Kidder: 56 books
Good Prose
The Art of Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young...
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views . . . Kidder opens a window into Farmer’s soul, letting the reader peek in and see what truly makes the good doctor tick.”—Nicholas Thomas, USA Today
In medical school, Paul...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
“A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”—Charles Duhigg
Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy—the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder...
New to Big
How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies.
Most established companies face a key survival challenge, says David Kidder, CEO of Bionic, lifelong entrepreneur, and angel investor in more than thirty...
My Detachment
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes...
Urban Flow
Bike Messengers and the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours—and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes—these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in and out of dense traffic, dodging (or sometimes...
Parkour and the City
Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999
**The Pulitzer Prize–winning author brings “**clarity, intelligence and grace” to the tale of building a home in this New York Times Bestseller (The New York Times Book Review).
It’s 1983 and Jonathan and Judith Souweine are ready to build their forever home on a four-acre lot just...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
Los Angeles Times•San Francisco Chronicle•Chicago Tribune• The Christian Science Monitor • Publishers Weekly
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people...
Sex Is Fun!
Creative Ideas for Exciting Sex
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A fully illustrated, interactive, and completely original sex manual, combining the innovative look of a graphic novel with nonfiction advice and activities for fearless fun in bed
Host of the wildly popular "Sex Is Fun" podcast, Kidder Kapers brings unique approaches to the topic...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
A Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “touching, funny and inspiring” true story of daily life in a New England nursing home (The New York Times).
Ninety-year-old Lou quit school after the eighth grade, worked for the rest of his life, and stayed with the same woman for nearly seventy years....
How Good People Make Tough Choices Rev Ed
Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
This insightful and brilliant analysis of ethics teaches readers valuable skills in evaluating tough choices and arriving at sound conclusions.
“A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior.”
—Jimmy Carter
An essential guide to ethical action updated...
by Rushworth M Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why did a group of teenagers watch a friend die instead of putting their own reputations at risk? Why did a top White House official decide to come clean and accept a prison sentence during Watergate? Why did a finance executive turn down millions out of respect for her employer? Why are some willing...