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Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game

Alexander Wolff · Library of America
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover

From the street game to March Madness to Jordan and LeBron, the greatest writing about the grit, grace, and glory of basketballMade in America, basketball is a sport that stirs a national passion, reaching fever pitch during the NCAA's March Madness and the NBA Finals. Masterfully assembled...
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Wind Chimes: The Simplicity of Being

James R. Heldwein · BalboaPress
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback

In all of nature, humankind alone seems to have a virtual monopoly on psychological suffering. This does not need to be, for as written centuries ago in the great and timeless wisdom of the ancient scriptures, the time has come to know the 'Truth that shall set you free' Wind Chimes...
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer

Robert T. Kiyosaki · Plata Publishing
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback

It's Robert Kiyosaki's position that "It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else." He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad - the #1 Personal Finance book of all time - and in Why the Rich...
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Food for Life: Delicious & Healthy Comfort Food From My Table To Yours!

Laila Ali · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Four-time undefeated boxing world champion, cooking personality, and passionate health advocate, Laila Ali's Food For Life features over 100 sassy recipes that will help you "swap it out."In Laila's kitchen, nutrition is King, but flavor is Queen! In her debut cookbook, Laila...
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The Doable Off-Grid Homestead: Cultivating a Simple Life by Hand . . . on a Budget

SHANNON STONGER · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

If you've ever thought about starting your own farm or homestead but weren't sure how to get started, follow Shannon and Stewart Stonger, two self-made homesteaders, and their plan on how to start and succeed at homesteading. Shannon and Stewart left their home in the city and moved...
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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Gordon S Wood · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course.Thomas...
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Latin America's Wars Volume I: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791-1899

Robert L Scheina · Potomac Books Inc.
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

Robert Scheina's latest book, drawn upon years of research, lecturing, and teaching in the field, is a groundbreaking and definitive study of Latin American military history. Despite the pivotal role of wars in U.S. history, few in the United States understand their effect elsewhere...
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Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII

Scott Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover

This is the secret and suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of Germans conspiring to assassinate Hitler and negotiate surrender to bring about the end of World War II before the Soviet's advance.Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent...
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Because of Bethlehem Every Day a Christmas, Every Heart a Manger

Max Lucado · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Max Lucado loves Christmas. Let the sleigh bells ring. Let the carolers sing. The more Santas the merrier. The more trees the better. He loves it because somewhere someone will ask the Christmas questions: What's the big deal about the baby in the manger? Who was he? What does his birth...
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon

Robert Kurson · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The inside, lesser-known story of NASA's boldest and riskiest mission: Apollo 8, mankind's first journey to the Moon on Christmas in 1968. A riveting account of three heroic astronauts who took one of the most dangerous space flights ever, from the New York Times bestselling author of Shadow...
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Perfect Love: You Can Experience God's Total Acceptance

Joyce Meyer · FaithWords
Format: Print book

Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. God loves you perfectly, all the time. But if you sometimes feel unworthy, struggle with self-doubt, or believe He's mad at you, Joyce Meyer, #1 New York Times bestselling author, wants to help you embrace the power of knowing God's total acceptance....
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SketchUp For Dummies

Aidan Chopra · John Wiley
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Design almost anything in 3D with SketchUp Whether you've dabbled in drawing in 3D or are interested in learning the basics of design, SketchUp For Dummies makes it fast and easy to learn the ropes of a powerful, user-friendly tool to bring your design ideas to life. From creating a basic...
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

ALEXANDER CHEE · Mariner Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist - and how we form our identities in life and in art. As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as "masterful" by Roxane Gay, "incomparable" by Junot...
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

Maia Szalavitz · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century...
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