Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

BONO

Paget Press

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.\n“Surrender soars whenever the spotlight comes on. Bono is never more powerful, on the page or the stage, than when he strives for the transcendence that only music can offer...[Bono] is open and honest, with language that can be witty and distinctive, addressing his competitive relationship with his father or growing up against the backdrop of Ireland’s political violence.” —The New York Times\n“When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress ... With a fair amount of fun along the way.” —Bono\nAs one of the music world’s most iconic artists and the cofounder of the organizations ONE and (RED), Bono’s career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. In his unique voice, Bono takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was fourteen, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his more than twenty years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. Writing with candor, self-reflection, and humor, Bono opens the aperture on his life—and the family, friends, and faith that have sustained, challenged, and shaped him.\nSurrender’s subtitle, 40 Songs, One Story, is a nod to the book’s forty chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created forty original drawings for Surrender, which appear throughout the book.

Humor & Entertainment

KNOPF

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story (Random House Large Print)

Random House, Large Print

Bono in His Own Words

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Omnibus Press

This is a revised compilation of quotations taken from interviews with Bono, U2's lead singer. He tells his own story and the story of his band, as well as his views on touring, U2's music and life as a rock'n'roll star.

Bono: In His Own Words

Thompson, Dave

Rock and Hard Places: Travels to Backstages, Frontlines and Assorted Sideshows

Arts & Photography

Mueller, Andrew

Music

Virgin Books

The lead singer of the award-winning rock band U2 delivers an inspiring and powerful message, based on the speech he gave at the 2006 NPB, offering a reflection on his own faith and a challenge to people of all faiths to reach across all boundaries and come together.

On the Move: A Speech

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

W Pub Group

"El amor esta en movimiento. La compasion esta en movimiento. Podemos ver evidencia del espiritu y, literalmente, nos esta dejando sin aliento. Esta deteniendo al mundo en todos los aspectos. ?Quieres cumplir el llamado de las Escrituras? Entonces ya no pidas a Dios que bendiga lo que haces e involucrate en lo que El esta haciendo, porque eso ya ha sido bendecido de antemano". -Bono Este libro pequeno, inspirado en los comentarios de Bono en el Desayuno Nacional de Oracion en el 2006, ofrece un mensaje poderoso e inspirador. De acuerdo a Bono, encontrara una reflexion personal de su propia fe y un reto a la gente de todas las denominaciones a vencer todas las barreras y a unirse por los que las Escrituras llaman "los mas pequenos".

En Marcha (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Grupo Nelson

Photographer Deirdre O'Callaghan has produced an unsettling but ultimately engaging document of the residents at Arlington House, Europe's largest men's refuge. Built in the early 20th century for intinerant Irish workers, many of the residents have been displaced from their home country and suffer from mental and physical disabilities, largely alcoholism. O'Callaghan's work reveals the humour and companionship the men derive from their shared experience, both in the refuge and on their sponsored return trips to Ireland. This book won the ICP Infinity Award for best publication in 2003 and the Rencontres de la Photographie D'Arles award for best book. It was also included in the PDN Photography Annual 2003 in the best books category

Hide That Can: A Photographic Diary: the Men of Arlington House

O'Callaghan, Deirdre

Individual Artists

Trolley Press

The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) grew out of a United Nations summit conference in 2000, where nearly 200 nations agreed on eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) --including reducing child mortality, promoting gender equality, fighting HIV/AIDS, achieving universal primary education, improving maternal health, and reducing extreme poverty and hunger. Jeffrey Sachs, a Harvard-educated economist who helped liberalize the economies of the former Eastern Bloc countries in the early 1990s, next turned his energies to poverty alleviation and development. From 2000 onward, he served as a key advisor to the UN Secretary-General and many UN agencies on the MDGs. Sach's concept for the MVP was both ambitious and disarmingly simple. Instead of undertaking the small-bore projects--digging a well, repainting a school--that typified much local development work, Sachs' team at the Earth Institute at Columbia University would aim to help rural communities achieve all eight MDGs. To demonstrate the approach, Sachs and his team selected ten main clusters of villages across sub-Saharan Africa. 
MVP aimed to create synergies and a sustainable model of development sufficient to achieve the MDGs. The hope was that ''a good sense of priorities, engineering, and financing,'' says Sachs, would enable the communities to break out of the ''poverty trap.'' 
In 2015 the MVP ten-year experiment came to a close, as planned, alongside the end-date of the UN's MDGs. Experts at the Earth Institute are collating data and trying to determine whether a decade of targeted development programs has brought the project's sites close to the Millennium Development Goals established in 2000. The statistical results will be presented to the public in early 2017. 
Four photographers from VII Agency --Ed Kashi, Gary Knight, Danny Wilcox Frazier and Ron Haviv--documented MVP sites in Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, and Ethiopia. These photographs explore the challenges endemic to the area and success stories of obstacles overcome by individuals and communities. As Bono says at the end of his essay: ''While I love statistics, what calls to us all are great stories and pictures like these in this book, which paint a billion words.'' 
Note: The Blue Chip Foundation will donate all proceeds from the sale of the book to Community Health Care workers in Ghana and Girls scholarships through the Connect to Learn Program

The Millennium Villages Project

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Joshua Hammer

Ed Kashi: Ghana

Gary Knight: Rwanda

Danny Wilcox Frazier: Senegal

Ron Haviv: Ethiopia

Jenn Stengaard Gross

Photography & Video

de.Mo design Ltd--in Association with the Blue Chip Foundation and VII Association

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