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Future Boy
A poignant, heartfelt and funny memoir about how, in 1985, Michael J Fox brought two iconic roles to life simultaneously - Alex Keaton in Family Ties and Marty McFly in Back to the Future. Here is the amazing true story, as only Michael J Fox can tell it ...In early 1985, Michael J. Fox was one of the biggest stars on television. His world was about to get even bigger, but only if he could survive the kind of double duty unheard of in Hollywood. Fox''s days were already dedicated to rehearsing and taping the hit sitcom Family Ties, but then the chance of a lifetime came his way. Soon, he committed his nights to a new time-travel adventure film being directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg, Back to the Future. Sitcom during the day, movie at night - day after day, for months.Fox''s nightly commute from a soundstage at Paramount to the back lot at Universal Studios, from one dream job to another, would become his own space-time continuum. It was in this time portal that Alex P. Keaton handed the baton to Marty McFly while Michael J. Fox tried to catch a few minutes of sleep. Alex''s bravado, Marty''s flair, and Fox''s comedic virtuosity all swirled together to create something truly special.In Future Boy, Fox tells the remarkable story of playing two landmark roles at the same time - a slice of entertainment history that''s never been told. Using new interviews with the cast and crew of both projects, the result is a vividly drawn and eye-opening story of creative achievement by a beloved icon.
The Life of Singleton
John Singleton remains the youngest Oscar nominee for Best Director. He was just 24 years old. He was also the first Black person nominated for Best Director. Even with these early accolades, he went on to have a thirty year career packed with classics. From Poetic Justice with Janet Jackson and Tupac to the Fast and Furious franchise all the way out to Snowfall, which continues to educate and entertain after his death. Featuring groundbreaking interviews and sharp reporting, Singleton will take readers behind the scenes of the filmmaker''s works and will also tackle his controversies with original reporting and analysis. From the chaotic Simi Valley set of Poetic Justice to his clashes with producer Scott Rudin while filming Shaft - it''s all fair game.
I Can Imagine It for Us
A young woman’s search for connection with her estranged father, her family’s past, and the Palestinian homeland she can never visit“Mai Serhan''s writing is unique, sincere, dark, funny, and cuttingly tragic.”—Selma DabbaghMai Serhan lives in Cairo and has never been to Palestine, the country from which her family was expelled in 1948. She is twenty-four years old when one morning she receives a phone call from her estranged father. His health is failing and he might not have long to live, so he asks her to join him in China where he runs a business empire about which Mai knows nothing. Mai agrees to go in the hopes that they will become close, but this strange new country is as unknowable to her as her father. There, the ghosts of the Nakba come to haunt them both. With this grief comes violence, and a tragic death brings a whole new meaning to the word erasure.In a narrative made rich by its layers of fragmentation, as befitting the splintered and disordered existence of exile over generations, this courageous memoir spans Egypt, Lebanon, Dubai, China and, of course, Palestine. It is filled with bitter tragedy and loss and woven through with an understated humor and much grace.
Bag Man
The longtime CEO of Coach shares stories and strategies behind the company''s stunning growth from a $6 million business to a $5 billion global brand.Lew Frankfort knew nothing about fashion when he became assistant to the founder of Coach. By the time he left, Frankfort had spent 29 years as CEO, growing Coach from a scrappy maker of leather bags with a small cult following to a beloved lifestyle brand. Along the way, Coach created a new market segment—accessible luxury—that redefined an industry. In Bag Man, Frankfort explains how the son of a Bronx policeman, after working in city government, built a business that challenged conventions, grew it 1000%, and became recognized as one of the world''s best CEOs.Bag Man offers lessons from both achievements and missteps as Coach reinvented itself over decades. Throughout, Frankfort considers a more personal aspect of leadership—how the double-edged sword of fear and drive can lead to success but also take a toll. He shares his struggles with a haunting fear of failure, including how it drove an obsession with consumer insights that made Coach unique in the industry.Summing up Coach''s philosophy in three words—"magic plus logic"—Bag Man shows how blending creativity and data-driven discipline can produce sustainable, profitable growth, helping to:Design and market products people loveBuild a roster of talent and a performance-driven cultureDrive strategies that pair a brand''s unique value with the right market opportunitiesScale the business to achieve next-level organic growthOperate as a respected public companyA riveting, candid business memoir, Bag Man traces an extraordinary leadership journey that built a legacy brand.
Miros - Příběh Miroslavy Stern
Kniha je příběhem Miroslavy Stern, mexické herečky českého původu, natočila přes 30 filmů, dobyla Hollywood a patří mezi nejvýznamnější filmové osobnosti Mexika a to nejen 50-tých let, ale celé filmové historie. Tato kniha není pouhým životopisem, ale spíše novelou, která zachycuje její barvitý život, dramatický, plný emocí, zvratů a neuvěřitelných okamžiků. V knize se kombinují reálná fakta jejího života, s fiktivním vykreslení jednotlivých událostí. Časová i faktická přímka je dodržena, ale styl vyprávění je pojmut živou románovou formou. Kniha je doplněna fotografiemi ze života i tvorby Miroslavy, aby obrazem podpořila atmosféru a více čtenáře propojila s Miroslavou a jejím neuvěřitelným osudem. Točila hollywoodské filmy, ale i sama prožila život, jak z pera hollywoodských tvůrců. To zní činí mimořádnou osobnost a z této knihy mimořádně čtenářsky lákavé dílo.
Kniha bude předlohou pro filmový scénář.
Year of Yes (10th Anniversary Edition)
In this 10th-anniversary edition of Shonda Rhimes' poignant, hilarious and confessional call-to-arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman – executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte and more– revisits her galvanizing New York Times bestseller and reveals the continuing power that saying YES has had on her life, and how it can change yours too. With three hit shows on television and three children at home, Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when invitations arrived. Hollywood party? No. Speaking engagement? No. Media appearances? No. And to an introvert like Shonda, who describes herself as 'hugging the walls' at social events and experiencing panic attacks before press interviews, there was a particular benefit to saying no: nothing new to fear. Then came Thanksgiving 2013, when Shonda's sister Delorse muttered six little words at her: You never say yes to anything. Profound, impassioned and laugh-out-loud funny, in Year of YesShonda Rhimes reveals how saying YES changed – and saved – her life. And inspires readers everywhere to change their own lives with one little word: Yes. In this celebratory and expanded anniversary edition, you’ll find more wildly candid and transformational chapters that reveal how the mega-talented Shonda, once a self-described introvert, achieved badassery worthy of a Shondaland character – and how you can, too. In Shonda’s own words, ‘This book is the same as before, but it also is not. It is brand-new. It has changed. Transformed. Evolved. Grown. Just like me.’
Nineteen
For fans of Suzanne Heywood’s Wavewalker and Cea Sunrise Person’s North of Normal comes Leslie Johansen Nack’s emotional follow-up memoir about her battle with addiction following a traumatic childhood—and her inspiring journey toward healing and happiness.In the mid-1970s, Leslie Nack’s family returned from sailing to French Polynesia and began the integration process into American life again, which included being tossed back and forth between an alcoholic, mentally ill mother and an abusive, overbearing father. To find love and acceptance, Leslie chases a myth that throws her into the path of nefarious older men, where she eventually falls into drug and alcohol addiction. Her father dies in his plane in the jungles of Mexico when Leslie is nineteen, but his abuse lingers in her psyche. She spirals, her only solace her next fix—until, somehow, she finds the grace, despite her abjectly dysfunctional family background, to believe in her worth. This newfound self-love changes everything for her, and finally she is able to find her way to sobriety and recovery. Raw and intense but ultimately hopeful, this sequel to the popular memoir Fourteen tells the rest of Nack’s turbulent—and incredible—story.
No Hand Held Mine
An elderly Korean woman talking about being forced into sexual slavery during World War II. A modern Korean woman extricating herself from a failing relationship with an artist. Award-winning South Korean writer Kim Soom presents us with portraits of two women who couldn’t be more different but who both show resilience and compassion. No Hand Held Mine: Stories, containing one non-fiction piece and one short story, demonstrates the power and breadth of Kim’s writing. “Granny Wild Goose” uses former Comfort Woman Gil Won-Ok’s own words, recorded during conversations with Kim, to tell her life story of brutality, betrayal, and survival. In “The Root’s Tale,” the female protagonist comes to understand the strength of solitary women. Both devastating and reaffirming, No Hand Held Mine shows why Kim Soom has received every major literary award in Korea. Joon-Li Kim and Doo-Sun Ryu’s sensitive translation maintains Kim’s lyricism and exquisite imagery. This book is published with the support of The Daesan Foundation.
Twice Born
Twice Born opens with the death of Hester''s father, Justin Kaplan, known for his award-winning biographies of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Despite his relatively prolific output, Justin rarely wrote, or said, much about himself-even to his daughter. Standing at his open casket, Hester has the realisation that while alive, her father never looked her in the eyes. Hester takes on the challenge of piecing together as intimate a biography of her own father as possible, comparing his story to the lives of his biographical subjects and dissecting the various personas he presents to the world-from which the name ''dad,'' ''daddy,'' or even ''father'' is conspicuously and painfully absent. Parallel to Justin''s story runs Hester''s own journey of development as a writer and a thinker, which begins in the shadow of not only her talented father, but also her novelist mother, and the fiercely protective union the two of them had built, often to the exclusion of their own children. In sensitive, intimate writing, Kaplan paints a rich picture of the twentieth century literary world that she grew up in, all while reflecting on the deceptive nature of memory, the loneliness of creative pursuits, and the dovetailing paradoxes of biographical and autobiographical writing.
From the Castle to the Hove-l
From The Castle to the Hovel is a selection of Nicholas Lezard’s wildly popular, long-running column for the New Statesman, covering the years 2017–2021, when he was kicked out of London, relocated to Scotland, and then got kicked out of there, and finally settled in Brighton. This will be more than a selection of columns: there will be additional material which will illuminate several of the questions raised by the pieces on their original appearance. There will be some gossip. Look on it as the Director’s Cut.Subjects include:HomelessnessHeartbreakMassive cash flow problemsBeaversLockdown sex in Durham, of all placesA deep-seated sense of absurdityGeneral grumpinessStaying in bed all dayAlcoholic consumption on a heroic scaleFreezing Scottish houses with faulty wood-burning stovesJackdawsTreesThe middle of fucking nowhere without a phone signalAnd much, much more!
Minister without Portfolio
From the author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ comes a globe-spanning memoir of identity, exile, and reinvention.In many ways, Hooman Majd has led a charmed life: the son of a high-ranking diplomat in pre-Revolutionary Iran, he grew up in the upper echelons of Iranian society and in cosmopolitan diplomatic enclaves in San Francisco, London, and Washington, DC. In early adulthood, after Ayatollah Khomeini’s Revolution in 1979, Majd sold real estate to fellow Iranian exiles in Beverly Hills, tried his hand at writing, and found his way to the orbit of Chris Blackwell, the impresario of Island Records and mastermind behind the careers of Bob Marley & the Wailers, U2, and other global superstars. After rising through the ranks—and sometimes, but not always, the charts—Majd went on to write three influential books about his homeland and served as a consultant and contributor to NBC News on Iran. Yet, for all this authority and access, Majd could never truly call any place “home.”As he recounts in his open-hearted memoir Minister without Portfolio—named for the tongue-in-cheek title Blackwell bestowed on him—Hooman Majd was always shadowed by a sense of precarity, even as he bantered with ambassadors’ wives at smoke-filled soirees or traded gossip with Grace Jones and Dennis Hopper at Goldeneye, Blackwell’s Jamaican estate and the former home of Ian Fleming. Majd had seen first-hand the havoc wrought on his family—and so many others—by the Iranian revolution. All his life, he has been questioned, frisked, or even threatened at points of entry. Though he has risked several return trips to Iran, today, officially, he can never go back. How can you build an identity when no place will claim you as its own?Told with grace, insight, and longing—and filled with riotous, sometimes shocking portraits of larger-than-life personalities and illuminating insights about the entanglements between Iran and the West—Minister without Portfolio is a trenchant memoir of belonging nowhere and everywhere at once.
Třetí Gilmorovo děvče. Vzpomínky
Životní zpověď milované herečky (nejen) pro všechny fanoušky kultovního seriálu Gilmorova děvčata
Kelly Bishopová má po více než půlstoletí v showbyznysu o čem vyprávět. Od jejího výkonu v původním broadwayském obsazení muzikálu Chorus Line, za který získala cenu Tony, přes roli matky Jennifer Greyové ve filmu Hříšný tanec až po kultovní roli Emily Gilmorové v oblíbeném televizním seriálu Gilmorova děvčata – jen málo herců se těší tak dlouholetému úspěchu a ještě méně z nich se může pochlubit takovým obdivem, jaký si tato legendární herečka za dlouhá léta své práce vydobyla. Kellyin okamžitě rozpoznatelný hlas se rozléhá divadly i obývacími pokoji již celá desetiletí.
Kelly nám poprvé otevírá dveře do svého vlastního života. Vrací se ke své cestě z Broadwaye do Hollywoodu i všemu mezi tím, zamýšlí se nad svou desítky let trvající kariérou a sdílí některé ze svých nejvýznamnějších vzpomínek a zkušeností, z nichž se na této cestě poučila. Popisuje své začátky, kdy v 60. letech působila jako tanečnice v Radio City Music Hall, mladé manželství s patologickým hráčem i období, kdy byla vyhořelou showgirl v Las Vegas; nic není zapovězeno. Vezme čtenáře do zákulisí a vypráví, jak pomáhala vytvořit roli v Chorus Line, jaké to bylo mít Eda Herrmanna za televizního manžela a Lauren Grahamovou za televizní dceru, i o práci s nejslavnějšími osobnostmi showbyznysu. Výsledkem je okouzlující oslava nebojácné a všestranné umělkyně, která si svým talentem a temperamentem získala trvalé místo v srdcích a domovech milionů lidí.
Kniha Třetí Gilmorovo děvče, plná vtipných postřehů a osobních fotografií, je vřelou, neokázalou a živou knihou vzpomínek ze života ženy, která zanechala v divácích nesmazatelný dojem – a která nemá v úmyslu polevit.
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Weathering Storms
As we go through life we weather many storms. We lose family members, close friends and animals we love, and they take with them the warmth and shared memories of many years. Alice discovered recently that the loss of a much-loved tree, planted before she was born, caused an emotional upheaval she had not anticipated. With the loss of her favourite tree that had enriched her life for decades, she began to ask herself are there ways to make later life rich and interesting? How do you make growing older a good time in life? She has no answers, only a story to be shared.
White
When Sylvain Tesson left the colourful yellow houses of the French Riviera for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly awaited him. The trek would turn into an extraordinary adventure. Over the course of four years they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, immersing themselves in a strange white world made entirely of snow. In the bitter cold and overlooked by an empty sky, only the effort of moving forward, one difficult stride at a time, separated the days from one another. And as they trudged onwards, the never-ending white of the high Alps cancelled out all feelings – hope, fear, memory and regret. What did he stand to gain by inflicting this ordeal on himself? This was no ordinary mountain trek: it was a search for communion with the magic substance of the White. Also available as an audiobook.
Ako som sa stal Japoncom
Neuveriteľný príbeh Francúza, ktorý sa stal v Japonsku známou televíznou hviezdou.
Florent Dabadie sa vydal do Japonska študovať, ale vďaka súhre rôznych náhod nabral jeho život nečakaný smer. Stal sa spravodajcom filmového časopisu, tlmočníkom trénera japonského futbalového tímu a dokonca mal vlastnú televíznu reláciu. Lenže nič netrvá večne.
Ako sa v Japonsku buduje kariéra
Táto kniha je osobným rozprávaním autora a zavedie nás do atraktívneho prostredia médií a vrcholového športu. Nie je však iba autobiografiou, ale aj triezvou sondou do profesijného života v Japonsku. Všetci asi tušíme, že sa v Japonsku tvrdo pracuje, ale aké tam panujú vzťahy s kolegami a nadriadenými a ako veľmi zasahuje práca do súkromného života?
Ako sa Japonsko menilo
Florent Dabadie spojil s Japonskom veľký kus života a mohol sledovať, ako sa Japonsko časom premenilo. Spočiatku vyzeralo všetko optimisticky, v osobnom živote, kariére aj v samotnom Japonsku. Lenže potom prišla svetová hospodárska kríza, havária vo Fukušime, pandémia covid-19 a všetko sa začalo meniť. Nielen v súkromí, ale aj v celej krajine a počiatočné nadšenie vystriedala nostalgia a melanchólia.
Európan v Japonsku
Japonská kultúra je iná než európska – a práve v tom spočíva jej čaro. Globalizácia síce zmazala mnohé rozdiely, no tie najpodstatnejšie pretrvali. Autor, ktorý s Japonskom spojil svoj život a miluje ho bezhranične, sa pýta: dá sa vôbec stať Japoncom?
Francúzsko, Japonsko, kultúra a futbal
Florent Dabadie je Francúz, ktorý prepadol Japonsku – a vo svojom rozprávaní spája svety, ktoré sa len málokedy stretnú. Jeho príbehy z Japonska dýchajú francúzskym šarmom a láskou ku kultúre, ktorú prirodzene prepája so svetom športu. Práve táto nečakaná kombinácia robí knihu objavnou a výnimočnou.
Můj Mount Everest
Jsem Monika, princezna se zlatým špuntem v zadku a obyčejná holka z Moravy. Nejsem horolezkyně. O expedici na Mount Everest jsem snila celý život, deset let jsem trénovala a šetřila. Stála jsem na vrcholu, ale mnohem důležitější byla cesta – k hoře i k sobě sama. Nejsem zdravá, občas jsem pacientkou v nemocnici a někdy nemůžu vstát bolestí z postele. Vím, že každý máme svůj příběh, který bolí. Ale ta bolest jde proměnit ve vnitřní sílu – a s ní dokážeme zázraky. A tohle je můj příběh.
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Můj život se železem
Pavla Kladivová je několikanásobnou mistryní republiky v silovém trojboji a vzpírání. Úspěchy slaví také jako trenérka nebo zápasnice MMA. V knižním debutu shrnuje svou dosavadní kariéru, přesto nejde o klasický životopis vrcholové sportovkyně. Vysokoškolsky vzdělaná žena nabízí čtenářům vlastní pohled na zdravý životní styl, cvičení a stravování.
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The Tower
Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a steep slate roof – a folly, it was said. According to locals, a young woman named Annie who fell ill was confined to the tower by her father for three years and died there, alone. Fascinated by Annie’s story, Thea Lenarduzzi attempts to piece the past together in a formidable act of imagination, which, tugging at the strings of the how, why and who of stories, begins to unravel the very idea of storytelling itself. Veering between fiction, memoir, fairy tale and folklore, The Tower is an extraordinary book about power, abuse and why we don’t always tell the story we set out to tell.
Eternally Electric
In her long-awaited debut, Debbie Gibson reflects on the lessons she learned in her years as a young pop pioneer and on her hard-earned journey to embrace her authentic self, allowing her to lead the healthy, engaged—and electric!—life she does today. Debbie Gibson was just sixteen when she released her multi-platinum debut album Out of the Blue and recorded “Foolish Beat” in 1988, making her the youngest person to ever write, produce, and perform a Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper. A child actress who became the original pop princess, Debbie had full creative control over her music and, when that no longer aligned with a transitioning arts scene, she went on to star in Broadway’s Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast, and Cabaret, as well as in the London production of Grease. Yet, for all the accolades and achievements, her success came at a high price. Anxiety, depression, financial struggles, illness—Debbie writes candidly about these and other challenges, and how she ultimately redesigned her life to overcome them. This is the story of her not only surviving, but thriving: returning to her musical roots, releasing new albums, going back out on tour, and living the best version of her authentic self to remain…Eternally Electric!
Čítanie o slávnych osobnostiach je mnohokrát inšpirujúce. Motivujú nás biografie slávnych umelcov, známych hercov alebo významných politikov.
Absolútne prvou biografiou všetkých čias je zrejme Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, ktorú napísal grék Cornelius Nepos a opisoval v nej životy viacerých gréckych vojenských generálov. Neskôr mal už skoro každý významný vodca svoju biografiu, vrátane Cicera, Júliusa Cézara alebo Alexandra veľkého.
Pri čítaní životopisných kníh máme jedinečnú možnosť sledovať dlhú cestu, ktorú museli títo slávni ľudia prejsť. Uvidíme množstvo pádov a chýb, kvôli ktorým sa ale tieto osoby nevzdali a zobrali ich ako príležitosť zlepšiť sa vo všetkyćh oblastiach. Mnoho v sebe skrývajú aj úprimné rozhovory, ktoré sú často otvorenými vyznaniami a v tejto kategórii nájdete isto aj knihu o človeku, ktorého považujete za svoj vzor a je pre vás inšpiráciou.
Môžete si vybrať, či budete čítať o danej osobe z pohľadu iného človeka, alebo či siahnete po autobiografii. Obidve možnosti majú svoje čaro.
Je všeobecnou pravdou, že dobrá kniha môže ovplyvniť smerovanie nášho života. Pri biografickej literatúre to platí stonásobne, pretože v ruke držíme príbeh reálneho človeka, z ktorého môžeme čerpať mnoho inšpirácie a tipov.
Nájdete tu biografie z oblasti biznisu, filmu a hudby, histórie, literatúry, športu, mafie a podsvetia, náboženstva, politiky, osobností vedy a umenia.
