My Life, My Way (download)

My Life, My Way (download)
Author:
Publisher: Hachette Digital
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2009-07-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781405505383

Revealing and fascinating autobiography by one of Britain's best loved and most enduring stars

The Dreamer

The Dreamer
Author: Cliff Richard
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1473588952

'Before Cliff Richard and the Shadows, there was nothing worth listening to in British music.' - John Lennon. Cliff Richard tells his story, in his own words, in his highly anticipated new autobiography. Achieving a hit in every decade since the 1950s, Cliff Richard stands alone in pop history. Coming of age in 1950s London, he began his music career at Soho's legendary 2i's Cafe, and now he's approaching his 80th birthday with record sales of over 250m and counting. Cliff Richard was a pioneer, forging the way for British rock 'n' roll with his unique sound. The original British teen idol, his incredible story takes us into the studio of TV's first pop show Oh Boy!, through 40 years of Top of the Pops, and playing live up and down the country and across the world, with a constant backdrop of screaming fans. Cliff looks back on his humble upbringing, and how he went on to fulfil his wildest dreams by becoming a pop star and even a film star. He talks about finding Christianity, reflects on the ups and downs of life in the public eye, and reveals how the false allegations against him changed his life forever. He's seen era-defining pop stars come and go, and he's still making new music, with a new project to be released this year. As a teenage Elvis-fan in Cheshunt, this may have seem a distant dream. Here's his story of how he made it all happen.

My Life with Elvis

My Life with Elvis
Author: Becky Yancey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1977
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312558345

Elvis Presley's private secretary provides revelations about goings-on at Graceland, the headquarters of the Presley empire, and about the legendary superstar's generosity and relationships with his father, women, and friends.

The Cliff Walk

The Cliff Walk
Author: Don J. Snyder
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316380415

Five years ago, Don Snyder was teaching English at Colgate University. He was forty years old and had a wife, three children, a new baby on the way, and what seemed like a secure middle-class future. But then Snyder lost his chance at tenure -- and, all of a sudden, he was out of a job. The Cliff Walk is a moving, clear-eyed account of Snyder's agonizing loss and what it feels like to fall, rung by rung, down the socio-economic ladder. Snyder chronicles the denial and disbelief he went through as his hopes of finding another teaching job faded after being rejected for ninety positions. He explains how each painful change -- selling his house, buying groceries with food stamps -- reminded him how much he and his family had taken for granted in their previous life. And he describes how he finally found new hope in a job on a home construction crew in Maine. Working outside for ten hours a day through a vicious winter taught Snyder about his own cowardice and the lies he had come to believe about what a professional life of hard work entitled him to. Written with precision and elegance, The Cliff Walk captures the depth of one family's love and speaks to anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to be out of a job and out in the cold.

To Live is to Die

To Live is to Die
Author: Joel McIver
Publisher: Jawbone Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 190600224X

A portrait of Metallica's late bassist traces his San Francisco upbringing, influence on the group's development and song-writing practices, and tragic death in the wake of a tour bus accident. Original.

An Occasionally Happy Family

An Occasionally Happy Family
Author: Cliff Burke
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0358469511

Gordon Korman meets The Great Outdoors in this funny and moving debut about a boy who goes on a disastrous family vacation (sweltering heat! bear chases!) that ends with a terrible surprise: his dad's new girlfriend. There are zero reasons for Theo Ripley to look forward to his family vacation. Not only are he, sister Laura, and nature-obsessed Dad going to Big Bend, the least popular National Park, but once there, the family will be camping. And Theo is an indoor animal. It doesn’t help that this will be the first vacation they’re taking since Mom passed away. Once there, the family contends with 110 degree days, wild bears, and an annoying amateur ornithologist and his awful teenage vlogger son. Then, Theo’s dad hits him with a whopper of a surprise: the whole trip is just a trick to introduce his secret new girlfriend. Theo tries to squash down the pain in his chest. But when it becomes clear that this is an auditioning-to-be-his-stepmom girlfriend, Theo must find a way to face his grief and talk to his dad before his family is forever changed.

Kildar

Kildar
Author: John Ringo
Publisher: Baen Books
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2006-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416520643

After making an enemy out of virtually every terrorist on the planet, as well as five governments, former SEAL Mike Harmon is looking for the perfect place to retire and buy a farm, all the while dealing with Chechen terrorists and other enemies.

Acting Is Living

Acting Is Living
Author: Cliff Osmond
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2010-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578069425

Cliff Osmond, Hollywood actor, teacher, director and award-winning writer, with more than forty-five years of experience at the highest levels of his craft, offers his unique and perceptive thoughts on acting. "There is no such thing as 'acting, ' there is only life. What the actor must do is make sure that his life pccurs excitingly, on demand, within the narrow confines of a script, and in front of an audience." The rest is clarification. To aid actors in the their quest for excellence, Mr. Osmond discusses his "Ten Elements in Any Successful Performance," a clearly defined set of principles that enable the performer to transcend any sense of false 'acting' and move to an exciting performance reality. Part memoir, part theoretical analysis, part practical handbook, "Acting is Living" is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for the actor, one that both beginning and experienced performers will refer to over-and-over in their lifetime of acting efforts

Cliff Falls

Cliff Falls
Author: C. B. Shiepe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780982702024

Bubble

Bubble
Author: Jordan Morris
Publisher: First Second
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781250245557

Based on the smash-hit audio serial, Bubble is a hilarious high-energy graphic novel with a satirical take on the “gig economy.” Built and maintained by corporate benevolence, the city of Fairhaven is a literal bubble of safety and order (and amazing coffee) in the midst of the Brush, a harsh alien wilderness ruled by monstrous Imps and rogue bands of humans. Humans like Morgan, who’s Brush-born and Bubble-raised and fully capable of fending off an Imp attack during her morning jog. She’s got a great routine going—she has a chill day job, she recreationally kills the occasional Imp, then she takes that Imp home for her roommate and BFF, Annie, to transform into drugs as a side hustle. But cracks appear in her tidy life when one of those Imps nearly murders a delivery guy in her apartment, accidentally transforming him into a Brush-powered mutant in the process. And when Morgan’s company launches Huntr, a gig economy app for Imp extermination, she finds herself press-ganged into kicking her stabby side job up to the next level as she battles a parade of monsters and monstrously Brush-turned citizens, from a living hipster beard to a book club hive mind.