Arts & Entertainment Editor’s Choice:
David French picked up the newspaper in the comfort of his penthouse in Philadelphia, and read about a soldier – father of two – who was wounded in Iraq. Immediately, he was stricken with a question: Why him and not me?
This is the story of what happens when a person – rather a family – answers the call to serve their nation. David was a 37-year-old father of two, a Harvard Law graduate and president of a free speech organization. In other words, he was used to pushing pencils, not toting M16s.
His wife Nancy was raising two children and writing from home. She was worrying about field trips and playdates, not about her husband going to war.
HOME AND AWAY chronicles not just a soldier at war, but a family at war – a husband in Iraq, a wife and children at home, greeting each day with hope and fear, facing the challenge with determination, tears, and more than a little joy.
Published by Center Street
www.NancyFrench.com
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AS INDIVIDUALS, CONGRESSWOMAN GABRIELLE GIFFORDS and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, showed Americans how optimism, an adventurous spirit, and a call to service can help change the world. As a couple, they became a national example of the healing power to be found in deeply shared love and courage. Their arrival in the world spotlight came under the worst of circumstances. On January 8, 2011, while meeting with her constituents in Tucson, Arizona, Gabby was the victim of an assassination attempt that left six people dead and thirteen wounded. Gabby was shot in the head; doctors called her survival “miraculous.”
As the nation grieved and sought to understand the attack, Gabby remained in private, focused on her against-all-odds recovery. Mark spent every possible moment by her side, as he also prepared for his final mission as commander of space shuttle Endeavour.
Published by Scribner
www.GabbyGiffords.com
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In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.
Published by Ballantine Books
www.JamieFord.com
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Unstoppable: 6 Easy Steps To Achieve Your Goals details the Systematic Attitude Development-Technique (SAD-T). This 6-step revolutionary system has led thousands of people accomplish their goals, improve their attitudes, maximize each day and move forward, even in the midst of a crisis.
A parable and a coaching book, you are first introduced to three siblings, Mariella, Mabel, and Jack, who are faced the all-too-common challenges of life: weight issues, relationship breakup, job loss, job stagnation, and failed dreams. They find themselves held hostage by emotion, unable to take the necessary steps to move forward. Together, they use SAD-T to not only get logical and change their lives, but also successfully achieve their goals.
Published by Morgan James Publishing
www.GailKasper.com
