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The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir

by Clane Hayward

Published: 2007-10-04

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Born in San Francisco just before the Summer of Love, Clane Hayward grew up on hippie communes throughout the west. Her poignantly funny, sometimes melancholy, and always riveting memoir recounts her extraordinary life up until her thirteenth birthday. School was a particularly happy event...

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Tennison: A Jane Tennison Thriller (Book 1)

by Lynda La Plante

Published: 2018-03-06

Paperback: 576 pages

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Before Prime Suspect there was Tennison - this is her story1973. After leaving the Metropolitan Police Training Academy, 22 year-old Jane Tennison is placed on a probationary exercise in Hackney, London where criminality thrives. At first she struggles to deal with the shocking situations...

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Published: 1998-06-23

Paperback: 131 pages

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In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. �...

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The Lost Art of Healing: Practicing Compassion in Medicine

by Bernard Lown

Published: 1999-02-02

Paperback: 366 pages

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The real crisis in medicine today is not about economics, insurance, or managed care--it's about the loss of the fundamental human relationship between doctor and patient. In this wise and passionate book, one of our most eminent physicians reacquaints us with a classic notion often overlo...

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Promise: A Novel

by Minrose Gwin

Published: 2018-02-27

Hardcover: 400 pages

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In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart—one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager—fight for their families’ survival in this lyrical and powerf...

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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

by Nicole Chung

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Long-listed for PEN Open Book Award Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, Real Simple, Buzzfeed, Jezebel, Bustle, Library Journal, Chicago Public Library, and more "This book moved me to my very core. . . . [All You Can Ever Know] should be req...

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The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

Published: 2006-05-17

Paperback: 272 pages

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ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. Bu...

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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

by Lauren Slater

Published: 2018-02-20

Hardcover: 416 pages

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"Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating." --USA Today"A vivid and thought-provoking synthesis." --Harper's A groundbreaking and revelatory history of psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post). Although...

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The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women

Published: 2003-08-15

Paperback: 416 pages

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As women, we know how important it is to take charge of our health care-to be informed and proactive. But too often we forget that our mental wellness is an integral part of our overall health. The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women is the definitive resource for women looking for a...

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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir

by Lauren Slater

Published: 2000-05-30

Hardcover: 240 pages

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"The beauty of Lauren Slater's prose is shocking," said Newsday about Welcome to My Country, and now, in this powerful and provocative new book, Slater brilliantly explores a mind, a body, and a life under siege. Diag-nosed as a child with a strange illness, brought up in a family given to...