Larry McMurtry: A Life Tracy Daugherty Memoir In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains’ keenest witness since…
Katy Carol Adams Non Fiction Settlers coming to the Katy area in the mid-1800s found a cane-filled creek on the vast coastal prairie. The area became known as Cane Island. When the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) Railroad laid tracks in the 1890s,…
Greenlights Matthew McConaughey Memoir I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys…
Going Infinite Michael Lewis Business Non Fiction When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted,…
Furiously Happy Jenny Lawson Mental Health “I’ve often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people’ also might…
Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner Business Economics Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like…
Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man Tim Allen Memoir The comic who’s a guy’s guy is now a bookseller’s dream. The star of ABC’s Home Improvement, the #1 show on television, Tim Allen has written the book millions…
Chicken Soup For The Soul Jack Canfield Mark Victor Hansen This book will inspire you to be a better person, reach for your highest potential, overcome your challenges, improve your relationships, and embrace the world around you.
Cash Johnny Cash & Patrick Carr Autobiography He was the “Man in Black,” a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as…
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Memoir In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new…