“John Holmes was every man’s gigolo, a polyester smoothie with a sparse mustache, a flying collar and lots of buttons undone. He wasn’t threatening. He chewed gum and overacted. He took a lounge singer’s approach to sex, deliberately gentle, ostentatiously artful, a homely guy with a pinkie ring and a big dick who was convinced he was every woman’s dream.” 
John Curtis Holmes had the longest, most prolific career in the history of pornography. He had sex on-screen with two generations of leading ladies, from Seka and Marilyn Chambers to Traci Lords, Ginger Lynn, and Italian Member of Parliament Ciccolina. The first man to win the X-Rated Critics Organization Best Actor Award, Holmes was an idol and an icon, the most visible male porn star of his time.
Holmes started in the business around 1968 and made more than two thousand movies. But after descending into a world of drugs and crime, he became the central figure in one of the most publicized mass murders in L.A. history, the 1981 Wonderland Avenue killings in Laurel Canyon, in which four people were brutally bludgeoned to death. Holmes was tried and acquitted of the crimes in 1982. He died from from complications of AIDS on March 13, 1988. 
"The Devil and John Holmes” is one of the most terrific sagas we have ever published.”— Jann Wenner, editor and publisher, Rolling Stone
“I can recognize the truth in these stories—tales about the darkest possible side of wretched humanity. Sager has obviously spent too much time in flop houses in Laurel Canyon.”— Hunter S. Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hells Angels.

The Devil and John Holmes-25th Anniversary Author's Edition: And Other True Stories of Drugs, Porn and Murder

Biographies & Memoirs

Sager, Mike

True Crime

Sager Group, The

“Silicone on Trial offers a meticulous and readable accounting of the breast implant fiasco, when an agency head’s arrogant mismanagement wrecked an industry and needlessly terrified millions of women, behavior that reveals a pernicious form of government corruption.” --Henry Miller MD, former director, Office of Biotechnology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Silicone on Trial is an exceptional recounting of the controversial history of silicone medical devices, and how easily the public can be misled by dubious findings. Surgeon and historian Jack Fisher explains why government regulation falls prey to easy politics at the expense of sound science. Readers with breast implants or other implanted devices will find reassurance that silicone is safe for medical application. A plea is made for greater reliance on valid science instead of social activists and sensationalized media.
“A must read for surgeons frustrated by years of FDA paternalism, also for patients seeking truth about breast implants or any other silicone device." --James Wells MD, past president, American Society of Plastic Surgery

Silicone On Trial: Breast Implants and the Politics of Risk

Fisher, Jack

NEWSWOMEN: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF FRONT-PAGE JOURNALISM is an anthology of stellar work by 17 seventeen great female literary and investigative reporters whose newspaper writing has garnered awards over the past quarter-century. Each chapter features a bio, a selected story, and an author’s afterwords prepared especially for this book.A large percentage of college and graduate school journalism students are women. Yet textbooks and resource material available is decidedly male-centric. Working together with the staff of The Riveter, a magazine and website dedicated to long-form nonfiction written by women, The Sager Group has responded to a demand for affordable, female-centric textbooks and /anthologies. Two more anthologies of literary long-form writing are upcoming. NEWSWOMEN: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF FRONT-PAGE JOURNALISM includes the work of women journalists who wrote for top newspapers and alternative weeklies during the golden age of newsprint journalism. Featured are: Edna Buchanan, Christine Brennan, Jacqui Banaszynski, Deborah Blum, Teresa Carpenter, Athelia Knight, Corinne Reilly, Lane DeGregory, Diana Henriques, Andrea Elliott, Amy Harmon, Julia Keller, Dana Priest, Anne Hull, Loretta Tofani, Christine Pelisek, and Eileen Welsome."Newswomen is an excellent start to catch us up on where the women are and whatthey’ve been doing all these years, namely, writing award-winning literary journalismthat can inspire our students." --Nancy L. Roberts, Literary Journalism Studies

Newswomen: Twenty-Five Years of Front-Page Journalism (TSG's Women in Journalism Series)

Literature & Fiction

Hoffmann, Joyce

Literary

“Tastefully illustrated, Sex and Intimacy for Wounded Veterans is a one-of-a-kind position and device resource, especially for anyone who has experienced limb loss or serious genital injury.”—Mitchell Tepper, PhD, MPH, author of Regain That Feeling: Secrets to Sexual Self-Discovery
Human contact and sexuality are natural and essential parts of our lives. Need and desire do not dissipate when someone has experienced traumatic injury. While injuries may cause profound changes to one’s life, intimacy and sexual activity are still possible—and could even present new opportunities. Sex and Intimacy for Wounded Veterans: A Guide to Embracing Change was written by occupational therapists who work with wounded veterans, but it is applicable to all who’ve experienced life-changing injury. Designed to help educate veterans, family members, significant others, and clinicians, this manual provides practical information and illustrations to help readers reengage in sexual activity and intimacy, with or without adaptations and modifications.
The diagnoses considered when creating Sex and Intimacy for Wounded Veterans: A Guide to Embracing Change include but are not limited to: traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), genital injury, spinal cord injury (SCI ), and orthopedic injuries involving muscles, bones, nerves, and limb amputations. Regardless of injury, sexual pleasure is a realistic goal, as is the ability to form intimate relationships with others.
“Veterans and spouses often describe difficulty with sexual intimacy as their greatest hurdle to healing, while doctors and therapists frequently describe sex as the issue they are most unprepared to address. In Sex and Intimacy for Wounded Veterans: A Guide to Embracing Change, both veterans and health care workers will find a comprehensive and compassionate guide. We should put a copy of this manual in the hands of every patient, spouse, and medical provider who walks through the door of a Military Treatment Facility. "--Emilie E. Godwin, Ph.D., LPC, MFT, Assistant Professor and Director of Psychotherapy &amp; Family Services, Virginia Commonwealth University Neuropsychology ~ Traumatic Brain Injury Model System of Care
*Paid for by grants from the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the SemperMax Support Fund. Sex and Intimacy for Wounded Veterans is offered at a nominal charge to optimize its availability to all who can benefit by its use. Any proceeds from the sale of the guide will be used to purchase complimentary copies for distribution at military and veteran treatment facilities.

Sex and Intimacy for Wounded Veterans: A Guide to Embracing Change

Parenting & Relationships

Ellis, Kathryn

Dennison, Caitlin

Family Relationships

Straight Fish: A Correctional Officer's Story: A Novel of Life Behind Bars

Knox, Mike

OUTIN, book two of the best selling Inner Movement trilogy, takes off from the last thrilling page of OUTVIEW. There are dimensions swirling all around us . . . Anything is possible . . . If you know where the power is. The journey continues . . . time and dimensions collide. Relentlessly pursued, Nate faces impossible choices that transcend life and death. Aided by more mystics, he struggles to find understanding on a frantic quest through extraordinary realms. If he can keep his friends alive, avoid Lightyear, and unravel crucial mysteries from the past . . . the Movement just might have a chance to change everything. Read the Reviews "A spectacular, vivid Journey." - The Examiner "Its existential themes and autobiographical tone make Legg's series a meaningful fantasy adventure that readers would love." - FANTASCIZE.com " . . . an incredible author with a deep knowledge of life, science, philosophy, and an imagination that is beyond compare." - Dennis Waller TOP 500 REVIEWER " . . . an awesomely trippy journey through what might be possible." - Oleg Medvedkov TOP 500 REVIEWER " . . . incredibly imaginative and magic world creation." - ChristophFischerBooks TOP 500 REVIEWER Note: Readers are cautioned to read OUTVIEW before attempting to enter OUTIN. OUTVIEW (Inner Movement #1) available here: amzn.to/1etyFfb OUTMOVE (Inner Movement #3) available here: amzn.to/1eYXUKW

Outin (The Inner Movement) Book 2

Legg, Brandt

Genre Fiction

“This collection of profiles about great American craftsmen is itself the handiwork of a great American craftsman.” -–David Grogan, This Old House Magazine ForActs of Creation, award-winning journalist Walt Harrington travels America searching for the magical nexus of craft, talent, and mastery that gives birth to a functional work of art—and leaves its maker with a sense of satisfaction and achievement known well to fine craftsmen across the ages. A builder of monumental fireplaces in Maine. A cabinet maker in Maryland. A millwright in Virginia. A locksmith and a house framer in Ohio. A hardwood floor man in Indiana. A blacksmith in Illinois. A stone carver in California. Not one of the fourteen craftsmen and woman profiled believes he or she is working only to build a house, to renovate a watermill, to cast a plaster medallion. Each imbues their work with grander purpose—Michael Seward wants the people who buy his furniture to experience an emotional connection; Chuck Crispin wants his clients’ lives to be evoked in his floor designs; Charles Keller wants the highly educated world to appreciate the complicated genius of not only fine blacksmithing but all fine craftsmen. The profiles in Acts of Creationhelp to reclaim the place of craftsmanship in a consumerist era that places higher value on profit and branding than it does on dedicated excellence. These craftsmen offer not only lessons about craftsmanship, but also about life. “Acts of Creation is a lovely collection of literary journalism, written by a master of the form. Walt Harrington’s gracefully nuanced prose, full of feeling and finely observed detail, wonderfully conveys the world of craftsmen in all its artful integrity. In the grand tradition of Tracy Kidder, John McPhee and Joseph Mitchell, Harrington offers us a fascinating and enduring homage to men at work.” –-Barry Siegel; Pulitzer Prize winner; director of the Literary Journalism Program, University of California, Irvine “Acts of Creation is an example of what happens when a top-notch writer, laboring in solitude with purity of purpose, puts the right words in the right order.” --Madeleine Blais, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family “A compelling tribute to Americans who work with their hands and hearts.” --Pete Earley, author, “Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness.”

Acts of Creation: America's Finest Hand Craftsmen at Work

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Harrington, Walt

Crafts & Hobbies

“I woke up to my wife, Nicole, screaming my name in anguish. As I opened my eyes, she rushed into the room. Our twenty-three-month-old daughter Vivien was limp in her arms, foaming at the mouth.” With these chilling words, Mike Knox begins Vivien’s Rain, the true story of his own harrowing journey into the dark and confusing world of epilepsy and childhood disease. Along with his wife Nicole, Knox is awoken abruptly from the innocent sleep of new parenthood one ordinary night when his toddler daughter experiences her first major seizure. Little does the couple know, it was not Vivien’s first. And it would not be her last. Overnight, and over the next several years, this parole agent for the California department of corrrections and rehabilitation—a former prison guard who had worked his way up the ladder while pursuing on the side an avid interest in stand-up comedy—would see his whole life change. That first night, driving frantically, he doesn’t even remember the way to the nearest hospital—hadn’t been there since their daughter’s birth. Thank God for his wife’s sense of direction and her cool head under pressure. Going forward, the couple navigates the tortured, uncertain waters of this serious health crisis as a team, fighting hospital red tape, doctors who won’t listen, insurance companies with Orwellian policies . . . not to mention the sobering fact of their baby’s random and incurable affliction. Vivien’s Rain is one family’s tale of a daughter’s early battle with epilepsy. In confronting the realities of Vivien’s health, Mike and Nicole Knox confront their own inner demons as well—his as an adopted child, hers as a biracial woman with significant hearing loss since an early age. Where some couples buckle, Mike and Nicole work together to shore themselves against the unknowable challenge of ill health. In the face of Vivien’s needs, they persevere and prevail. “As we would learn, with each seizure it was as if a sudden squall had developed and rained down on her, leaving her in a helpless, hopeless fog. I started to think of the seizures as Vivien’s rain. She was like a little girl alone in a boat in a storm, far out to sea. And there was nothing I could do about it. “At one point, in response to my question, Vivien described her seizures. “It feels like when you drink a cherry Slurpee too fast, Daddy. It’s raining in my head.” “Facing a child’s illness is perhaps a parent’s most daunting task. Vivien’s Rain is one family’s poignant story of dealing with epilepsy, the health care system, and their own broken dreams. A compelling and helpful read.” --Pete Earley, bestselling author of Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness, and Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison Vivien's Rain is a very clear road map down the path of epilepsy. It is enlightening, harrowing and heartening in equal measure.”-- Beverly Archer, actress, Major Dad, and Mama's Family

Vivien's Rain: My Daughter's Battle with Epilepsy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

“The struggle of an unusual coalition of activists is wonderfully told in Stopping the Road. It should be required reading for all who love the High Sierra.”—Carl Pope, past director, The Sierra Club.
 Stopping the Road is an exceptional recounting of a fifty-year battle to stop the building of another road through the pristine wilderness of the Sierra Nevada, the breathtaking, 400 mile mountain range which encompasses Lake Tahoe, Mount Whitney and the Yosemite Valley—three national parks, twenty wilderness areas, and two national monuments. The book, written by historian Jack Fisher, brings together the history, geology, politics, and local human stories that characterized the struggle, which finally ended dramatically in 1972, with then-California governor Ronald Reagan riding out on horseback, wearing the white cowboy hat of the good guy, announcing a final defeat of the road—by order of President Richard Nixon.
How did it happen that a loose coalition of local citizens, with little or no political experience, were victorious against partisan politics? Fisher’s carefully researched saga brings real-life drama to the pages of history, another chapter in the enduring struggle between the interests of humanity and the temple of nature.
 "Stopping the Road is a remarkably well researched accounting of a landmark environmental victory. It tells us how perseverance in the struggle to protect natural lands can block a divisive road in its tracks.”—David Livermore, The Nature Conservancy 
 “Stopping the Road is an inspirational story of heroic determination in order to preserve a community and its nearby environment. Their efforts culminated in the 1984 California Wilderness Act.”—Deanna Dulen, superintendent, Devils Postpile National Monument.

Stopping the Road: The Campaign Against Another Trans-Sierra Highway

History

Americas

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