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Supongamos que lo tienes todo: fama, dinero, reconocimiento profesional, una rica vida social... Y lo dejas todo. Pero lo dejas de verdad. Te vas a vivir a una cabaña abandonada, sin electricidad, sin ninguna de las llamadas "comodidades modernas", a 25 km de cualquier ser humano, en plena naturaleza. Y pasan los meses, y pasan los años, y decides que ésa es tu vida. Y te quedas.

In the 1960s and '70s, Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together the Woodstock Festival of 1969, the era's emblem of love and peace. From then on (and even before that), Yandolino, a beguiling fast-talker, charmer, and gifted storyteller, took charge of his life according to those ideals, grabbing and embracing all opportunities that were thrown his way.

Great journalists, at one time or another, have all been characters in their own stories: people with personalities that shaped what they saw and reported and were touched and changed by the experiences about which they wrote, and innovators who borrowed the storytelling techniques of fiction.

Peering into life's cringe-worthy moments, best-selling author Beth Lisick excavates territory that most would rather ignore. Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, these are the kind of memories that haunt us all, the small awful moments of shame and humiliation that we'd rather forget than relive. Beth Lisick has made a career of opening her life to her readers in all of its messy, smart hilarity, but this type of story doesn't usually find its way into a memoir.

Award-winning indie film director Jay Duplass is "Josh", music producer and middle Pfefferman child. Here, he discusses his character's difficulty adjusting to his father's transition and what it's like to go from relaxed dude to chair-throwing rage in under 60 seconds.

This is the story of how a boy became the man he is today: part-time singer, song-writer and jammer, full-time producer, camera man and editor. Sherlock Holmes and Batman worshipper, staunch atheist with an innate fear of water and heights. This is the autobiography of the rudest man on Indian television. Raghu Ram, the original Roadie, split wide open.

To many people, Lucia Chase (1897-1986) was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades. It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kirkland, and eventually Baryshnikov to ABT. Under her leadership, the company worked with such legends as Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Tharp. Her drive, ambition, tenacity, and money kept the doors open even during the lean years. A dancer when the company made its debut in 1940, she was artistic director for an unprecedented thirty-five years, from 1945 to 1980.

Some tall girls grow up to have perfect posture and are later seen gracing the pages of magazines. Some are natural athletes with toned legs that mask their overlarge feet. Then there are other tall girls: the ones who are always tripping over themselves; who never look normal in any size of clothing; who literally don’t fit in. Comedian Margot Leitman was one of these awkward giants, and Gawky is the painfully funny chronicle of her experiences growing up tall.

A musician, documentarian, scholar, and one of the founding members of the influential folk revival group New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger (1933-2009) spent more than fifty years collecting, performing, and commemorating the culture and folk music of white and black southerners, which he called "music from the true vine." In this fascinating biography, Bill Malone explores the life and musical contributions of folk artist Seeger, son of musicologists Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger and brother of folksingers Pete and Peggy Seeger.

Es esta, y no otra, proclámese con toda la pompa, la autobiografía autorizada por sus autores -y desautorizada por sus protagonistas y delatores-: la oficial, la jibarizada, la más asequible y, sin duda, “completamente diferente” a cualquier edición anterior de la misma.

An Absorbing Errand uses stories of artists' lives, personal anecdotes, and insights from the author's work as a psychotherapist to examine the psychological obstacles that prevent people from staying with, and relishing, the process of art-making. Each chapter is devoted to a problem intrinsic to the creative process and illustrates how these very obstacles, once understood, can become prime sources of the energy that actually fuels the mastery of art-making.

Ils ont aligné une trentaine d’entre nous. Un des adultes, dont je découvrirai plus tard qu’il s’agissait du réalisateur, Chris Columbus, a longé cette ligne en demandant à chaque enfant quelle était la partie du livre qu’il ou elle préférait. Je me rappelle n’avoir pas été emballé par cette question. Les réponses fusaient, nettes et précises, Hagrid ! Crockdur ! Quidditch !, et moi je restais planté là à me demander quand je rentrerais chez moi. Ce n’est que quand le tour de mon voisin est venu que j’ai pris conscience de mon absence totale d’idée sur la question.

Vienna, 1871. Al terzo piano di un appartamento al numero 4 di Karlsgasse, un «vagabondo senza indirizzo» ha trovato casa e concluso così, dopo i pellegrinaggi degli anni di formazione e dei primi successi, la sua giovinezza raminga. L'uomo si chiama Johannes Brahms e dieci anni dopo quel rigido giorno di dicembre decide di ripercorrere la sua vita, sottraendo i frammenti di una storia lontana e unica dalla nebbia della memoria.

Young Max Gross truly was hapless in a big city. He was seemingly without luck or hope. He had bedbugs, a bad break-up, and an audit by the IRS that threatened to break his soul. But he had heart (as well as two nagging parents). When Gross saw the smash comedy Knocked Up, he realized his day might have arrived. All these years of being a world-class schlub would finally pay off. Thinking quickly, Gross wrote an article about the phenomenon and soon found true love.

Bob Harris first became known as the face of the 1970s live music TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test and his infectious enthusiasm for music and ability to discover new talent has seen him become a national treasure. He continues to be a household name today and his velvety voice can be heard on Radio 2's The Bob Harris Show and Bob Harris Country. In this fully revised and updated autobiography, with a forward by Robert Plant, Bob tells his story of over 40 years of broadcasting.

Mark Binelli turns his sharp, forceful prose to fiction in an inventive retelling of the outrageous life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, a bluesman with one hit and a string of inflammatory guises. He came onstage in a coffin, carried by pallbearers, drunk enough to climb into his casket every night. Onstage he wore a cape, clamped a bone to his nose, and carried a staff topped with a human skull.

Star della Formula Uno, manager di fama internazionale, creatore di club per miliardari e personaggio da copertina: è lui, Flavio Briatore, l'uomo che buona parte degli italiani vorrebbero come maestro di vita. II perché è presto detto: Briatore, figlio di maestri elementari della profonda provincia cuneese, con un semplice diploma di geometra in tasca, è diventato multimiliardario, e oggi gira il mondo a bordo del suo jet privato. Simbolo vivente che "se vuoi, puoi" - come recita il suo motto - e che il successo e la bella vita sono alla portata di tutti.

Aos 15 anos Roger Daltrey ouviu de seu professor, o Sr. Kibblewhite, que ele não seria nada na vida. Mas, para a sorte dos fãs de rock’n’roll, Daltrey não deu ouvidos a ele e mergulhou fundo na música. E graças a sua determinação, acabou surgindo uma das maiores bandas de todos os tempos, The Who!

Em A garota com a tribal nas costas, a atriz, roteirista, comediante vencedora do Emmy e estrela de um filme indicado ao Globo de Ouro Amy Schumer expõe seu passado em histórias sobre a adolescência, a família, relacionamentos e sexo, e divide as experiências que a tornaram quem ela é—uma mulher com a coragem de desnudar a própria alma e se colocar diante do que acredita, tudo isso enquanto faz as pessoas rirem.

Com pouco mais de 30 anos, Molly Bloom ganhou as manchetes dos jornais ao ser presa pelo FBI por operar fora da legalidade uma das mais milionárias mesas de pôquer do mundo. Bonita e atraente, cortejada por homens poderosos, com um guarda-roupa de grife e montanhas de dinheiro no banco, a Princesa do Pôquer, como ficou conhecida, parecia mais uma estrela de Hollywood que uma criminosa confessa.