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Willie Nelson's Letters to America
Willie Nelson · Harper Horizon
Format: Hardcover
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American music legend Willie Nelson follows his bestselling books It's a Long Story and The Tao of Willie with Letters to America, a more personal and intimate book than anything he's ever written.From his opening letter "Dear America" to his "Dear Willie" epilogue,... |
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Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
Danny Trejo · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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On screen, Danny Trejo the actor is a baddie who has been killed at least a hundred times. He's been shot, stabbed, hanged, chopped up, squished by an elevator, and once, was even melted into a bloody goo. Off screen, he's a hero beloved by recovery communities and obsessed fans... |
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Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder
Mikita Brottman · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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On February 21, 1992, 22-year-old Brian Bechtold walked into a police station in Port St. Joe, Florida and confessed that he'd shot and killed his parents in their family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He said he'd been possessed by the devil. He was eventually diagnosed with... |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents'... |
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A Bridge in Babylon: Stories of a Military Chaplain in Iraq
Owen R. Chandler · Chalice Press
Format: Paperback
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Experience the battlefields of Iraq with army chaplain Owen Chandler. As an Arizona Army National Reservist, Chandler was deployed to Iraq as chaplain of the 336th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, leaving behind his wife, three young children, and a congregation for more than a year.... |
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Millennial Nuns: Reflections on Living a Spiritual Life in a World of Social Media
The Daughters of Saint Paul · Tiller Press
Format: Hardcover
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Friend. Artist. Writer. Businesswomen. Advocate. Scholar. The women whose pieces are included in this book hold many different titles. But they all share two important characteristics. First, they are all young women. Second, they are all consecrated religious of the Catholic order the Daughters... |
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Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation
John Lewis · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Congressman John Lewis was a paragon of the Civil Rights Movement and political leadership for decades. A hero we won't soon forget, Lewis was a beacon of hope and a model of humility whose invocation to "good trouble" continues to inspire millions across our nation. In his last... |
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Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
Adam Makos · Berkley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The book presents accounts of heroism and honor as told by World War II veterans Sid Phillips, R.V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum - whose exploits were featured in the HBO mini-series The Pacific - and their Marine buddies from the legendary 1st Marine Division.These Marines trace the action... |
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Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
Karl Deisseroth · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain's workings. In Projections, he combines... |
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The Ugly Cry: A Memoir
Danielle Henderson
Format: Hardcover
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"Painfully good. I loved it." "The Ugly Cry is the funniest memoir I have ever read. It is also achingly sad. And powerfully redemptive." "If you fight that motherf**ker and you don't win, you're going to come home and fight me." Not the advice you'd... |
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