Part adventure guide, part personal diary, and 100% inspiring, Mary Morris’ All the Way to the Tigers – a memoir rich in personal growth, family history, and thrilling travel – is a thoughtful account of how she came back from a debilitating accident to realize a hard-won trek across India, on which, yes, she comes across a […]
The result of a nearly 30-year quest and drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X is an epic biography of one of the most politically relevant figures of the 20th century, and a labor of love for co-author Tamara Payne, who completed the work after the 2018 […]
Ticket purchase required for admittance to this program; click here to purchase. In the hilarious memoir A Very Punchable Face, “Weekend Update” co-anchor and head writer at Saturday Night Live Colin Jost shares how he has found success as a slightly smarter Forrest Gump – albeit it one with a face you can’t help but […]
Environmental activist and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich’s Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It is a clear, concise, and informative tool meant to empower private citizens to become their own effective advocates in ensuring the water they drink is clean. A seemingly simple expectation but one […]
In her autobiography My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race, Afro-Colombian Emmy Award-winning journalist Ilia Calderón speaks out on learning about, and confronting, racism, back home and in her new country. Her experiences are reflected in Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America, the equally pognant […]
A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land is conservative humorist P.J. O’Rourke’s look at the current state of these angry and perplexed United States. But fear not, dear readers – he says that’s what America has always been about. With wry essays on everything from our fraught history to the political […]
When Özlem Cekic became the first Muslim MP in the Danish Parliament, her email inbox was hit with a deluge of hate mail and threats, and her gut reaction was to delete every abusive message. But eventually, she decided to take a risk. She started replying and inviting the senders to meet and engage in […]
Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life – and Saved an American Farm is a delightful and inspiring memoir that charts her path from scrappy rural childhood to creating one of America’s largest fresh produce growers and shippers, and serving as its CEO. Frey is an American farmer and entrepreneur. She […]
From Sharon Salzberg, one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation, comes Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World, a guidebook for how to use mindfulness to build inner strength, find balance, and help create a better world. Consulting with veteran activists and social-change agents in a variety of fields, Salzberg […]
As a girl, Melissa McGhie Proctor dreamed of becoming the first female coach in the NBA. From Ball Girl to CMO takes you on her journey through the trials and triumphs of being named the first ball girl for the Miami Heat to her present-day role as the VP and chief marketing officer of the […]
In A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place, Amy Paige Condon tells the story of the late Bill Baggs, editor of the now-defunct Miami Daily News. Under his leadership, the paper promoted such things as desegregation and an end to the Vietnam War on its front pages, earning three Pulitzer Prizes along […]
Grace Elizabeth Hale experienced the Athens music scene in the 1980s as a student, small-business owner, and band member. In Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture, she serves up the inside story of an unexpected mecca of music, experimental art, DIY spirit, and progressive politics that incubated musical acts […]