Southern Living’s 7 Best New Books to Read in December

Camouflage, by Heather Sweeney, has made Southern Living’s 7 Best New Books to Read in December list. Click here to see the full list. Click here to learn more about the book.

‘I’m a Bona Fide Rock God’: Nelson Recalls How an In-Store Appearance Led to a Riot

35 years after the immense success of their debut album, the Nelson twins are ready to tell their story in their new memoir, What Happened to Your Hair?, which arrives Dec. 16 via Permuted Press. In an exclusive excerpt shared with Billboard, Matthew details from his point of view a planned in-store appearance at Los

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I thought I was prepared for my husband’s military deployment.

Business Insider has published an adapted excerpt from Heather Sweeney’s upcoming book, Camouflage: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage. If military spouses could compile a list of things not to say to a military spouse, one of those taboo sentences would be “You knew what you were getting into.” It’s impossible to

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Nelson (!) and James Gunn Explain that ‘Peacemaker’ Musical Moment

DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn named Peacemaker‘s season two finale “Full Nelson” for the craziest possible reason: He recruited the actual band Nelson — ultra-blonde twin brothers Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, who reigned over MTV in 1990 with the Number One hit “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection” — to perform onscreen during the

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Eugene Sledge: UNTOLD STORIES & What He Brought Back From the War

Many may not know that the classic WWII memoir, With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge had A LOT of material that was cut out for the final edit. So you can only imagine how exciting it was to hear that his son, Henry Sledge, was digging back into his father’s original manuscript for a

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Washington Independent’s Review of The Mapmaker

In a review of Tom Young’s latest book, The Mapmaker, Lawrence De Maria writes: In high school, I was assigned a book written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French author and pilot. I can’t remember its title, but I recall liking it immensely. I mention this because St. Ex, as he is called in The Mapmaker, is

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So, This is What Heroin Addicts Feel Like?

Real Clear Defense posted an excerpt from Forged in Chaos: A Warrior’s Origin Story by Tyler Grey and Lauren Ingeldi. Read the excerpt here. Learn more about the book here.

Alex Kazemi Talks With Paper Mag

“This might make people uncomfortable, but I’d rather be transparent about being calculated instead of hiding behind fake laughs and social chess,” Kazemi tells PAPER. “People know when I’m at their dinner table, I’m here to collaborate and get shit done.” His first time in New York last month landed him a spot on Page

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Indie Bestseller, Smoke in the Cypress

Owen Pataki’s Smoke in the Cypress lands at #13 on the Bestsellers list at Southern California’s independent bookstores! See the full list here. Learn more about the book here.

The Army called him a handicap. History calls him a hero.

“Phil Larimore was discharged at 22 as a ‘highly decorated cripple.‘ Fifty years later, his legacy earned him a place beside Eisenhower and Audie Murphy” writes his son and author, Walt Larimore, in a recent piece for The Blaze. “You’ve probably never heard of Phil Larimore — a teenage hero of World War II whose

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