American Music
8 best books like American Music (Jane Mendelsohn): The Rosie Effect, Everything Is Illuminated, Eating Animals, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum, Melville: His World and Work, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir, Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide
| Author | Graeme Simsion |
| ISBN | 1476767327 |
Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they're about to face a new challenge because - surprise - Rosie is pregnant.
Don sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father, but his unusual research...
Everything Is Illuminated
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0060529709 |
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable...
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0316069906 |
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others,...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
| Author | Bessel A. van der Kolk |
| ISBN | 0670785938 |
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
| Author | Keri Smith |
| ISBN | 0399534601 |
From the author of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life.
Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this...
| Author | Andrew Delbanco |
| ISBN | 0375702970 |
If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded...
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
| Author | Marina Abramović |
| ISBN | 1101905042 |
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”
In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance...
Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide
| Author | Deepak Chopra |
| ISBN | 0609806947 |
A decade ago, Deepak Chopra, M.D., wrote Perfect Health, the first practical guide to harnessing the healing power of the mind, which became a national bestseller. The book described how breakthroughs in physics and medicine were underscoring the validity of a 5,000-year-old medical system from...
