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Winter
Karl Ove Knausgaard · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world... |
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Rick Steves Ireland 2017
Rick Steves · Avalon Travel
Pages: 545
Format: Print book
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You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Ireland.With this guide, you can explore lively Dublin, quaint Kilkenny, and the moss-draped ruins of the Ring of Kerry. Navigate meandering back roads that lead to windswept crags on the dramatic Dingle... |
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The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection
SCOTT C ANDERSON · National Geographic
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Written by the leading researchers in the field, this information-rich guide to improving your mood explains how gut health drives psychological well-being, and how depression and anxiety can be relieved by adjusting your intestinal bacteria. This groundbreaking book explains the revolutionary... |
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B-29 Superfortress vs Ki-44 Tojo: Pacific Theater 1944–45
DONALD NIJBOER · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
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By the time the Americans began their aerial bombardment of Japan in 1944, both the JAAF and IJNAF were spent forces. What the Japanese did have though was the Ki-44 "Tojo." Armed with two 40 mm cannon, it was the most heavily armed and feared single-seat fighter to see action... |
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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
Ron Powers · Hachette Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam... |
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Home Is Burning: A Memoir
Dan Marshall · Flatiron Books, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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For the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol.Meet Dan Marshall. 25, good job, great girlfriend, and living the dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world.... |
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Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views
Matteo Pericoli · Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover
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Fifty of the world’s greatest writers share their views in collaboration with the artist Matteo Pericoli, expanding our own views on place, creativity, and the meaning of homeAll of us, at some point in our daily lives, have found ourselves looking out the window. We pause in... |
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Lauren Slater · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A start-to-finish narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post) . As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments. With... |
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My History: A Memoir of Growing Up
Antonia Fraser · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 268
Format: Print book
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The doyenne of the historical biography turns the spotlight on her childhood and early life. Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up is not only an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth--in Shakespeare's phrase, to "call back yesterday, bid time return."... |
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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
TAMER ELNOURY · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the insideIt's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing... |
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The Three Battles of Wanat: And Other True Stories
Mark Bowden · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author Mark Bowden has had a prolific career as one of America's leading journalists and nonfiction writers. His new collection, The Three Battles of Wanat and Other True Stories, features the best of his long-form pieces on war, as well as notable profiles, sports... |
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Rick Steves England
Rick Steves · Avalon Travel
Pages: 968
Format: Print book
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You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in England.In this guide, you'll find a mix of splendid cities, ever-so-quaint villages, historic ports, and seaside resorts. Visit the manors, museums, cathedrals, and castles that preserve England's history.... |
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Lonely Planet British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies
John Lee · Lonely Planet; 6 edition
Format: Paperback
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Lonely Planet The worlds leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet British Columbia the Canadian Rockies is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch wildlife in Jasper National Park, stroll... |
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