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jeannette Walls Grew Up With Parents Whose Ideals And Stubborn Nonconformity Were Both Their Curse And Their Salvation. Rex And Rose Mary Walls Had Four C...

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-sca...

The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar ...

The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” T...

In 1891, 24 year old Marie, née Marya Sklodowska, moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged ...

A psychic and psychiatrist draws on her own experience and that of her patients to offer readers effective ways to cultivate their natural psychic abilities...

The Author Reveals How She Has Developed Her Paranormal Abilities And Used Them To Investigate Hauntings And Aid Police In Solving Crimes. Sylvia Browne And...

From the environmental activist, consumer advocate, renowned crusader, and champion fighter whose courageous case against Pacific Gas and Electric was drama...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The...

"how Could You, A Mathematician, Believe That Extraterrestrials Were Sending You Messages?" The Visitor From Harvard Asked The West Virginian With The Movi...

An impassioned and inspiring story from the creator of the award-winning documentary Sharkwater. Beginning with a childhood spent catching poisonous snake...

In the summer of 1993, people in Ontario were shocked by one of the most bizarre murders in the province’s history. A patient at the Brockville psychiatri...

Now A Netflix Original Series Discover The Classic, Behind-the-scenes Chronicle Of John E. Douglas’ Twenty-five-year Career In The Fbi Investigative Suppo...

Lloyd Robertson. Includes Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Professionals & AcademicsJournalists

A beloved crime reporter revisits some of her biggest assignments and passes judgement on our judicial system--especially its judges.When Christie Blatchfo...

The Bestselling Author Of Leonardo Da Vinci And Steve Jobs Returns With A Gripping Account Of How The Pioneering Scientist Jennifer Doudna, Along With Her C...

The extraordinary memoir of a mother's love, commitment and nurturing, which allowed her son, originally diagnosed with severe autism, to flourish into a u...

The second volume of the classic adventures and misadventures of the young vet, James Herriot, in the Yorkshire Dales from 1937 onwards.Categories: Literatu...

A bestseller in Canada and Australia, this is the incredible story of a woman who struggled with severe learning disabilities, built herself a better brain...

The author recounts his experiences as a young reporter to "Stars and Stripes," the American forces' daily newspaper in Europe, including his personal accou...

Eberhard Bethge's exhaustive biography of Bonhoeffer is recognized throughout the world as the definitive biography. Victoria Barnett has now reviewed the e...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of comin...

Animal stories are often hilarious, sometimes sad, and usually filled with adventure. We have assembled the best collections of animal stories that cover p...

One Day in 1957, in the third-grade classroom of St. Brigid's parochial school, an exasperated Sister Mary Lurana bent over a restless young William O'Reil...

Be creative. Be ordinary. The golden rule for life is that there are no golden rules.” The wisdom of Osho, one of the best-loved spiritual teachers of our...

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakenings and the TV series House, Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENTS is a memoir from the Medical Director of Bellevue Hos...

A young Canadian woman describes her decision to seek out adventure before settling down to a conventional life, her journey to the tiny Buddhist kingdom of...

Review\This stark and honest account is sure to move true crime and police drama fans. -- Publishers Weekly\True crime readers will likely have a difficult ...

The story of a microbiologist’s remarkable career, from identifying the Ebola virus to pioneering AIDS research and policy. When Peter Piot was in medica...

25 Nurses, Both In Prose And Verse, Tells Why They Chose Nursing As A Career. Pt. 1. The Calling -- Pt. 2. The Reckoning -- Pt. 3. Reincarnation. Paula Serg...

One Of Nine Children Born Into A Penniless North Dublin Family, Nuala O'faolain Was Saved From A Harrowing Childhood By Her Love Of Books And Reading. Thoug...

A Children's Book Author Relates How A Workshop For A Group Of Third Graders Grew Into A Three-year Relationship With The Class Of Mostly New Americans As H...

Pt. I. The Basics Of Collaborative Dialogue. 1. Secrets To Talking. 2. Secrets To Listening. 3. Secrets To Dialogue -- Pt. Ii. Dealing With Differences. 4. ...

In the 1950s, Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals, a working-class neighborhood in Glasgow, Scotland. MacFarlane witnessed the last days of the old Gor...

GrubHub founder Mike Evans reveals the inside story of how he grew a multibillion-dollar behemoth that changed the way we eat. Hungry and tired one night, M...

As An Idealistic Twenty-three-year-old English Teacher At Wilson High School In Long Beach, California. Erin Gruwell Confronted A Room Of Unteachable, At-ri...

As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize-winningphysicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped sta...

The inspiring story of New York Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge His death certificate bears the number one. As chaplain to the Fire Departmen...

The Call of Stories presents a study of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery. Here is Dr. Coles's study ...

National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Winner Of The American Association For The Advancement Of Science/subaru Science Books & Film Prize Fo...

In a group of essays, letters, and speeches, Einstein relates his views on politics, religion, morality, and the place of science in the modern worldCategor...

Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secret When Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. At least, that what’s Phyl...

A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. Publishers Weekly...

she Showed Me What One Set-on-fire Human Being Can Do To Shift The Consciousness Of The World. —sister Helen Prejean, Author Of dead Man Walking kirkus Rev...

Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. H...

Tell Them for Me is a book of evidence that we are a spirit being, not only a physical being. The death of Brian from the Vietnam War was the beginning of a...

One Doctor's Fight to End an American EpidemicGoldberger's War chronicles one of the U.S. Public Health Service's most renowned heroes--an immigrant Jew wh...

A medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco’...