This autobiography of the keyboardist of the rock band Journey is so inspirational that my words can hardly do justice to it.
As a child, Jonathan Cain came close to dying in a famous tragedy. As an adult, he came close to giving up. But one simple piece of inspirational advice from his father let to success and one of the most popular songs in history.
In Chicago in 1958 a boy ran out of his school to escape what became the worst school fire in history. Questioning why he survived and almost 100 others died, this story is the autobiography of the man who used that experience to pursue his dream of becoming a professional musician and who went on to co-write one of the most iconic pop music songs in history.
This book was such an inspiration that it makes you want to live your life all over again and never stop believing. I lost my own father in a fire and while we were not close, the book did touch me quite personally on that fact and others. As an amateur musician, it made me want to relive my life and do better.
From One of the Greatest Bands in History Comes a Reminder to Never Give Up Hope. In this long-awaited memoir, complete with color photographs, songwriter and keyboardist Jonathan Cain takes us on an odyssey from center stage with Journey when all America was listening to songs like "Don't Stop Believin'," "Faithfully," and "Open Arms," to his hope and faith today. He tells of the thrilling moments when the music came together and offers an inside look at why Steve Perry left and the extraordinary story of their gifted new vocalist, Arnel Pineda.
If you live in the United States, you’re probably familiar with The Andy Griffith Show.
Launched in the 1950s, its reruns continue to entertain and endear everyone. They harken back to small-town America where life was simple. Andy Griffith and Don Knotts portrayed the main characters, Sheriff Andy Taylor and his deputy Barney Fife, with so much skill that even today, the scenes are as funny as they were back then.
This book is a biography of the two men who were friends for more than 50 years, a bro-mance before there was such a word. In any other time or with any other actors, these two would end up hating each other, mutually jealous of the other’s success. But it never happened. This is the story of why.
A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this “humorous, informative, and poignant book” celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America’s most iconic television programs and “shows how the magic was created” (Library Journal).
Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first met on Broadway in the 1950s. When Andy moved to Hollywood to film a TV pilot for a comedy about a small-town sheriff, Don called to ask if Andy’s sheriff could use a deputy. The friendship and comedy partnership between Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife ignited The Andy Griffith Show, elevating the folksy…
I have always been a David McCullough fan, so I put this book on my list. And yet, I kept putting off reading it, as I didn’t think I would like it. But I finally did, and I thought it was great.
Most of us know a little of the story of how these two bicycle merchants from Dayton, Ohio turned their knowledge of two-wheelers into arguably the greatest technological achievement in human history. I bet you also didn‘t know the important role their sister played. Read it and find this out. And a lot more.
The incredible true story of the origin of human flight, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough.
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot.
Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?
David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly human story of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Far more…
This is the story of a young and successful university president whose personal life involving a failing marriage and alcohol addiction begin interfering with her professional life.
In an effort to help her former department, she takes on a graduate assistant half her age and soon becomes embroiled in a scandal that threatens her career. In trying to manage her crisis, she makes another major mistake and eventually not only is her reputation in danger, but so is her life.
In a story loaded with plot twists and a surprising bit of humor, you find yourself rooting for the heroine and then wanting to smack some sense into her. There’s no shortage of suspense, and as one reviewer said, “my heart was pounding the last twenty pages.”
