'Live Wire' is a sharp, funny, and honest collection of real-life stories from Kelly Ripa, showing the many dimensions and crackling wit of the beloved daytime talk show host.

In the summer of 1964, the Beatles took America by storm and changed rock 'n' roll forever. In this first-ever chronicling of that revolutionary tour from the inside, author Ivor Davis serves up the stories behind the stories as only an insider can. In the rowdy and riotous recollections of “The Beatles and Me on Tour”, Ivor Davis, then a reporter for the London Daily Express, shares his unrestricted access to the Liverpool lads as a member of...

"It always bothered me that Aasif was more than merely funny-he's also a great actor. Now I've learned he's an amazing storyteller as well, and I am furious . . . but also grateful. Aasif's movement between cultures and genres is what makes him and his story singularly funny, poignant, and essential." - John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require "My father moved our family to the United States because...

Third Day guitarist Mark Lee is no stranger to heartache and hopes deferred; the road to success is never traveled without missteps along the way. Life is messy and uncertain and full of surprises. And one of the best things he's ever done is let go of his expectations about how life should be in order to embrace life as it is: a moment-by-moment walk with God. Hurt Road is the engaging true story of a man who, as a teen, found in music a refuge from...

"Sex, Drums & Rock 'N Roll" will take you on the journey of a kid watching the band and wishing to play in it one day. Finally, as life has it, he gets to be part of the show. Follow decades of madness behind the scenes of band life. This book will take you on stage for performances to remember and through the most shocking parts of life on the road. Dangerous roads will make you glad you came to see the show but didn't ride with us. All I can say...

This is the definitive biography of the most powerful man in Hollywood during the 1940s and '50s, the man who founded the Hollywood Reporter and the most storied nightspots of the Sunset Strip, introduced Clark Gable and Lana Turner to the studios, invented Las Vegas, brought the Mafia to Hollywood, engineered the shakedown of Hollywood studios by Willie Bioff and his mob-run unions, ordered the murder of Buggsy Siegel, started the Hollywood Blacklist,...

Best known for the "dead-ant" theme to the Pink Panther films, Henry Mancini also composed the music to Peter Gunn, “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, Orson Welles' “Touch of Evil”, and the Academy Award winning soundtracks to “Victor/Victoria” and “The Days of Wine and Roses”. In a career that lasted over thirty years, Mancini amassed twenty Grammy awards and more nominations than any other composer. In his memoir, written with jazz expert...

Hollywood is a chain gang, and we lose the will to escape, the links of our chain are forged not of cruelties but of luxuries: we are pelted with orchids and roses, we are overpaid and underworked.' First there was Charles Chaplin. Then came Stan Laurel, and subsequently a host of well-loved British actors and characters whose lives, loves, lavish parties and bitter rivalries constitute the sceptred isle's last empire builders. This unique and comprehensive...

Dion came up out of the Bronx in the 50s and tore through the music charts in a ferocious display of talent. He continued to make great music while slowly returning to his Catholic roots. His hard-won wisdom filters through his stories whether he's recalling how he went shopping with John Lennon and ended up on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or what it was like to travel in the Jim Crow South with Sam Cooke.