National Network for Equitable Library Service

In death, AC/DC's trailblazing frontman has become a rock icon, and the legend of the man known around the world simply as "Bon" grows with each passing year. But how much of it is myth? At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway is a special, and unlikely, friendship between an Australian rock star and an alcoholic Texan troublemaker. Jesse Fink, author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, reveals its importance for the first time.

A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.

At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student and star athlete, but behind closed doors, undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc. At a loss, her parents enrolled her in a behavioral modification program, and it got worse from there. Elizabeth recalls the horrors she endured, the friends she lost to suicide and addiction, and how she was finally able to pick up the pieces of her life years later.