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  Between vegetarian café and...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Three months since the election and a few weeks into the new Trump administration, recent public opinion polls show we live in a deeply divided country. So what are voters saying about the new president? William Brangham has a tale of two cafes in Texas, where he found strikingly different views and emotions about the state of politics.

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  Henry IV: The Righteous King

  Ian Mortimer

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  The real life story of the Plantagenet ruler, by “the most remarkable medieval historian of our time” (The Times, London).   The talented, confident, and intelligent son of John of Gaunt, Henry IV started his reign as a popular and charismatic king after he dethroned the tyrannical and wildly unpopular Richard II. But six years into his reign, Henry had survived eight assassination and overthrow attempts.   Having broken God’s law of primogeniture by overthrowing the man many people saw as the chosen king, Henry IV left himself vulnerable to challenges from powerful enemies about the validity of his reign. Even so, Henry managed to establish the new Lancastrian dynasty and a new rule of law—in highly turbulent times.   In this book, noted historian Ian Mortimer, bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England, goes beyond the legend portrayed in Shakespeare’s history play, and explores the political and social forces that transformed Henry IV from his nation’s savior to its scourge.

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  When the Mirror Shatters -...

  Jennifer Kaylene Carter

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  "An entertainer opens up about the dangers of “taking your work home with you” and reveals the internal struggle she faced spiritually when the pressure to perform professionally manifested in her personal life."

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  Seven Year Summer

  Anna Byrne

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  Finalist for the Whistler Independent Book Awards. While in her early-thirties, Anna Byrne was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma. Over the next seven years, she endured four relapses, two stem cell transplants, and spent over 2,000 hours in Canadian hospitals. In 2014, she was given two years to live. Despite the odds, Anna left treatment cancer-free. She became a hospice volunteer and met Eleanor, a woman in her seventies whose death was imminent, and the two formed an unlikely friendship. Part memoir, medical guide, and spiritual text, Seven Year Summer explores the nuances of healing and hope amidst the struggle to survive. 
  Jacqueline Kim is a multi-award-winning artist, filmmaker, and composer. Moved by this meaningful work, Kim returned to acting to narrate and to create a sound score under special moments in the book. 
   “…appealing, poetic, and moving.” Whistler Independent Book Award judges panel, Canadian Authors Association 
  “…an intimate, vulnerable, deep spiritual journey.” “Many people will be inspired by this work.” Sue Oakey-Baker, Author of Finding Jim

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  Narrative of the Life and...

  Henry Bibb

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  Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother at a very young age and hired out to other slave owners for most of his childhood. Always yearning for his freedom, he made his first escape from slavery in 1842. He was recaptured and escaped, recaptured and escaped over and over; but he never gave up on his desire to be a man in control of his own destiny.Bibb eventually escaped the bondage of servitude for good and dedicated his life to speaking out against the institution of slavery. In the process he helped others obtain their freedom. He published Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, and American Slave in 1849 telling the story of his daily life as a slave, as a runaway and as a free man. He also illustrated the depravity of that “man-destroying system” and the “idea of utter helplessness in perpetual bondage.”Bibb stated in his Author's Preface that there were other very popular slave narratives published before his own; nevertheless, the uniqueness of his story is in the details of his experiences which, like the others, shine a glaringly truthful beam of light on the sins of this nation. Ultimately Bibb made his way to Canada where in 1851 he published the first black newspaper of that Country, Voice of the Fugitive. He died in 1854 at the age of 39.  (Introduction by James K. White)

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  My MS Story

  Valerie Moffat

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  This is the autobiography of one woman’s life, beginning with her difficult childhood, the later devastating diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and the early effect it had on her, through to her discovery of a lifestyle that has had positive repercussions on her condition.She meets all obstacles with determination not to let them defeat her and regards these with a cheerful attitude seeing a positive side to them.

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