Category: Biographies & Memoirs

Sleepwalk With Me And Other Painfully True Stories By Mike Birbiglia
Requirements: EPub Reader; 417KB
Overview: Comedian Birbiglia, frequent contributor to public radio’s This American Life and The Moth and author of the blog My Secret Public Journal, has the ability to remember a lot of things most of us would just as soon forget. Lucky for us, in this memoir Birbiglia recalls the events leading up to his earning the childhood nickname “Tinkles” (though you might be able to guess how it happened), and he tells the story of how, instead of bestowing his first kiss on his middle-school crush, he tossed his cookies at her feet. He’s now, hopefully, cashing in on the demoralizing dues paid in his youth and early career as a stand-up comic—readers will recognize him from the late-night circuit and Comedy Central specials, and the book itself is an extension of his one-man show. Charming, brainier than he’d probably admit, and frequently poignant in spite of himself, Birbiglia throws together an alternately rollicking and warm handful of stories; the lengthy title story, of his struggle with a sleep disorder, is as fascinating as it is hilarious. –Annie Bostrom
Genre: Non-fiction: Biographies/Memoirs

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We Appreciate Your Enthusiasm: The Oral History of Q101 by James VanOsdol
Requirements: ePUB reader, MOBI reader, 1.6 MB
Overview: Remember when radio meant something? When you knew all of the disc jockeys’ names on your favorite station, and you had to stick around through the commercial break to see what song was going to be played next?

"Alternative" (or "modern rock") radio was one of the last radio formats in the 21st century to incite that level of passion with its listenership. When Chicago station Q101 (WKQX) decided to flip to an alternative format in July, 1992, their timing couldn’t have been better.

Alternative music turned the music industry upside down in the early 1990s, thanks to star-making releases from bands like Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Pearl Jam. Though Q101 was slow to fully embrace all of alternative music’s marquee players, once they did, the station became a dominant presence on the Windy City’s FM band.

We Appreciate Your Enthusiasm tells the oral history of Q101, from 1992-2011, through the stories, memories, and recollections of the people who worked there both on the air and behind the scenes.

The resulting tale is a primer on modern radio: the good, the bad, the hilarious, and the ridiculous. We Appreciate Your Enthusiasm covers band feuds with heavyweights like the White Stripes and Pearl Jam, radio feuds with rival stations WRCX and WZZN, promotional failures like the "all you can drink" Brew & Block Party, a hail of garbage big enough to influence the name of the book, and the cultural impact of events like Kurt Cobain’s death, 9/11, and Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction during the Super Bowl.

Over 75 former employees’ thoughts and stories are featured, including syndicated host Mancow Muller, former MTV personalities Mark Goodman and Kevin Manno, Sludge, Electra, Robert Chase, Ryan Manno, Lance and Stoley, Wendy and Bill, Sherman and Tingle, and Zoltar.
Genre: Biographies/Memoirs

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I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway: A Memoir by Tracy McMillan
Requirements: ePUB reader, 362KB
Overview: I love You

Television writer Tracy McMillan managed to work her way into a killer Hollywood career—a privileged world of pool houses, premieres, and big-time producer deals—despite being the daughter of a fur-coat-wearing, El Dorado–driving, smooth-talking pimp named Freddie. But success couldn’t save her from the pattern of self-destructive choices—stemming from her history with her father—that would shape all of her romantic relationships. I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway is her comic, tragic, and ultimately victorious story, the riveting true tale of how having a father obsessed with women made her a woman obsessed with men.

And I’m Leaving You

Blessed with beauty and brains, Tracy had no problem attracting men. Marrying her first husband (a kind, stable MBA) before she was out of her teens, she quickly discovered the romantic contradiction that so many women face: the "right" kind of men feel wrong. And the wrong ones feel so, so right. Alternating between the nice guys she knew she should want, and the unavailable men who were compelling, Tracy found herself repeating the hurt that began when the man who loved her the most, her father, left her for prison when she was just three years old. Freddie’s absence meant a childhood filled with foster homes, a temperamental stepmother, and near constant upheaval. It took three marriages, the birth of a son, and, most important, resolving her relationship with her dad for Tracy to discover the truth about herself—a truth that finally set her free.

Anyway

This provocative, insightful, and humorous memoir isn’t a "woe is me" story of what went wrong. I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway is a story of what’s gone right—one woman’s journey to creating a fulfilling life and raising a son who taught her everything she needed to know about men, love, and, of course, herself. Heartwarming, funny, and unflinchingly real, it is an inspiring testament to the power of change that proves we can all grow from even our most flawed relationships.
Genre: Biographies/Memoirs

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The Battle of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts from the Men of Task Force Ranger edited by Matt Eversmann and Dan Schilling
Requirements: .MOBI Reader, 1Mb
Overview: It started as a mission to capture a Somali warlord. It turned into a disastrous urban firefight and death-defying rescue operation that shocked the world and rattled a great nation. The 1993 battle for Mogadishu, Somalia – the incident that was the basis of the book and film Black Hawk Down – is remembered by the men who fought and survived it in these first-person accounts.

Genre: Non-fiction, Memoir, Military History

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Shifty’s War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers by Marcus Brotherton
Requirements: .MOBI Reader, 2.5Mb
Overview: As a boy growing up in the remote mining town of Clinchco, Virginia, Darrell “Shifty” Powers’s goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to “see” without his eyes. Little did Shifty know his finely-tuned skills would one day save his life—and the lives of his friends.

As one of the original men who trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, Shifty was one out of only two soldiers in Easy Company to initially earn the coveted expert marksman designation. He parachuted into France on D-day and fought for a month in Normandy; eighty days in Holland; thirty-nine in the harshly cold winter of Bastogne; and for nearly thirty more near Haguenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany.

Shifty’s War is a tale of heroism and adventure, of a soldier’s blood-filled days fighting his way from the shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how one man’s skills as a sharpshooter and engagingly unassuming personality propelled him to a life greater than he could have ever imagined.

Genre: Non-fiction, Biography, Military History

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