Making it in the Music Business
Lee Wilson
Early in their careers most musicians find it hard to believe that their band might ever make enough money to fight over. But sooner than you think success may arrive, and without clear terms of how the band...
AKA
Tristan Jones
In a last-ditch stab at fortune and glory, middle-aged adventurer Bill Conan enters a 30,000-mile single-handed round-the-world race. This ultimate test of skill, strength, and endurance leads him across the ...
Science Says
Rob Kaplan
Perhaps no other topic is as relevant to our lives today as science. We look to the interpreters of science for wisdom and answers, insights into the nature of the universe and who we are, as well as expl...
The Improbable Voyage
Tristan Jones
The Improbable Voyage is the account of master sailor and storyteller Tristan Jones' 2,307-mile voyage across Europe in an oceangoing trimaran, Outward Leg. Continuing his round-the-world journ...
Harry's Absence
Jonathan Scott
On February 1, 1960, Harry Scott, conscientious objector, psychologist, and mountaineer, was killed while climbing Mt. Cook. Thirty-five years later, his son set out to look for him. Funny, moving, and beautif...
Sipping from the Nile
by Jean Naggar[ Non-Fiction ]
This story speaks to a different wave of immigrants and tells the American Jewish story viewed through an unfamiliar lens. As always, it is a story of lost worlds and difficult transitions, and the innocence of childhood in a world about to break apart. It is also about an essentially Sephardic experience, about the price and consequences of colonialism in the Middle East, about exotic locales and strong family values. The Suez crisis of 1956/57 essentially powers this memoir both personally and historically. It is a profoundly topical story, little known, but it holds the kernel of much of the subsequent turbulent history in the Middle East. The lush descriptions of foods and customs, houses, landscapes, events and people, caused a seasoned reviewer to write of this book, "It's obvious that your writing talent was waiting for this subject..."
