A biography of Patrick Stewart, from his humble and hard begginings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim.

To fans of the hugely successful television series Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert grew up in a fantasy world with a larger-than-life father, friends and family she could count on, and plenty of animals to play with. Children across the country dreamed of the Ingalls' idyllic life -- and so did Melissa. She was a natural on camera, but behind the scenes, life was more complicated. Adopted as a baby into a legendary show business family,...

Maria’s one-night-stand, who she left without a word or a note, just reappeared. Apparently, Peter’s her surly Gods of the Gates co-star, and they’re about to spend the next six years filming on a desolate Irish island together. She still wants him…but he now wants nothing to do with her. Peter knows this role could finally transform him into a leading man. He also knows a failed relationship with Maria could poison the set, and he won’t...

When Connor Larkin boards a late night bus in downtown LA, he's not sure where he's going or what he's looking for. Putting his acting career - and his fiancée - on hold, he's searching for something he can't define, a part of himself he lost on the road to success. Once he dreamed of being a singer in the classic style of Sinatra and Bennett. But his lean good looks soon landed him in movies as the sexy "bad guy" - and in the arms of a famous young...

When Rylan North flashes his endearing smile at her, Kirsten Rumm knows she can't refuse him. Bold, brash, and demanding, Rylan is the perfect choice to play Kirsten's stunt pilot husband "Demon" Rumm who fell prey to one of his own daring acts. But before Rylan immerses himself in Kirsten's world, he must confront and exorcise the secrets that haunt him, all the while trusting that she'll find courage to love again.

When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to try to change things at school for the better.

"Yet Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is not a memoir of show-business ups and downs. It is a story of a boy growing into a man who then realizes he has only just begun to grow. It is the story of turning points in Alda's life, events that would make him what he is - if only he could survive them." "From the moment as a boy when his dead dog is returned from the taxidermist's shop with a hideous expression on its face, and Alda learns that death can't...

Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, she found an early outlet in local community theater—it was the one place where big feelings were okay—were good, even. At eighteen she moved to New York, where she’d spend the next ten years of her life auditioning, waiting tables,...

Beginning with Reynolds’s adolescence as a notable football player and the devastating car accident that ended his sports career, he takes readers from the Broadway stages where he got his start to his subsequent rise to fame. From Oscar nominations, to the spread inCosmopolitan magazine, to the financial decisions that took him from rich to poor and back again, Reynolds shares the wisdom that has come from his many highs and lows. Through it all,...

A powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman. One month before the release of the highly anticipated film The Birth of a Nation, actress Gabrielle Union shook the world with a vulnerable and impassioned editorial in which she urged our society to have compassion for victims of sexual violence. In the wake of rape allegations made against director and actor Nate Parker, Union--a...