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In the spring of 1993, Jan Johnson was a Minnesota farm wife and mother of four - teaching music, waitressing and driving a tractor. Then, in a breath, it was all gone. Unbearable pain. A body swollen beyond recognition. Legs that simply stopped working. Test after test came back clean. The best minds in medicine couldn't agree, except on one thing: they told her it was all in her head. She was committed to a psychiatric ward. Helpless, she was soon...

"The revelatory, much-anticipated memoir from the Wall Street Journal reporter who was wrongly imprisoned in Putin's Russia for more than a year--a glimpse inside the perils and contradictions of a country in the midst of autocracy"-- Provided by publisher.

In this uplifting debut memoir perfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Deb Miller discards the myth of Prince Charming once she realizes he can't get her to happily ever after and instead gets on the white horse herself, safely straps her kids on behind her, and figures out how to get there on her own. Forget the Fairy Tale and Find Your Happiness is part personal growth guide, part motivational memoir, and all heart. When Deb's college sweetheart...

On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick took a knee during "The Star-Spangled Banner", but the world never fully understood the whole story. Not the "why" or the cost of his courage. That story begins in Turlock, California, where Kaepernick, a Black kid adopted into a white family, navigated constant resistance to His Blackness and sense of self. Sports became his refuge and his proving ground, where his talent could not be questioned. The extraordinary...

A US senator who started in JFK's Justice Department, worked in the Nixon White House, turned down serving as GOP Watergate counsel and as Ford's campaign manager, walked for six months across Tennessee to become governor, lost two runs for president, and served as a university president and education secretary before winning three senate terms--Lamar Alexander answers that question with a resounding, "Yes." Over nearly six decades, Alexander saw...

What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered by trial and error has revolutionized then world of missions.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller had just finished his shift and was heading home when he heard the call. Turning his truck around, he drove toward lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center. With the roads closed, Stephen ran through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel carrying sixty pounds of gear on his back, determined to save as many people as he could from the Twin Towers. He never made it home. How does a family...

A pesar de ser muy talentoso e imaginativo desde muy niño, Victor Villaseñor que vivir con una dificultad de aprendizaje, no fue sino hasta los 44 años de edad que fue diagnosticado con un caso grave de dislexia, y la frustración de ser latino en una escuela americana en la que sólo se hablaba inglés. A pesar de los profesores que lo maltrataban porque no podía hablar inglés, Villaseñor se aferró a su sueño de un día convertirse en escritor....

Teaching today can feel like an impossible job--too many students, too many demands, and never enough time or support. And yet, every day, educators keep showing up. Will This Be On the Quiz? is a candid, compassionate call to those who feel overwhelmed but refuse to give up, offering both understanding and hope in the midst of uncertainty. Blending humor, insight, and honest storytelling, this reflective collection draws on author Andrew Powell's...

Heart Eater traces the author’s childhood and how she went from being a nameless, abandoned nine-month-old baby in Seoul, South Korea to, as an adult, becoming an award-winning Asian American author who writes in multiple genres. The book is made of short essays, or “field notes,” that explore moments and experiences in the author’s life that made her pay extra attention to the words being used.Each titled “field note” memorializes and...