Feb 29, 2016 | iRead New Writers, iRead Non-Fiction
The median age for starting a family has climbed, and Tom LaMarr is the reason. The Geezer Dad author was nearly 48 when he met his daughter, which makes him even older now. The story of one man’s transformation from career-minded guy who wasn’t completely sure he wanted children to age-impaired dad pulling out reading glasses in the supermarket’s baby aisle, Geezer Dad will resonate with older first-time parents and parents-to-be, as well as those still contemplating the journey.
Feb 16, 2016 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead New Writers, iRead Non-Fiction
Amy Cuddy is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School who studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments affect people. Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered by NPR, New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, and more.
Feb 8, 2016 | iRead New Writers, iRead Non-Fiction
Denver author Juan Thompson, who grew up in Woody Creek, Colorado with his father, Hunter S. Thompson, reads from and discusses his new memoir Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson.
Jan 25, 2016 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Non-Fiction
A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom Hudner passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi, Jesse Brown became the navy’s first black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn’t even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32, and when one of the duo was shot down behind enemy lines and pinned in his burning plane, the other faced an unthinkable choice: watch his friend die or attempt history’s most audacious one-man rescue mission.
Jan 18, 2016 | iRead New Writers, iRead Non-Fiction
An incredible hockey talent who was instrumental in changing the very art of goaltending, Patrick Roy’s success was driven as much by determination and perseverance as by talent. Patrick Roy: Winning. Nothing Else brings to life Roy’s phenomenal career and unmasks his more mysterious personal side – taking us behind the scenes and into the family life of one of the greatest goaltenders of all time.
Jan 11, 2016 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Non-Fiction
Hancock discusses Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization, his sequel to his seminal work, filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light.
