The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and rollBest known as the groundbreaking artist behind classics like “Johnny B. Goode,” “Maybellene,” “You Never Can Tell” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” Chuck Berry was a man of wild contradictions, whose motives and motivations were often shrouded in mystery. After all, how did a teenage delinquent come to write so many songs that transformed American culture? And, once he achieved fame...

A BIOGRAFIA DEFINITIVA DE CHUCK BERRY, O LENDÁRIO ARTISTA E INVENTOR DO ROCK N' ROLL "Um dos melhores livros de música do ano." ― Rolling Stone "Um relato implacável, mas revelador... tão inteligente e vibrante quanto um compacto mono de Berry." ― Wall Street Journal Mais conhecido como o artista inovador por trás de clássicos como "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", "You Never Can Tell" e "Roll Over Beethoven", Chuck Berry era um homem de contradições selvagens, cujos motivos e motivações er...

The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on his life as a Civil Rights activist, an entrepreneur, and the most innovative musician of our timePlaying 350 shows a year at his peak, with more than forty Billboard hits, James Brown was a dazzling showman who transformed American music. His life offstage was just as vibrant, and until now no biographer has delivered a complete profile. The One draws on interview...

RJ Smith – Head Maintenance Man knows the secret to a long, healthy life, and it isn’t a trendy diet, or a piece of exercise equipment sold by a celebrity in an infomercial. Smith is an octogenarian who has lived a pretty typical life. He was a smoker. He was a drinker. He was overweight. But he has changed his ways and is now healthier than ever. And he will share his simple secrets with you in his new book. It’s not magic. It’s just simple, sensible living.Smith can teach you eas...

In a nameless harbour city, James Mathers is a 30 year-old intellectual property lawyer who appears to have it all. But James is unsettled inside, having realised the prestige attached to his job is all an illusion.When James discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him, he takes a room at the Dream City casino, a city within a city where a new logic seems to rule. At the Dream, James encounters Anton, a brilliant former classmate expelled in the tenth grade.With Anton, Jame...

The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and rollBest known as the groundbreaking artist behind classics like “Johnny B. Goode,” “Maybellene,” “You Never Can Tell” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” Chuck Berry was a man of wild contradictions, whose motives and motivations were often shrouded in mystery. After all, how did a teenage delinquent come to write so many songs that transformed American culture? And, once he achieved fame...

Tossed out by his girlfriend and impoverished by his dreams, Rick Hinton moves into a neighbourhood of northern Paris that is cheap, crime-ridden and perfect for his purposes.With only his unhinged American friend Anton 'Tony Extra' Ford for company, Rick encounters a society in decline, his horror turning to resignation as his funds dry up and his morals slip away.Rick and Anton believe that art might save them, an obsession which devolves into an absurd and dangerous game...

There's a murder in the heart of Manhattan, a simple corpse... stretched out upon a bench in Herald Square Park. On any other day, in any other city, the bloody slaying would be a sidebar of filler news for the networks to bury.But this was Christmas in the city that never slept, the Big Shiny Apple... a 24-hour media show of spectacular brilliance. At the center of the universe, the King of Christmas, Mr. Jolly Old Santa Claus didn't end up dead in broad daylight.The Mayor...

The Canary Island's Cumbre Vieja volcano is experiencing a major 8.9 earthquake.Some say it's just a local disaster. But, Dr. Samuel May, one of the world's premier researchers on stratovolcanos knows different. He's a renowned crackerjack scientist who's predicted this earthquake would cause the volcano to collapse into the Atlantic Ocean.When that happens, the displacement of seawater causes a catastrophic tsunami to race for the coastlines of Morocco, Portugal and France...

He was born in the sixties, grew up in the seventies, became a man in the eighties and threw everything away in the twenty first century.Yes, Mel Smith is just an ordinary guy.His story starts in 2012, after he foolishly let his marriage and a happy family life slip away. Now, single and alone, he lives in his one-bedded staff accommodation room, a room he has to call home.Scrunched up on his over-used, spring-laden bed, his fingers are poised, hovering over the keyb...

"A woman starting over. A new house with an unexpected twist. A cape wearing butler acting as the world's worst life coach.""Happily Ever After"" wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option. But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that's exactly what my life becomes.Do-over.This time, though, I plan to do things differently. Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I'm ready to carve my own pa...

"I am not the Black Piper . . . but I do know the Piper."If you listen closely," she said, "you will hear stories that will transport you into the heart of adventure, force you directly into the path of danger, and if you are lucky . . . or perhaps unlucky"—she looked at the unmoving dragon behind her and inhaled, only barely losing her grip on her smile—"transform you." Her attention turned back to the crowd, and her eyes grew mysterious. "In essence, dear people...