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A curious mind : the secret to a bigger life
Brian Grazer · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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"From Academy Award-nominated producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly "curiosity conversations" that have inspired Grazer to create some of America's favorite and iconic movies and television... |
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Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film "The Imitation Game"
Andrew Hodges · Princeton University Press
Pages: 768
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented... |
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Dark Places
Gillian Flynn · Broadway Books; 1 Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLLibby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." She survived - and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years... |
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
Piper Kerman · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 327
Format: Paperback
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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced... |
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Dead Ice: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Laurell K. Hamilton · Berkley Books
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. She's a U.S. Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to anyone and everyone is Jean-Claude's... |
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Voyager
Diana Gabaldon · Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pages: 870
Format: Paperback
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In this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber. Sweeping us from the battlefields of eighteenth-century Scotland to the exotic West Indies, Diana Gabaldon... |
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A Short Guide to a Long Life
David Agus · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pages: 190
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of Illness.In his international bestseller, The End of Illness, Dr. David B. Agus shared what he has learned from... |
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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The National Book Award Winner and #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves,... |
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover
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In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable.... |
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
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Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball... |
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer ·
Into the Wild
Format: Paperback
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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash... |
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The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation
Melissa Rivers · Crown Archetype
Pages: 284
Format: Print book
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Joan Rivers was known all over the world - from the Palace Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the footlights of Broadway, from the days of talkies to hosting talk shows. But there was only one person who knew Joan intimately, one person who the authorities... |
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink · Random House Audio
Pages: 14
Format: Audiobook
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One of the New York Times's Best Ten Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the 2014 American Medical... |
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Dreaming Spies: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Laurie R King · Bantam Books,
Pages: 331
Format: Print book
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"It is a normal afternoon in Sussex when Russell and Holmes return home to find a peculiar addition to their garden: a beautiful stone that once occupied the Imperial gardens in Kyoto. The stone immediately recalls the spring of 1924, when, on their way back from India (The Game) , Russell... |
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life... |
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