Bryan Mealer: 7 books

Book cover of The Kings of Big Spring

The Kings of Big Spring

God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream

by Bryan Mealer
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

"Think of it as a Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy." — Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of THE BIG RICH and BARBARIANS AT THE GATE "Bryan Mealer has given us a brilliant, and brilliantly entertaining, portrayal of family, and a bursting-at-the-seams chunk of...
Book cover of All Things Must Fight to Live

All Things Must Fight to Live

Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo

by Bryan Mealer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2011

In All Things Must Fight to Live, Bryan Mealer takes readers on a harrowing two-thousand mile journey through Congo, where gun-toting militia still rape and kill with impunity. Amidst burnt-out battlefields where armies still wrestle for control, into the dark corners of the forests, and along the...
Book cover of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009

Now a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a Slave William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building...
Book cover of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Young Readers Edition

by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015

Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all...
Book cover of El niño que domó el viento
by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 20, 2018

El sueño de un niño puede cambiar el mundo entero. Esta es una inspiradora historia, basada en la vida real del autor, sobre el poder de la imaginación y la fuerza de la determinación. Cuando una terrible sequía asoló la pequeña aldea donde vivía William Kamkwamba, su familia...
Book cover of Muck City

Muck City

Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town

by Bryan Mealer
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012

In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds. The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much...
Book cover of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Picture Book Edition

by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012

Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all...
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