On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac. On the Road was
his second novel and was based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across America during the late 1940s. The
novel was turned into a film in 2012 entitled On the Road and was produced by Francis Ford Coppola.
Scar Tissue is the memoirs of Red Hot Chili Peppers vocalist Anthony Kiedis. Scar Tissue focuses on Kiedis’ life from 1962 (his birth) to early 2004. The book focuses mainly on Kiedis’ drug addictions. Kiedis claims he began using at the tender age of 11. The title of his memoirs was lifted from the Chili Peppers’ 1999 single Scar Tissue off their seventh album Californication. The single remains one of the band’s most successful singles and chronicles Kiedis’ drug addiction and the effect that these addictions caused within the band.
The Chili Peppers took a bit of a break in 2008, but came back with their tenth album I’m With You in August 2011. In January 2012, Kiedis was finally able to have surgery on his foot on which he had sustained multiple injuries. On April 14, 2012, the Chili Peppers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They are said to be currently working on their eleventh album.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Contact Publishing, 1947)
In 1942, Nazis occupied Holland. 13-year-old Anne Frank and her family fled Amsterdam and lived with another family in the “Secret Annexe” of an abandoned office building. Anne survived this period of her life by recording everything that occured in a diary. That diary has since become a worldwide classic, having been published in over 60 languages.
Tragically, the Franks were apprehended in 1944 and young Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her father, Otto, was the lone survivor of his family.
Anne’s diary was adapted into a 1955 play and a 1959 movie.