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Lazy B
Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2002
**The remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today: the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and one of the most powerful women in America.
“A charming memoir about...
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who first identified CTE in professional football players, a discovery that challenges the existence of America’s favorite sport and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football’s most powerful corporation:...
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living.
**“An exquisitely...
Crashing Through
A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.
Mike May spent his life crashing...
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...
When My World Was Very Small
A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In the whirlwind of life with three young sons, an active member in her tight-knit community, Ruth Rakoff felt in supreme control of her wide world. But when a routine mammogram revealed a tumor, that world rapidly shrunk down to the size of one breast.
And so begins the journey...
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...
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr....
Alpha Docs
The Making of a Cardiologist
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In the tradition of Scott Turow’s One L and Atul Gawande’s Better comes a real-time, real-life chronicle from an impassioned young doctor on the front lines of high-stakes cardiology.
It takes drive, persistence, and plenty of stamina to practice cardiology at the highest level. The competition...
Everything Happens for a Reason
And Other Lies I've Loved
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi
**“Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject,...
by Lauren Slater
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The author of the acclaimed Welcome to My Country describes in this provocative and funny memoir the ups and downs of living on Prozac for ten years, and the strange adjustments she had to make to living "normal life."
Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren...
The Story of My Father
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. She was, she claims, perhaps the least constitutionally suited of all her siblings to be in the role in which she suddenly found herself, and in The Story of My Father she grapples...
Banquet at Delmonico's
Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
In Banquet at Delmonico’s, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin’s controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil...
The Uncertain Art
Thoughts on a Life in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
“Life is short, and the Art so long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious; and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and the externals, cooperate.”
–attributed to Hippocrates, c. 400 B.C.E.
The...