With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably oneof this country's finest Southern writers, presents us with anunparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming ofage in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and politicalchange. In North Toward Home , Morris vividly recalls the South ofhis childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact.He chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texasin the 50s and 60s, and New York in the 1960s, where he became thecontroversial editor of Harper's magazine. North TowardHome is the perceptive story of the education of an observantand intelligent young man, and a gifted writer's keen observationsof a country in transition. It is, as Walker Percy wrote, "atouching, deeply felt and memorable account of one man'spilgrimage."
“Alice writes like he golfs: straight and right down themiddle. Like a lot of us golf addicts, he's spent his fair share ofhis life getting out of the rough and back onto the green. Ifyou're like me and only read like a book a year (OK, like everydecade), this should be the one.” —John Daly “What a blast from the past, and such insight to the future!Alice Cooper, Golf Monster shares Alice's personal life mission,interwoven with great stories and characters from the 60's throughthe present in Rock and Roll. Not to mention some wonderful golftips and experiences, humorously presented. Thank you Alice, for anice ride!” —Michael Douglas, actor and creator of the Michael Douglas Friends Charity Golf Tournament “Few things are more surreal than playing golf with a guy namedAlice. But by the time you reach the second tee, you realize thatNo More Mr. Nice Guy is one of the wittiest and engaging playingpartners you've ever had. Plus, the guy can play! For tho
Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music iconCarlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But asa girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of awhite mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitaristSaunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long beforeshe married. In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares forthe first time her early experiences with racial intolerance, herromantic involvement with musician Sly Stone and the suffering sheendured in that relationship, and her adventures in thefreewheeling 1960s. Yet it is her spiritual awakening that is thecore of this story. The civil rights movement was the foundation ofher growth, the Woodstock era the backdrop of her love with Carlos.The couple was drawn indelibly together by a search for truth andspirituality, but while yearning to be filled with God’s light,they were pulled dangerously toward a manipulative cult. Theyeventually disengage themselves from th
Loretta Lynn’s classic memoir tells the story of her earlylife in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the topof the music industry. Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and agrandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went onto become one of the most prolific and influential songwriters andsingers in modern country music. Here we see the determination andtalent that led to her trailblazing career and made her the firstwoman to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country MusicAssociation and the first woman to receive a gold record in countrymusic.
Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a grayduffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling acrossAmerica. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sittingnext to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named ThomasHarvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- thensimply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for overforty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave NewJersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein'sperplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as theimaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-drivengenius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars.Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, andpart meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique roadtrips in modern literature.
Steven Gerrard is a hero to millions, not only as the inspirational captain of Liverpool FC, but as a key member of the England team. Here, for the first time, he tells the story of his lifelong obsession with football, in an honest and revealing book whi
