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  1960s Austin Gangsters -...

  Jesse Sublett

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  Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps, and used car dealers who became known as the "traveling criminals," they burglarized banks and ran smuggling and prostitution rings all over Texas. Author Jesse Sublett presents a detailed account of these Austin miscreants, who rose to folk hero status despite their violent criminal acts.

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  Astonishing Survival Stories...

  Phoenix MacLeod

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  Dive into this edge-of-your-seat world of survival where courage and resilience overcome the impossible. These are The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Lived! 
  What drives someone to push beyond limits when all seems lost?  
  • Can you imagine surviving without supplies in a small boat adrift on the Pacific Ocean for 14 months?  
  • Could you find your way through a Peruvian jungle after falling two miles from the sky—without a parachute? 
  • How might you survive the relentless battle against nature and captors while being forced to walk in the heat of the Sahara Desert? 
  Inside, you will discover 9 astonishing stories of survivors who defied the odds, showcasing unmatched bravery, physical stamina, and mental resilience. What would YOU do to survive these survival scenarios? 
  ● James Riley's ingenious methods of helping his crew survive being shipwrecked, enslaved, and then forced to walk the Sahara Desert - turning a landscape of peril into a stage for human tenacity and ingenuity. 
  ● The story of Ernest Shackleton’s incredible leadership in Antarctica that turned his shipwrecked crew’s despair into hope despite the icy wilderness. 
  ● The prowess of the human heart is exemplified in the incredible story of Louis Zamperini’s survival of his B-24’s disastrous crash and several Japanese POW camps. 
  ● A gripping account of the heroic efforts of the tenacious, brave rescuers of 13 boys of a Thai soccer team who were trapped in a flooded cavern. 
  Plus several other true accounts that show us how we might also triumph over nature's fury, maintain hope amid despair, and refuse to yield before our time. 
  Are you ready to be inspired, to feel the rush of adrenaline, and to immerse yourself in vivid accounts of extraordinary courage and indomitable spirit? 
  It's time to absorb these pages as your own unforgettable adventure begins today. To learn how these extraordinary people survived their harrowing ordeals, open this book and start reading right now!

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  Being Unstoppable - Conquering...

  Sean Swarner

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  Being Unstoppable is the first book in the 7 Summits to Success series. It is a story of one man’s journey to accomplishing what was once thought impossible. Sean Swarner overcame two different cancers to make his dream of climbing Mt. Everest (with one lung), the highest mountain in the world, a reality. In addition to sharing his story with the world, Sean shares the guiding principles that made his own dreams a reality. Being Unstoppable begins with Sean’s story of survival, adventure, and cliff-hanging suspense. It concludes with a section containing simple, practical steps anyone can use to fulfill their own dreams and goals. Sean teaches how he managed to make the impossible possible and how to incorporate those same simple but powerful steps into climbing one's own Everest.

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  Holding Fire - A Reckoning with...

  Bryce Andrews

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  From the award-winning author of Down from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one gun’s role in the violence that shaped the American West—and an impassioned call to forge a new way forward 
  Bryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfather’s Smith & Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men who’d come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness, and the Indigenous peoples who had lived in these landscapes for millennia. This was how the West was “won.” Now, the losses were all around him and a weapon was in his hand. 
  In precise, elegiac prose, Andrews chronicles his journey to forge a new path for himself, and to reshape one handgun into a tool for good work. As waves of gun violence swept the country and wildfires burned across his beloved valley, he began asking questions—of ranchers, his Native neighbors, his family, and a blacksmith who taught him to shape steel—in search of a new way to live with the land and with one another. In laying down his arms, he transformed an inherited weapon, his ranch, and the arc of his life. 
  Holding Fire is a deeply felt memoir of one Western heart’s wild growth, and a personal testament to how things that seem permanent—inheritance, legacies of violence, forged steel—can change. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  The One Thing We've Never Spoken...

  Elfy Scott

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  An investigation into the failings of Australia’s mental healthcare system, grounded in a personal story of a mother–daughter relationship 
   
  Journalist Elfy Scott grew up in a household where her mother’s schizophrenia was rarely, if ever, spoken about. They navigated this silence outside the family home too; for many years, this complex mental health condition was treated as an open secret. 
   
  Over the past two decades, we have started talking more about common mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. But complex conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and psychosis have been left behind, as have many of the people who live with these conditions or who care for them. 
   
  Part memoir, part deep-dive investigation, The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About is filled with rage at how our nation’s public discourse, emergency services and healthcare systems continue to fail so many people. It is also a work of care, telling the little-heard stories of people who live with these conditions and work at the front lines of mental health. Above all, this timely, compelling book is informed by hope and courage, breaking down taboos and asking big questions about vulnerability, justice and duty of care. 
   
  ‘Expansive and generous … brimming with kindness, revelatory accounts and wit. The book itself is a thing of grace.’ Rick Morton 
   
  ‘Elfy brings empathy, reason and generosity to a book Australia so desperately needs.’ Zara McDonald 
   
  ‘Absorbing and mind-opening, this is panoramic in scope, while offering a deeply intimate portrait of fierce familial love and care.’ Benjamin Law

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  Nothing's Missing - A Year of...

  Nicole Lusiani

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  In her debut memoir, Nicole Lusiani writes a tribute to those who came before her and a survival guide for those who come after her with her story of struggling against betrayal, anxiety, perfectionism, and a life driven by "Shoulds." An invitation to put down your mask and allow yourself a long exhale, this book signs your permission slip to stand tall in the light that was created just for you because, when we liberate ourselves to live in our light, we liberate others to do the same.

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