Biography and Memoir

Salinger’s Soul: His Personal and Religious Odyssey

Publication Date: 09/10/2024

A close-up look at how J.D. Salinger’s private  life influenced his famous stories. J.D. Salinger remains one of America’s  best known but least understood writers. His 1951 book, The Catcher in the Rye, lives on as one of the most iconic American novels of all time. Yet after his commercial…

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First the Patient: The Life and Times of David G. Nathan, MD

Publication Date: 08/06/2024

A fast-paced account of a giant of 20th century medicine, First the Patient details how David Nathan saved patients with his medical skill and rescued institutions with his visionary leadership. The miraculous triumphs of modern medicine—antibiotics, insulin, cancer cures, longer and better lives—are the fruits of its firm grounding in…

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The Last Commander: The Once and Future Battle for Afghanistan

Publication Date: 08/06/2024

The compelling inside story of how America abandoned Afghanistan. When America retreated from Kabul amid chaos in 2021, Lieutenant General Sami Sadat, the last commander of the army of the Afghan republic, was still fighting to the end. In this firsthand account, he reveals how his troops were starved of…

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First in Line: How COVID-19 Placed Me on the Frontlines of a Health Care Crisis

Publication Date: 07/23/2024

Sandra Lindsay, the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, takes the reader on her journey from humble immigrant beginnings in 1980s Bronx to national health equity advocate and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sandra Lindsay immigrated to the United States from Jamaica in 1986 with ambitions of…

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Born Unbreakable: 5 Steps to Overcoming Your Self-Limiting Beliefs

Publication Date: 07/23/2024

The only limit keeping you from living the life you want is YOU. Master your mindset and go from limited to limitless with 5 simple steps. “I’m not good enough.” “I’m not worthy.” “I’m not capable.” Self-limiting beliefs plague us all eventually. In a noisy world that sets unreasonable expectations…

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The Quest for Belonging: How the Most Effective Nonprofit Leaders Understand the Psychology of Giving

Publication Date: 07/16/2024

Discover the deepest reasons people give to nonprofits—and how fundraisers can tap into donors’ most potent motivations. In The Quest for Belonging: How the Most Effective Nonprofit Leaders Understand the Psychology of Giving, Jeremy Beer draws from the latest social science to explain the primacy of identity—the need to know…

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My Fight for Survival: From the Lebanese Civil War to Wall Street and my Quest to beat Cancer and Covid

Publication Date: 07/02/2024

Fady A. Rizk’s inspiring memoir takes us from his thrilling youth fighting in the front lines of the Lebanese Civil War, to the cutthroat world of Wall Street, culminating in his most challenging battle yet—overcoming cancer and COVID. Fady A. Rizk was born in Lebanon in 1963, where his family…

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Crooked Smile: What It Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness, Addiction, & Crime

Publication Date: 06/25/2024

Featured In the Wall Street Journal As Seen on Jesse Watters Crooked Smile details one man’s life on Skid Row and what it took to escape a lifetime of addiction. “Darkly humorous” is an understatement when it comes to this poignant tale of addiction, homelessness, incarceration, and eventually, redemption. Jared…

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Time to Thank: Caregiving for My Hero

Publication Date: 05/21/2024

After his father—the hero and strength of the family—is diagnosed with kidney failure, actor Steve Guttenberg dedicates himself to becoming a caregiver and reflects on their life together, from childhood through his Hollywood career, in his father’s final years. Since moving to Hollywood at age seventeen, Steve Guttenberg has delighted…

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Keep Living

Publication Date: 05/14/2024

As long as you’re alive and breathing, you have a say in what direction your life will take. Just keep living.  After seven years of marriage, multiple miscarriages, and three beautiful children, Loreal’s life changed in an instant when she found out that her husband, her first and only love,…

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