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Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
John Saunders · Da Capo Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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In Playing Hurt, a leading figure in the sports world-the quintessential "man's man," who seems to have it all-confesses his constant battle with depression. John Saunders welcomes readers into the heart of his desperate struggle through insights into the root causes of depression... |
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The Hero's Body: A Memoir
William Giraldi · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever... |
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His Father's Son: The Life of General Ted Roosevelt, Jr.
Tim Brady · New American Library
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The story of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., a fortunate son who proved himself on the battlefields of two world wars.General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born... |
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Man Stuff: Thoughts on Faith, Family, and Fatherhood
Josh Turner · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Be a stronger, more effective dad, family man, and man of God. Described as a devoted family man, strong Christian, generous philanthropist, and passionate sports fan, Josh Turner is one busy guy. And despite his recording schedule, award shows, and national tour dates, a few of his biggest... |
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Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission
Bob Drury · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight... |
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Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend
Deirdre Bair · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 395
Format: Print book
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From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone... |
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Dreaming the Beatles
Robert J Sheffield · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Book
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Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known... |
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My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
Andrew Carroll · Penguin Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters, a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, centered on an intimate portrait of General Pershing, drawing on a rich trove of newly uncovered letters Based on an astonishing collection of letters... |
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Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
ELAINE M HAYES · ECCO
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women's and civil rightsSarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad array of singers... |
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
CAITLIN DOUGHTY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia,... |
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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
David Hugh Bunnell · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling mix of personal... |
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