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Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
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Shoko Tendo · 216 pages
Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen
Reymundo Sanchez, Sonia Rodriguez · 288 pages
Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King
Reymundo Sanchez · 304 pages
Mr. Nice
Howard Marks · 466 pages
THE BOOK: During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealingMarks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosopy course at Oxford and soon he was moving much
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Sanyika Shakur · 383 pages
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
Stanley Tookie Williams · 400 pages
Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld
Nicolai Lilin · 447 pages
By the age of six, Nicolai Lilin had been given his first 'pike knife' by an uncle, and by the age of twelve, he had been convicted of attempted murder . . . Nicolai Lilin gained his 'education' as a member of the Siberian Urkas - a small and tight-knit community of 'honest criminals' in a forgotten corner of Eastern Europe . . . Siberian Education is his tale of an extreme childhood - exotic, vio
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
Ice-T, Douglas Century · 251 pages
The hip-hop artist and television star shares the story of his early life, marked by the deaths of his parents, his involvement in gangs, and the single-minded work ethic that enabled his rise to international fame.
Donnie Brasco
Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 pages
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
Peter Hook
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain · 320 pages
A celebrity chef shares anecdotes of his experience in the restaurant industry, and of his journey from dishwasher to a position of fame in the food industry.
A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
Joseph Bonanno · 416 pages
Joseph Bonanno provides a unique view of life inside the Mafia, describing the organization and its important figures and his vision of this closed society as a confederacy of men of honor.
Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography
Mike Tyson · 580 pages
"A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world--and a legend both in and out of the ring"--
Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
Molly Bloom · 368 pages
Working Class Boy
Jimmy Barnes · 384 pages
Working Class Boy is a powerful reflection on a traumatic and violent childhood, which fuelled the excess and recklessness that would define, but almost destroy, the rock'n'roll legend. This is the story of how James Swan became Jimmy Barnes. It is a memoir burning with the frustration and frenetic energy of teenage sex, drugs, violence and ambition for more than what you have. Raw, gritty, compas
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Laura Jane Grace · 313 pages
The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.
Lips Unsealed: A Memoir
Belinda Carlisle · 276 pages
The front woman for The Go-Go's, one of the most iconic bands of the 1980s, takes a spellbinding look at life in the fast lane of the rock world and explores her struggles with weight, sobriety, spirituality, and self-esteem.
Scar Tissue
Anthony Kiedis · 465 pages
Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scene in L.A. with their own unique brand of cosmic hardcore mayhem funk. Over twenty years later, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, against all odds, have become one of the most successful bands in the world. Though
The Fry Chronicles
Stephen Fry · 448 pages
The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
You Can Run But You Can't Hide
Duane "Dog" Chapman · 306 pages
Duane Chapman, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter, has had an amazing life. He had a troubled and trying upbringing, which led to an early life of crime, including numerous arrests for armed robbery and a murder conviction. While Dog claims to be innocent of the murder rap, he maintains that the 5 years he served for the crime changed his life. With a newfound respect for the law, Dog vowed to become a for
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Rob Lowe · 344 pages
A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.