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Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness

by Lauren Slater

Published: 1997-07-14

Paperback: 224 pages

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Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and professional journey in this remarkable memoir about her work with mental and emotional illness. The territory of the mind and of madness can seem a foreign, even frightening place-until you ...

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Blue Beyond Blue: Extraordinary Tales for Ordinary Dilemmas

by Lauren Slater

Published: 2006-08-17

Paperback: 224 pages

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An exploration of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums, and romantic love through one of our oldest literary forms the fairy tale. "Inspired and barbed, Slater's fairy tales are irresistible." --Donna Seaman, Booklist Mermaids, seal women, little girls born of eggs, old men born ...

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The Truth: A Novel

by Michael Palin

Published: 2014-08-19

Paperback: 272 pages

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"An ingeniously plotted, beautifully written and hugely enjoyable book that raises tricky questions about... our need for heroes [and] the price of personal compromise.'"?The Daily Telegraph For the first time since his much-beloved tale Hemingway's Chair was published in 1998, Michael Pal...

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Obsession: The bestselling psychological thriller of 2017

by Amanda Robson

Published: 2017-09-19

Paperback: 464 pages

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The #1 ebook bestseller‘Thrilling, unputdownable, a fabulous rollercoaster of a read – I was obsessed by this book’ B A PARIS, bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS’Compulsive reading with characters you will love to hate and an ending that will make your jaw drop.’ JENNY BLA...

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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

by Nadia Murad

Published: 2017-11-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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New York Times Editors’ ChoiceIn this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.   Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi comm...

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Twelfth Night (No Fear Shakespeare)

by William Shakespeare

Published: 2003-07-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RNo Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of &&LI&&RTwelfth Night&&L/I&&R on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.&&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R &&L/P&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LP ...

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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

by Sonya Renee Taylor

Published: 2018-02-13

Paperback: 160 pages

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A global movement guided by loveHumans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. The Body Is Not an Apology offers ra...

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Honey From a Weed

by Patience Gray

Published: 2001-03-03

Paperback: 375 pages

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This book is perhaps the jewel in Prospect’s crown. Within a few months of its first appearance in 1986 it was hailed as a modern classic. Fiona MacCarthy wrote in The Times that, ?the book is a large and grandiose life history, a passionate narrative of extremes of experience.’ Jeremy...

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The Italian Teacher

by Tom Rachman

Published: 2018-03-20

Hardcover: 352 pages

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“An exotic touch of intrigue arises in THE ITALIAN TEACHER . . . deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post   A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The Imperfectionists.C...

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White Tears: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Hari Kunzru

Published: 2018-02-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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A PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • GQ • Time • The Economist • Slate • HuffPost • Book RiotGhost story, murder mystery, love letter to American music--White Tears is all of thi...