TOP 5 NONFICTION::
Hardcover:
1. THINGS THAT MATTER, by Charles Krauthammer
2. KILLING JESUS, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
3. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SECRET SIX, by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
4. DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell
5. MIRACLES AND MASSACRES, by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe and Hannah Beck
Spotlight:
LET ME OFF AT THE TOP!
Ron Burgund
The autobiography every true American has been waiting for: a shockingly candid and raw
confessional from a national treasure.
From his humble beginnings in a desolate Iowa coal mining town, his years at Our Lady Queen of Chewbacca High School to his odds-defying climb to the dizzying heights of becoming America’s most trusted and beloved television News Anchor, Ron Burgundy pulls no punches in Let Me Off at the Top!
In his very own words Burgundy reveals his most private thoughts, his triumphs and his disappointments. His life reads like an adventure story complete with knock down fights, beautiful women and double-fisted excitement on every page. He has hunted jackalopes with Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford, had more than his share of his amorous exploits, and formed the greatest on-air team in the history of televised news. Along the way, he hobnobbed with people you wish you knew and some you honestly wish you didn't -- celebrities, presidents, presidents' wives, celebrities' wives, dogs, and, of course Veronica Corningstone, the love of his life. Walter Cronkite, Barbra Streisand, Katie Couric, the list goes on. Who didn’t Mr. Burgundy, or “Ron” as he is known to his friends, rub elbows with in the course of his colorful and often criminal life?
This may well be the most thrilling book ever written, by a man of great physical, moral and spiritual strength and not surprisingly a great literary talent as well. This book deserves a real shot at a Pulitzer Prize. In fact if it doesn’t win one then we will finally have proof that the Pulitzer is rigged.
Ron Burgundy has taken the time to write a book. We owe it to him, as honest Americans, to read it.
Paperback:
1. PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander
2.LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robertson
3.OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell
4.QUIET by Susan Cain
5. ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman
Spotlight:
PHILOMENA
Martin Sixsmith
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent of Roscrea, Co. Limerick, to be looked after as a 'fallen woman' and at the age of three her baby was whisked away and 'sold' to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising 'Never to Seek to Know' what the Church did with him, she never saw him again. She would spend the next fifty years searching for her son, unaware that he spent his life searching for her.
Philomena's son, renamed Michael Hess, grew up to be a top lawyer and then a Republican politician in the first Bush administration. But he was also gay and in 1980s Washington being out and proud was not an option. He not only had to conceal not only his sexuality, but, eventually, the fact that he had AIDs. With little time left, he returned to Ireland and the convent in which he was born to plead with the nuns to tell him who his mother was, so that he might see her before he died. They refused.
"The Lost Child of Philomena Lee" is the story of a mother and a son, whose lives were blighted by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love and loss, Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive.
E-Book:
1. KILLING JESUS, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
2. DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell
3. TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, by Solomon Northup
4. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, by Nelson Mandela
5. THINGS THAT MATTER, by Charles Krauthammer
Spotlight:
LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Nelson Mandela
The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.
LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.
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