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Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

by Joy Mangano

Published: 2017-11-07

Hardcover: 304 pages

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“It was an honor to play Joy on the big screen—she’s such a fearless woman, an incredible business force and an inspiration to everyone she meets.” —Jennifer Lawrence From Joy Mangano, self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, inventor of the Miracle Mop and inspiration behind the ac...

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Ruby Among Us (La Rosaleda Series #1)

by Tina Ann Forkner

Published: 2008-05-20

Paperback: 336 pages

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Lucy DiCamillo is safely surrounded by her books, music, and art–but none of these reclusive comforts or even the protective efforts of her grandmother, Kitty, can shield her thoughts from the mother she can barely recall. Lucy senses her grandmother holds the key, but Kitty seems as eag...

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About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior

by Colonel David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman

Published: 1990-04-15

Paperback: 875 pages

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Called “everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism.From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and...

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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

by Robert Coram

Published: 2004-05-10

Paperback: 504 pages

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John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember him as the greatest U.S. fighter pilot ever -- the man who, in simulated air-to-air combat, defeated every challenger in less than forty seconds. Some recall him as the father of our country's most legendary...

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The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security

by Grant T. Hammond

Published: 2004-08

Paperback: 248 pages

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The ideas of US Air Force Colonel John Boyd have transformed American military policy and practice. A first-rate fighter pilot and a self-taught scholar, he wrote the first manual on jet aerial combat; spearheaded the design of both of the Air Force's premier fighters, the F-15 and the F-1...

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The Japanese Art of War: Understanding the Culture of Strategy (Shambhala Classics)

by Thomas Cleary

Published: 2005-05-10

Paperback: 144 pages

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Military rule and the martial tradition of the samurai dominated Japanese culture for more than eight hundred years. According to Thomas Cleary—translator of more than thirty-five classics of Asian philosophy—the Japanese people have been so steeped in the way of the warrior that some of the manners...

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Hazardous Duty

by David H. Hackworth

Published: 1997-09-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller About Face, Colonel David H. Hackworth is one of America's most decorated soldiers, having served at the end of World War II, and in Korea and Vietnam. Retired from the military since 1971, he has completed second tour of battlefield d...

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War As I Knew It

by George S. Patton

Published: 1995-05-08

Paperback: 425 pages

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The personal and candid account of General Patton's celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War II  First published in 1947, War as I Knew It is an absorbing narrative that draws from Patton's vivid memories of battle and his detailed diaries, covering the moment...

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Roots of Strategy: Book 1 (Bk. 1)

Published: 1985-03-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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Writings of Sun Tzu, Vegetius, Marshal Maurice de Saxe, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon.

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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition)

by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

Published: 2017-11-21

Hardcover: 352 pages

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An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to ...