charismatic showmen ever to grace a WWE ring
recounts his life, his phenomenal career, and how he finally found
the one thing that gave his life meaning--his faith. Reprint.
35,000 first printing.
Mike Love is a founding member, lyricist and vocalist of The Beach Boys, considered to be the most popular American band in history, with 13 Gold Albums, 55 top-100 singles, and four number 1 hits. Love has been the lead singer of the group one of its principal lyricists since its inception in 1961.
In Good Vibrations, Mike Love tells the unique story of his legendary, chaotic, and ultimately triumphant five-decade tenure as the front man of The Beach Boys, from their Californian roots to international fame.
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