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  When Harry Met Pablo - Truman...

  Matthew Algeo

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  Harry Truman and Pablo Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century—the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorized the use of atomic bombs against civilians. But in most ways, they couldn’t have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing Truman hated more than communists was modern art. Picasso was an indifferent father, a womanizer, and a millionaire. Truman was utterly devoted to his family and, despite his fame, far from a rich man. How did they come to be shaking hands in front of Picasso’s studio in the south of France? Truman’s meeting with Picasso was quietly arranged by Alfred H. Barr Jr., the founding director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and an early champion of Picasso. Barr knew that if he could convince these two ideological antipodes, the straight-talking politician from Missouri and the Cubist painter from Málaga, to simply shake hands, it would send a powerful message, not just to reactionary Republicans pushing McCarthyism at home but to the whole world: modern art was not evil. A rigorous history with a heartwarming center, When Harry Met Pablo intertwines the biographies of Truman and Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth-century American politics, but at its core, it is the touching story of two old men who meet for the first time and realize they have more in common—and are more alike—than they ever imagined.

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  Rock & Roll Nightmares: True...

  Staci Layne Wilson

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  Rock & Roll Nightmares, Volume 1 scratched the sinister surface with tales of the 27 Club, rock ‘n’ roll suicides, plane crashes, curses, and more. Now the award-winning series continues in a standalone audiobook full of concert mayhem, a look at the “baby groupie” trend of the 1970s, Satanic panic, horrific home invasions, musicians who’ve died on stage, rockers who lived on borrowed time, gun-toting music producers, deadly DJs, and much more. 
  You will read about:Murdered rock stars, hitmen hired, and narrow escapesShocking stories of rockers who’ve served time for violent crimesDevil worship and belief in the occultFolks on the fringe who took their obsessions too farPyrotechnics gone horribly wrongMysteries solved, graves robbed, fortunes stolen, and more! 
  Staci Layne Wilson has been writing professionally about rock music for decades and is the director of the multi-award-winning documentary, The Ventures: Stars on Guitars. Staci Layne Wilson is an award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker specializing in rock music history. In the course of her work, she has interviewed David Crosby, John Fogerty, Jimmy Page, Joni Mitchell, Rob Zombie, Cherie Currie, and Gene Simmons, to name a few. 
  EDITORIAL REVIEWS/AWARDS FOR THE ‘ROCK & ROLL NIGHTMARES’ BOOK SERIES 
  Staci Layne Wilson is the Nellie Bly of the rock & roll asylum!—Guitar Girl 
  [The Rock & Roll Nightmares books are] MTV's Headbangers Ball meets Tales from the Crypt—perfect entertainment for anyone who's ever played Stairway to Heaven backward to hear the mumbled phrase "Here's to my sweet Satan.” —Variety 
  There’s gallows humor galore but it’s tempered with Wilson’s empathy, ability to see several sides of a situation, and her obvious love of classic rock music and the people who created it. —On the Rock Block

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  Grace Through The Shadows - An...

  Alma Judith Leiva Jackson

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Alma's tale is a rich tapestry of resilience, spanning from the lush memories of Santa Cruz de Yojoa to the trials of America. Hers is a story of navigating adolescence, a fragmented family, and the quest for belonging. Amidst cultural clashes and a complex romance marred by betrayal, Alma's journey shines with an unwavering spirit. As she grapples with love, loss, and motherhood, her life becomes an ode to the indomitable human capacity to overcome adversity, seeking justice and collective healing. This is the chronicle of Alma's relentless pursuit of a luminous dawn and a testament to hope's unyielding power.

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  The Bus Trip

  Vicki Katsadas

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  In the heart-wrenching memoir, The Bus Trip, a  mother revisits the poignant journey of love, strength, and indomitable  spirit as she navigates the most devastating loss of her life – the 
  passing of her vibrant daughter, Susu. From the exuberant days of Susu’s  childhood, filled with laughter, teenager years filled happiness and togetherness, college years and blossoming into a young adult with a future so bright, the incredible bond of a mother and daughter, the 
  universal tunes of Barney, to the heartbreak of a leukemia diagnosis in her early 20s, this tale paints an intimate portrait of a family bound together by unbreakable bonds. 
   
   Through  every hospital visit, every lab report, and every tear-shed moment, the  memory of Susu – adventurous, witty, and ever-loving – stands as a testament to the power of love that transcends life and death. As the pages unfold, readers are invited to bear witness to the transformative journey of grief and remembrance. A  mother filled with inspiration from her daughter and a family clinging to the love to guide them through this unimaginable journey.
   
   For every parent, sibling, and individual who has loved deeply, The Bus Trip  is a deeply moving story which serves as a profound reflection on the beauty of life, the pain of loss, and the eternal nature of love.

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  Ten Bridges I've Burnt - A...

  Brontez Purnell

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  In Ten Bridges I've Burnt, Brontez Purnell—the bard of the underloved and overlooked—turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his own existence, he is peerless in his ability to find the levity within the stormiest of crises. Here, in his first collection of genre-defying verse, Purnell reflects on his peripatetic life, whose ups and downs have nothing on the turmoil within. "The most high-risk homosexual behavior I engage in," Purnell writes, "is simply existing." 
   
   
   
  The thirty-eight autobiographical pieces pulsing in Ten Bridges I've Burnt find Purnell at his no-holds-barred best. He remembers a vicious brawl he participated in at a poetry conference and reckons with packaging his trauma for TV writers' rooms; wrestles with the curses, and gifts, passed down from generations of family members; and chronicles, with breathless verve, a list of hell-raising misadventures and sexcapades. Through it all, he muses on everything from love and loneliness to capitalism and Blackness to jogging and the ethics of art, always with unpredictable clarity and movement. 
   
   
   
  With the same balance of wit and wisdom that made 100 Boyfriends a sensation, Purnell unleashes another collection of boundary-pushing writing with Ten Bridges I've Burnt, a book as original and thrilling as the author himself.

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  Scam Goddess - Lessons from a...

  Laci Mosley

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  A delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning “Scam Goddess” podcast, about the frauds, cons, and schemes that make up our world—and how the scammer mindset has affected her own upbringing, career, friendships, love life, and more. ​ From an early age, comedian and actress Laci Mosley knew her path would be riddled with scams, cons, robberies, and frauds. Little ones. Ones that didn’t hurt people or get her in trouble. But ones that would get her where she needed to be. “You see,” she writes, “everyone’s a scammer and everything’s a scam. Some people are better at it than others, but we all do it. The system wasn’t built for people like me. Scamming saved me and has taught me how to navigate a messy and unfair world while looking out for myself, too.” In Scam Goddess, Laci recounts how her scammer instincts have guided her throughout her life—from a religious childhood in rural Texas, to a stint as a city bartender at what might have been a drug front, to swindling her way past the gatekeepers of Hollywood—recounting the greatest true-crime scam stories that inspired her along the way. Whether it’s by the beauty industry, capitalism, or the people we date, we’re all getting scammed. In this book, Laci identifies the secrets to flipping the script and coming out ahead.

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