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Twenty-five years ago, The Spice Girls, a girlband that began after answering an advert in the paper, released our first single. 'Wannabe' became a hit and from that moment, my life changed for ever. I was suddenly part of one of the biggest music groups in history, releasing hit after hit, performing to our wonderful fans and spreading the message of Girl Power to the world. It was everything I'd dreamed of growing up, and I've had some incredible times.

Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors' notoriously quiet guitarist is finally breaking his silence to set the record straight.

Amy Poehler is hosting a dinner party and you're invited! Welcome to the audiobook edition of Amy Poehler's Yes Please. The guest list is star-studded with vocal appearances from Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Michael Schur, Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner, and even Amy’s parents - Yes Please is the ultimate audiobook extravaganza.

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories and insights, his closest friends, confidantes, lovers, classmates, teachers, and colleagues paint a vivid portrait of one of the most beloved figures of the 20th century, revealing how the boy who saluted became the man America came to know and love who still captures public imagination twenty-five years after his tragic death.

Matt Dahlia was a recent college grad with no direction in his life: his business was dead on arrival and all his friends had left town. He was broke and searching for belonging in a world that didn’t understand him. That is, until he serendipitously met Thomas, who not only felt the same way he did, but had a project in mind: Together, along with two more like-minded strangers, they were going to move into a one-bedroom apartment and film themselves doing 30 things they had never done before in 30 days.

Michael’s first book ended with his big break at the 2006 Royal Variety Performance. Waking up the next morning in the tiny rented flat he shared with his wife, Kitty, and their one-year-old son, he was beyond excited about the new glamorous world of show business. Unfortunately, he was also clueless. In A Funny Life, Michael honestly and hilariously shares the highs and the lows of his rise to the top and desperate attempts to stay there.

Die spannendsten Fälle schreibt das Leben. Er spielt mit in dem oscar-prämierten Film "Die Fälscher", mit Kevin Costner macht er während der Drehpausen im Wohnwagen Musik, als Kommissar im Kroatien-Krimi begeistert er regelmäßig ein Millionenpublikum. Das Leben von Lenn Kudrjawizki ist aufregend und abwechslungsreich und doch so viel mehr als eine reine Schauspielerbiografie. Schon als Kind hört Lenn von seinem Großvater die Geschichten seiner jüdischen Familie von Krieg, Flucht und Vertreibung. Seine Jugend in der DDR erlebt er wechselvoll und voller Umbrüche.

Two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner was the second-most-googled person in 2023—and not for his impressive filmography. His searing portrayals on film ranged from an Iraq-based army bomb technician in The Hurt Locker and a Boston bank robber in The Town to a crooked Camden mayor in American Hustle before he became heir to the Jason Bourne franchise (The Bourne Legacy). Amongst other iconic roles, he also captured hearts as fan-favorite comic book marksman Hawkeye in seven Marvel films.

Rechtzeitig zu seinem 60. Geburtstag blickt Wolfgang Bahro auf sein bisheriges Leben zurück, in dem Rechtsanwalt Jo Gerner eine besonders große Rolle spielt. Diesen Juristen mit einem fatalen Hang zu ungesetzlichen Handlungen verkörpert Bahro in der Kultserie "Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten" seit 1993. Und zwar so gut, dass er damit zum Publikumsliebling wurde. Obwohl es ein Leben vor Gerner gab und sogar eines neben ihm gibt, in dem Bahro erfolgreich Theater spielt und eigene Kabarettprogramme aufführt, überstrahlt dieser Typ alles.

Wimbledon champion at 17, six-time grand slam winner, and former world number one in men’s singles, Boris Becker achieved huge success, global fame and considerable wealth through his tennis career. Becker had it all – but in April 2022, everything changed when he was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bankruptcy charges. Inside offers a raw and unflinching account of Becker’s life behind bars, from the brutal realities of surviving two of the UK’s toughest prisons, to the friendships and unexpected lessons in resilience that kept him going.

"Meine Eltern wollten keine Kinder mehr. Mein Vater brauchte nur einen Sohn. Für die große Firma. Obwohl sich meine Mutter während ihrer Schwangerschaft fast zu Tode hungerte, wurde ich trotzdem geboren. Vier Monate zu früh ... Kein guter Start ins Leben. Internat ... Mein Bruder erbte ein millionenschweres Imperium. Ich erbte nichts. Ein Nahtoderlebnis. Eine fulminante Karriere. Viele Preise. Die Presse schreibt: 'A Star is born.' Einen lieben Mann und Gott." (Eva-Maria Admiral über sich selbst) Die Geschichte einer Frau, die durch den Glauben ein anderes Leben gefunden hat.

Das Leben eines der größten deutschen Entertainer der letzten Jahrzehnte: Als langjähriger Freund von Thomas Gottschalk hat der Autor Gert Heidenreich hier den Vorteil, den ansonsten sehr auf sein Privatleben bedachten Radio- und Fernsehmoderator und Entertainer von einer privaten Seite zeigen zu können, die vielen ansonsten verwehrt bliebe. Die steile Karriere Gottschalks lässt Heidenreich mit Hilfe von Interviews der engsten Familienmitglieder und Freunde Revue passieren.

Since the age of 20, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock 'n' roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on his childhood - blighted by his mother's death but redeemed by the father who introduced him to music.

Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature.

In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on the hit drama One Tree Hill. Her career was about to take off, but her personal life was slowly beginning to unravel. What none of the show’s millions of fans knew, hidden even from her costars, was her secret double life in a cult. An only child who always wanted a place to belong, Lenz found the safe haven she’d been searching for in a Bible study group with other Hollywood creatives. However, the group soon morphed into something more sinister.

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a b*tch is fifty-five and she’s smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy, I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL.

Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman - who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking - he runs his own woodshop - Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman's childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois, to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally.

The son of a British army sergeant-major and Italian mother, Brian grew up in Dunston, Tyne and Wear, as it emerged from the shadow of the Second World War. Then he saw Little Richard on the BBC and it changed the course of his life. The choirboy and cub scout was going to be singer.

While struggling to find success as an actor and pay the bills, something accidentally happened to Jeff Hiller: he aged. And while it’s one thing to get older and rest on the laurels of success from the blood, sweat, and tears of your youth, it’s quite another to be old and have no laurels. At forty, stuck in a temp job making spreadsheets, the dream of becoming a star seemed out of reach. But after twenty-five years of guest roles on TV and performing improv in a grocery store basement, he finally struck gold with a breakout role on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, playing Joel.

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens - as he later put it, "It was clear my people needed me." They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item.