When Bono’s book Surrender: 40 Songs One Story was published, I had to read it.
Having loved his lyrics and melodies, I wanted to know if they sprang from real life. Where did he find meaning? What does he love? Who does he love? Surprisingly, his wife has remained his best friend and critic having shared his entire journey.
Bono has always been a storyteller, and he poetically tells his life story from a boy in Dublin to a world renown musician and philanthropist. His desire to connect spirituality with real life flows through all his days.
Because I had to reckon with an abusive father myself, I was interested to learn that Bono’s “father wars” left him with an anger that needed to be excavated and healed. In writing, he opens his heart with unbelievable honesty and more wisdom than I expected.
One of the greatest rock memoirs ever written and a Sunday Times bestseller now out in paperback - the honest, irreverent and powerfully entertaining life story of the U2 front-man.
Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography- honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him - now out in paperback.
'When I started to write this book I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd…
Key is an author and humorist who writes about his attempts to deal with his wife’s infidelity. Doing what he felt was impossible, he began searching for wisdom and understanding.
Dark, sometimes funny, sometimes maddening and sarcastic, I couldn’t put the book down. With all his faults, I had to know how he saved his marriage. The advice he received ranged from “cut her off” to “burn her clothes in the yard.” Only one person told him to “Fight for her.”
Whether you’re married or not living through breakups are among our most difficult and dangerous times of life. I wanted to learn any scraps of wisdom I could from someone who fought his way out of darkness.
Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, "shot through with sharp humor" (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage.
One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife-the sweet, funny, loving mother of their three daughters, a woman "who's spent just about every Sunday of her life in a church"-is having an affair with a family friend. This revelation propels the hysterical, heartbreaking events in How to Stay Married, casting our narrator onto "the factory floor of hell," where his wife was…
At heart this book is a love story about an enslaved couple who escaped the South and lived to write about it.
Risking their lives to be free, in 1848 Helen and William Craft began a dangerous 5,000 mile journey from Macon, Georgia to England. Helen who passed for white, disguised herself as a man and was accompanied by her husband who pretended to be her black slave.
Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, this account of their courage, and what they endured from white enslavers is both a story of tragedy and triumph. I need books such as this to fill the gaps in my education where historical accounts and stories like this were suppressed, denied, or ignored.
The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave.
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the…
We were a poor family living in a three room house on a farm in Northern Minnesota where winter could be so cold a chicken house full of hens could freeze to death. The stories of my childhood range from hilarious to painful. I grew up longing for a father who loved me, but he had died in a plane crash before I was born. The man my mother married never accepted me. Still, the shenanigans and risks we took as children kept us laughing and entertained. A thread of hope ran through my life along with raw heartbreak and death; it was a place where I learned to love the beauty and goodness of the land and its animals.
