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  Dirty Dealing - Grosso v...

  Jeffrey Allan Grosso

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  When a young screenwriter goes online to check out the promotional website for a new poker movie called Rounders, he's shocked to discover how similar it is to a screenplay he wrote a few years earlier and submitted to a number of studios. When he later sees the Miramax-produced film in theaters, he is astonished by the number of overlapping elements—the protagonist playing Texas Hold 'em to pay his way through college while deceiving the girlfriend who believes he's quit, the loss of everything he has in a single hand of high-stakes Hold 'em, a character named "Worm," and many other commonalities that form the foundation of what will become his lawsuit against Miramax. He leaves the theater that day feeling that not only has the studio stolen his script, but his life, which had encompassed years of professional poker playing that informed the screenplay he hoped would open the door to a writing career in Hollywood. 
   
   
   
  Against all odds, he proceeds to take on Miramax and the Hollywood system with the help of an ingenious lawyer. Jeffrey Grosso simply has to prove how it could have happened and convince a judicial system that often favors studios over writers that he's a victim of intellectual property theft, which results in a ten-year landmark legal battle against Hollywood's most notorious studio.

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  On the Ledge - A Memoir

  Amy Turner

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  In 1957, when Amy Turner was four years old, her father had to be talked down from a hotel ledge by a priest. The story of his attempted suicide received nationwide press coverage, and he spent months in a psychiatric facility before returning home. From then on, Amy constantly worried about him for reasons she didn't yet fully understand, triggering a pattern of hypervigilance that would plague her into adulthood. 
  In 2010, fifty-five years after her father’s attempted suicide, Amy—now a wife, mother, and lawyer-turned-schoolteacher—is convinced she’s dealt with all the psychological reverberations of her childhood. Then she steps into a crosswalk and is mowed down by a pickup truck—an accident that nearly kills her, and that ultimately propels her on a remarkable emotional journey. With the help of acupuncture, somatic-oriented therapies, and serendipities that might be attributed to grace, Amy first unravels the trauma of her own brush with death and then, unexpectedly, heals the childhood trauma buried far deeper. 
  Poignant and intimate, On the Ledge is Amy’s insightful and surprisingly humorous chronicle of coming to terms with herself and her parents as the distinct, vulnerable individuals they are. Perhaps more meaningfully, it offers proof that no matter how far along you are in life, it's never too late to find yourself.

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  Ordinary Men Turning Into...

  Davis Truman

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  How can ordinary people, whom we consider "normal," unexpectedly commit repulsive and criminal actions that we would never have thought them capable of? The concept of evil is one of the great themes in history, philosophy, sociology, and psychology. We have always tended to categorize the perpetrators of evil as "the others," "them," bad people, monsters, and true villains who commit atrocities that "we" could never carry out. The German philosopher Hannah Arendt challenged this clear distinction between inherently good people and inherently bad people and introduced a new, original paradigm known as the "banality of evil." 
  Arendt's concept suggests that the vast majority of German soldiers who followed Hitler's orders and committed horrific crimes were not sadistic monsters but ordinary men, not much different from us. These normal men, placed within a context of hierarchy, modern bureaucracy, and obedience to authority, were capable of killings, abuse, torture, and inhumane treatment of victims. In essence, there were monsters, yes, but they were few, far fewer than commonly believed. Starting from here, we aim to answer how ordinary people can transform into real monsters. We will trace a path that leads up to the present day.

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  The Insufferable Gaucho

  Roberto Bolaño

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  “Reading Roberto Bolaño is like . . . watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world.” —Francine Prose, The New York Times“We savor all he has written, as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius.” —Patti SmithAn aging judge retires from Buenos Aires to the family ranch in the Pampas to battle feral rabbits and reclaim the dignity of the gaucho life. An obscure Argentinian writer journeys to Paris to face down the filmmaker who has made a career out of plagiarizing his novels. An intrepid detective investigates a series of grisly murders—among his fellow sewer rats. Riffing on Borges and Kafka, yet utterly and inimitably Roberto Bolaño, these stories testify to his mastery of the short form. Rounding out the collection are two of his most provocative and piercing essays, “Literature + Illness = Illness” and “The Myths of Cthulhu,” each crackling with his signature black humor and incomparable powers of perception and critique. The Insufferable Gaucho is an essential part of the Bolaño oeuvre.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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  I Didn’t Believe It Either - One...

  Todd Kinney

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  Todd was a classic gray area drinker who looked like he had it all together on the outside. But on the inside, he was tormented by his relationship with alcohol. He spent six years evaluating his relationship with alcohol and employing every moderation hack in the book. 
  By 2019, Todd was growing tired of fighting his internal battle. Then, in the fall of that year, his wife whispered something into his ear that would end up changing his life forever. He decided to quit drinking. 
  I Didn't Believe It Either is the raw, honest, vulnerable, and sometimes funny story of Todd's journey to quitting the one thing he thought he couldn't live without and his discover is better than he ever imagined.

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  Secrets of Nikola Tesla

  Raphael Terra

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  This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). 
   
  Nikola Tesla is an enigmatic character. A Serbian-American with a fascinating history. In his own time he was a legend and a dandy of the press. His every word was reported, his every deed surprised. He was a character of his time and a true showman. 
   
  But today there are secrets and conspiracies coming to light that will make us see this man in a new way. His inventions will now seem even more amazing. 
   
  We are told his wireless technology captured alien signals and the world was in awe and wanted to know more. That his ideas of wireless power spreading across the planet were so dangerous to the might of the energy companies that he was silenced and starved of finance. That his legacy was ruined and his mental state questioned. The man raised millions and lived the life of royalty. And yet, at the end of his life he was bankrupt. and died in a dirty downtown New York hotel. He had become a character fool for the press who laughed at him. And yet, two days after his death the FBI raided his apartment and took away all of his possessions. 
   
  We will investigate the man, his origins, his inventions, dreams and fantasies and we will tackle head on the claims surrounding him today. Welcome to the Tesla Enigma.

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