Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman was one of the most celebrated members of the United States military. With 800 soldiers under his command in the heart of the Sunni triangle in Iraq, his unit sought and eliminated terrorists and loyalists to Saddam Hussein while rebuilding the region’s infrastructure. In Iraq, Sassaman was known for his innovation and strategy, but in America, his reputation is awash in the nation’s dour memory of an Iraqi’s alleged drowning at the hands of Sassaman’s men. When the Army convicted three men for manslaughter and a fourth for assault, it was the first time troops serving in Iraq were charged with murdering a detainee. In this complex fight where Army leaders find themselves pinned against one another and the media’s hunger is satiated by taking down our own men, Nathan’s decision to cover for his men demonstrates much about the toll his war has taken on our nation.

Warrior King is a revealing and haunting memoir of both the brutality and the humanitarian efforts in Iraq, the power play between the troops’ ground work to the Pentagon, and why this war has gone horribly wrong.

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October Sky
by Homer Hickam

A New York Times #1 bestseller and Universal feature film, now available on DVD and home video!

It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to send rockets into outer space. The introspective son of the mine's superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood forever, Homer fell in with a group of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets, but how to sustain their hope in a town that swallowed its men alive. When the boys began to light up the tarry skies with their flaming projectiles and dreams of glory, Coalwood, and the Hickams, would never the same.

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Inside Delta Force
by Eric L. Haney

International Bestseller. Basis for the TV series The Unit.

No headlines truly reveal their missions, and no book has ever taken readers inside from one operative's perspective. They are Delta Force, modern warriors who are masters of espionage, fluent in foreign languages, and trained to outshoot, outthink and outsmart any enemy. For the first time, the public will have the opportunity to delve into the heart of this closed brotherhood, and learn about life inside, from the grueling selection process to the rigorous training to heart-stopping missions.

Written by Eric Haney, Command Sergeant Major (ret.), Inside Delta Force is paced like a thriller but revealing as only a memoir can be. Haney states, "Close brutal combat puts a callous layer on each individual who undergoes the experience. Some men become trapped in that hard protective shell, and for others, that coating becomes like a looking glass, highlighting and magnifying the things that are really important in life. Every sensation becomes precious and delicious."

Haney will, from an unprecedented perspective, bring to life the pain, brutal reality, and glory of a decade of service. This book is a must read for those eager to learn the truth behind the headlines.

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Dancing Naked In The Mind Field
by Kary Mullis with David Fisher

New York Times Notable Book

In Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Mullis writes with passion and humor about a wide range of subjects: from poisonous spiders to the HIV virus and AIDS, from global warming to astrology, from the O.J. Simpson trial to how you can turn a light bulb on with your mind. A multi-dimensional playland of ideas, this book challenges us to questions the authority of scientific dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily original scientific mind.

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The Rock Says: The Most Electrifying Man in Sports-Entertainment
by Dwayne Johnson with Joe Layden

New York Times Bestseller

In this action-packed, revealing and outrageously funny memoir, WWE Superstar Dwayne Johnson (a.k.a. The Rock) recounts his life in and out of the ring with unapologetic honesty and inimitable style. From his boyhood days traveling around the world with his father (professional wrestler Rocky Johnson) to his years as a football player at the University of Miami to his meteoric rise through the ranks of the Federation, The Rock Says. . . chronicles in vivid detail the life story of one of sports-entertainment's most innovative and best-loved personalities.

The Rock takes fans on a guided tour of big-time professional wrestling, a highly competitive business in which a handful of gifted and lucky performers dominate, and all others dream of a moment in the spotlight. He provides a breathtaking, minute-by-minute account of Wrestle Mania, the Super Bowl of pro wrestling, including an intimate backstage look at rehearsals with his opponent, Stone Cold Steve Austin. And he discusses in heartfelt detail the loss of his friend and co-worker, Owen Hart. Filled with genuinely touching stories of love and strife, hilarious anecdotes and dozens of previously unpublished photographs from Johnson's personal collection, The Rock Says. . . is -- as The Rock himself might put it -- "the coolest thing since the other side of the pillow if you smell what The Rock is cookin'."

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The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint
by Tommy Chong

It's a scene surreal enough to come straight out of one of Cheech and Chong's own movies: Through a bizarre bureaucratic bungle, an amiable stoner just trying to grow old gracefully is accused of supporting terrorism and is hauled off to jail. But the events of February 24, 2003 are all true and delineated in Tommy's prison diaries. At 5.30 a.m., agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration kicked in the door of Tommy Chong's California home with automatic weapons drawn, and asked if he had any marijuana in the house. His answer? "Of course, I have marijuana in the house - I'm Tommy Chong."

Tommy Chong's incarceration drew widespread condemnation from public figures including Jay Leno and Jon Stewart, and has, ironically, made him more popular than ever. This book consists of Tommy's prison diaries, which reveal how his outlook on life and his unique point of view helped him survive and emerge determined to make a stand.

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Detective
by Kathy Burke with Neal Hirschfeld

Detective is the story of undercover cop Kathy Burke’s career. During her 23-year career on the New York City police force, Burke would become the most highly decorated female detective in the 160-year history of the department. Her success didn’t come without struggle from both criminals and from the members of her own department. Despite harassment from superior officers and her fellow cops, Burke was eventually assigned to working undercover as a member of the elite Major Case Squad, the squad that investigates the highest-profile cases in New York City.

Kathy Burke survived one of the worst traumas that can happen to a police officer - the shooting death of a partner while they were working on a case and then being the subject of false rumors blaming her for it. After recovering from her own injuries, Burke goes on to become a counselor with the New York City Police Department Self-Support Group - an organization for police officers who have been shot, stabbed, maimed or otherwise injured in the line of duty, and which played an important role in “debriefing” Ground Zero cops who didn’t know they even needed an outlet in order to heal.

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Biggie: Voletta Wallace Remembers Her Son, Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G.
by Voletta Wallace

Voletta Wallace, the mother of Christopher, aka Notorious B.I.G., became a matriarch of hip-hop on March 9, 1997, the night her legendary son was murdered. An intensely private and religious person, she was thrust into the spotlight of the media and charged with managing the legacy of a hip-hop generation immortal.

Biggie reveals the story of how Ms. Wallace came to America and raised a son who -- in a life cut too short -- grew to be one of the most beloved recording artists of his generation. Ms. Wallace, born and raised in Jamaica, West Indies, immigrated to the United States as a young woman, aspiring to her version of the American Dream. Once here, she fell in love. The relationship didn't work out, but it did result in a beautiful son. The bright and precocious Christopher became the center of her world, and she the foundation of his.

But on that fateful night in 1997, both of their lives, as well as the lives of those in the hip-hop community and music industry, changed forever.

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Between Good and Evil: Hunting Society's Most Violent Predators
by Roger L. Depue with Susan Schindehette

New York Times Bestseller

The FBI's former top serial killer hunter shares his unique perspective as both a lawman and a member of the clergy counseling convicts, revealing the dangerously thin line between good and evil.

Roger L. Depue spent decades tracking down America's most depraved criminals. First as a small town police chief, then as a S.W.A.T. team member, and ultimately as head of the FBI's famed Behavioral Sciences Unit - the unit responsible for profiling and hunting serial killers where he pioneered revolutionary law enforcement programs and techniques that remain in use today by the FBI and police departments across the globe. In his quest to comprehend the true nature of good and evil, Depue embarked on a mid-career spiritual sabbatical to become a Brother of the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles, counseling maximum-security inmates. With his combined experiences as both a law enforcement professional and a member of the clergy, Depue explores the criminal mind and soul as no one has ever done before.

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Twice Adopted
by Michael Reagan

An important social commentator speaks to the cultural ailments threatening America today.

Michael Reagan’s life is much more than just an interesting story. It is a testimony of healing from many of the issues that confront our culture today, such as sexual abuse, divorce, loneliness, the feeling of rejection and the belief that God does not care about us. Michael Reagan’s first adoption gave him an identity, but his true identity was discovered in his second adoption as a child of God.

Twice Adopted shows how others can meet a God who loves them, who wants to embrace them and wants to bring them healing salvation and meaning to life.

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There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale
by Sean Astin with Joe Layden

New York Times Bestseller

The Lord of the Rings is one of the most successful film trilogies in cinematic history. Nominated for more than 18 Academy Awards, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers stand as two of the highest grossing films in box office history.

Though each Lord of the Rings DVD includes a special behind the scenes look at the making of the film -- showing some of the techniques and artistry employed to bring Tolkien's vision to life -- the real story of what took place on the set, the harrowing ordeals of the actors and some of the unspoken controversy that occurred between the cast and studio has never been heard, until now. There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale is the complete memoir of Sean Astin, who plays Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. His experience and candid retelling of events is unparalleled. More than a companion guide to the film, this book is filled with stories from the set and of the actors involved that have never been told before.

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Wendy's Got the Heat
by Wendy Williams

New York Times bestseller

Known as a "shock jock diva" and "a radio gossip guru," Wendy Williams has had a following in the nation's number one media market, New York City, and across the nation from the time she became a top-rated radio personality and "It Girl" in the mid-1990s. Whether she's doing color commentary for the VH1 Fashion Awards or giving advice on her daily drive-time show on New York's WBLS, her fans know that Wendy's Got the Heat.

She's the kind of media personality that artists love because she builds them up and fear because she can bring them down. She has interviewed many of the biggest names in entertainment, including Jennifer Lopez, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah and many more, and is known for her ability to disarm and get them to reveal their secrets. Known also as the "biggest mouth in New York," she is candid as well in discussing her own drama-filled life, including her public struggles to recover from drug addiction, her miscarriages, being forced out of her job and then re-hired to a top spot in radio.

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A Smile as Big as the Moon
by Mike Kersjes with Joe Layden

Mike Kersjes always believed that his students could do anything - even attend the prestigious Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, where some of America's best and brightest high school student compete in a variety of activities similar to those experienced by NASA astronauts training for space shuttle missions. The challenge was convincing else that the kids in his special education class, with disabilities including Tourette's syndrome, Down's Syndrome, dyslexia, eating disorders, and a variety of emotional problems, would benefit from the experience and succeed. With remarkable persistence, Kersjes broke down one barrier after another, from his own principal's office to the inner sanctum of NASA, until Space Camp finally opened its doors. After nine months of rigorous preparation, Kersjes's class arrived at Space Camp, where they turned in a performance beyond everyone's expectations.

A Smile as Big as the Moon is being made into a feature film by Jerry Bruckheimer productions.

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Renowned neurosurgeon Keith Black combines a dramatic narrative with fascinating scientific insights to create a compelling look at one man's journey into the brain.

Virtually every day, Dr. Keith Black, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and scientist, enters the treacherous territory he calls "tiger country": the unimaginably intricate and challenging act of performing brain surgery, where one wrong move, one small mistake, can mean the end of his patient's life. In Brain Surgeon, Dr. Black uses the extraordinarily dramatic stories of some of his patients to illustrate fascinating details of the brain's inner workings and the techniques he uses to extend lives at the outer edge of science. In this compelling narrative, he also offers readers a rare look inside the remarkable mind of a master surgeon who literally holds the lives of his patients in his hands and in his heart.

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