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  Third Stone from the Sun: the...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Few know that Giuliano was a firm friend of Jimi Hendrix's family, staying for a weeks at a time at the home of Al Hendrix, Jimi's dad in the mid-1980s. He also knew Jimi's younger brother, Leon, as well as his aunts, uncles, cousins, and even 100-year-old grandmother, Nora Hendrix.In addition, he also became close friends with Hendrix's Experience alumni Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding along the way. Here then, is the private world of an American icon. With rare Hendrix interviews.

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  Dubai LowDown

  Eugen Adelsmayr

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  What started as an enthralling professional challenge, evolved into a life threatening scenario for the Intensive Care physician Eugen Adelsmayr. Based on a perfidious intrigue by two of his colleagues and a corrupt judicial system he finds himself confronted with murder charges and impending death penalty. The portrayal of this dramatic personal fate also provides a horrifying insight into the inner life of the Arab Emirates.

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  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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  In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities.

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  A Land Twice Promised - An...

  Noa Baum

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  An Israeli woman writes about growing up amid war and ancestral trauma and later building a friendship with a Palestinian woman in America. 
   
  Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s shaped her perceptions and identity. In America, she met a Palestinian woman who had grown up under Israeli Occupation, and as they shared memories of war years in Jerusalem, an unlikely friendship blossomed. 
   
  A Land Twice Promised delves into the heart of one of the world’s most enduring and complex conflicts. Baum’s deeply personal memoir recounts her journey from girlhood in post-Holocaust Israel to her adult encounter with “the other.” With honesty, compassion, and humor, she captures the drama of a nation at war and her discovery of humanity in the enemy.   
   
  Winner of the 2017 Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award, among others, this compelling memoir demonstrates the transformative power of art and challenges each reader to take the first step toward peace. 
   
  Praise for A Land Twice Promised 
   
  “A penetrating, introspective memoir that mines the depths of the chasm between the Israeli and Palestinian experiences, the torment of family loss and conflict, and the therapy of storytelling as a cleansing art. You will not think in the same way at the end of this captivating book as you did at the beginning.” —David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

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  A Nurse's Story - My Life in A&E...

  Louise Curtis, Sarah Johnson

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  Moving, honest and inspiring – this is a nurse’s true story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis.Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it.  She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the patients she saw, when the unthinkable happened and the country was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.   The stress on the NHS was huge and for the first time in her life, the job was going to take a toll on Louise herself.In A Nurse’s Story she describes what happened next, as the trickle of Covid patients became a flood.  And just as tragically, staff in A&E were faced with the effects of lockdown on society.  They worried about their regulars, now missing, and saw an increase in domestic abuse victims and suicide attempts as loneliness hit people hard. By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, this book shines a light on the compassion and dedication of hospital staff during such dark times.'An important memoir that we all need to read right now.' – Closer

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  A Helluva Life in Hockey - A Memoir

  Brian McFarlane

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  A captivating memoir from Canada’s foremost hockey historian and a beloved NHL commentator
  		 
  It’s been 85 years since Brian McFarlane first laced a pair of skates and tested the black ice on a tiny pond. And then he discovered the joy of hockey. Ultimately, there would be grade school hockey, high school hockey, junior hockey, college hockey, and, miraculously, two decades with the NHL Oldtimers anchoring his life. He was the rank amateur playing on a line with the Big M and Norm Ullman, facing off against icons like Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay at Maple Leaf Gardens — even scoring a goal. He suited up at the Montreal Forum, elbow-to-elbow against John Ferguson, before thousands of fans. (There was even a stint with the Flying Fathers who ordained him a “Bishop” after a hat trick.) Off the ice, in 1960, McFarlane was the first Canadian to be a commentator on CBS’s coverage of the NHL. He also survived 25 years of Hockey Night in Canada — despite confrontations with Punch Imlach, Harold Ballard, Bobby Hull, and Eddie Shack. Now, in this revealing autobiography, he remembers it all. For Brian McFarlane, it has been a helluva life in hockey.

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