Connecting the Dots

Business & Money

John Chambers

Management & Leadership

Hachette Books

This Goes Out to the Underground: A Mother, Her Daughter, and How We All Rise Together

Biographies & Memoirs

Mahdavi, Pardis

Leaders & Notable People

Unrequited Infatuations

An epic tale of self-discovery by a self-confessed Rock n Roll disciple &nbsp; What story begins in a bedroom in suburban New Jersey in the early '60s, unfolds on some of the country's largest stages, and then ranges across the globe, demonstrating over and over again how Rock and Roll has the power to change the world for the better? This story.&nbsp; &nbsp; The first true heartbeat of UNREQUITED INFATUATIONSis the moment when Stevie Van Zandt trades in his devotion to the Baptist religion for an obsession with Rock and Roll. Groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones created new ideas of community, creative risk, and principled rebellion. They changed him forever. While still a teenager, he met Bruce Springsteen, a like-minded outcast/true believer who became one of his most important friends and bandmates. As Miami Steve, Van Zandt anchored the E Street Band as they conquered the Rock and Roll world.&nbsp; &nbsp; And then, in the early '80s, Van Zandt stepped away from E Street to embark on his own odyssey. He refashioned himself as Little Steven, a political songwriter and performer, fell in love with Maureen Santoro who greatly expanded his artistic palette, and visited the world's hot spots as an artist/journalist to not just better understand them, but to help change them. Most famously, he masterminded the recording of "Sun City," an anti-apartheid anthem that sped the demise of South Africa's institutionalized racism and helped get Nelson Mandela out of prison.&nbsp; &nbsp; By the '90s, Van Zandt had lived at least two lives--one as a mainstream rocker, one as a hardcore activist. It was time for a third. David Chase invited Van Zandt to be a part of his new television show, the Sopranos--as Silvio Dante, he was the unconditionally loyal consiglieri who sat at the right hand of Tony Soprano (a relationship that oddly mirrored his real-life relationship with Bruce Springsteen).&nbsp; &nbsp; Underlying all of Van Zandt's various incarnations was a devotion to preserving the centrality of the arts, especially the endangered species of Rock. In the twenty-first century, Van Zandt founded a groundbreaking radio show (Underground Garage), a fiercely independent record label (Wicked Cool),&nbsp;and developed a curriculum to teach students of all ages through the medium of music history. He also rejoined the E Street Band for what has now been a twenty-year victory lap.&nbsp; &nbsp; UNREQUITED INFATUATIONS chronicles the twists and turns of Stevie Van Zandt's always surprising life. It is more than just the testimony of a globe-trotting nomad, more than the story of a groundbreaking activist, more than the odyssey of a spiritual seeker, and more than a master class in rock and roll (not to mention a dozen other crafts). It's the best book of its kind because it's the only book of its kind. &nbsp;

Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir

Stevie Van Zandt

I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders)

Jason Gay

Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats

Andrew Hoehn

Thom Shanker

None Of This Rocks : A Memoir

Trohman

Some New Kind Of Kick: A Memoir

Powers, Kid Congo (author.)

Lessons and advice for navigating uncertainty in the worst of times. Amy Low resides in a room that is her last--her medical team is clear-eyed with her: there is no cure for Stage IV metastatic colon cancer, and the odds of long-term survival are scant. Miraculously, she's lived four years with her diagnosis, and that life between life has changed her. &nbsp; Through the swirl of prolonged trauma and unbearable grief, a vantage point emerged--a window that showed her the way to relish life and be kinder to herself and others while living through the inevitable loss and heartbreak that crosses everyone's paths. Instead of viewing joy and sorrow as opposites, she saw how both exist in harmony, full of mystery and surprise. Instead of seeing days as succeeding or failing, and physical selves as healthy or unwell, she's learned to carry both achievements and afflictions in stride. And instead of bitterness and betrayal, forgiveness--toward her body, toward others, toward herself--became her wisest light. &nbsp; Mapping her experiences to the words that St. Paul wrote in his own last room, The Brave In-Between is a sacred invitation to explore that space between triumph and tragedy. We all have a heart to marvel at miracles, a lightness to spot the absurdity, and an imagination to pause and extend empathy for others--even when tragedy strikes. Sometimes we just need a guide.

The Brave In-Between: Notes from the Last Room

Low, Amy

Parenting & Relationships

Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants

Piepenburg, Erik

History

The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany--that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people--and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism. Bruno Dey's trial formed part of an extraordinary series of Holocaust cases brought by German prosecutors in recent years in a belated attempt to deliver justice to the victims and reverse decades of judicial neglect. It also surfaced at a pivotal moment for Germany and its thinking about the Holocaust. The Nazi genocide continues to occupy a crucial space in German public life, but many of the country's long-held certainties and convictions around the Holocaust are starting to fray. This reflects in part the passage of time, and the fact that the last surviving witnesses--victims and perpetrators alike--are rapidly fading away. But it's also the result of profound changes in German politics and society. The far-right has made electoral gains and&nbsp;is openly challenging the country's historic commitment to Holocaust remembrance. At the same&nbsp;time, there is a small but vociferous group of intellectuals on the left who question Germany's memory culture from&nbsp;a different angle, asking what political lessons the country should draw from the Holocaust today. &nbsp;What does it mean for the country's new Muslim citizens from Syria&nbsp;and Afghanistan, many of whom arrived with their own traumas, to be expected to assume the nation's guilt?&nbsp; Final Verdict investigates questions that touch on German history, politics, and memory culture, and on the author's own family history.&nbsp;Buck&nbsp;revisits the silence that surrounds his own family's experiences and conduct during the Nazi period. In the face of rising anti-Semitism in Germany, the United States, and globally, Final Verdict examines the case for Holocaust justice in the twenty-first century--and the lessons that Germany's struggle with its Nazi past holds for the world today.

Final Verdict: The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century

Buck, Tobias

World

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