That Others May Live is the story of one of America’s most elite military units. The PJs–pararescue jumpers–are to the air force what the Green Berets are to the army and the SEALs are to the navy, even though they are less well known. There are only about 300 of them, and their main function is to rescue downed pilots, often behind enemy lines. They also perform civilian rescues.

“There are no more capable rescuers than the PJs,” writes Sgt. Jack Brehm, a 20-year PJ veteran who penned this book with journalist Pete Nelson. “No one else knows how to fall five miles from the sky to rescue somebody. No one else trains to make rescues in such a wide variety of circumstances and conditions on a mountaintop, in the middle of the Sahara, or 1,000 miles out from shore in hurricane-tossed seas.” Some readers will recall the PJs’ role in Sebastian Junger’s bestselling book and upcoming motion picture The Perfect Storm. Brehm actually coordinated that PJ operation, and he tells his side of the story.

That Others May Live is Brehm’s autobiography. He describes in detail everything from PJ training school to the impact of the low pay on family life. Some of the action is, of course, included: like jumping from a plane at 26,000 feet, a feeling that Brehm describes as “lying on a pillow of air, so restful you could almost fall asleep”

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Johnson, is internationally respected as a poet, writer and educator. She is the author of the best-selling titles I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, Singin’ and Swingin’ and The Heart of a Woman. In addition, she was the first black woman to have an original screenplay produced, has had her composed music recorded by artists such as. B.B. King, has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award and is fluent in French, Spanish, Italian, and West African Fanti. Ms. Angelou’s accomplishments have earned her the La Home Journal Woman of the Year award, the Matrix Award from Women in Communication and the Golden Eagle Award for her documentary, Americans in the Arts.

John McCain’s memoir, written with Mark Salter, is one of family and war. McCain learned about life from his grandfather and father and this story a bout their lives tells the ways in which these sons were shaped by their fathers. “Faith of my Fathers” is about what McCain learned from his grandfather and father, and how their example enabled him to survive the most difficult challenge of his life, during his service in Vietnam.

After a career in the U.S. Navy and two terms as a U.S. representative, John McCain was elected to Senate in 1986 and re-elected in 1992 and 1998.

Mark Salter has worked on Senetor McCain’s staff for ten years. Hired as a legislative assistant in 1989, he has served as the senator’s administrative assistant since 1993.

“Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan” by Edmund Morris is the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President, yet was written with complete interpretive freedom. Its unconventional style –Morris includes a fictive character in the narrative, who retells long-ago events as if an eyewitness– has caused heated debates over both its factual accuracy and its legitimacy as a biography.

When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.” Morris developed a fascination for the genial yet inscrutable President and, after Reagan’s landslide reelection in 1984, put aside the second volume of his life of Roosevelt to become an observing eye and ear at the White House.