Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future by Ashlee Vance
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: very good
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is ...Show more
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
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Category: Biography & True Stories
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
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Category: Biography & True Stories
*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*'Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Self deprecating and refreshingly honest' - Sunday Times'Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'Hilarious and so emotionally true' -Cameron Crowe'Taupin' ...Show more
Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
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Category: Biography & True Stories
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION'S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLYBeing a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met the weirdest and most wonderful people who walk the Earth, seen the most bizarre and the most fantastic sig ...Show more
Face It: A Memoir by Debbie Harry
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Category: Biography & True Stories
'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to come back, I was kicking his ass, kicking him out, kicking my own ass too. My Blondie character was an inflatable doll but with a dark, provocative, aggressive side. I was playing it up, ...Show more
Grief is for People: A Memoir by Sloane Crosley
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Category: Biography & True Stories
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. Potent and propulsive, a lyrical meditation on loss and what comes after - TARA WESTOVER For most of her adult life, Sloane and Russell worked together and played together a ...Show more
Down and Out in Paradise - The Life of Anthony Bourdain by Charles Leerhsen
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Category: Biography & True Stories
The bestselling, "unvarnished" (The New York Times), "engrossing" (The Guardian), "gritty, well-researched" (The Economist)--and definitely unauthorized--biography of the celebrity chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain, based on extensive interviews with those who knew the real story.Anthony Bourdain's deat ...Show more
Down and Out in Paradise - The Life of Anthony Bourdain (US Edition Only) by Charles Leerhsen
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Category: Biography & True Stories
A groundbreaking, candid, well-sourced--but definitely unauthorized--biography of the celebrity chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain, based on extensive interviews with those who knew him intimately.Anthony Bourdain's death by suicide in June, 2018 shocked people around the world. Bourdain seemed to have i ...Show more
The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy; Hugo Vickers
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: very good
'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'One of the funniest, most eccentric books of the year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's offici ...Show more
Elizabeth Taylor - The Grit and Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower
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Category: Biography & True Stories
The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biog ...Show more
The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: Weird Fiction Ser.
A chilling tale for H.P. Lovecraft fansMiskatonic University, Arkham, 1908. Professor Nathaniel Peaslee collapses in front of a class of students, only coming to his senses five years later. Horrified to discover that his body has been far from inactive during the intervening period--and plagued by unse ...Show more