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By Jo Beth McDaniel, Chris Burke
Chris Burke became one of America’s favorite personalities when he starred as "Corky" on the hit ABC television series "Life Goes On." Not since Helen Keller has one person so thoroughly changed the way the world views people with disabilities. Twenty-five years earlier, when Chris was born with Down syndrome, doctors advised his parents to put him in an institution. Instead, they showered him with love, and encouraged him to reach for his dreams. This is Chris’s story, and the story of his family’s love and determination. Here he tells what it’s really like to grow up with Down syndrome…how he pursued his seemingly impossible show business goals...and how he has dedicated his life to helping people with special needs, especially those with what he calls "Up Syndrome." Profoundly inspirational, "A Special Kind of Hero" is a triumphant story of courage and hope that proves Chris’ motto: "Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal." "A poignant, joyful and inspirational story."
—Literary Guild "Excellent…fascinating…a realistic portrait of an intriguing individual."
—Down Syndrome News
FORMAT: Softcover
By Richard Jensen
Trespass In Hazzard County is the shockingly true story of the sex, drugs, intrigue, petty jealousy, back-biting, infighting and inflated egos on the set of The Dukes of Hazzard. Author Richard D. Jensen spent two years "trespassing" in the mythical Hazzard County. This is his eyewitness account.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Julie Sinatra
"On the night of February 10, 1943, at the moment I was born, my identity was sent into exile. At age 53 I learned for the first time what my mother had never before told me: I am Frank Sinatra's daughter." Julie Sinatra Imagine what you would do as this shocking news about who you are comes as the spotlights are rapidly fading from your legendary father's life-you have missed all of this man who has lived larger than life. Julie's story is both fascinating and compelling. Her desire to meet her father fuels her determination to out the facts surrounding her birth and establish her rights. She meets with resistance from Sinatra family members on all fronts. They work to block her efforts to meet her father and become legally recognized in the courts. As the outsider child longing to know the man behind the mystique, Julie provides a new provocative look at Frank Sinatra-their shared temperaments, philosophies and spirituality. Hers is a very moving and inspirational story about the unknown blue-eyed daughter's journey to her own identity she had to find him to find her.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Julie Sinatra
"On the night of February 10, 1943, at the moment I was born, my identity was sent into exile. At age 53 I learned for the first time what my mother had never before told me: I am Frank Sinatra's daughter." Julie Sinatra Imagine what you would do as this shocking news about who you are comes as the spotlights are rapidly fading from your legendary father's life-you have missed all of this man who has lived larger than life. Julie's story is both fascinating and compelling. Her desire to meet her father fuels her determination to out the facts surrounding her birth and establish her rights. She meets with resistance from Sinatra family members on all fronts. They work to block her efforts to meet her father and become legally recognized in the courts. As the outsider child longing to know the man behind the mystique, Julie provides a new provocative look at Frank Sinatra-their shared temperaments, philosophies and spirituality. Hers is a very moving and inspirational story about the unknown blue-eyed daughter's journey to her own identity she had to find him to find her.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Grant Jarrett
One of the four younger brothers of a gifted and very successful jazz pianist, our less exceptional protagonist begins his peculiar journey of discovery at the age of seventeen, leaving his home in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains to travel with a laughably bad, self-contained show band, "led by Fred Waring Jr., the recovering alcoholic son of a had-been bandleader and blender inventor whose limited celebrity dissolved in the nineteen-fifties even more swiftly than it materialized in the forties." As he travels back and forth across the continent with a series of mostly unremarkable bands-bands with names such as "Love, Peace, and Soul" and "Natural Feelin'"-he encounters a world wherein talent is far less essential than a charming smile and the willingness to wear a ruffled polyester shirt, a world wherein getting laid is far more enjoyable, and a hell of a lot easier than learning to play his instrument or sustaining a meaningful relationship. Beautiful young women and angry husbands litter his voyage; there are violent assaults and hilarious confrontations, and through it all, as he searches desperately for something or someone to believe in, rarely finding anything more than a place to put his "pee-pee, he shares his intensely cynical view of himself and the world around him. Though far more humorous than many memoirs, More Towels is still a serious and often touching coming-of-age story, a story of growth and acceptance and all the battles along the way.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Ruth Duskin Feldman
The Quiz Kids radio and television program was a national institution in the 1940s and 1950s. Did the Quiz Kids fulfill their youthful promise? What were the fruits — bitter and sweet — of their childhood experience? What are the lessons learned for gifted children today?
FORMAT: Softcover
By Mona Miracle
Challenging sensational falsehoods, Berniece and Mona present the only authorized book about Marilyn Monroe on the shelves. "Berniece Miracle finally opens up her family album - and translates an American legend into flesh and blood...MY SISTER MARILYN is a big hug across the decades to a sweet, talented, loving girl." -Life Magazine "...a highly literate, readable account." -The Bookwatch "MY SISTER MARILYN tells an unfamiliar story...this book is really different." -Time Out
FORMAT: Softcover
By DJ Shy
This memoir narrates the story of a Korean-American woman who overcame challenges to become the first female DJ at America’s #1 radio station. Without a DJ, there’s no music; without music, there’s no party. The right music can make or break a party; promoters, club owners, and stars alike know this. In this memoir, successful turntablist DJ Shy narrates the story of how she became a sought-after DJ and the first female on-air mixer at the No. 1 radio station in America, 102.7 KIIS FM in Los Angeles. Beauty and the Beats tells how this small-town girl from Pennsylvania made it to the big time in California. Shy describes how she – a poor, naïve, Asian girl from a broken home – overcame her life’s challenges and the discrimination in the male-dominated music industry to thrive. From surviving a drive-by shooting and eluding midnight stalkers to being cheated on her paychecks, she shares her story and shows how she remained positive throughout her journey. Providing a sneak peek into the music and entertainment industry, Beauty and the Beats provides motivation and inspiration to encourage teenagers to make sound career choices and follow their dreams to achieve happiness and success.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Robin Tamblyn
Kevin Spacey is considered one of the most talented thespians of his generation. Voted “Greatest Actor of the Nineties” by Empire Magazine, placed third in a 2001 FilmFour poll of the hundred greatest-ever movie stars, he is a double Oscar winner and has been equally successful on the stage, being appointed Artistic Director of London’s Old Vic Theatre in 2003. Yet like his most famous screen character, Keyser Söze, he has remained a shadowy and mysterious figure, notoriously protective of his private relationships and giving few intimate interviews. Looking Closer, the first published biography of Spacey, explores the background and career of this enigmatic man.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Reece Halsey MAIN, Don Widener
Lemmon’s scenes are alternately funny, sad, wild, tender, adding up to the rollicking story of the boy with the face that any mother could love who became the man who had the “grace to make a fool of himself” and the talent to pull it off. Packed with outrageous tales that never made the pages of Variety or the Hollywood gossip columns, Lemmon sparkles with the verve and humor characteristic of his most memorable stage and screen performances. Lemmon is far more than a biography of the lovable, bumbling “loser” who “falls on a fumble into the end zone and wins the game.” It is a front-row view of the long pull towards stardom that an outstanding actor, equally skilled at comedy and serious drama, richly deserved. And maintains.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Michele Campanelli
A collection of short stories previously published in some of the hottest selling short story anthology books in America's history.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Gail Lulay
When MGM paired Nelson with Jeanette MacDonald in "Naughty Marietta", America's Sweethearts were born. The became a source of frenzied curiosity for years to come. Rumors of their feuds and love affairs abounded. Nelson was fiercely protective of his private life, even aloof at times, but always captivating, always charming and always, always...a gentleman. Little known anecdotes and stories of Nelson the concert singer, the radio personality, the motion picture idol, and the multitalented painter and sculptor bring him to life. Then when movies lost their guilded edge, he risked his career by bypassing the wave of the future, television. He and his partner, Gale Sherwood, became the hottest nightclub act of the fifties. From opera to the nitery crowd, Nelson did it all. It is all here...his triumphs and his private heartbreaks, his insecurities and dreams. His sister Ginny says, "It's Nelson to a tee".
FORMAT: Softcover
By Roberta Linn, Eric G. Meeks
One of Lawrence Welk's most beloved entertainers, an Emmy Award winner and a Las Vegas headliner, Roberta Linn captured the hearts of fans nationwide. Her inspiring story unfolds in the pages of Not Now, Lord, I've Got Too Much to Do. Born in a small Iowa town to a farmer's daughter and a minor league baseball player, Roberta discovered her talent for performing at a young age. She played in film productions and worked with big names stars like Shirley Temple, Cary Grant, and Clark Gable. At the age of thirteen, she fabricated her true age and enlisted in the Women's Army Corps, entertaining the troops of World War II. From 1950 to 1955, Roberta became Lawrence Welk's first television "Champagne Lady", and she was displayed on magazine covers around the country. But the harshness of celebrity life finally took its toll, and Roberta's ill health led to a medicine-induced coma in 1958. Her amazing recovery reinforced her faith, and she continued to find success in her career. Both moving and uplifting, Not Now, Lord, I've Got Too Much to Do showcases the triumph of one of the most popular entertainers of Hollywood's golden age.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Roberta Linn, Eric G. Meeks
One of Lawrence Welk's most beloved entertainers, an Emmy Award winner and a Las Vegas headliner, Roberta Linn captured the hearts of fans nationwide. Her inspiring story unfolds in the pages of Not Now, Lord, I've Got Too Much to Do. Born in a small Iowa town to a farmer's daughter and a minor league baseball player, Roberta discovered her talent for performing at a young age. She played in film productions and worked with big names stars like Shirley Temple, Cary Grant, and Clark Gable. At the age of thirteen, she fabricated her true age and enlisted in the Women's Army Corps, entertaining the troops of World War II. From 1950 to 1955, Roberta became Lawrence Welk's first television "Champagne Lady", and she was displayed on magazine covers around the country. But the harshness of celebrity life finally took its toll, and Roberta's ill health led to a medicine-induced coma in 1958. Her amazing recovery reinforced her faith, and she continued to find success in her career. Both moving and uplifting, Not Now, Lord, I've Got Too Much to Do showcases the triumph of one of the most popular entertainers of Hollywood's golden age.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Shawn Berry with Michael Salazar
When you think of the “hood,” you think of drug dealers, murderers and violence, but do you ever consider the children who have to grow up there? What are their lives like? What do they learn? How do they feel? Where do they end up? All of those drug dealers and criminals that you think of start out as children, just like your children. They are not placed on the streets as adults. They have parents and families and they live their lives based on what they see. Some of those children end up as career criminals, some don’t make it out alive, and some grow up to be authors. When you think of Wu Tang, you think of the rappers. That’s not the real Wu Tang. The story of the real Wu Tang and those kids who started it all is finally here. The Grain will teach you where the real Wu Tang came from and what happened to the members. Every decision we make in life dictates our destiny, and as the author puts it, you have to understand history to not repeat it and to create a better outcome. Know your history; know your Wu Tang history.
FORMAT: Softcover
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