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  Extra Innings - A Memoir

  Doris Grumbach

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  A New York Times Notable Book: A moving glimpse of a life shrewdly examinedExtra Innings follows a year in the life of Doris Grumbach, beginning with the release of her previous memoir and journal, Coming into the End Zone, and revealing that the devoted essayist, novelist, and critic possesses as keen an eye in her seventies as she did when she wrote The Spoil of Flowers thirty years earlier.    Grumbach details each passing month and the trials and tribulations therein. Age and experience have tempered her anger, allowing her to view the world in a rosier light than she has before. In this eventful period that concludes with her move from Washington, DC, to Maine, Grumbach travels between signings and speeches, describes her home life in a new state, and deals not only with her own mortality, but with that of her daughter. Grumbach’s wisdom and wit endure as she looks back on her own memories, seeing the world as only Doris Grumbach can.

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  Amitabh Bachchan

  S.R. Shukla

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  Amitabh Bachchan is undoubtedly the biggest superstar, the Indian Film Industry has ever created. His riveting life journey has served as a light house to millions of people, who have looked for hope after failing several times in life. His baritone voice, magnanimous persona and the sheer talent to captivate the audiences through his brilliant acting, has made him a living legend today. Big B has proved his prowess time and again by winning many awards pan India like the National Award, Filmfare award and Dada Saheb Phalke award. However his biggest reward has been the love he has earned from his ardent fans worldwide.

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  Basketball Junkie - A Memoir

  Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds

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  At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts,  
  junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's and the city's dreams on  
  his skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had created 
   their own sports legends in a declining city; he was the last, best  
  hope for a career beyond the shuttered mills and factories. Herren was  
  heavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a McDonald's  
  All-American, featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story, and at just seventeen years old became the central figure in Fall River Dreams, an acclaimed book about the 1994 Durfee team's quest for the state championship.   
  Leaving Fall River for college, Herren starred on Jerry Tarkanian's  
  Fresno State Bulldogs team of talented misfits, which included future  
  NBA players as well as future convicted felons. His gritty, tattooed,  
  hip-hop persona drew the ire of rival fans and more national attention: Rolling Stone profiled him, 60 Minutes 
   interviewed him, and the Denver Nuggets drafted him. When the Boston  
  Celtics acquired his contract, he lived the dream of every Massachusetts 
   kid—but off the court Herren was secretly crumbling, as his alcohol and 
   drug use escalated and his life spiraled out of control. 
  Twenty years later, Chris Herren was married to his high-school  
  sweetheart, the father of three young children, and a heroin junkie. His 
   basketball career was over, consumed by addictions; he had no job, no  
  skills, and was a sadly familiar figure to those in Fall River who  
  remembered him as a boy, now prowling the streets he once ruled, looking 
   for a fix. One day, for a time he cannot remember, he would die. In his own words, Chris Herren tells how he nearly lost everything and  
  everyone he loved, and how he found a way back to life. Powerful,  
  honest, and dramatic, Basketball Junkie is a remarkable memoir, harrowing in its descent, and heartening in its return.

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  Ranger School - Discipline...

  Jimmy Blackmon

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  From Jimmy Blackmon comes a blow by blow account of his journey through the most challenging leadership and small tactics course in the world—US Army Ranger School. Through colorful dialogue and vivid storytelling for which Jimmy Blackmon has been praised, the listener will take a journey through Ranger School. 
   
   
   
  From the nervous anticipation leading up to the course, to the extreme pain and suffering Ranger School demands, Jimmy shares the feelings and emotions that accompany extreme sleep and food deprivation. Furthermore, he shares what he learned about himself along the way. 
   
    
   
  Ranger School is designed to replicate the extreme nature of combat in a multitude of environments. The attrition rate is over 50 percent. Jimmy openly shares how he dealt with extreme hunger, exhaustion, below freezing temperatures, and ultimately, a desire to quit and end the suffering. 
   
   
   
  Despite all the aforementioned challenges, Ranger students must lead one another on complex missions in harsh terrain in order to succeed. How to motivate, inspire, and lead in such an extreme environment is powerful and will appeal to leaders of all types and in all industries.

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  Recessional - The Death of Free...

  David Mamet

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  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 
  “Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.” 
  The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates. 
  In RECESSIONAL he calls out, skewers, mocks, and, most importantly, dissects the virus of conformity which is now an existential threat to the West. 
  A broad-ranging journey through history, the Bible, and literature, RECESSIONAL examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the United States in the last generation. By screaming down freedom of thought and expression, Mamet explains, we kill invention and democracy – the foundations of security and growth. 
  A wickedly funny, wistful and wry appeal to the free-thinking citizen, RECESSIONAL is a vital warning that if we don’t confront the cultural thuggery now, the commissars and their dupes will transform the Land of the Free into the dictatorship at which they aim.

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  Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn

  Theodore Hamm

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  “Persuasively and passionately makes the case that the borough (and former city) became a powerful forum for Douglass’s abolitionist agenda.” —The New York Times 
   
  This volume compiles original source material that illustrates the complex relationship between Frederick Douglass, who escaped bondage, wrote a bestselling autobiography, and advised a US president, and the city of Brooklyn. Most prominent are the speeches the abolitionist gave at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Plymouth Church, and other leading Brooklyn institutions. Whether discussing the politics of the Civil War or recounting his relationships with Abraham Lincoln and John Brown, Douglass’s towering voice sounds anything but dated. An introductory essay examines the intricate ties between Douglass and Brooklyn abolitionists, while brief chapter introductions and annotations fill in the historical context. 
   
  “Insight into the remarkable life of a remarkable man . . . shows how the great author and agitator associated with radicals—and he associated with the president of the United States. A fine book.” —Errol Louis, host of NY1's Road to City Hall 
   
  “A collection of rousing 19th-century speeches on freedom and humanity . . . Proof that Douglass’ speeches, responding to the historical exigencies of his time, amply bear rereading today.” —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  “Although he never lived in Brooklyn, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass had many friends and allies who did. Hamm has collected Douglass’s searing antislavery speeches (and denunciations of him by the pro-slavery newspaper the Brooklyn Eagle) delivered at Brooklyn locales during the mid-19th century.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “This timely volume [presents] Douglass' towering voice in a way that sounds anything but dated.” —Philadelphia Tribune 
   
  “Though he never lived there, Frederick Douglass and the city of Brooklyn engaged in a profound repartee in the decades leading up to the Civil War, the disagreements between the two parties revealing the backward views of a borough that was much less progressive than it liked to think . . . Hamm [illuminates] the complexities of a city and a figure at the vanguard of change.” —The Village Voice

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