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2021., HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father's Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity. But... No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritize it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something ? an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person ? you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending. Ironically maybe, much of Baggage chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! But in everything, each failed relationship or encounter with a legend (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), in every bad decision or moment of sensual joy I have endeavored to show what I have learned and how I've become who I am today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage.
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By Simon, Carly2015., General, Flatiron Books Call No: Bio S594b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Simon's memoir of her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as a daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs with her sister Lucy in Greenwich Village, to a meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top 40 hits, including the #1 song "You're So Vain." She was the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, for her song "Let the River Run" from the movie Working Girl. The memoir recalls a childhood enriched by music and culture, but also one shrouded in secrets that would eventually tear her family apart. Simon brilliantly captures moments of creative inspiration, the sparks of songs, and the stories behind writing "Anticipation" and "We Have No Secrets" among many others. Romantic entanglements with some of the most famous men of the day fueled her confessional lyrics, as well as the unraveling of her storybook marriage to James Taylor"--Provided by publisher.
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By Flinn, Carylc2007., University of California Press Call No: Bio M566b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2021., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Bio Z39c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon;of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence (; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. Asshe grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share,and reread"--
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By Baez, Joan1968., Juvenile, Dial Press Call No: Bio B1425d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of reminiscences and thoughts which reflect the philosophy of a well-known folk singer.
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2023., Berkley Call No: NEW Bio P934e Edition: Berkley trade paperback edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Decades after his death, millions of fans continue to worship Elvis the legend. But very few knew him as Elvis the man. Here in her own words, Priscilla Presley tells the story of their love, revealing the details of their first meeting, their marriage, their affairs, their divorce, and the unbreakable bond that has remained long after his tragic death.
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c1998., Simon & Schuster Call No: Bio C521c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Cher. There's really no one else, quite like her. She's been a pop star, a TV star, a movie star, and a wife and a mother, yet as The New York Times has written, she's still "a funny, gutsy woman" who is also "genuine" and "down to earth". And now, in The First Time, Cher tells about the important first-time events in her life: Memories of her mother; Memories of music (and her passion for West Side Story), Time she met her father (at age 11); Time living with Sonny Bono (at age 16) in a platonic arrangement in which she cleaned his apartment; Time in a recording studio (singing backup for Phil Spector); Hit record ( "I Got You Babe" ); Time she met the Rolling Stones; Time she felt like a star; Fall from grace (when her records stopped selling); Bob Mackie gown; Sonny & Cher TV show; Bad boy (Gregg Allman); Reunion with Sonny (on the Letterman show, 1987); Academy Award (Moonstruck); and much, much more - the true story of the events that shaped Cher's life, told in her own inimitable way, with dozens of photographs, most from her own albums.
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c2008., Atria Books Call No: 782.1 W448g Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view Summary Note: "Girls Like Us" is a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell--and offers an epic treatment of these mid-century women who dared to break tradition.
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2017., General, St. Martin's Press Call No: Bio N632d Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Stevie Nicks is a legend of rock. She's one of the most glamorous creatures rock has known. Stephen Davis presents a rich new portrait of the star. Nicks (and Lindsey Buckingham) gave Fleetwood Mac the "shot of adrenaline" they needed to become real rock stars - according to Christine McVie. Here are stories and with a life lived large and hard: How Nicks and Buckingham were asked to join Fleetwood Mac and how they turned the band into stars. The affairs that informed Nicks' greatest songs. Her relationships with the Eagles' Don Henley and Joe Walsh, and with Fleetwood himself. Why Nicks married her best friend's widower. Her dependency on cocaine, drinking and pot, but how it was a decade-long addiction to Klonopin that almost killed her. Nicks' successful solo career that has her still performing in venues like Madison Square Garden. The cult of Nicks and its extension to chart-toppers like Taylor Swift and the Dixie Chicks. Stevie Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona.
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-- Becoming Barbra Streisand.c2012., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Bio S915m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this intimate portrait, Mann incisively illuminates Streisand's climb to fame before she became the icon.
