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  Tap Dancing on Everest - A Young...

  MD Mimi Zieman

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  The plan was outrageous: A small expedition of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, summitted only once before. They would climb without using supplemental oxygen, porter support, or chance for rescue. Mimi Zieman would accompany the climbers as the doctor—and only woman—although she was still in her third year of medical school. 
   
   
    
  Full of self-doubt, Zieman grappled with whether to go but couldn't resist the call of the wilderness and mountains. On Everest, when three climbers disappeared during their summit attempt, she reached the knife edge of her limits and dug deeply to fight for the climbers' lives and to find her voice. 
   
   
    
  Sparkling with suspense and vulnerability, Tap Dancing on Everest is a true survival story about the risks we take to become our most authentic selves. In this inspiring coming-of-age travel memoir that includes solo hiking through Nepal, Zieman weaves her childhood as the daughter of Jewish immigrants raised in 1970's New York City, her father a Holocaust survivor, with adventure, medicine, and empowerment. She captures the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down messages to stay small and safe and ventures into the unknown.

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  Sarah’s Journey - A SEMI-...

  Sheree Gill

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  In Sarah's Journey: A Journey with God, young Sarah's life is upended by a sudden move from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., a shift that challenges her faith, family bonds, and hope. Amid new schools, friendships, and the innocent excitement of childhood crushes, Sarah's world is shadowed by her parents' unexpected separation and the silent pain behind her mother's tears. As Sarah grapples with anxiety, loneliness, and the mysterious "list" her mother writes, she clings to prayer and a growing faith that promises miracles. This heartfelt narrative traces Sarah's quest for belonging. love, and resilience in a changing world. With warmth and quiet strength, Sarah learns that even in uncertainty, a smile and faith can light the darkest paths.

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  Trembling Still - The Awful...

  Stephen Jenkinson

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  "Turbulently brilliant; tuneful and mournful, poignant and funny, heart-rending and mind-grabbing, skillfully improvisational, eloquent and compelling."—Gabor Maté, MD, author of The Myth of Normal 
   
  From the award-winning author of Die Wise comes a raw and poignant account of the indiscriminate nature of illness—and what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a diagnosis. 
   
  Stephen Jenkinson is perhaps best known for his extensive work helping people navigate grief, death, and dying, both as the former director of palliative care at a major Canadian hospital and afterward, through his Orphan Wisdom School, which seeks to cultivate deep life skills in an age of cultural fragmentation and amnesia. 
   
  Now, the unimaginable has descended upon the “Griefwalker” himself. In Trembling, Still, Stephen takes to the page in the wake of his diagnosis with the degenerative neurological condition known as Parkinson’s disease—the Beast, as he comes to know it. “There’s a bit of breathing room that comes with seeing life’s lessons coming on from a distance, through the mediation of others,” Stephen writes. But this book is not an account of life’s lessons from a distance; it is the picture of what it is to be in the arms of the Beast oneself. 
   
  Written as a series of entries beginning January 3, 2024, and ending with an epilogue dated July 17, 2025, Trembling, Still is a lyrical and meditative journey of reckoning that will resonate with anyone who has experienced or witnessed decline. In illness, there is pain, confusion, grace, dissolution, joy, heart-wrenching grief, light. There’s sorrow. Then there’s the soul’s work. 
   
  "Never, once, does the book lose its mesmeric hold. This is not a domestic document. If you seek the unexpected, seek this."—Martin Shaw, author of Liturgies of the Wild

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  Hell Above Earth - The...

  Stephen Frater

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  "After the twists and turns in Goering's many missions, Frater finishes with a stunning revelation . . . the author delivers an exciting read full of little-known facts about the war. A WWII thrill ride." - Kirkus Reviews The U.S. air battle over Nazi Germany in WWII was hell above earth. For bomber crews, every day they flew was like D-Day, exacting a terrible physical and emotional toll. Twenty-year-old U.S. Captain Werner Goering, accepted this, even thrived on and welcomed the adrenaline rush. He was an exceptional pilot—and the nephew of Hermann Göring, leading member of the Nazi party and commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe. The FBI and the American military would not prevent Werner from serving his American homeland, but neither would they risk the propaganda coup that his desertion or capture would represent for Nazi Germany. J. Edgar Hoover issued a top-secret order that if Captain Goering's plane was downed for any reason over Nazi-occupied Europe, someone would be there in the cockpit to shoot Goering dead. FBI agents found a man capable of accomplishing the task in Jack Rencher, a tough, insular B-17 instructor who also happened to be one of the Army's best pistol shots. That Jack and Werner became unlikely friends is just one more twist in one of the most incredible untold tales of WWII.

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  Mr Music Man: The Journey - With...

  Kojo Antwi, George Bentum Essiaw

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  From the breath-taking mountains and rolling ranges of Obo and Kwahu, through Suhum and Darkuman, across the hidden corners of Ghana and into the heart of West Africa, Mr. Music Man: The Journey traces a life shaped by sound, movement, and destiny. The story travels onward to Europe, where Kojo Antwi carved out a living through music, performing across Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, and Norway, long before global recognition followed. 
  This compelling memoir reveals, for the first time, how one of Africa’s most decorated and enduring music icons was, in many ways, chosen by music itself. Kojo Antwi recounts his early years singing in bands in the mid-1970s, the struggles and turning points of the late 1980s, and the defining leap that transformed him into the solo artist beloved across generations. 
  Mr. Music Man: The Journey is an intimate, eye-opening portrait of the man behind the legend—bold, reflective, and deeply human. It is a celebration of resilience, creativity, and nearly five decades of music that has shaped lives, memories, and a cultural legacy.

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  Charles Dickens

  Stefan Zweig

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  "Dickens is the highest poetic expression of the English tradition between the heroic century of Napoleon, the glorious past, and imperialism, the dream of his future. (….) Only when one hates the hypocritical narrow-mindedness of Victorian culture from the bottom of one's soul can one appreciates with full admiration the genius of a man who compelled us to find this disgusting world of sated sluggishness interesting and almost endearing, who redeemed life's most banal prose into poetry." A biographical masterpiece: The biography of Charles Dickens in the famous, lively, novelistic style of Stefan Zweig.

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