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  Joyful Recollections of Trauma

  Paul Scheer

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  From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and hilarious memoir-in-essays on coming to terms with childhood trauma and finding the joy in embracing your authentic self, featuring content exclusive to the audio edition, including excerpts from live shows and audio clips from home movies. 
  Paul Scheer has entertained countless fans and podcast listeners with stories about the odd, wild, and absurd details of his life. Yet these tales have pointed to deeper, more difficult truths that the actor and comedian has kept to himself. Now, he is finally ready to share those truths for the first time—but, of course, with a healthy dose of humor. 
  Blending the confident, affable voice that has won him a dedicated following with a refreshing level of candor, Joyful Recollections of Trauma chronicles Paul’s often shocking, admittedly tumultuous childhood and how the experiences of his youth have reverberated throughout his life. In his comedy, Paul has always been unafraid to “go there,” to play naïve, cringeworthy characters, imbuing them with disarming charm and humanity. That daring openness is on display in the pages of this memoir, but in true Paul fashion, it is also surprising, eye-opening, and side-splitting. 
  In this madcap journey through the inner working of his mind and creative process, Paul Scheer demonstrates once again that the truth is often stranger—and funnier—than fiction. Joyful Recollections of Trauma offers a unique perspective on universal themes: growing up, working through a challenging childhood, staying true to yourself, and finding success, fulfillment, and happiness in often strange and difficult circumstances. Throughout, Paul shares both the hard-fought lessons and the laughter that can be found in the darkest parts of life, and reminds us that what matters is not what you’ve been through but who you are becoming. If you loved recent memoirs by Molly Shannon, Maria Bamford, RuPaul, and Jennette McCurdy—or any book that moves you to both laughter and tears—Joyful Recollections of Trauma is the perfect read for you.

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  And Jesus Danced (Twice) - The...

  Nigel Wood

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  The True Story of the Milltown Brothers tells the story of a good band that got very lucky and then got very unlucky. It describes their meteoric rise and 'much ignored demise' and demonstrates the role luck plays in all our lives, however much we like to think we're in control.
  The Milltown Brothers from Burnley were discovered by Steve Lamacq playing their fifth gig at the Bull & Gate in London in May 1988. Signed to A&M in 1990, they had a publishing deal with EMI and their debut album Slinky was awarded 5 stars in Q magazine. Oasis supported them less than a year before the release of Definitely Maybe. They shared the bill with Nirvana in Boston, the day before Nirvana released the paradigm changing Nevermind. The promoter described their performance as the event highlight. Relentlessly touring the UK, Europe, America and Japan they were on the cusp of global success…
  "This is not just a story about a band – although as a cautionary tale for young aspiring indie wannabees it should be a must read – it also explores more universal human experiences: how much luck plays in our lives, the importance of being resilient in the face of disappointment and change, and the importance of loyalty and brotherhood. Added to this, the book has cannily drawn in important happenings in the music scene that we traversed – the Stone Roses, Madchester, Nirvana, Grunge and Britpop." Simon Nelson, guitarist, Milltown Brothers

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  Speak Up: Insights from a Life...

  Grant Whitaker

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  Speak Up: Insights from a Life of Leadership and Service 
  Are you looking to advance your career and enrich your understanding through valuable insights from a life full of leadership and service? 
  In search of a detailed guide that provides all the necessary elements to transform lives through powerful insights from experience? 
  Your quest concludes here! 
  This audiobook is your ultimate companion for deepening your understanding, applying leadership principles, and engaging in practical exercises. With this, you're on the path to success. 
  Updated for current leadership and service dynamics. 
  Key features of this enlightening audiobook include: 
  - Profound insights about transforming lives through powerful experiences 
  - Detailed explanations from a lifetime of leadership and service 
  - Effective strategies for personal growth and professional development 
  Our audiobook stands out with its comprehensive coverage, which is crucial for your success. Concepts are examined thoroughly and with precision. 
  Please note that this audiobook is an independent resource designed for your benefit, unaffiliated with any official certifying body. 
  Crafted with a clear structure and straightforward language, our guide ensures smooth transitions between topics, eliminating complex jargon and presenting clear, precise content. 
  So, why wait? Click the BUY NOW button, secure your audiobook, and begin your journey to transformation through powerful insights!

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  Honestly She Doesn't Live Here...

  Pamela Wick

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  For Pamela Wick, President and Mrs. Reagan were simply Ronnie and Nancy, her parents' best friends. What began with Pamela's mom and Nancy organizing the chili booth at their kids' school fair in Los Angeles soon propelled Pamela's parents into pivotal roles that would help Reagan secure the California governorship and eventually the grand prize: the White House. 
   
   
   
  Determined to win her parents' approval as the perfect daughter, Pamela marries the son of Republican royalty and joins them in DC to begin her fairytale in the nation's Capitol—or so she thought. What follows is her firsthand look behind the scenes at the gilded age of the Reagan years in Washington, DC—an era now long gone. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always insightful, the narrative chronicles her journey to penetrate Washington society at the highest levels—from Christmas Eve at her family home with President Reagan dressed as Santa Claus, to intimate dinners at the White House. But behind the golden gates, Pam's marriage is unraveling, and her father's high-profile political scandal threatens to destroy their carefully constructed life. Soon, she's trading in glitzy state dinners for congressional hearings attacking her father, and at the center of the Reagan revolution, Pam's own personal uprising begins.

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  Agatha Christie - An Elusive Woman

  Lucy Worsley

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  "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." 
   
   
   
  Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't?  Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. 
   
   
   
  So why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? 
   
   
   
  She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. 
   
   
   
  With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

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  John P Slough - The Forgotten...

  Richard L. Miller

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  John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the turbulent events of mid-nineteenth-century America. As a politician, Slough fought abolitionists in the Ohio legislature and during Kansas Territory's fourth and final constitutional convention. He organized the 1st Colorado Volunteer Infantry after the Civil War broke out, eventually leading his men against Confederate forces at the pivotal engagement at Glorieta Pass. After the war, as chief justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court, he struggled to reform corrupt courts amid the territory's corrosive Reconstruction politics. 
   
   
   
  Slough was known to possess a volcanic temper and an easily wounded pride. These traits not only undermined a promising career but ultimately led to his death at the hands of an aggrieved political enemy who gunned him down in a Santa Fe saloon. Recounting Slough's timeless story of rise and fall during America's most tumultuous decades, historian Richard L. Miller brings to life this extraordinary figure.

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