'Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.'
So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along onhisjourneyfromchildhood ambition to fame to addiction andrecoveryintheaftermath of a life-threatening health scare.
Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-yearold Matthew, who traveled from Montreal to Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents; fourteenyear- oldMatthew,whowasa nationally ranked tennis star in Canada; twenty-four-yearold Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast member on the talked about pilot then called Friends.
In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, and in the heartfelt, hilarious, and warmly familiar way only he could tell it, Matthew Perry lays bare the fractured family that raised him (and also left him to his own devices), the desire for recognition that drove him to fame, and the void inside him that could not be filled even by his greatest dreams coming true.
But he also details the peace he's found in sobriety and how he feels about the ubiquity of Friends, sharing stories about his cast-mates and other stars he met along the way.
Frank, self-aware, and with his trademark humor, Perry vividly depicts his lifelong battle with addiction and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry, is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening as well as a hand extended to anyone struggling with sobriety. It is unflinchingly honest, moving, and uproariously funny.
In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others.
Pop star Spears’s recounts her rise to superstardom and the suffering she endured during her 13 year conservatorship in this memoir.
Thetimeframespansfrom Spears’s childhood in Louisiana in the 1980’s to the final stages of the “Free Britney” movement in 2021 with stops in Vegas and at the MTV Video Music Awards, and the focus remains squarely on Spears’s lack of control, over her fraying family of origin, her public image, and eventually her own life.
Spears’s shows us the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last. The Woman in Me by Brittany Spears is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.
Isabelle “Izzy” Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project—an indoor/ outdoor café that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzyknowsjustwhereto get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation.
But the Zoe that Izzy reencounters doesn’t seem like her old, confident friend. This Zoe is tense and stressed, and Izzy eventually learns why.
Buildings and bridges have been collapsing all over the world, causing hundreds of deaths, and Zoe suspects her firm’s inferior foundation materials are the cause.
When she asks questions, she gets told to keep her nose out of what doesn’t concern her. Zoe knows someone has toblowthewhistleandreveal the truth. Who better than the Sisterhood?
As the world's most famous vigilantes, the women of the Sisterhood have seen justiceservedcountlesstimes over the years. But this adversary has money, power, and resources to match the Sisterhood’s—and no intention of giving up without a fight.
Rock Bottom is another adventure in the Sisterhood series by author Fern Michaels.