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Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

Marsha M. Linehan · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.Growing up in the early 1960s, Marsha Linehan was a popular teenager from a big, Catholic...
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Rachel Maddow: A Biography

Lisa Rogak · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news.Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: she uses her brain. In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity's ratings thanks to her deeply researched...
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The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy, Updated and Expanded Edition

Elizabeth Kendall · Abrams Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The inspiration for the five-part Amazon Original docuseries Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer This updated, expanded edition of The Phantom Prince, Elizabeth Kendall's 1981 memoir detailing her six-year relationship with serial killer Ted Bundy, includes a new introduction...
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I Know You're in There: Winning Our War Against Autism

Marcia Hinds · Skyhorse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

For parents of children with autism and doctors treating autism, this groundbreaking guide will give you the tools to help your child overcome the autism epidemic. Marcia Hinds and her family were told there was no recovery from autism. Her son, Ryan, would have to be stuck alone on Autism...
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Adventures of a Computational Explorer

Stephen Wolfram · Wolfram Media
Pages: 421
Format: Hardcover

In this lively book of essays, Stephen Wolfram takes the reader along on some of his most surprising and engaging intellectual adventures in science, technology, artificial intelligence and language design.
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Bowing to Elephants: Tales of a Travel Junkie

Mag Dimond · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

In Bowing to Elephants, a woman seeking love and authenticity comes to understand herself as a citizen of the world through decades of wandering the globe. During her travels she sees herself more clearly as she gazes into the feathery eyes of a 14,000-pound African elephant and looks for answers...
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Memory Craft: Improve Your Memory with the Most Powerful Methods in History? From Medieval Bestiaries to Tibetan Mandalas

Lynne Kelly · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Groundbreaking anthropologist and memory champion Lynne Kelly reveals how we can use ancient and traditional mnemonic methods to enhance and expand our memory.Our brain is a muscle. Like our bodies, it needs exercise. In the last few hundred years, we have stopped training our memories...
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The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

Stephen Tomkins · Pegasus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative and immersive history of the far-reaching events in England that led to the sailing of the Mayflower.2020 brings readers the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower -- the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. It is a foundational event in American...
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