wyszukanych pozycji: 38
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Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson's Last Days
ISBN: 9780316259095 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks leading up to King of Pop Michael Jackson's death Michael Jackson's final months were like the rest of his short and legendary life: filled with deep lows and soaring highs, a constant hunt for privacy, and the pressure and fame that made him socially fragile and almost--ultimately--unable to live. With the insight and compassion that he brought to his bestselling telling of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final year, Tavis Smiley provides a glimpse into the superstar's life in this emotional, honest, yet celebratory book. Readers will... A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks leading up to King of Pop Michael Jackson's death Michael Jackson's final months were like the... |
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134,87 |
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Love Johnny Carson: One Obsessive Fan's Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend
ISBN: 9780593472552 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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134,87 |
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Faith in Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott
ISBN: 9780306812293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The voice of Jimmy Scott is one of the world's most mesmerizing instruments, transcending gender and age. But its beauty is inextricably entwined with pain, hardship, and tragedy-yet Scott's resilience made his life a story of triumph. Born in Cleveland in 1925, Scott was orphaned as a teenager, and suffered from Kallman's syndrome, which kept his voice unnaturally high. He toured with Lionel Hampton in the '40s and recorded for Savoy Records. In 1962 Ray Charles produced and played on what many agree was Scott's best album, Falling in Love Is Wonderful, and a career breakthrough...
The voice of Jimmy Scott is one of the world's most mesmerizing instruments, transcending gender and age. But its beauty is inextricably entwined with...
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84,74 |
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Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
ISBN: 9780306811913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Named the #1 Rock Biography of All Time in The New Book of Rock Lists: "You won't find a more fascinating rock bio."-Village Voice
Named the #1 Rock Biography of All Time in The New Book of Rock Lists: "You won't find a more fascinating rock bio."-Village Voice
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84,74 |
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
ISBN: 9780316196819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "A remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin's music and her tumultuous life." --"Rolling Stone"
Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them--and her native Detroit--for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. After fame and fortune finally came via "Respect," and a rapid-fire string of hits, she has evolved ever since, amidst personal tragedy, surprise Grammy performances, and career reinventions.... "A remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin's music and her tumultuous life." --"Rolling Stone"
Aretha Franklin began life as the golden dau... |
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85,50 |
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When I Left Home: My Story
ISBN: 9780306821790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues.
Guy's epic story stands at the absolute nexus of modern blues. He came to Chicago from rural Louisiana in the fifties--the very moment when urban blues were electrifying our culture. He was a regular session player at Chess Records. Willie Dixon was his mentor. He was a sideman in the bands of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He... According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on...
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77,03 |
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Rocks: My Life in and Out of Aerosmith
ISBN: 9781476714592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Joe Perry's New York Times bestselling memoir of life in the rock-and-roll band Aerosmith: "An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and roll's greatest guitarists. Strap yourself in" (Slash). Before the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Perry was a boy growing up in small-town Massachusetts. He idolized Jacques Cousteau and built his own diving rig that he used to explore a local lake. He dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. But Perry's neighbors had teenage sons, and those sons had...
Joe Perry's New York Times bestselling memoir of life in the rock-and-roll band Aerosmith: "An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride thr...
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77,03 |
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Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
ISBN: 9780306814310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and country music, he invented, almost single-handedly, what became known as soul. And throughout a career spanning...
Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unspa...
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84,74 |
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On Time: A Princely Life in Funk
ISBN: 9780306922213 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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165,08 |
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Victim of a Voodoo Curse
ISBN: 9781502417961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Born in 1934 in northwestern U.S. of missionary parents, the Author began his extensive travels at an early age. He graduated from grade eight in Bangkok, Thailand, and from high school in Singapore, Malaya. Wedding bells, three children, and a hard-earned BS degree later launched him into the health care field as an administrator, first on the Navajo Reservation in Utah, then as missionary to Haiti. Here he put together a 70-bed hospital in a ghetto suburb of Port-au-Prince, becoming its first administrator. He was the victim of a Voodoo curse, but with the support of his family he opened...
Born in 1934 in northwestern U.S. of missionary parents, the Author began his extensive travels at an early age. He graduated from grade eight in Bang...
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56,45 |
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After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye
ISBN: 9780062135520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all--and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye. After her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janis Hunter met Marvin Gaye--the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What's Going On made him a superstar two years earlier. Despite a seventeen-year-age difference and Marvin's marriage to the sister of Berry Gordy, Motown's founder, the... A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all--and a searing memoir of dr... |
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61,61 |
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Rickles' Book
ISBN: 9780743293068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Rickles' Book will make you love one of the great Americans of our time, Don Rickles. Why you need to buy Rickles' Book immediately: Rickles' Book will help you win friends and influence people. Rickles' Book will introduce you to all of his famous friends, from Frank Sinatra to Johnny Carson. Rickles' Book will help you lose weight. Rickles' Book will help you gain weight. Rickles' Book will improve your love life. Rickles' Book will make you cry (If your love life doesn't improve). Rickles' Book...
Rickles' Book will make you love one of the great Americans of our time, Don Rickles. Why you need to buy Rickles' Book immediately:...
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73,17 |
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Not Dead & Not for Sale: The Earthling Papers, a Memoir
ISBN: 9780743297172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The instant New York Times bestseller: the lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver delivers an exhilarating memoir of scaling the pinnacle of rock stardom, plunging into the chasm of addiction and incarceration, and then clawing his way back to the top again and again. In the early 1990s, Stone Temple Pilots--not U2, not Nirvana, not Pearl Jam--was the hottest band in the world. STP toppled such megabands as Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses on MTV and the Billboard charts. Lead singer Scott Weiland became an iconic front man in the tradition of Mick Jagger,...
The instant New York Times bestseller: the lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver delivers an exhilarating memoir of scalin...
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73,22 |
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Lenny Kravitz. Let Love Rule. Autobiografia
ISBN: 9788382102376 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. „Moja opowieść to muzyczna suita złożona z magicznie połączonych ze sobą utworów”.
LET LOVE RULE to niezwykle refleksyjne dzieło. Lenny Kravitz analizuje swoje życie szczerze, szczegółowo i z dużą dozą humoru. „Moje życie płynie pod znakiem często całkowitych przeciwieństw – pisze. – Czarny i biały, żyd i chrześcijanin, fan The Jackson Five i Led Zeppelin. Zaakceptowałem swoją bliźniaczą duszę. Podobało mi się to. Różne zakamarki mojego serca i umysłu uzupełniały się niczym yin i yang, nadając mojemu życiu równowagę, rozpalając moją... „Moja opowieść to muzyczna suita złożona z magicznie połączonych ze sobą utworów”.
LET LOVE RULE to niezwykle refleksyjne dzieło... |
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42,99 |
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Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain
ISBN: 9781451606065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. IN THIS LUMINOUS MEMOIR, LEGENDARY SINGER AND ACTRESS NATALIE COLE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, AND THE STORY OF A DEATH THAT BROUGHT NEW LIFE.
In 2009 Natalie Cole was on dialysis, her kidneys failing. Without a kidney transplant, her future was uncertain. Throughout Natalie's illness one of her biggest supporters was her beloved sister Cooke. But then Cooke herself became ill, with cancer. Astonishingly, as Cooke lay dying in a hospital, Natalie received a call that a kidney was available, but the surgery had to be performed immediately. Natalie... IN THIS LUMINOUS MEMOIR, LEGENDARY SINGER AND ACTRESS NATALIE COLE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, AND THE STORY OF...
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53,91 |
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It's a Long Story: My Life
ISBN: 9780316339315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson
"Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I've written. What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same rhythm that I lived it. It's a story of restlessness and the purity of the moment and living right. Of my childhood in Abbott, Texas, to the Pacific Northwest, from Nashville to Hawaii and all the way back again. Of selling vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias while hosting radio shows and writing song after song, hoping to strike gold.... The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson
"Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I'v... |
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True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself
ISBN: 9781416587378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the greatest entertainers of our time candidly reveals her very personal sturggle with an issue so many of us face every day: self-esteem. Janet Jackson emerged from the shadows of an already famous family to become one of the most beloved, recognizable, and influential performers in the world. But at what cost? From the age of ten, when she made her acting debut on Good Times, Janet was told by Hollywood that she needed to slim down. Her well-meaning brothers, especially fun-loving Michael, teased her relentlessly until she began to believe that who she was wasn't good...
One of the greatest entertainers of our time candidly reveals her very personal sturggle with an issue so many of us face every day: self-esteem. ...
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73,17 |
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Kg: A to Z: An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between
ISBN: 9781982170332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
73,17 |
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Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James
ISBN: 9781476764153 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,03 |
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A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace
ISBN: 9781451636901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Branca is best known for throwing the pitch that resulted in the historic home run that capped an incredible comeback and won the pennant for the Giants in 1951. He was on the losing end of what many consider to be baseball's most thrilling moment, but that notoriety belies a profoundly successful life and career.
Branca is best known for throwing the pitch that resulted in the historic home run that capped an incredible comeback and won the pennant for the Gian...
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61,61 |