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Less Medicine, More Health

by Gilbert Welch

Published: 2016-03-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care.  You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensi...

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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

by Shannon Brownlee

Published: 2008-09-09

Paperback: 368 pages

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Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon B...

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Testing the Current (New York Review Books Classics)

by William McPherson

Published: 2013-01-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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Growing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings of war in Europe. For his parents and their set, life seems to revolve around dinners and dancing at the country club, tennis dates and rounds...

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Hidden Tapestry: Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One

by Debra Dean

Published: 2018-04-15

Paperback: 312 pages

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Hidden Tapestry reveals the unforgettable story of Flemish American artist Jan Yoors--childhood vagabond, wartime resistance fighter, and New York bohemian -- and the two women who shared his life and wove his magnificent tapestries. At the peak of his fame in the 1970s, Yoors' photographs...

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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History

by Mitch Landrieu

Published: 2018-03-20

Hardcover: 240 pages

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"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the r...

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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America

by Michael Eric Dyson

Published: 2018-06-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Chicago Tribune • TimeA stunning follow up to New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot StopChris Matthews, MSNBC: "A beautifully written book."Harry Belafonte says: “Dyson has finally written the book I always wanted to read. I had the pr...

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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

by Eliza Griswold

Published: 2018-06-12

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to a...

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We Are Gathered

by Jamie Weisman

Published: 2018-06-05

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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Humor and sorrow join together in Jamie Weisman’s captivating debut novel—the story of an interfaith wedding from the perspectives of its (adoring, envious, resentful, hilarious) guests One afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia. Two people heading to the altar. One hundred fifty guests. The br...

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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

by Roxane Gay

Published: 2018-05-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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New York Times Bestseller Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. The Root, "28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors"...

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Tell Me A Secret: A gripping psychological thriller with heart-stopping mystery and suspense

by Samantha Hayes

Published: 2018-05-22

Paperback: 358 pages

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Tell her all your secrets and she’ll tell you all her lies… Everything in Lorna’s life runs like clockwork, from her 6 a.m. morning run to the strict 60-minute counselling sessions she gives. It’s the only way she can deal with the terrible secret she carries. When a new client arr...