Résultats Éditeur "Random House Audio" dans Divertissement et célébrités

You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance. It was a time when anything...

In Dante, Lewis traces the life and complex development—emotional, artistic, philosophical—of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings through Tuscan hills and splendid churches to his days as a young soldier fighting for democracy, to his civic leadership and years of embittered...

The greatest mind in Western music is examined by a National Book Award–winning writer on culture and psychology in this concise account of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The composer’s unshakable hold on the public’s fascination can only be strengthened by the historian and...

Bestsellerautor Eric Stehfest und seine Frau Edith haben trotz ihrer jungen Jahre bereits unbeschreiblich viel durchlebt: eine zerrüttete Kindheit, früher Drogenkonsum, Entzüge, Eskapaden. Dann die Liebe der beiden, eine Hochzeit, ein Sohn. Doch das Konstrukt der klassischen Ehe, die gesellschaftlichen Normen, funktionieren nicht für sie. Zwei Freigeister stellen fest, dass sie sich selbst gar nicht kennen, sich selbst erst entdecken müssen. Wortgewaltig und ungebremst begleiten wir Eric und Edith dabei, wie sie sich selbst neu erschaffen.

In this poignant memoir, the internationally celebrated bandleader reflects on family, illness, grief, and a bygone era of glamour, contemplating not just his career but the history of midcentury music and nightlife—and the enormously important role that the bandstand played in his life. ...

So here I am, delving into the past like Monsieur Poirot, not to solve a mystery, but to try to understand some of the events that have helped define the sort of person I have become. Some of it, naturally, is in the genes; but much of it is in the environment, in the circumstances in which we...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion...

With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a beloved president and becoming embroiled in a far...

Attention would-be paesans: Can’t distinguish “gabagool” from “pasta fazool”? Not sure how to properly accessorize your track suit with gold chains? Does the phrase “go to the mattresses” make you sleepy? Now Steven R. Schirripa, The Sopranos’ own Bobby Bacala, exposes the inner...

Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged...

In this emotional and laugh-out-loud coming-of-age memoir, the co-creator of Hulu's brilliant Pen15 grapples with the reappearance of her estranged father —and whether it's possible to reconnect before it’s too late. For Anna Konkle’s childhood, her father was her hero—a...

Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New York Times bestselling author paints a portrait of true romance for our times in these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss. "Ellis is one...

A cinephile's dream: the chance to follow legendary director Woody Allen throughout the creation of a film--from inception to premiere--and to enjoy his reflections on some of the finest artists in the history of cinema. Eric Lax has been with Woody Allen almost every step of the way. He...

Glaube immer an dich selbst und deine Träume – und steh immer einmal mehr auf, als du hinfällst! Ben Zuckers Weg an die Spitze des deutschen Schlagers war geprägt von Höhen und Tiefen: in seiner Kindheit flieht die Familie aus der DDR, eine Gitarre entfacht seine Leidenschaft für Musik, er feiert erste Erfolge als Sänger – und dann kommt Corona und Ben Zucker fällt in ein tiefes Loch. Doch trotz unzähligen Gründen, aufzugeben, kämpft sich Ben Zucker zurück.

MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and...

Ein Plädoyer für mehr Gelassenheit im Umgang miteinander. Er ist eine Klasse für sich: Thomas Gottschalk. Für seinen spitzen und schlagfertigen Humor wird er vom Publikum geliebt – doch die Zeiten haben sich geändert. Was früher für Lacher sorgte, kann heute Empörung auslösen. Selbstkritisch und selbstironisch zugleich geht er der Frage nach, warum er sich heutzutage manchmal wie aus der Zeit gefallen vorkommt, und er versucht, die Regeln und Fallstricke unserer Gesellschaft zu verstehen: Was hat sich in seinen Augen verändert und warum?

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel...

„Dem Prinzip, dass nahezu alles, außer der Liebe, einen Preis hat, ist in diesem Leben nicht zu entkommen.“ »Was soll‘s – das Leben ist ein Urlaub vom Totsein, und auch wenn wir keine Ahnung hatten von irgendwas – das hier fühlte sich wie Leben an.« On the road mit Marco Wanda! Der Bandleader und Songwriter von Wanda hat ein Buch geschrieben und es selbst als Hörbuch eingelesen.

In his sparkling memoir, M.K. Raina documents the many lives he has lived. From sharing the stage with some of the most celebrated actors in India to his journey as a young man witnessing the violence and horrors rampant through the streets of Kashmir, an entire history of northern India is...

The life and times of a living legend, the most successful and influential singer/songwriter of the past fifty years throughout the Spanish-speaking world, who also happens to be an acclaimed Hollywood and Broadway actor, a Harvard Law School graduate with a Master’s degree in international...