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By Blake Hoena. 2021
In an era of discrimination, Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson broke Major League Baseball's race barrier. Before Robinson took his place…
at first base, the majors discriminated against African-American athletes, denying them a chance to compete. Despite facing harassment from fans and other players, Robinson stayed focused on the game, becoming the MLB Rookie of the Year in 1947 and later a baseball legend. This graphic biography follows Robinson's time on semi-pro teams, his days in the US military, and his history-making experience with the Brooklyn DodgersBy Kate Summerscale. 2021
Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize &“Prepare not to see much broad daylight, literal or metaphorical, for days if…
you read this.... The atmosphere evoked is something I will never forget.&”— The Times (London) London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding&’s modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewelry appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a turtle materializes on her lap. The culprit is incorporeal. As Alma cannot call the police, she calls the papers instead. After the sensational story headlines the news, Nandor Fodor, a Hungarian ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research, arrives to investigate the poltergeist. But when he embarks on his scrupulous investigation, he discovers that the case is even stranger than it seems. By unravelling Alma&’s peculiar history, Fodor finds a different and darker type of haunting, a tale of trauma, alienation, loss and revenge. He comes to believe that Alma&’s past has bled into her present, her mind into her body. There are no words for processing her experience, so it comes to possess her. As the threat of a world war looms, and as Fodor&’s obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed. With characteristic rigor and insight, Kate Summerscale brilliantly captures the rich atmosphere of a haunting that transforms into a very modern battle between the supernatural and the subconsciousBy Lecrae Moore. 2020
Includes a bonus track featuring Lecrae's song "Still"! The untold story of how Lecrae's past nearly ruined his life—until he…
learned that the wounds we carry point to the healing and freedom we all desperately need. When all you've suffered threatens to destroy your life, how do you get back to the truth you thought you believed? I Am Restored is the shattering yet hope-filled story of how Lecrae faced the buried wounds of his past—sexual abuse, physical trauma, addiction, and depression—and emerged more fully human than ever before. With remarkable transparency and vulnerability, Lecrae reveals how at the height of his professional success, his life was spinning out of control, driven by a past that he had never confronted and a religious perspective incapable of meeting the challenge. In this powerful, deeply personal account, Lecrae provides an unflinching look at the personal and public spaces that are too often places of pain and heartache—culture, politics, family, church—and reminds us that letting go and forgiving is the birthplace for the life of creativity and freedom God has for us. In addition, he shares the transformational yet simple practices he uses daily for mental, emotional, and spiritual health. I Am Restored is a hopeful, inspiring charge to embrace the lasting healing and restoration available now, because no matter what you've experienced, God is near, he hears, and he's not done with you yetBy Clinton Heylin. 2021
From the world's leading authority on Bob Dylan comes the definitive biography that promises to transform our understanding of the…
man and musician—created with early access to Dylan's never-before-studied archives. When it was announced, nearly two years ago, that the pre-Nobel Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma for the astonishing sum of $22 million, the shock was palpable. Initially, one almost wondered if this was the pop culture equivalent of the Hitler diaries. How could there be this much material accumulated and archived from one of the world's least fastidious documenters of his own work? It simply couldn't be true.But what Clinton Heylin, considered to be the leading expert on Dylan's life and work, found when he traveled to the archives was enough to make him entirely rethink his understanding of music's greatest living legend. Boxes of small notebooks into which Dylan wrote in his microscopic hand his draft ideas, beginning in 1967 and stretching to the present day, previously undocumented working notebooks for Blood on the Tracks ; multiple drafts of his novel, Tarantula; letters and contracts that show Dylan's hard-won business acumen and artistic integrity time and time again; and, most exciting of all, so many song drafts for the majority of his key songs that a complete rethink of his working methods—and industry—is now required.With the discovery of such vast and previously unseen materials, Heylin had no choice but to return to Dylan. This time, by cutting his career in half, The Double Life of Bob Dylan dives deeper, explores further, and more thoroughly captures the enigmatic artist than has ever been done beforeBy Bruce Greyson. 2021
This program includes three bonus interviews with the author. The world's leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward…
rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuity of consciousness. Cases of remarkable experiences on the threshold of death have been reported since ancient times, and are described today by 10% of people whose hearts stop. The medical world has generally ignored these "near-death experiences," dismissing them as "tricks of the brain" or wishful thinking. But after his patients started describing events that he could not just sweep under the rug, Dr. Bruce Greyson began to investigate. As a physician without a religious belief system, he approached near-death experiences from a scientific perspective. In After, he shares the transformative lessons he has learned over four decades of research. Our culture has tended to view dying as the end of our consciousness, the end of our existence—a dreaded prospect that for many people evokes fear and anxiety. But Dr. Greyson shows how scientific revelations about the dying process can support an alternative theory. Dying could be the threshold between one form of consciousness and another, not an ending but a transition. This new perspective on the nature of death can transform the fear of dying that pervades our culture into a healthy view of it as one more milestone in the course of our lives. After challenges us to open our minds to these experiences and to what they can teach us, and in so doing, expand our understanding of consciousness and of what it means to be human. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's EssentialsIn 2017, Anne Bokma embarked on a quest to become a more spiritual person. After leaving the fundamentalist religion of…
her youth, she became one of the eighty million North Americans who consider themselves spiritual-but-not-religious, the fastest growing “faith” category. In mid-life she found herself addicted to busyness, drinking too much, hooked on social media, dreading the empty nest and still struggling with alienation from her ultra-religious family. In response, she set out on a year-long whirlwind adventure to immerse herself in a variety of sacred practices—each of which proved to be illuminating in unexpected ways—to try to develop her own definition of what it means to be spiritual. In My Year of Living Spiritually, Bokma documents a diverse range of soulful first-person experiences—from taking a dip in Thoreau’s Walden Pond, to trying magic mushrooms for the first time, booking herself into a remote treehouse as an experiment in solitude, singing in a deathbed choir and enrolling in a week-long witch camp—in an entertaining and enlightening way that will compel readers (non-believers and believers alike) to try a few spiritual practices of their own. Along the way, she reconsiders key relationships in her life and begins to experience the greater depth of meaning, connection, gratitude, simplicity and inner peace that we all long for. Readers will find it an inspiring roadmap for their own spiritual journeys.By Mariah Carey. 2020
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell…
the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams - that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it’s been impossible to communicate the complexities and depths of my experience in any single magazine article or a 10-minute television interview. And even then, my words were filtered through someone else’s lens, largely satisfying someone else’s assignment to define me. This book is composed of my memories, my mishaps, my struggles, my survival, and my songs. Unfiltered. I went deep into my childhood and gave the scared little girl inside of me a big voice. I let the abandoned and ambitious adolescent have her say, and the betrayed and triumphant woman I became tell her side. Writing this memoir was incredibly hard, humbling and healing. My sincere hope is that you are moved to a new understanding, not only about me, but also about the resilience of the human spirit. Love, Mariah About the author and narrator: Mariah Carey is an American artist of Black and Irish ancestry. She is an award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She has recorded 15 studio albums and holds numerous industry records, including the most number-one singles of any solo artist in history. She has received many accolades, honors, and distinctions throughout her career, including the Congressional Award for her charitable work with youth through the Fresh Air Fund's Camp Mariah. She is an inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Carey remains forever thankful and fiercely loyal to her global family of fans. Ms. Carey is the mother of two children, Moroccan and Monroe.By Robert E. Price. 2018
Journalist Price reveals rich stories of the personalities that populated the dustbowl town of Bakersfield, California, a stop north of…
Los Angeles that developed a twangier, rockier, stylistic counterweight to Nashville's sweet, string-laden pop country music in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Through the lives of hit makers such as Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, the author discusses the history of America from the early 1900s to today, highlighting the crossroads of commerce and culture that sparked the alternative country music scene. 2015By Doreen Rappaport. 2017
Recounts the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball…
and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named Rookie of the Year, National League MVP, World Series champ, and became an American hero. For grades 5-8. 2017By Michael Shermer. 2018
Founder of The Skeptics Society explores the intersection of science and religion through the lens of an examination of humans'…
fascination with the afterlife. Topics covered include mortal experiences and immortal quests, the scientific search for immortality, yesterdays and tomorrows, and mortality and meaning. 2018By Colin Meloy, Nikki McClure. 2018
By Barb Rosenstock, Edwin Fotheringham. 2018
Presents the story of musician Bill Monroe, the youngest of eight children, who loved playing and singing harmonies with his…
family on the front porch and continued to work on his craft as he grew up. His deep Kentucky roots helped him to create the unique American music called bluegrass. For grades K-3. 2018By Bill White, Gordon Dillow. 2012
Memoir of a former first baseman for teams including the St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Phillies, who went on…
to a successful career as a sportscaster and served as the president of the National League from 1989 to 1994. Discusses his early career, experiences with segregation, and later successes. Some strong language. 2011By Michael B. Druxman. 2015
Biography of the pioneering 1970s TV talk-show host, who began her career as a successful singer in the 1940s and…
50s. Covers her childhood in Tennessee, her early bout with polio, her long career, and her many romantic relationships. 2015By Susan Whitall. 2017
A music writer from Detroit presents an oral history of Motown, focusing on the many women who were part of…
the heyday of the record label. The short profiles start with Mable John and include girl groups such as Martha and the Vandellas and the Supremes. 2017By Andrew Lloyd Webber. 2018
Memoir by the British composer of some of the longest-running shows in the history of musical theater, including The Phantom…
of the Opera, Cats, and School of Rock. Opens up about his musical influences, his life in the theater, and the talented people with whom he has collaborated. Some strong language. 2018By Nikki Van De Car. 2017
An introduction to a variety of mystical arts. The section on healing includes chakras, crystals, and auras. A section on…
wiccan magic covers plants and herbs, pagan holidays, and spells. The final section covers clairvoyance arts like tarot, astrology, palmistry, and dream interpretation. 2017By David Rapp. 2018
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Chicago Cubs were the dominant team in baseball. This history focuses on…
the three infield players responsible for much of their success: Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance. 2018By Mark Bego, Micky Dolenz. 2004
The actor and singer chronicles his days as a child actor, the heights of his fame with the 1960s television…
show The Monkees, and the years beyond. Includes behind-the-scenes stories of the group, including their struggles over control of their music and careers. Some strong language. 2004By Seymour Stein, Gareth Murphy. 2018
Memoir of music executive and co-founder of Sire Records. Discusses his formative time at King Records, the founding of his…
own label, and how he helped dozens of famous acts make their break, including Madonna, Talking Heads, and Ramones. Descriptions of sex. 2018