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A-LITTLE-LIFE
<b>Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that ... -
A LITTLE LIFE
<b>Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that ... -
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and pl... -
The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of exist... -
The Emperor of All Maladies_ A Biography - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Amazon.com ReviewThe Emperor of All Maladies illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came in... -
The Astronaut Wives' Club
As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were tran... -
Strange Medicine A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages - Nathan Belofsky
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. ReviewPublishers Weekly-Belofsky (The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities) conjures... -
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Sacks, Oliver - Oaxaca Journal (Vintage, 2012)
"I have been an inveterate keeper of journals since I was 14 especially at times of adventure and crisis and travel. Here, for the first time, such a journal made its way to public... -
No Easy Day The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Kevin Maurer
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his...