New Releases

As a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, Shaun King has become one of the most recognizable and powerful voices on the front lines of civil rights in our time. In Make Change, King offers an inspiring look at the moments that have shaped his life and considers the ways social movements can grow and evolve in this hyper-connected era. He shares stories from his efforts leading the Raise the Age campaign and his work fighting police brutality, while providing a road map for how to stay sane, safe, and motivated even in the worst of political climates.

At the time of his murder trial, Jarvis Jay Masters was in solitary confinement and spent 22 years in a five-foot-by-11-foot cell. This is where The Buddhist on Death Row takes off. With uncanny clarity, David Sheff describes Masters’ path to enlightenment - from being sullen and violent to discovering how easy and how hard it is to just sit and breathe, how those minutes spawn heightened perception and deepened compassion, the right way to remember one’s pain, and much more.

When Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce their newborn son to family scattered across the United States, she could not have imagined what lay in store. Before the trip’s end, she develops psychosis, a complete break from reality, which causes her to lose all sense of time and place, including what is real and not real. In desperation, her husband admits her to a nearby psychiatric hospital, where she begins the hard work of rebuilding her identity. In this unwaveringly honest, insightful, and often shocking memoir, Catherine reconstructs her sense of self.

At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we'd like to believe. 

Flying helicopters is more dangerous than flying fixed-wing aircraft - and helicopter rescue is one of the most dangerous occupations on earth. Now, Col. Fleming takes listeners along for a bracing ride as he recounts the most thrilling episodes of his long career. With all the nail-biting excitement of a thriller, Heart of the Storm brings to life dramatic jungle rescues in the Philippines, the longest helicopter rescue mission in history to save crew members of a Ukrainian freighter 840 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, and many more.

Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, he seeks to understand Dickens’ creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’ fiction drew from his life - a fact he acknowledged. 

Alastair Humphreys walked across India, from the Coromandel Coast to the Malabar Coast, following the course of a holy river. Walking alone and spending the nights sleeping under the stars, in the homes of welcoming strangers, or in small towns and villages, he experienced the dusty enchantment of ordinary, real India on the smallest of budgets. There Are Other Rivers tells the story of the walk through an account of a single day as well as reflecting on the allure of difficult journeys and the eternal appeal of the open road.

This is a biography of my father, Tony D’Orazi, who had many successes and struggles as an influential twentieth artist, during his life. The story of Tony D’Orazi, is from his early childhood as a prodigy in Missoula, Montana, to his ascension into an award-winning artist by way of New York City and Chicago, and his days working for Walt Disney to ultimately becoming the radio and television personality known as Uncle Tony O’Dare, “the first cartoonist of the air”.  

Rachel C. Brady has faced many things during her life. In In Search of Love’s Treasure, she shares her testimony and her inspiring life story. Her narrative begins in her early childhood where she was raised with a mixed identity. She recalls difficult times with her family, and journeys through adulthood, revealing both the challenges she faced and blessings she received. Brady discusses the perils of sin and her experience in finding Christ, as well as an array of adventures.... 

Ready or Not was written by J. Francis Angier and is a memoir of his life and flying career — highlighted by his shoot-down and imprisonment in Nazi Germany. His narrative encompasses his early interest in aviation, (he soloed at age 15) and his upbringing on a Vermont farm during the Depression which prepared him for the rigors of flying in combat and the hardship of his captivity. 

The story known by millions is now an audiobook. The true story of how Patrick Combs cashed a $95,000 junk-mail check that he had deposited into his bank merely as a joke. The incident which took place in 1995 made international news, enchanted millions, and has remained a story so compelling that it spawned an international, smash-hit comedy show, and media appearances.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Jefferson Davis Timeline and for a short timeline of Jefferson Davis.

Meg is a rebel. Push her, and she pushes back. She takes outrageous risks, looks for thrills, throws herself into horrifying and hilarious situations...until it all becomes deadly serious. Then, everything changes. She grows up, learns what it means to love, to take responsibility, face death, face life, and the meaning she gives it. She learns to measure value in heartbeats, not dollars. In a year-long run for their lives, Meg not only rescues the deer-in-the-headlights Russian, who risked everything and crashed into her life, but rescues herself.

Tales from a nighttime taxi driver. I’ve had some quite varied jobs in my life. My career took a nosedive in 2001 and crashed in flames a few years later. To get off the dole, I temporarily started to drive a taxi so I could still afford Alpen, mainly. Since starting this job in 2005 - I have realized that I just love people! This audiobook contains a collection of some of the funnier and often strange experiences I’ve had during this time. Despite the title, it is not an instruction manual, though a few tips are included!

Rosie comes of age in the “Roaring 20s”. As svelte and lively as any flapper, she has everything: Brains, looks, energy, and wealth. Her life enfolds as a metaphor of this period. The era of the “booming 20s”, where the sky is the limit and there is no place to go but up, crashes in 1929. A loving bond between mother and daughter (parent and child) that persists from birthing to final good-byes forms the basis for this tender, heart-rending memoir that will make you laugh, make you cry; but most of all, it will make you fall in love with Rosie.

Starkishia: Estrella is a story about a little girl who grew up too fast to feel the grass wear thin under the soles of her shoes. Abuse thickened her skin, yet her nightmares were as dark as they were real. The library became her sanctuary where stories took her to another place and time. But, in reality there was nothing imaginary about the bruises under her clothing as she advanced from one classroom to another during middle school, or nothing fictitious about being molested by the maggot hands of a despicable relative.      

I was seconds away from losing my daughter at the end of pregnancy. From that moment on, life was turned upside down. It took many years before the health-care system understood what had actually happened to me. 

 Benjamin Franklin: Made in America traces the fascinating twists and turns that make this Founding Father’s story so remarkable. In 15 dynamic audio lectures, award-winning American history Professor Jeffrey Webb explores Franklin’s career beginning with his post as a young newspaperman and continuing into his leadership roles on the frontiers of cultural, intellectual, political, and scientific developments.   

John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of high school, an employment officer told him, 'You have the mind of an artist and the body of a labourer.' And so John continued to pursue his acting dreams in amateur theatre, sustaining himself by working jobs as a bricklayer, a railway clerk and even in the same abattoir as his father. When he won a scholarship to NIDA, in Sydney, it moved John into a new and at times baffling world, full of extraordinary characters. 

From the hero whistleblower of the infamous Theranos scam, Thicker than Water is a look at the never-before-revealed details behind closed doors at the company, revealing a cautionary tale of corporate bullying and gaslighting and ego and wealth run amok in Silicon Valley.