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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton and NOT the original book. Preview: My Name Is Lucy Barton tells the story of the title character and her relationship with her family, particularly her mother and first husband. It considers the perception...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Steve Silberman’s NeuroTribes and NOT the original book. Preview: NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity seeks to unearth what autism is and why it remains a mystery. Hans Asperger, a researcher and pediatrician...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Emily Bleeker’s Wreckage and NOT the original book. Preview: A plane crash shatters the lives of two families, raising complex issues of love, loyalty and loss, in Wreckage, the debut novel by Emily Bleeker. Lillian Linden takes a much-needed...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and NOT the original book. Preview: In this 30th anniversary edition of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks, M.D. brings together more than two dozen narratives of patients...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk and NOT the original book. Preview: H is for Hawk is a memoir by Helen Macdonald. Macdonald had a life-long fascination with birds of prey, especially falcons, and the goshawk, a large wild bird of prey, is well...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Robert B. Reich's Saving Capitalism and NOT the original book. Preview: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich examines the intersection of economics and politics in order to make sense of income inequality and wealth disparity...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things and NOT the original book. Preview: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult is the story of Ruth Jefferson, an African American labor and delivery nurse who is charged with the murder of the newborn son of white supremacists....

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bessel van der Kolk's, MD The Body Keeps the Score and NOT the original book. Preview: In The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, explores the ways in which trauma rewires the brain and changes...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites and NOT the original book. Preview: The unusual family of French Impressionist master Jacob Abraham Camille Pizzarro takes center stage in The Marriage of Opposites. The book is set in the early to late...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to E. Hoffman’s The Billion Dollar Spy and NOT the original book. Preview: The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman chronicles the six year relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jenny Lawson’s Furiously Happy and NOT the original book. Preview: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things is a series of essays that are hysterically funny and poignant at the same time. The author, Jenny Lawson, suffers from clinical...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Dan Harris's 10% Happier and NOT the original book. Preview: 10% Happier chronicles author and television news reporter Dan Harris’ life as he discovers mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhist theories for happiness and wellness. A war reporter...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Holly Madison’s Down the Rabbit Hole and NOT the original book. Preview: Down the Rabbit Hole is the memoir of former Hugh Hefner girlfriend and former star of The Girls Next Door, Holly Madison. By 2002, Holly was Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend at...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and NOT the original book. Preview: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle is a nonfiction book about individual spiritual enlightenment and how this can positively affect humankind. To further...