Grand Central Publishing imprint: 1999 books
The Richest Man in the World
The Story of Adnan Khashoggi
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
New York Times bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler goes inside the infamously lavish life of billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, once the richest man in the world.
He made more money than anyone in history. And he spent it at a dizzying clip of $330,000 a day, every day of...
A Natural Woman
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Read the New York Times bestselling memoir that is "revealing, humble, and cool-aunt chatty" about the incredible life that inspired the hit Broadway musical Beautiful. (Rolling Stone)
Carole King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of...
The Art of Asking
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
FOREWORD BY BRENE BROWN and POSTSCRIPT FROM BRAIN PICKINGS CREATOR MARIA POPOVA
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became...
Mo' Meta Blues
The World According to Questlove
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
"You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau
A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of...
Waylon
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Waylon Jennings relates the story of his life as a country music star. His beginnings were poor but he became Buddy Holly's protege before sinking into drug abuse and 3 failed marriages. His success came when he met his present wife, Jessi Colter.
Somebody to Love?
A Rock-and-Roll Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
A candid autobiography of the great rock diva of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, revealing her wild life at the forefront of the Sixties and Seventies counterculture.
She has been called rock and roll's original female outlaw, as famous for her bad behavior as for her haunting singing...
The Children of Willesden Lane
Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
An important and inspiring true story of survival during World War II
Mona Golabek tells the tale of her mother Lisa Jura Golabek's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the infamous Kindertransport.
Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura has a wonderful life in Vienna. But when...
Becoming Beyoncé
The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A Billboard Must-Read Fall 2015 Music Book
The first comprehensive biography ever published about America's favorite living pop icon, Beyoncé, from New York Times bestselling biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli.
Beyoncé Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing...
Disgraceland
Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
From the creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history.
You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot...
by Ellen DeGeneres
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Ellen DeGeneres's winning, upbeat candor has made her show one of the most popular, resilient, and honored daytime shows on the air, and her life makes for great (and very funny) reading. Relatable, her first stand-up special in 15 years, airs on Netflix beginning December 18, 2018.
"I've...
by Tyrese Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Actor, singer, songwriter Tyrese Gibson crafts a memoir filled with every emotion and life experience one could possibly imagine. With personal experiences paired with reflective questions based on his extremely popular blog piece, "The Love Circle", Tyrese hopes to inspire readers to pursue...
by Chelsea Handler
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In these personal essays, the hilarious comedian and Chelsea Lately host reflects on family, love life, and the absurdities of adulthood with "cheeky candor" and signature wit (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent...
Sharon Osbourne Extreme
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2006
Sharon Osbourne reveals the truth behind the headlines in her characteristically frank, intimate and articulate memoir-from her childhood as the daughter of Don Arden, to managing and marrying Ozzy Osbourne, to her rising fame on shows such as The Osbournes and The X Factor.
A devoted wife...
Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy
Advice from Rock's Ultimate Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Wondering if science could explain how he survived his 40-year avalanche of drugs and alcohol, Ozzy Osbourne became one of a handful of people in the world to have his entire DNA mapped in 2010. It was a highly complex, $65,000 process, but the results were conclusive: Ozzy is a genetic anomaly. The...