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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to John Green’s Paper Towns and NOT the original book. Preview: Paper Towns is a coming of age story set in Orlando, Florida. It focuses on Quentin, a young man about to embark on his adult life, and the adventure he and his friends, Ben and Radar,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and NOT the original book. Preview: Into Thin Air was published in 1997 by journalist and outdoorsman Jon Krakauer. The book focuses on the events surrounding the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, of which the author was...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jason Fung's MD The Complete Guide to Fasting and NOT the original book.   Preview: Jason Fung’s The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day and Extended Fasting promotes fasting as a treatment...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and NOT the original book. Preview: Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, chronicles the life, death, and immortality of Henrietta Lacks, a young black woman whose cervical...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Brian Grazer’s & et al A Curious Mind and NOT the original book. Preview: A Curious Mind, by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman, is an examination of the impact of curiosity on Grazer's life and movie production career. In a memoir style, he...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, & Steel and NOT the original book. Preview: Guns, Germs, & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond won the Pulitzer Prize for the first edition that was published in 1997. Thirteen thousand years...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Andy Weir’s The Martian and NOT the original book. Preview: The Martian is a science fiction novel by Andy Weir set on the surface of Mars. The novel follows the attempted rescue of Mark Watney, an astronaut accidently left behind on Mars....

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Sadhguru's Inner Engineering and NOT the original book. Preview: Inner Engineering by yogi and mystic Sadhguru is a nonfiction book that explores the path to spiritual enlightenment, a state in which joy is constant. Human consciousness is like a...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to G. Amen’s, MD Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and NOT the original book. Preview: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by psychiatrist Daniel D. Amen is a non-fiction book based on the idea that brain functioning can be improved, and such...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to John Grisham’s Gray Mountain and NOT the original book. Preview: Gray Mountain  is a legal thriller by John Grisham that is set during the recession of 2008. The book begins when associate lawyer, Samantha Kofer, is furloughed, or laid...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Steven R. Gundry’s, MD The Plant Paradox and NOT the original book. Preview: The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in “Healthy” Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (2017) by Steven R. Gundry, MD, reveals how eating plants can actually...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Matt Taibbi's The Divide and NOT the original book. Preview: The Divide by Matt Taibbi approaches the complicated topic of the unequal treatment of defendants in the United States criminal justice system based on wealth, through individual stories...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David Priess’s The President’s Book of Secrets s and NOT the original book. Preview: The President’s Book of Secrets by David Priess is a journalistic examination of the history of the President’s Daily Brief (PDB), a short, top-secret summary...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Pollan’s Cooked and NOT the original book.   Preview: Cooked (2013) by Michael Pollan is a journalistic study of cooking in the modern world, where convenience foods have rendered the need to cook and the knowledge of cooking...