Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called calorie restriction, eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers? She was...

For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time--...

Rebecca Roberts had only one man in her life and never thought that she would see that man again. Years ago Jason Engles left, never giving a real reason why. They have chance to be together but Rebecca is afraid that their newfound relationship migh

An exploration of the life of singer Whitney Houston from the perspective of the gospel singer who considered Houston to be a sister and member of the extended Winans family.

After years of singing and being exploited, by first her father and then her manager, Iris Cooper finds the courage and strength to follow her dreams. Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter...

A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.

The biggest novel of 2022! A thriller about a young musician on the run, authored by America's #1 most beloved entertainer and its #1 bestselling author. Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville could be the place she claims her destiny-or where her yesterdays collide with her tomorrows. Run, Rose, Run is a novel glittering with danger and...

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite...

The successful singer-songwriter describes her life growing up amidst the glamour of literary New York, her path to art and music, her marriage to James Taylor, and her famously cryptic song lyrics.

Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven, she'd written "Freight Train," one of the most famous folk songs of the twentieth century. And by the end of her life, people everywhere from the sunny...