No life in popular music touched on as many major musical milestones as that of The Beach Boys' Carl Wilson. While he is often unjustly overlooked as a mere adjunct to his more famous brothers Brian and Dennis, Carl was a major international rock star from his early teens. The proud owner of one of the greatest voices in popular music--one that graced some of the most important records of the pop era, including 'God Only Knows' and 'Good Vibrations'--Wilson was also one of the first musicians to bring the electric guitar to the forefront of rock'n'roll. His musical skills provided The Beach Boys' entree into the music business, from which he then stewarded their onstage journey through the ups and downs of the 60s to their comeback in the 70s and into the role of 'America's band' in the 80s. Along the way, Carl quietly endured his own battles with obesity, divorce, substance abuse, and ultimately terminal cancer, all the while working to protect his family's business and legacy. This major new biography reveals the true story of modern rock'n'roll, lived from the center of the most important decades of popular music.

""When we are unable to let go of past hurts, betrayals and disappointments Satan uses them to threaten and attack our marriage, strike blows at our faith, and weaken our ability to trust our God. If you struggle with unresolved hurts, betrayals or disappointments, please - take a moment with the Father. Write a prayer thanking Him for His mercy, grace, presence and forgiveness. Ask Him to reveal anything from your past that has taken root, and sprouted bitterness, resentment, anger, unforgivingness or any other ungodly emotion. Then pray for His forgiveness. Finally, ask Him to deliver you from the chains of your past." " In Promise Road: The Study Guide, author, Letetia Mullenix, continues where Promise Road: Walking through the Process that Manifests the Promise left off, and offers the reader an opportunity to seek a deeper revelation from and relationship with the Lord through prayer, self-examination, revelation and biblical meditation. Also available, Promise Road: Walking through the Process that Manifests the Promise ""How could I trust a God Who would allow me to be so devastatingly betrayed and disappointed - so many times?" Yet, it was during my greatest moments of blind faith, that my greatest victories were realized." Promise Road: Walking through the Process that Manifests the Promise, chronicles the season in the author's life that God used to manifest His promise to her for a restored marriage, while offering biblical insight regarding the promises of God available to every marriage in need of restoration. www.PromiseRoadStudyGuide.com www.LetetiaMullenix.com

Bennett chronicles the attempts of the families with children who were shot at Sandy Hook Elementary to change gun laws and explains why it is so difficult to pass effective legislation to limit gun sales. THE BROOKINGS ESSAY: In the spirit of its commitment to high-quality, independent research, the Brookings Institution has commissioned works on major topics of public policy by distinguished authors, including Brookings scholars. The Brookings Essay is a multi-platform product aimed to engage readers in open dialogue and debate. The views expressed, however, are solely those of the author. Available in ebook only.

Columbus, Indiana was a quiet pleasant place during the turbulent 1960s and 70s. However, with a seriously sociopathic father and a bitter, narcissistic mother, Emily Anne Taylor's life was anything but quiet and pleasant during those years. She grew up in a broken, dysfunctional home and in an equally broken, dysfunctional culture. As a grown woman, Emily is painfully aware that her parents' dubious choices and behaviors shaped her understanding of what constitutes normal behavior. Countless unfortunate memories affect her deeply as she searches for love and happiness. She questions her own sanity with every choice she makes. Just as Emily reluctantly begins a painful divorce, she becomes close friends, and then more, with a married man who appears to be her salvation-but is he truly her soul mate and the key to her happily-ever-after or is he just another insane choice?

A comic novel about a Midwestern professor who tries to prop up his failing prospects for happiness by setting out on the Journey of a Lifetime. Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis. In an attempt to fend off what has become a soul-crushing existential crisis, he decides to treat himself to a tour of the world's most breathtaking architectural sites. Perhaps not surprisingly, Louie gets waylaid on his very first stop in Rome--ludicrously, spectacularly so--and fails to reach most of his other destinations. He embarks on a doomed romance with a jilted bride celebrating her ruined marriage plans alone in London. And in the Arctic he finds that turf houses and aluminum sheds don't amount to much of an architectural tradition. But it turns out that there's another sort of architecture there: icebergs the size of cathedrals, bobbing beside a strange and wondrous landscape. It soon becomes clear that Louie's grand journey is less about where his wanderings have taken him and more about where his past encounters with romance have not. Whether pursuing his first wife, or his estranged current wife, or the older woman he kissed just once a quarter-century ago, Louie reveals himself to be endearing, deeply touching, wonderfully ridiculous . . . and destined to find love in all the wrong places.

In Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving, historian Peter Norton argues that driverless cars cannot be the safe, sustainable, and inclusive "mobility solutions" that tech companies and automakers are promising us. The salesmanship behind the "driverless future" is distracting us from better ways to get around that we can implement now. Unlike autonomous vehicles, these alternatives are inexpensive, safe, sustainable, and inclusive. Norton takes the reader on an engaging ride--from the GM Futurama exhibit to "smart" highways and vehicles--to show how we are once again being sold car dependency in the guise of mobility. Autonorama is hopeful, advocating for wise, proven, humane mobility that we can invest in now, without waiting for technology that is forever just out of reach.