Meet Osamah Sami: a schemer, a dreamer, and a madcap antihero of spectacular proportions whose terrible life choices keep leading to cataclysmic consequences…despite his best laid plans to be a Good Muslim Boy.By the age of thirteen...
I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonable certain would never come back - my daddy and Jesus Christ. I don't wait for them anymore. My dad anyway. And at least with Jesus I didn't spend all that...
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of K...
Charles R. CrossOne of the few personalities in modern rock music deserving of the appellation "iconic," Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in 1993, was an opaque mixture of sensitivity, creativity, ambition, and morbid gloom. With his band...
It was one of the greatest romances of our time. They were both Hollywood giants in their own right, yet it was the nine hit films Katherine Heurn made with Spencer Tracy that, in the eyes of the American public, defined them as Holl...
Bob Smith grew up in a town named for Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford, Connecticut. His troubled childhood was spent in a struggle to help his devastated parents care for his severely retarded sister. But at age ten, Smith stumb...
This is the true story of how, by the thinnest thread of a chance, one moment in time changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond imagination. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of t...
Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Mo...
Ophira EisenbergScrew Everyone is comedian Ophira Eisenberg's wisecracking account of how she spent most of her life saying "yes" to everything―and everyone―and how that attitude ultimately helped her overcome her phobia of commitment. Skeptical ...
After suffering physical abuse at the hands of his stepmother, James Garner left home at fourteen. He became Oklahoma's first draftee of the Korean War and was awarded with two Purple Hearts before returning to the United States and s...
Along the Way: The Journey of a Fathe...
Martin SheenIn this remarkable dual memoir, film legend Martin Sheen and accomplished actor/filmmaker Emilio Estevez recount their lives as father and son. In alternating chapters―and in voices that are as eloquent as they are different―they ...
Living Dangerously: The Adventures of...
Mark Cotta VazExplorer, war hero, filmmaker, and cinema pioneer Merian C. Cooper–the adventurer who created King Kong–was truly larger than life. "Pictures cannot be made from an executive's desk," "Coop" declared, and he di...