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  I Am A SEAL Team Six Warrior -...

  Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin

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  FOR YOUNG LISTENERS—A SPECIAL EDITION OF THE BESTSELLER SEAL TEAM SIX 
   
   
   
  When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit made up of the finest soldiers in the country, if not the world. I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior is the dramatic tale of how Howard Wasdin overcame a tough childhood to live his dream and enter the exciting and dangerous world of US Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers. 
   
   
   
  His training began with his selection for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)—the toughest and longest military training in the world. After graduating, Wasdin saw combat in Operation Desert Storm as a member of SEAL Team Two. But he was driven to be the best of the best—he wanted to join the legendary SEAL Team Six, and at long last he reached his goal and became one of the best snipers on the planet. Soon he was fighting for his life in The Battle of Mogadishu. This is Howard Wasdin's story of overcoming abuse and beating the odds to become an elite American warrior.

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  United States of True Crime:...

  Ashley Hudson

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  United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on twenty of the most chilling crimes in California history. 
  True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but also included are lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes. 
  Some of the cases included in this book: 
  Gerald and Charlene Gallego: Killer husband and wife duo who abducted young girls to use as sex slaves 
  Kidnapping of Denise Huskins & Aaron Quinn: A young couple was kidnapped and then accused by law enforcement of faking the horrific ordeal 
  Zebra Killers: Racially motivated murders of white citizens in San Francisco 
  Juan Corona: Convicted of the murders of 25 migrant workers 
  Mardiros Iskenderian: Murdered his mother and sister in a dispute over the family fortune 
  Patrick Kearney: Serial killer who murdered at least 21 boys and disposed of their bodies in trash bags across Southern California 
  Kevin James Woodward: Tech CEO who allegedly killed his roommate’s girlfriend out of jealousy 
  Timothy Joseph McGhee: Ruthless gang leader responsible for at least twelve murders 
  The Murder of Tushar Atre: Tech millionaire murdered by his employees 
  Rodney Halbower: Another woman spent almost thirty years in jail for one of his grisly murders until the real murderer was finally convicted through DNA found at the scene 
  If you’re a true crime enthusiast who enjoys reading about some of the most depraved monsters in our country, you will love United States of True Crime.

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  A Knot of Ribbon - From their...

  Laurence Alma-Tadema

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Laurence Alma-Tadema.

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  Foghorn - The Nearly True Story...

  Vicki DeArmon

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  The heyday of small press publishing in San Francisco lives again 
   
   
   
  This is the never-before-told story of a unique time in San Francisco as well as in book industry history, when Bay Area small presses—armed with arrogance and personal computers—took the publishing field. At Foghorn Press, Vicki Morgan was an ambitious woman publisher, young and brash, coming-of-age while quixotically building a book publishing company from scratch with her eccentric brother to help. 
   
   
   
  As part of their optimistic Morgan heritage, the siblings strive to grow Foghorn Press with no capital, 100-hour work weeks, cheap beer, irrepressible belly laughs, and no book publishing experience. They assemble a cast of preposterous authors and resistant staff while surviving a drunken ex-husband, a con artist, calculating distributors, a fleet of good ol' boys, terrible cash flow, and their own differing aspirations. Books are brought to market and miraculously sell from their offices in the Boiler Room. Foghorn is soon a resounding success with sales, media, acclaim. But in the end, there are costs, to relationships, to family, and maybe even to the truth.

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  Invisible Storm - A Soldier's...

  Jason Kander

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  “A truly special book. This combination of honesty, thoughtfulness, urgency, and vulnerability is not common in leaders, and Jason demonstrates boundless occupancy of all of these traits.” – Wes Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore 
  From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kander comes a haunting, powerful memoir about impossible choices—and how sometimes walking away from the chance of a lifetime can be the greatest decision of all. 
   
  In 2017, President Obama, in his final Oval Office interview, was asked who gave him hope for the future of the country, and Jason Kander was the first name he mentioned. Suddenly, Jason was a national figure. As observers assumed he was preparing a run for the presidency, Jason announced a bid for mayor of Kansas City instead and was headed for a landslide victory. But after eleven years battling PTSD from his service in Afghanistan, Jason was seized by depression and suicidal thoughts. He dropped out of the mayor’s race and out of public life. And finally, he sought help. 
   
  In this brutally honest second memoir, following his New York Times best-selling debut Outside the Wire, Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in the most painful moments of his PTSD. In candid, in-the-moment detail, we see him struggle with undiagnosed illness during a presidential bid; witness his family buoy him through challenging treatment; and, giving hope to so many of us, see him heal. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Dancing with Muddy - Muddy...

  Jerry Portnoy

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  Jerry Portnoy grew up in Chicago hearing the blues being played outside his father's rug store on famed Maxwell Street during the late 1940s and early '50s. After dropping out of college, he became immersed in the colorful world of pool hustlers as he managed the largest pool hall in Chicago. During a stint as a paratrooper early in the Vietnam war, he applied for discharge as a conscientious objector, and lived in San Francisco during 1967's "summer of love." While bumming around Europe the following year, Portnoy heard the blues again on a record by Sonny Boy Williamson and became obsessed with mastering blues harmonica.He returned to Chicago and in 1974 he was playing in small Black clubs at night when Muddy Waters plucked him from his day job at Cook County Jail to fill the harmonica chair in his fabled band. Eric Clapton followed suit in 1991. In a career that took him from ghetto taverns to the White House and the Royal Albert Hall, he went from the raggedy vans and cheap roadside motels of the blues world to the private jets and five-star hotels of the rock world. Between those two very different gigs was a struggle to survive the vagaries of the music business and the pressures of life on the road. In a remarkable life, he also assisted in surgery, lodged in a Moroccan house of ill repute, and dined at Giorgio Armani's. 

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