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Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening

Elizabeth Rosner - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

This illuminating book weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbringing with the latest scientific breakthroughs in interspecies communication to show how the skill of deep listening enhances our curiosity and empathy toward the world around us. Third Ear braids together personal narrative...
 
 
Perdita: On Loss

Dylan Riley - Verso
Format: Hardcover

An intense literary memoir of love and grief. "Our marriage was, from any conventional point of view, wildly implausible; and you, my dear son, are the miraculous product of this beautiful, rather crazy, and all too brief love affair." When Dylan Riley received the devastating...
 
 
Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle that Saved a Child's Life

Rachel Clarke - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart - written by a bestselling author and palliative care doctor. . The first of our organs to form and the last to die, the heart is both a simple pump and the symbol of what makes us human; as long as it continues to beat,...
 
 
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

Daniel J. Levitin - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals the deep connections between music and healing.Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas,...
 
 
Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body's Most Fascinating Organ

Elsa Richardson - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating - and often secret - history of the body's most fascinating system: the gut.. The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent, inconspicuous, and content. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy, often...
 
 
Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

Gillian Anderson - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller, Want is a collection of confessions from women around the world. This revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous? What...
 
 
You Lied to Me About God: A Memoir

Jamie Marich PHD - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

"An intimate and important memoir of deconstructing and reconstructing faith after abuse ... a spiritual memoir that does not shy away from abuse, queerness, or the multifaceted character of God." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) . A courageous, vulnerable, and spellbinding...
 
 
The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country

Rosie Schaap - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the "wonderfully funny and openhearted" (NPR) Drinking with Men comes a poignant, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful book - equal parts memoir and social history - that follows the author, after a series of tragic losses, to Northern Ireland, where...
 
 
Living Well with Bipolar Disorder: Practical Strategies for Improving Your Daily Life (Guilford Living Well Series)

David J. Miklowitz - The Guilford Press
Format: Paperback

People with bipolar disorder (BD) face loads of everyday challenges as they work to build the full lives they want. No one is better suited to provide empowering, practical problem-solving help than leading clinician-researcher and bipolar expert David J. Miklowitz. In Living Well with...
 
 
Nature's Remedies for Stress and Fatigue: Recovering from Burnout

Jo Dunbar - Watkins Publishing
Format: Paperback

Medical herbalist Jo Dunbar follows up her Secrets From a Herbalist's Garden with this up-to-date look at stress, how it makes us feel diminished and exhausted and simple holistic remedies that we can all use to feel better. Things have changed in the last few years and countless people...