Real Actors

She’s done playing nice. Now it’s time for naughty revenge… Shawna Hill is over it. Her blonde, passive-aggressive roommate Maddie has trashed her things, mocked her talent, and treated her like a background character in her own life for the last time. When beautiful, dark-skinned Shawna lands a role in a college theater production—opposite her roommate’s too-hot-for-student-theater boyfriend, Jax—she decides it’s time for payback. Revenge starts with a smirk and a lingering look at Jax that makes Maddie squirm. But Jax isn’t just a prop in Shawna’s scheme—he’s ...

Get a look into the mind of Cheech Marin–one half of the renowned Cheech and Chong comedic duo–and follow through the highs and lows of his personal and professional lives. An unborn baby with a fatal heart defect . . . a skier submerged for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake . . . a...

When I coach speaking under pressure, my specialty is to help the speaker make a real and significant change during one private session of less than two hours. I learned this from the culmination of my life's journey, as told in these true memoirs of my real-life experiences being an actor, a spy, and a licensed private eye. There are no unrealistic techniques or made-up theories in this book. Every solution given to you has been actually done by me or witnessed in others. Everything is proven, and everything works - tried and true. 

Frannie Shoemaker and her friends go camping to get away from the real world. So, they are surprised and dismayed to find their wilderness campground the production site of a new "reality" show - Celebrity Campout. Reality intrudes on their week in the form of accidents, nature, and even murder. They handle the situation with their usual humor, compassion, and mystery solving, because...camping can be murder.

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA and READ WITH MARIE CLAIRE BOOK CLUB PICK! Named a best book by Glamour, Marie Claire, TIME, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and more! From New York Times bestselling Emiko Jean, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood...

"I need help." Those three words saved Grammy Award–winning singer Michelle Williams's life. After decades of sweeping her anxiety and depression under the rug--even during her years in the spotlight with Destiny's Child--Michelle found herself planning her own funeral. Realizing that she...

Perfect for the Bill Murray fan in all of us, this epic collection of “Bill Murray stories”—many reported for the first time here—distills a set of guiding principles out of his extraordinary ability to infuse the everyday with surprise, absurdity, and wonder. No one will ever believe...

Once upon a time in the beautiful land of Laguna Beach, California, lived a girl named Rachel. She was curious, clever, and like any hopeful heroine, committed to forging her own path in life. She yearned for more than an ordinary existence and a boring nine to five, so she joined the world of adult entertainment, where she finally felt fulfilled. However, her fairy tale began to crumble when at the mere age of twenty, her father passed away, leaving her evil step-mother in charge of his estate, and Rachel disowned.

This unique new (7x10), 768-page book is unlike any other you have read on Marilyn Monroe. Besides being an engrossing and intimate BIOGRAPHY, (with many colorful and fascinating NEW details of her life), it rewrites the history of the iconic actress who has been called “the movie’s Mona Lisa.” Scrupulously well researched and superbly written by longtime investigative journalist and award-winning author Larry Jordan -- whose work has been widely praised and quoted by big media and respected authors worldwide -- THE REAL MARILYN MONROE systematically destroys a mountain of lies about ...

She grew up in front of the world on the beloved sitcom Full House, but then actress Andrea Barber abruptly left Hollywood. Why did she leave and what did she do for 20 years out of the spotlight before returning to television? This is her funny and inspiring memoir of fame, heartache, resilience - and the reboot of a lifetime....

From "Facts of Life" to "Living Single" to "Dancing with the Stars" to wife and mom, here's the Blessed Life of Kim Fields, veteran actress, TV personality, and star. Kim Fields has lived most of her life with people thinking they know her, which is understandable. From her first job on a Mrs...

WHEN PARENTS TREAD ON YOUR DREAMS Grace Kelly is the odd one out in her wealthy, sports-obsessed family, the child her parents believe will never succeed. Her desire to become an actor is viewed with doubt and disapproval. Her father treats her dreams with contempt. Jessie Miller, the narrator of this story, is born in the poorest part of Philadelphia where ambition is never recognised. Her father is small-minded, suspicious and violent, seeking to take everything he can from her. Yet when one of her teachers discovers her gift for drawing, Jessie promises herself that she will use her ...

★★★Henry Hilltop-Gould is giving it all away!★★★ Writer, director, producer, performer, scion, and general badass, Henry Hilltop-Gould is one of Hollywood's true unsung heroes. You've never heard of him, but you have heard of his work. He's a one man Illuminati! With hands in so many pies you might forgive him for not having the six pack he had in his youth. Don't worry though, ladies, he's still packing heat! Part memoir, part confessional, part instructional how-to manual that will teach you all how and why and when to break into Hollywood and kickstart your own careers, this ...

“The Hop is a fresh ode to sisterhood and sexual agency that crackles with verve and wit. I couldn't put it down.”—Gabriela Garcia, author of the New York Times bestseller and Good Morning America Pick Of Women and Salt A page-turning feminist novel that tells the story of a poor scrappy...

¡La historia de amor adolescente de la que todos hablan es falsa! Eliza lo inventó todo. Nunca ha tenido novio y mucho menos se ha enamorado. Cuando la historia sobre cómo conoció al amor de su vida se hizo viral, la vida de Eliza Lin cambió completamente, ahora incluso tiene la posibilidad...

“Sally Koslow channels Nora Ephron in this lively tale of obligation versus desire and the politics of family power. Deftly written with equal parts intelligence, pathos, and humor, The Real Mrs. Tobias is a pure pleasure to read.”—Therese Anne Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of...

Discover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history—until now. "Romance novel readers, Austenites, and Byronheads will love delving into the truth behind the aesthetics...

Rollyson fully explores Brennan's work with Hollywood's greatest directors, such as Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Fritz Lang. As a father and grandfather, Brennan instilled generations of his family with an outlook on the American Dream that remains a sustaining feature of their lives today. His conservative politics, which grew out of his New England upbringing and his devout Catholicism, receive meticulous attention and a balanced assessment in A Real American Character.

A hilarious and emotional celebrity romantic-comedy, in which a real estate developer's prim and polished world unravels when her secret romance novel is adapted for film. When a wildly famous influencer discovers Endless Summer Nights, Ivy Jones’s forgotten romance novel published under a pen...

An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bohemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer— secret lover of JFK, ex-wife of a CIA chief, sexual adventurer, LSD explorer and early feminist living by her own rules. She was a longtime lover...