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Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZ
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.
When twenty-four-year-old...
Losing My Mind
An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2002
When Tom DeBaggio turned fifty-seven in 1999, he thought he was about to embark on the relaxing golden years of retirement -- time to spend with his family, his friends, the herb garden he had spent decades cultivating and from which he made a living. Then, one winter day, he mentioned to his doctor...
Between Expectations
Lessons from a Pediatric Residency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
When Dr. Meghan Weir first dons her scrubs and steps onto the floor of Children’s Hospital Boston as a newly minted resident, her head is packed with medical-school-textbook learning. She knows the ins and outs of the human body, has memorized the correct way to perform hundreds of complicated procedures,...
by Robert Behnke
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
This beautiful and definitive guide brings together the world's lead leading expert on North American trout and salmon, Robert Behnke, and the foremost illustrator in the field, Joseph Tomelleri.
North America is graced with the greatest diversity of trout and salmon on earth. From tiny brook...
Boltzmanns Atom
The Great Debate That Launched A Revolution In Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
In 1900 many eminent scientists did not believe atoms existed, yet within just a few years the atomic century launched into history with an astonishing string of breakthroughs in physics that began with Albert Einstein and continues to this day. Before this explosive growth into the modern age took...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin has established himself as one of America's most distinctively Catholic voices. We have also come to know Breslin as the cocky guy from Queens, New York, who speaks insolently to powerful people and institutions, his words always tinged with a healthy...
The Book of Mormon Girl
A Memoir of an American Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
From her days of feeling like “a root beer among the Cokes”—Coca-Cola being a forbidden fruit for Mormon girls like her—Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints set her apart from others. But, in her eyes, that made her special;...
by Alan King
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Alan King -- the beloved comic, actor, producer, author, philanthropist, and storyteller extraordinaire -- has compiled a wonderfully readable book about growing up Jewish, with totally original contributions by famous people. Combining warmhearted humor with a prideful nostalgia, these essays discuss...
Moving the Mountain
Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Muslims in America who reject extremist or fundamentalist expressions of Islam at home and abroad feel the urgent need for a voice that can represent them in the escalating irrationality of the current debate about Islam, America, and the West. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf—the so-called Ground Zero Imam—has...
Vows
The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
The 1950s was a boom time for the Catholic Church in America, with large families of devout members providing at least one son or daughter for a life of religious service. Boston was at the epicenter of this explosion, and Bill Manseau and Mary Doherty -- two eager young parishioners from different...
When It Gets Dark
An Enlightened Reflection on Life with Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Adeptly navigating between elegy and celebration, fear and determination, confusion and clarity, DeBaggio delivers an exquisitely moving and inspiring book that will resonate with all those who have grappled with their own or their loved ones' memory loss and with death.
With his first memoir,...
The Osama bin Laden I Know
An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2006
The Osama bin Laden I Know is an unprecedented oral history of Osama bin Laden's rise to revered leader of al Qaeda.
Peter Bergen takes the reader onto the battlefields of Afghanistan as bin Laden goes from a shy, quiet teen to a leader; he brings you into Osama's intimate family life as he lives...
Monarch
The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
For more than fifty years, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor -- who became Elizabeth II, Queen of England on February 6, 1952 -- has been loved and loathed, revered and feared, applauded and criticized by her people. Still she endures as a captivating figure in the world's most durable symbol of political...
The Last Knight
The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of t
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, yet gallantry, chivalry, and literary brilliance flourished in the courts of England and elsewhere. It was a world in transition, soon to be replaced by...