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Justin Bieber looks back — yes, back.
Major publishing house HarperCollins has announced that they will publish an official illustrated memoir from 16-year-old pop music star Justin Bieber. The book, “Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story,” is due in stores in October, just in time for purchases for holiday gift-giving.
Bieber is the first pop artist to send four songs into the pop top 40 off a debut album even before the album is released. He is also the youngest male soloist to hit No. 1 on the album chart since 13-year-old Stevie Wonder in 1963.
Bieber says about the book, “Every day I wake up and count my blessings. My fans have played such a large part in all of this, and they help me live my dreams every day.”
HarperCollins’ Susan Katz says, “Justin’s adoring and devoted fan base that started on YouTube now follows him to packed concert halls around the world. . . . we are incredibly excited to be publishing this photographic memoir.
First Lines
Fragile, by Lisa Unger
When Jones Cooper was younger, he didn’t believe in mistakes. He thought that every road led you somewhere and wherever you wound up, that’s where you belonged. Regrets were for the shortsighted, for the small-minded. He didn’t believe that anymore. That was a young man’s arrogant way of looking at the world. And youth, among other things, had abandoned him long ago.
Jones felt the full weight of all his regrets as he pulled his Ford Explorer off the small side road and engaged the four-wheel drive to haul himself through the muck. Over the last week, the late autumn weather had been wild — hot one day, cold with flurries the next, then warm again. Now a thunderstorm loomed, as if heaven itself had decided to launch a protest against the erratic conditions. By morning, his tracks would be lost.
What had amazed him, what amazed him still, even after all these years, was how quickly he’d stepped out of himself. He’d slipped off every convention and moral that had defined him, a great cowl that fell to the floor with the unfastening of a single closure. The person beneath it was someone he barely recognized. He’d tried to tell himself over the years that the circumstances had changed him, that they’d forced him into aberrant behavior. But in his deepest heart, he knew. He knew what he was. He was weak. He was base. He always had been.
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