Frank Carlson Library

"With the perspective of time and success--Ron as a filmmaker, producer, and Hollywood A-lister, Clint as a busy character actor--the Howard brothers delve deep into an upbringing that seemed normal to them yet was anything but. Their Midwestern parents, Rance and Jean, moved to California to pursue their own showbiz dreams. But it was their young sons who found steady employment as actors. Rance put aside his ego and ambition to become Ron and Clint's...

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book lover's paradise? Well, almost In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles...

In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, Its the juxtapositions that get you down here. These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South and in her warmhearted and funny new audiobook, South Toward Home, she chronicles her adventures through the highs and the lows of Southern life the Delta hot tamale festival, a masked ball, a rollicking party in a boat on a sand bar, scary Christian...

"Hang on to your land!" Julene Bair took her father's words to heart as a young girl. Even though she left Kansas as soon as she could for adventures in San Francisco and the Mojave Desert, she knew how much hard work and sacrifice her parents and grandparents had put into building her family's large farm. Hanging onto it would be her solemn obligation. When Julene inherited a share of the farm years later, however, honoring that wish no longer seemed...

"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"-- "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." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...

In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, Katie Couric reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she's never shared, until now. This is the fast-paced, emotional, riveting story of a thoroughly modern woman, whose journey took her from humble origins to superstardom. Print run 750,000.

"In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid...

"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor - including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother - and how she retook control of her life." --

The multi-Emmy Award-winning syndicated TV star offers more than 125 recipes straight from her home in upstate New York during the pandemic with personal stories on loss, gratitude and the special memories of what makes a house a home. During the early months of the pandemic, Ray and her husband John went to work in their home kitchen, hosting the cooking show on broadcast TV, with John as the iPhone cameraman. This is a scrapbook of the year, in...