Steve Briggs was a carefree youth who loved pleasure boats, pretty girls, and outrageous pranks. But the day came when he awoke to find his entire life capsized--his future beached on precarious shoals. Whereas once he was happy, prosperous, and healthy, now he was defeated, desperate, and doomed. How did he get to this terrible place? More important--how could he get out? In his thirties, Stephen Foster Briggs II had everything a successful businessman was supposed to achieve--a lovely wife, healthy children, a comfortable home, sea and snow vacations, and a promising career. Then catastrophes struck--one after another: His company passed him over for promotion. His career hopes collapsed. His family fell apart. He was bordering on broke. To top it off, cancer invaded his body, promising just six months to live. The privileges he was born into--the prominent family and friends he knew, the education he'd acquired, the travel experiences he'd enjoyed--all failed to help him now. He was alone. Ironically, only when he realized that he, and he alone, could turn his life around did the horizon begin to clear. He was the captain of his own life. He could navigate it or lose it. How Steve Briggs built his life anew is a fascinating journey of gumption and grit. A descendant of people who lived and worked by the sea (the name Briggs is derived from Old English for "bridge"), this modern-day sailor seized the sails of his own destiny. Navigating a Life is the intriguing account of struggle against discouragement and defeat toward success and service to others. Told with candor and humor, Briggs shares the insights he developed and the wisdom he acquired. This memoir of mending mistakes--his risky adventures and his inventive solutions--will surprise and inspire.

Navigating a Life

Stephen Foster Briggs

Sheridan

Across the River: The People, Places, and Culture of East Athens

Maxine Pinson and Arnold Easom

<p>An unguarded, uncensored, unquiet tour of the life of Harlan Ellison. In late 2011 Harlan Ellison—the multi-award-winning writer of speculative fiction and famously litigious personality—did two uncharacteristic things. First, he asked biographer Nat Segaloff if he’d be interested in writing his life story. Second, he gave Segaloff full control. The result is the long-anticipated A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison. The expansive biography, which is the first such project in which Ellison has permitted large portions of his varied works to appear. Segaloff conducted exhaustive interviews with Ellison over the course of five years and also spoke with many of his friends and enemies in an effort to get inside the man and pin down the best-known “Harlan stories.” Their wide-ranging discussions cover his bullied boyhood, his storied marriages, his fabled lawsuits, and his compulsive writing process with more depth and detail than has ever before appeared in print. But it also delves into the man’s deeply held principles, his fears, and the demons that drove him for all of his 84 years. Friends, colleagues, and admirers such as Neil Gaiman, Patton Oswalt, Peter David, Robert Sawyer, Michael Scott, Edward Asner, Leonard Nimoy, Ed Bryant, Alan Brennert, Robert Silverberg, and many other notables add their voices. Along the way the reader is treated to an analysis of the Connie Willis controversy, the infamous dead gopher story, allegedly pushing a fan down an elevator shaft, and the final word on The Last Dangerous Visions. What emerges is a rich portrait of a man who has spent his life doing battle with his times and himself, always challenging his readers to reach for a higher plane and goading himself to get them there. It’s funny, wise, shocking, and—well, it’s Harlan. In January 2021, an expanded second edition was released only in ebook form, covering events after Harlan Ellison's death in June, 2018. The second edition was reprinted in hardcover form in September 2022. The additional material also includes interviews with many of Harlan's friends and coda covering the death of Harlan's wife, Susan Ellison.</p>

A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, 2nd Edition

Nat Segaloff

PRIZZI'S FAMILY.

CONDON, Richard

<p>In early 18th-century America, London-born Fanny and the French soldier Philippe (ancestors of McCarrys famous recurring spy Paul Christopher) brave savage Indians and other adventures.</p>

THE BRIDE OF THE WILDERNESS.

Literature & Fiction

MCCARRY, Charles

Contemporary

The Avenue of the Dead

Anthony.Evelyn

CARNIVORE.

SMITH, GUY N.

Rich and Reckless

barney-leason

The Secret Lovers

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

charles-mccarry

Thrillers & Suspense

The Master

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