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November of the Soul
The Enigma of Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2006
Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds...
The Listener
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Shira Nayman's riveting and haunting first novel of madness and passion is set in a psychiatric hospital just after World War II.
Two years after the end of World War II, a mysterious figure, Bertram Reiner, appears at Shadowbrook, a private asylum whose elegant hallways, vaulted ceilings,...
The Reason for Flowers
Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
“Fascinating...Buchmann’s knowledge and enthusiasm jump off the page.” —The Wall Street Journal
“An extraordinarily good book.” —Edward O. Wilson
The lively and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, lore, economics, and ecology of the world ’s flowers, written by...
The Black Swan
Memory, Midlife, and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
Set against a spontaneous cross-country road trip following the migrating birds, this passionate, lyrical memoir is one woman's reflections on midlife, her important personal relationships, her kaleidoscopic past, and her uncertain future.
To fifty-six-year-old Anne Batterson, a woman whose life has...
Coronary
A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
A chilling real-life medical thriller, Coronary chronicles the story of two highly respected heart doctors who violated the most sacred principle of their profession: First, do no harm.
In the summer of 2002, fifty-five-year-old John Corapi, a Catholic priest with a colorful background, visited...
The Noonday Demon
An Atlas Of Depression
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly...
by Jonathan Kellerman
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
From the New York Times bestselling author, a thrilling novel in the Alex Delaware series about a psychotic teenage boy accused of six murders.
When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley,...
A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise
A True Story About Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
“Compelling…A bracing work of art and a loving tribute” (Los Angeles Times)****, this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before.
Sandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child, Sandy had been told Bob was “crazy,”...
The Sentient Machine
The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
The future is now. Acclaimed technologist and inventor Amir Husain explains how we can live amidst the coming age of sentient machines and artificial intelligence—and not only survive, but thrive.
Artificial “machine” intelligence is playing an ever-greater role in our society. We are...
Rethink
The Surprising History of New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
An “engaging and enlightening” (The Wall Street Journal) argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch—from Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic, Stephen Poole.
Innovation is not...
Your Baby, Your Way
Taking Charge of your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenting Decisions for a Happier, Healthier Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Why, despite our state-of-the-art medical technology, does the United States have among the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the industrialized world? Why do pregnant women who are planning to breastfeed receive “free” samples of infant formula from American obstetricians? Why are...
Fine Just the Way It Is
Wyoming Stories 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt (her second), National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It Is, she has expanded the limits of the form. Her...
Rescue of the Bounty
Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the “thrilling and perfectly paced” (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard.
On...
Hippocrates' Shadow
Secrets from the House of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Everyone knows of the Hippocratic Oath, the famous invocation sworn by all neophyte physicians. But most don't realize that the father of modern medicine was an avid listener and a constant bedside presence. Hippocrates believed in the doctor-patient connection and gained worldwide renown for championing...