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  • Warrior

    A Memoir

    In this inspiring memoir, a former female Marine platoon leader recalls the wars she has fought—on the playing field, the battlefield, and inside her own soul—revealing how overcoming the harrowing circumstances in her life helped her ultimately redefine what it means to be strong and what “perfect” really is.Theresa Larson has lived multiple lives. At ten she was a caregiver to her dying mother. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 13 Days in Ferguson

    by Ron Johnson ...
    On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited race riots throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Charged with the Herculean task of restoring peace between a hostile African American community and the local police, Johnson, a 30-year law enforcement veteran and an African ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hang Time

    My Life in Basketball

    Elgin Baylor's memoir of an epic all-star career in the NBA—during which he transformed basketball from a horizontal game to a vertical one—and his fights against racism during his career as a player and as general manager of the LA Clippers under the infamous Donald SterlingPeople think of Elgin Baylor as one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the game—and one of the NBA's first ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love Thy Neighbor

    A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America

    A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYIn 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage of doctors in rural America. But in 2016, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Playing God

    The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon

    “I am a doctor.”Every year, thousands of medical school graduates utter these four simple words. But as you will see in Playing God, earning an M.D. is just the first step to becoming a real physician.In this page-turning, thrilling, and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In Stitches

    Scrubs meets David Sedaris in this hilarious fish-out-of- water memoir about a young Korean-American nerd turned renowned plastic surgeon.Tony Youn grew up one of two Asian-American kids in a small town where diversity was uncommon. Too tall and too thin, he wore thick Coke-bottle glasses, braces, Hannibal Lecter headgear, and had a protruding jaw that one day began to grow, expanding to an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ten on Sunday

    The Secret Life of Men

    A moving, lyrical, eye-opening look at the true nature of intimacy among men.The L.A. riots had an indelible effect upon the city of Los Angeles, upon the wider debate in this country about race, and especially -- in the pages of this wonderful memoir -- on ten weekend basketball players. After the riots, and once he'd fled his mid-city home for the relative safety of suburban Santa Monica, Alan ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Handoff

    A Memoir of Two Guys, Sports, and Friendship

    by John Tournour ...
    John Tournour, known to his many listeners and fans as JT the Brick, is one of the biggest sports radio personalities in America. Making it as a sports radio host is almost impossible, and JT went about it in a fearless way, leaving a lucrative position as a Merrill Lynch stockbroker to pursue his dream. But Tournour's hardest challenge would come when his best friend and mentor, Andrew Ashwood ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sports Talk

    A Journey Inside the World of Sports Talk Radio

    A Journey inside the World of Sports Talk RadioTheir voices explode over the airwaves -- with names like Mike and the Mad Dog, the Stinkin' Genius, Hacksaw, and JT the Brick. They broadcast in drive time and downtime, from rush hour to the dead of night. And yet, millions of fans tune in around the clock to hear their favorite larger-than-life radio personalities rant, rave, critique, predict, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Barack Like Me

    The Chocolate-Covered Truth

    FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing, David Alan Grier examines how he -- and America -- have changed for the better and the funnier.Within these pages, Grier imagines being called to serve in President Obama's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Kindergarten Wars

    The Battle to Get into America's Best Private Schools

    The Kindergarten Wars is the first narrative nonfiction book ever to take the reader inside all aspects of the private school application process. Eisenstock follows several families across the country from their first school tours until the moment they open their admissions letters. He interviews admissions directors, school heads, teachers, educational consultants, and kindergarten tutors, who ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • I'm Not Gonna Lie: And Other Lies You Tell When You Turn 50

    From one of the most celebrated and beloved comedians and actors of our time, George Lopez, comes this hilarious, touching, and often wacky chronicle of life after fifty.George Lopez just hit the half-century mark and the reset button on his life. Newly single and ready to embrace life, George was excited to turn fifty. It would be a welcome new phase in his life, a chance to say goodbye to a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD