Biographies and autiobiographies

  • Be useful : seven tools for life

    Creator

    Schwarzenegger, Arnold

    Abstract

    The #1 New York Times bestseller – The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life – distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone. The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Press

    New York

    Penguin Press

    Non spécifié
  • Bon : the last highway

    Creator

    Fink, Jesse

    Abstract

    In death, AC/DC's trailblazing frontman has become a rock icon, and the legend of the man known around the world simply as "Bon" grows with each passing year. But how much of it is myth? At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway is a special, and unlikely, friendship between an Australian rock star and an alcoholic Texan troublemaker. Jesse Fink, author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, reveals its importance for the first time.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    ECW Press

    Non spécifié
  • Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive

    Creator

    Land, Stephanie

    Abstract

    A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Ashland, Oregon]

    Blackstone Publishing

    Non spécifié
  • Stolen : a memoir

    Creator

    Gilpin, Elizabeth

    Abstract

    At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student and star athlete, but behind closed doors, undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc. At a loss, her parents enrolled her in a behavioral modification program, and it got worse from there. Elizabeth recalls the horrors she endured, the friends she lost to suicide and addiction, and how she was finally able to pick up the pieces of her life years later.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Hachette Book Group

    Non spécifié