Willie: 263 books
A Call to Assembly
The Autobiography of a Musical Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1991
Music came to Willie ruff early in his Alabama boyhood. It came from Mrs. Nance, the solo bass drummer of the Sanctified church, whose beat "gave her right arm the churning motion of a set of steam locomotive wheels." It came from singing at the grocery store for candy, and from the "chitlin struts:...
The Tao of Willie
A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
Born in small-town Texas during the Great Depression, Willie Nelson was raised to believe in helping his neighbors and living without pretense. After many hardscrabble years as a poorly paid songwriter (often watching his work become a gold mine for other performers), Willie finally found his own...
by Willie Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Willie Miller is an Aberdeen legend. In a glittering career he won every domestic honour, played in two World Cup Finals for Scotland and led Aberdeen to victory in the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup. He played with and against some of the greatest footballers of all time and now selects his Aberdeen...
by Willie Nelson, David Ritz
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A perfect Christmas gift for music lovers, Pretty Paper is Willie Nelson’s inspiring Christmas fable, based on his holiday classic “Pretty Paper.”
More than fifty years ago, Willie Nelson’s beloved Christmas song “Pretty Paper” first hit the airwaves. And for all these years, Willie...
Big Boys Don't Cry
An Autobiography by Dr. Willie McCarney
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Big Boys Don’t Cry records how Willie McCarney played the hand he was dealt. Experiencing the deep trauma of his mother’s death at an early age, he recounts how he also experienced freedom, success and responsibility as a child, learning how to deal with it all to become the master of his own...
by Willie Aames, Maylo Upton, Carolyn Stanford Goss
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
While actor Willie Aames (Eight Is Enough, Charles in Charge) was at the peak of Hollywood success, his future wife, Maylo Upton, was a teenage runaway, eating out of trash bins and living on the streets to escape the sexual crimes of her cult-ruined mother’s barbaric boyfriend. By the time Willie...
Basic Brown
My Life and Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
**To The Washington Post, he's "The Last Political Showman of the 20th Century."
Bill Clinton has called him "the real Slick Willie."
Ronald Reagan's secretary of state George Shultz called this famously liberal politician "a man of his word" and endorsed his successful candidacy for...
by Willie Morris
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
With endearing humor and unabashed compassion, Willie Morris--a self-declared dog man and author of the classic paean to canine kind, My Dog Skip--reveals the irresistible story of his unlikely friendship with a cat. Forced to confront a lifetime of kitty-phobia when he marries a cat woman, Willie...
Willie's Game
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A “fascinating” memoir by America’s greatest professional billiards player, a child prodigy in the pool halls of the 1930s who became a world champion (Library Journal).
Willie Mosconi’s father never wanted him to play billiards. At night, the boy would lie awake listening to the clatter...
Willie
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000
Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captures this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing we have to the poet laureate of America's heart and the heartland. Told with frankness, warmth and earthy humor, here is Willie's story: his depression...
American Entrepreneur
How 400 Years of Risk-Takers, Innovators, and Business Visionaries Built the U.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
America is the ultimate start-up venture – and these are the heroes who made it happen
The history of the United States is, to a remarkable degree, the story of its entrepreneurs, those daring movers and shakers who dreamed big and risked everything to build better lives for themselves and...
Acting Black
College, Identity and the Performance of Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Sarah Willie asks: What's it like to be black on campus. For most Black students, attending predominantly white universities, it is a struggle. Do you try to blend in? Do you take a stand? Do you end up acting as the token representative for your whole race? And what about those students who attend...
by Willie R. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Written by a preacher’s son, Thoughts is a collection of poems written as Willie R. Thomas passed through crossroads and exits in his life. Some of these poems are seventeen years old—while others are written more recently—but each and every word reflects love, pain, and Willie’s personal...
Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die
Musings from the Road
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music to poker, Texas to Nashville, and...