Sally Bedell Smith - Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch eBook

Language: English; PDF Pages: 531; 
File Size: 9 MB;

Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch is a biography written by New York Times bestselling author, Sally Bedell Smith. First published in October 2012, the book deeply and widely explores the life of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, one of the most popular and important modern monarch. Smith herself, as an author, is renowned for her biographies of important and influential figures such as J.F. Kennedy, Diana, and Bill Clinton.

By conducting deep research, doing extensive interviews, and inspecting unrevealed documents, Smith pushes aside the shade of rumors, gossips, and glamour to present vivid and accurate details of one of the most intriguing and enigmatic women in U.K. and in the world, Queen Elizabeth II. In this biography, readers will be taken to see how young Elizabeth Alexandra Mary had to struggle in succeeding to the throne that was left by her uncle.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley eBook

Language: English; PDF Pages: 409; File Size: 2.2 MB;

Constantly becoming a bestseller since its original publication in 1965, The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley has gained wide attention and critical acclaim, and it was named one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century by Time magazine. Haley was a journalist who conducted several in-depth interviews with Malcolm X between 1963 and 1965.

Based on the information and narratives told by Malcolm X himself, Haley ghostwrote the book, outlining the human right activist's life, especially his movement (Nation of Islam), philosophical view (black pride, black nationalism, and pan-Africanism) and spiritual journey (conversion to Sunni Islam, pilgrimage to Mecca). It was Haley who fully wrote the epilogue of the book, in which he illustrated the collaboration of the two and the sums up the end and significance of the life of Malcolm X, one of the most importance and influential persons of the 20th Century.
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Alison Bechdel - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Language: English; PDF Pages: 248; File Size: 34.5 MB;

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel. First published in 2006, the book took around seven years for the writing and illustrating processes because Bechdel chose a realistic and laborious artistic method, in which she photographed herself posing for each human figure in her work. However, all those hard work paid off well since with this memoir, which made it into New York Times Best Seller list, Bechdel achieved great critical acclaim and commercial success. Read more »

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Patti Smith - Just Kids PDF eBook

Language: English; PDF Pages: 208; File Size: 2 MB;

Patti Smith (born Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith) is an influential poet, artist, and singer-songwriter whose works and existence played very important role in the development of New York punk rock and art scenes. With her debut album Horses (1975), a brilliant combination of raw rock and roll and poetry, she set herself in a distinct ground and earned the title the “godmother of punk”.
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Antonino D'Ambrosio - A Heartbeat and a Guitar PDF eBook

Language: English; PDF Pages: 240; File Size: 3 MB;

A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears is a book written by Antonino Pasquale D'Ambrosio. D'Ambrosio is an accomplished author, artist and filmmaker. He is renowned for his great and bold works such as his feature film Let Fury Have the Hour and the book he complied based on that project, Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer.
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J. Randy Taraborrelli - The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (eBook)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 298; File Size: 7 MB;

Norma Jeane Mortenson, or worldly famous with her “stage name” Marilyn Monroe, was undisputable one of the most phenomenal and significant icons in popular culture. As a movie star, she achieved glorious fame and fortune and is still probably considered as the number one Hollywood actress with movies such as Some Like It Hot, Seven Year Itch, Niagara, Asphalt Jungle, and some others. As a well-known public figure, her life was surrounded by other powerful, prominent persons (including the Kennedy brothers, Jack and Bobby) and from those relationships rumors came out to surround her life forever.
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Leigh Montville - Evel (eBook)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 351; File Size: 3.5 MB;

Leigh Montville used to be a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and he has written the best-selling biographies of sport legends like Babe Ruth. In 2011, another best-selling biographical book by him was released, Evel. This time Montville smoothly and excitingly presents the life of the most famous daredevil in world (America especially), a man whose stunt on a bike is incomparable: Evel Knievel.
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Ernesto Che Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries (eBook)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 152; File Size: 2.5 MB;

Almost the whole world knows Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary from Argentina who became an important figure in Cuban Revolution. In the modern days he has become a universal rebellion symbol among the countercultural society. He was listed by Time magazine in the 100 most significant persons of the 20th century. Maryland Institute College of Art stated that his photo, which was taken by Alberto Korda, was "the most famous photograph in the world". It all indicates that Che Guevara is inseparable from the world history.
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Larry Sloman - On the Road with Bob Dylan pdf (eBook)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 397; File Size: 2.6 MB;

As a musician, Bob Dylan’s career has been pretty much on-again-off-again, with momentary hiatuses here and there. In October 1975, he just came out of his eight-year quiet time and rolled in a traveling caravan in tour famously known as the Rolling Thunder Revue, which ended in May 1976. Larry Sloman has successfully captured that tour in detail and intimately presented all the going ons in the book On the Road with Bob Dylan.
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Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath pdf (eBook)

Author: Tony Iommi; Language: English; PDF Pages: 289; File Size: 3.3 MB;

Since 1969, the legendary Black Sabbath has rocked this world with their music, dark theatrical stage performances, and many controversies—especially with someone like Ozzy Osbourne as front-man. And through all the decades, through numerous member changes, there has been one single person that always remains in the band. It is Tony Iommi, the founding guitarist of that early metal band.
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Michael Jackson - Moonwalk pdf (eBook)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 205; File Size: 3 MB;

The King of Pop Michael Jackson left this world in 2009 yet his abundant legacy will preserve: his music and his dance/choreography. He also left us something that might tell us more about him as a person than any media news or gossips: his very own autobiography, Moonwalk.
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Peter Criss - Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of Kiss pdf (eBook)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 320; File Size: 6 MB;

Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of Kiss, is Peter Criss autobiography published in October 2012, which—as the publisher said—is “unvarnished and eye-opening.” In writing this book, Criss collaborated with Larry Sloman, an accomplished writer well-known for his books such as Reefer Madness and Miss America.
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Marilyn Manson - The Long Hard Road Out of Hell pdf (eBook)

Language: English; PDF Pages; 274; File Size: 7.8 MB;

Just few people know who Brian Warner is, but Marilyn Manson…almost the whole world knows him. Despised (or even cursed and banned) by some and worshiped by the other some, and having his album entitled Antichrist Superstar, he is indisputably one of the most—if not the most—controversial figure in music in the last couple of decades. Now, by reading the book The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, people can dig deeper into the background of his life and get a more well-rounded view on him as a person.
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Chas Newkey-Burden - Amy Winehouse the Biography.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 84 | File Size: 1MB |

If only she is still among us, Amy Winehouse will definitely be one of the very best female singers nowadays. Actually, she has already been one of the greatest as her Back to Black album achieved such massive success commercially and received highly positive critical responses—winning 5 categories in a single Grammy event is more than a prove. Her retro music style in Back to Black album has become great refreshment in the music industry in the last decade. With such unique, raw, and vintage vocal, it’s just too shame that she left us that soon to join the “27 Club”.
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Jay-Z - Decoded.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 225 | File Size: 7MB |

Decoded is written by the multi-talented musician, Shawn Corey Carter. Worldly famous with his stage name, Jay-Z, he is one of the greatest musicians nowadays; he's a rapper, songwriter, and also record producer. This book is a unique one, it presents a collection of his song lyrics and their meanings and the stories told in them; stories about culture, art, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.
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Chelsea Handler - Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 112 | File Size: 1MB |

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea is a collection of autobiographical comical essay of author Chelsea Handler that she compiled into a book. This book became a bestseller and reached number 1 position in couple of lists. As cited in wikipedia.com, Handler “waited to write a book with such stories with no concrete theme and wrote My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands with the theme of one-night stands to get her enough popularity for this sort of book to do well.? This book was adapted into a television series with slight alteration in the title, “Are You There, Chelsea?”
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Jim Bessman - Ramones: An American Band.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 200 | File Size: 2MB |

Ramones: An American band is written by Jeff Bessman, a music journalist and also a friend of the members of that band. Having close relationship with his subject, Bessman had greater access to look into more details about the history, existence, and experience of a band that has influenced the flow of not only punk but also the whole music history and industry.
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Howard Sounes - Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 764 | File Size: 7.4MB |

Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney is an in-depth biography by Howard Sounes, an author of some bestselling biographies. This book explores the whole life of Paul, from his childhood to his worldly phenomenal stardom during the era of The Beatles, to his solo career after that.
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Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees.pdf (eBook)

Author: Ben Mezrich | PDF Pages: 300 | File Size: 3.5 MB |

Ben Mezrich’s Busting Vegas: The Mit Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees is an extraordinary true story of Semyon Dukach. This book is an enthralling chronicle of immense greed, wealth, violence, sex, dread, love, and statistics.

In his casino-gambling adventure, with the dream to get richer than everybody, Semyon Dukach almost lost his life. He was a famous, smug young hotshot who stood among the high roller in Sin City. This guy was all brain when it came to math and he’s invented a casino-breaking system. The casinos had never seen such system before and they couldn't stop it. Dukach’s outrageous system has never been revealed until now. And, it was not illegal.

With his fellow MIT students, Dukach stroke the major gambling cities in the world. They played big and hard, with insane amount of bets. Although they were taking classes and studying for exams during the week, over the weekends they stormed the blackjack tables only to be harassed, banned from casinos, threatened at gunpoint, and beaten in Vegas's notorious back rooms.

In the classroom, they were geeks. On the casino floor, they were unstoppable.

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Ida Walker - The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.pdf (eBook)

Author: Ida Walker | PDF Pages: 114 | File Size: 4 MB |

Chronicles the events leading up to, and the immediate aftermath of, the murder of one of the best-known figures in the United States civil rights movement. The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is complied based on primary research and sources. Some historic documents are involved to map and draw the time line of that historical incident. In this book, Ida Walker also utilizes some essential facts to draw a more comprehensive picture of this tragedy.

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