Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is a powerful memoir by Susannah Cahalan that delves deep into her personal struggle with a mysterious medical condition. This riveting medical mystery goes beyond a simple recounting of events, exploring the profound impact on her identity and life.

At the age of twenty-four, Susannah woke up in a hospital room, strapped to her bed, unable to move or speak, and with no memory of how she got there. Just days before, she was embarking on a new chapter in her life, with a promising career and a budding relationship. Suddenly, she found herself labeled as violent, psychotic, and a flight risk.

In this breathtaking narrative, Cahalan shares her descent into madness, her family's unwavering faith, and the lifesaving diagnosis that almost didn't happen. The book brings readers into the harrowing journey of piecing her life back together using memories, journals, and hospital records.

Brain on Fire is not only a personal story but a universal one, asking profound questions about identity, sanity, and the human spirit's resilience in the face of unimaginable challenges.

Hard Wired: A Crash Course in Small College Football reveals the competitive strategy and insider knowledge of college football, college life, and the grass roots evolution of politics that began in academia and now shapes the political aspects of our everyday life.

This fast-paced, biographical work contains layers of storyline with twists and turns that are poignant and startling. Join three young men’s true stories as they launch themselves onto the college football scene and refuse to be denied their impact both on and off the field.

These mistakenly overlooked college football players take over a struggling football team with their drive and motivation, all in an effort to rise to the challenge of one more football season. Living on the edge of college life as driven athletes, they face a dramatic conspiracy as they struggle in the face of athletic romance, real-world politics of organizational behavior, and creating their own futures as they are forced to lead the world around them much sooner than they ever expected.

Heavy is the head that wears the crown as these extraordinary athletes have decisions to make that are crowded by circumstances that continually provide opportunities for them to fail in rising to the level of achievement that they know they have earned. Understanding their romantic interests as they struggle not to be dragged under provides a highly insightful gaze into their world.

The dynamics of college football, deciding on a future, and motivation for achievement are illustrated here in a true story of the thin line between being an exceptional football player and the ever-expanding world of claims that all performers are equal despite the results that prove to differentiate those same performers.

At a new school, on a new team, joining the college ranks, these young men face more reality than they anticipated as they hold their future in their own hands and are first-hand participants in the real-world evolution of organizational politicking, power struggles, and the freedom to pursue the college endeavor as they see fit.

This true story offers an accurate overview of the inner workings and value of university education, college football, and organizational manipulation. It serves as both a remarkable story of college life and as an instruction manual to the pitfalls of the people surrounding exceptional individuals, in addition to the political motivations of higher education organizations.

Intended for mature audiences.