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We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga

10 best books like We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga (Paul Shaffer): The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street, Nothing Was the Same, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story, A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir, Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances, Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance, Tip It!: The World According to Maggie, Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
AuthorCharles Nicholl
ISBN0670018503
A brilliantly drawn detective story with entirely new insights into Shakespeare's life

In 1612, William Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. The case seems routine a dispute over an unpaid marriage...
Nothing Was the Same
AuthorKay Redfield Jamison
ISBN0307265374
From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate...
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War
AuthorAlexander Waugh
ISBN0385520603
From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.

The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward...
You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
AuthorAnnabelle Gurwitch
In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is love—and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir.
 
After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and...
A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir
AuthorNorris Church Mailer
ISBN1400067944
A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailer’s greatest inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda Fitzgerald before her, Norris Church Mailer has led a life as large and as colorful as her husband’s—and every bit as engaging.

Growing...
Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances
AuthorFred Thompson
ISBN0307460304
Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It was a...
Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
AuthorDavid Archuleta
ISBN0451230183
Singing sensation and American Idol favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos!

A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by Forbes magazine and landed the number...
Tip It!: The World According to Maggie
AuthorMaggie Griffin
ISBN1401324045
Dear Readers, There are at least five good reasons to Tip It! right now. 1. My daughter Kathy put out her memoir last year, which was real nice except for the controversial parts. And it got to be a #1 New York Times bestseller. Congratulations, Kathleen! But now it's my turn. I've written my own book. I have...
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
AuthorPaula Butturini
ISBN1594488975
A story of food and love, injury and healing, Keeping the Feast is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and friendship.

Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four...
Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir
AuthorHelena Andrews
ISBN0061778826
Strong, sassy, always surprising—and titled after a Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” monologue by Tina Fey—Bitch Is the New Black is a deliciously addictive memoir-in-essays in which Helena Andrews goes from being the daughter of the town lesbian to a hot-shot political reporter…...
Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's
AuthorAndrea Gillies
ISBN0307719111
Keeper is a fiercely honest "glimpse into the dementia abyss" - an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.

Five years ago, Andrea Gillies - writer, wife, and mother...
Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life
AuthorDaniel Asa Rose
ISBN0061708704
“One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I’ve read.”
—Boston Globe

 

Larry’s Kidney is Daniel Asa Rose’s wild-and-crazy memoir about his trip to Beijing, China, to help his black-sheep cousin Larry receive an illegal kidney transplant,...
The Dream: A Memoir
AuthorHarry Bernstein
ISBN0345503740
Dreams played an important part in our lives in those early days in England. Our mother invented them for us to make up for all the things we lacked and to give us some hope for the future.

During the hard and bitter years of his youth in England, Harry Bernstein's selfless mother struggles to keep...
Black Is the New White
AuthorPaul Mooney
ISBN1416587950
OTHER COMEDIANS TELL JOKES. PAUL MOONEY TELLS THE TRUTH. For more than forty years, whether writing for Richard Pryor and Saturday Night Live or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country, Paul Mooney has been provocative, incisive... and absolutely hilarious. His comedy has always...
Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think
AuthorCybill Shepherd
ISBN0060193506
From Model to Moonlighting, from Elvis to Bruce Willis to motherhood to a behind-the-scenes inside view of network sit-com madness, the irrepressible show biz icon tells all in her own inimitable, no-holds-barred fashion.
-- Cybill is a bona fide star with millions of fans -- a hero to middle aged...
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