Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering
10 best books like Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering (Meredith Baxter): Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, Me, Love, Medicine & Miracles, I, Rhoda, Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer, Rita Moreno: A Memoir, Audition: A Memoir, American Prince: A Memoir, This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection, Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
| Author | Pete Buttigieg |
| ISBN | 1631494368 |
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation’s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American...
| Author | Elton John |
| ISBN | 1250147603 |
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the film Rocketman. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.
Christened...
| Author | Bernie S. Siegel |
| ISBN | 0060914068 |
Miracles are happening to exceptional patients every day-patients who have the courage to wok with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery. A wonderful book that every patient and skeptic physician should read If we follow Bernie Siegel's advice, we may all stay younger and...
The heartwarming memoir from beloved, award-winning television actress Valerie Harper.
Valerie Harper is finally ready to tell her story. In this, her first memoir, the beloved and award-winning television actress reflects on the role that made her famous—Rhoda Morgenstern on the...
Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer
| Author | Chely Wright |
| ISBN | 0307378861 |
Chely Wright, singer, songwriter, country music star, writes in this moving, telling memoir about her life and her career; about growing up in America’s heartland, the youngest of three children; about barely remembering a time when she didn’t know she was different.
She writes about...
| Author | Rita Moreno |
| ISBN | 1101615222 |
In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend--and one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys.
Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto...
Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring...
American Prince: A Memoir
| Author | Tony Curtis |
| ISBN | 0307408493 |
“All my life I had one dream and that was to be in the movies.”
He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. A prince of the silver screen. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earned him fame,...
This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection
| Author | Carol Burnett |
| ISBN | 0307461181 |
A touching and hilarious memoir by the author of
Carrie and Me: A Mother Daughter Love Story
, This Time Together is 100 percent Carol Burnett – funny, irreverent, and irresistible.
Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett...
| Author | Surya Das |
| ISBN | 0767908740 |
The beloved American Lama, a spiritual leader whose inimitable light and lively universal teaching style has awakened the spirituality of thousands, now shares an enlightened approach to change and loss, dealing with difficult emotions such as fear, grief, and anger, and the role of crisis in uncovering...
| Author | Cloris Leachman |
| ISBN | 0758229631 |
Welp, I was sadly disappointed in this book. Cloris would have been well-served to work with an actual biographer, rather than winging it with some help from her ex-husband. The book comes off scattered and self-indulgent, and it's a damn shame, because you KNOW this woman is an amazing talent who's...
Growing Up Again: Life, Love and Oh Yeah, Diabetes
| Author | Mary Tyler Moore |
| ISBN | 0312376316 |
With generosity of spirit, ebullience, and sly humor, Mary Tyler Moore presents the intensely private, often funny, and sometimes startling story of her life with diabetes.
Growing Up Again is a delightfully candid read for her legion of fans, the more than 20 million Americans with diabetes, and...
Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood
| Author | Teri Garr |
| ISBN | 0452285712 |
In this laugh-out-loud funny and inspiring autobiography, one of Hollywood’s best-loved comediennes muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS In a book that is at once Hollywood hilarious and personally moving, Teri Garr, star of such classic films as Young Frankenstein, Oh God!, Close...
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History
| Author | Kati Marton |
| ISBN | 0385721889 |
Kati Marton’s bestselling Hidden Power is an engrossing look at twelve presidential marriages–from Edith and Woodrow Wilson to Laura and George W. Bush–that have profoundly affected America’s history.
Marton uncovers the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the ultimate power couples,...
For the first time, Andrew Ridgeley - one half of one of the most famous bands in the world - tells the inside story of Wham! and his life-long friendship with George Michael.
It is 1975, Watford, and two teenagers, George and Andrew, meet for the first time. Bonding over their love for singing, song writing...
State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts
| Author | Nick Hornby |
| ISBN | 0593087348 |
A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple would go to in order to fix it from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity.
"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once." - The New...
My Extraordinary Ordinary Life
| Author | Sissy Spacek |
| ISBN | 1401324363 |
In her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended from industrious Czech immigrants and threadbare southern gentility, she grew up a tomboy,...
Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time
| Author | Valerie Bertinelli |
| ISBN | 1416568182 |
Book Description Publication Date: February 25, 2008 Valerie Bertinelli, then: bubbly sitcom star and America's Sweetheart turned tabloid headline and rock star wife. Now: actress, single working mother of teenage rock star, and weight-loss inspiration to millions. We all knew and loved Valerie...
Jeannie Out of the Bottle
| Author | Barbara Eden |
| ISBN | 0307886948 |
A magical, heartwarming memoir from one of Hollywood’s most beloved icons
Over the past four decades, the landmark NBC hit television series I Dream of Jeannie has delighted generations of audiences and inspired untold numbers of teenage crushes on its beautiful blond star, Barbara...
| Author | Joseph E. Persico |
| ISBN | 1400064422 |
Really 2.5 stars for historical relevance. Of course the story was an interesting one, and one gets the feeling Mr. Persico has done his homework in terms of combing the official and unofficial historical record. But I had issues with the way he presented the story, as well as the players in it. This wasn't...
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music
| Author | Judy Collins |
| ISBN | 0307717348 |
A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame.
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly...
Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant
| Author | Jennifer Grant |
| ISBN | 0307267105 |
Jennifer Grant is the only child of Cary Grant, who was, and continues to be, the epitome of all that is elegant, sophisticated, and deft. Almost half a century after Cary Grant’s retirement from the screen, he remains the quintessential romantic comic movie star. He stopped making movies when his...
Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny
Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny is a book that only Marlo Thomas could write--a smart and gracious, witty and confident autobiographical journey. For as long as Marlo Thomas can remember, she's lived with laughter. Born to comedy royalty--TV and nightclub star Danny Thomas--she...
Woody Lambert is in trouble. He comes from a broken family, suffers bad grades at school and his older brother, Tony, is on probation for a drug offence. When Woody inadvertently gets caught up with Tony and one of his friends, Garth, cruising around Strattenburg in a beaten-up Mustang drinking beer,...
Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir
| Author | Joel Grey |
| ISBN | 1250057248 |
Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of 9, starting in children’s theater and then...
| Author | Desi Arnaz |
| ISBN | 1568492545 |
I read this years ago. I bought my paperback copy at a bookstore with my mom and sisters. (Way before ebooks!)
THEN, Desi Arnaz, autographed my book! Yes, I'm bragging! Right there in that bookstore. His beautiful black hair was all silver, he looked a little older, but he was SO nice! I froze up and...
| Author | Rosanne Cash |
| ISBN | 0670021962 |
A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriter For thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence. Now, in her...
| Author | Nathan Dylan Goodwin |
The job presented to forensic genealogist, Morton Farrier, ought to have been simple and easy. But the surprise discovery of an additional marriage to his client’s father leads Morton on an enquiry, revolving around a mysterious death in the county asylum. Requiring his various investigative...
| Author | Nathan Dylan Goodwin |
Morton Farrier was no longer at the top of his game. His forensic genealogy career was faltering and he was refusing to accept any new cases, preferring instead to concentrate on locating his own elusive biological father. Yet, when a particular case presents itself, that of finding the family of a woman...
| Author | James Patterson |
| ISBN | 1473564603 |
Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead.
Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very...
