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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
ADRIAN OWEN · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In this startling and thought-provoking book, which will remind readers of works by Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals his controversial, groundbreaking work with patients whose brains were previously thought vegetative or non-responsive but turn out - in up to 20 percent... |
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
Nicholas Reynolds · William Morrow
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "riveting"* international cloak-and-dagger epic, here is the stunning untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life -- including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo" -- that fueled his art and his undoing.In 2010, while... |
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Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider's View from Inside the Fashion Industry
Amy Odell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"Hilarious, insightful and smart. A must-read for anyone who wears clothes." - Chelsea Handler *US Weekly, "Riveting Reads for Labor Day"* *Bustle, "2015 Books Every Funny Woman Should Read" and "September 2015's Best Books"* *Refinery29 "Fall's... |
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Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France
Nicholas Shakespeare · HarperTorch
Pages: 423
Format: Hardcover
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Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrative nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes.When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his late aunt's personal belongings, he was unaware... |
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Cold sweat : my father James Brown and me
Yamma Brown; Robin Gaby Fisher · Chicago Review Press
Format: eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Being the child of a global superstar is never easy, but being the daughter of the "Hardest Working Man in Show Business"--That's a category unto itself. Like every little girl, Yamma Brown wanted her father's attention, but fame, drugs, jail, and the complicated... |
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Motherland: Growing Up With the Holocaust
Rita Goldberg · The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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"I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically," writes Rita Goldberg. In a deeply moving second-generation Holocaust memoir, Goldberg introduces the extraordinary story of Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank's... |
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You'll Grow Out of It
Jessi Klein · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover
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PEOPLE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! |
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May Cause Love: An Unexpected Journey of Enlightenment After Abortion
Kassi Underwood · HarperOne
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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In this powerful memoir, told with fierce honesty and surprising humor, a young woman goes on a journey of healing after abortion - a road trip across the United States with a diverse crew of spiritual teachers and a caravan of new friends.Nineteen years old, a thousand miles from her Kentucky... |
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On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's
Greg O'Brien · Codfish Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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This is a book about living with Alzheimer’s, not dying with it. It is a book about hope, faith, and humor—a prescription far more powerful than the conventional medication available today to fight this disease.Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.—and... |
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The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times
Barbara Taylor · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor's world contracted around her illness. Eventually, her struggles were severe enough to lead to her admission to what had once been England's... |
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Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story
Rebecca Dana · Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . . A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city... |
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Lois Lenski: Storycatcher
Bobbie Malone · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author wanted: to help children see beyond the rim of their own world. In "Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, " historian and educator Bobbie Malone... |
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Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding
Ben Jealous · Atria Books
Format: Print book
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In this timely and important collection of personal essays, black men from all walks of life share their inspiring stories and ultimately how each, in his own way, became a source of hope for his community and country. Reach includes forty first-person accounts from well-known men like... |
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U2: Rock 'n' Roll to Change the World
Timothy D. Neufeld · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
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U2's significant career far exceeds that of most average successful rock bands, with a prolific output of thirteen well-received studio albums and a sometimes relentless touring schedule. The band is famous for uniquely drawing together music, art, faith, and activism, all within a lucrative... |
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