History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life
10 best books like History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life (Jill Bialosky): Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, Orange World and Other Stories, The View from the Seventh Layer, Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R., The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Mercy Among the Children, Small Island, I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman, The Color Master: Stories, If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
| Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the bestselling psychologist of bipolar disorders who wrote An Unquiet Mind.
One of the foremost psychologists in America, “Kay Jamison is plainly among the few who have a profound...
Orange World and Other Stories
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 1984892215 |
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
Karen Russell's...
The View from the Seventh Layer
| Author | Kevin Brockmeier |
| ISBN | 0375425306 |
Kevin Brockmeier--award -winning author of The Brief History of the Dead--has been widely praised for the richness of his imagination, the lyrical grace and playfulness of his language, and the empathic emotional complexity of his storytelling. And this dazzling collection once again affirms...
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
| Author | Julie Holland |
| ISBN | 0553807668 |
I don't usually take the time to write a review, but as a psychology major and a human being, I was very disappointed by the actions of Julie Holland as she recounts them in this memoir.
The stories of patients in the ER were often interesting, but I was consistently bothered by how politically...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
| Author | David McCullough |
| ISBN | 1501168681 |
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.
As...
| Author | David Adams Richards |
| ISBN | 0743448189 |
When twelve-year-old Sidney Henderson pushes his friend Connie off the roof of a local church in a moment of anger, he makes a silent vow: Let Connie live and I will never harm another soul. At that very moment, Connie stands, laughs, and walks away. Sidney keeps his promise through adulthood despite...
| Author | Andrea Levy |
| ISBN | 0312424671 |
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie,...
I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman
| Author | Joumana Haddad |
| ISBN | 0863564275 |
Joumana Haddad is angry about the way Arab women are portrayed in the West. In I Killed Scheherazade she challenges prevalent notions of identity and womanhood in the Middle East and speaks of her own intellectual development and the liberating impact of literature on her life. Fiery and candid, this...
The Color Master: Stories
| Author | Aimee Bender |
| ISBN | 0385534892 |
The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.
Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and...
If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
| Author | Janine Latus |
| ISBN | 0743296532 |
In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, it read, but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to...
The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
| Author | Elizabeth Blackburn |
The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease and...
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
| Author | Maia Szalavitz |
| ISBN | 1250055822 |
More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas,...
Befriending Your Body: A Self-Compassionate Approach to Freeing Yourself from Disordered Eating
| Author | Ann Saffi Biasetti |
| ISBN | 1611806089 |
A step-by-step holistic approach to recovering fully from disordered eating, using self-compassion and embodiment practices to reduce symptoms, increase body awareness and acceptance, reconnect to others, and step back into an integrated life.
Those who struggle with disordered eating...
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai will start with her own story of displacement as an Internally Displaced Person to show what it means to lose your home, your community, and the only world you've ever known. She will also share the personal stories of some of the girls she has met on her various...
The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life
| Author | Piero Ferrucci |
| ISBN | 1585425885 |
"A book after my own heart!"--His Holiness The Dalai Lama
The Power of Kindness is a stirring examination of a simple but profound concept. Piero Ferrucci, one of the world's most respected transpersonal psychologists, explores the many surprising facets of kindness and argues that it is this...
Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trash-filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin. Growing up, Domenica knew she didn't fit in-she was far smarter and worse dressed than everyone else she knew, and...
All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness
| Author | Sheila Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1580055842 |
A reporter chases the biggest story of her life -- her husband's descent into mental illness.
Even as a reporter, Sheila Hamilton missed the signs as her husband David's mental illness unfolded before her. By the time she had pieced together the puzzle, it was too late. Her once brilliant and passionate...
| Author | Aimee Bender |
| ISBN | 0385720971 |
"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book Review
Aimee Bender s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This...
Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You
| Author | Richard O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0425166791 |
If you or anyone you know has ever suffered from depression, I would highly recommend Dr. O'Connor's book. Reading this book I realized that most people - including those with depression themselves - have a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be depressed. The first half in particular...
| Author | Thomas Pakenham |
| ISBN | 0380720019 |
The Boers of South Africa responded to Britain's annexation of the gold-and-diamond-rich Transvaal region by declaring war on October 11, 1899. The English believed the fighting would be over by Christmas -- never dreaming they were on the brink of one of the longest, bloodiest, most costly and humiliating...
The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.
In the years preceding World War I, two young women...
The Girl Behind the Door: A Father's Journey Into the Mystery of Attachment
| Author | John Brooks |
| ISBN | 0991357701 |
A Marin County, California father embarks on a journey to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter, Casey, to take her life. He travels back to her abandonment at birth and adoption from a Polish orphanage at fourteen months, through her happy childhood and her turbulent adolescence,...
Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil
| Author | Bernard McGinn |
| ISBN | 0231119771 |
In this timely and sweeping exploration, one of the greatest living historians of Christian thought traces the concept of Antichrist from its Judeo-Christian origins to the present day. Rooted in Second Temple Judaism--a period of intense religious and political disruption--Antichrist developed...
| Author | William Melvin Kelley |
| ISBN | 0385413904 |
Set in a mythical backwater Southern town, A Different Drummer is the extraordinary story of Tucker Caliban, a quiet, determined descendant of an African chief who for no apparent reason destroys his farm and heads for parts unknown--setting off a mass exodus of the state's entire Black population.
Nearly...
Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death
Few figures in history have defined their time as dramatically as Martin Luther. And few books have captured the spirit of such a figure as truly as this robust and eloquent life of Luther. A highly regarded historian and biographer and a gifted novelist and playwright, Richard Marius gives us a dazzling...
Little Liberia: An African Odyssey In New York City
| Author | Jonny Steinberg |
| ISBN | 0224085662 |
On Park Hill Avenue in New York City, almost everyone is Liberian. Most people know one another; if not by name, then by face. And yet neighbours do not ask one another what they did in Liberia, for the question is considered an accusation. Many people here fled Liberia's brutal civil war, a conflict that...
| Author | Ezekiel Boone |
| ISBN | 1501125079 |
Tens of millions of people around the world are dead. Half of China is a nuclear wasteland. Mysterious flesh-eating spiders are marching through Los Angeles, Oslo, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, and countless other cities. According to scientist Melanie Guyer, however, the spider situation seems to be looking...
Homeless Lives Matter: Homeless my story
| Author | Leo Gnawa |
| ISBN | 1523731370 |
So many thoughts on this book! First off, I think it was an interesting perspective, very different from my own. I can only imagine what it may feel like to be homeless - to be ignored or to be treated as “less than”. With that said, it can be very easy to assume that people don’t care simply because they...
Hype: A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not
| Author | Nina Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1250149304 |
A straightforward appraisal of why health myths exist, dispelling many of them, and teaching readers how to navigate the labyrinth of health advice and the science and misinformation behind it.
Hype is Dr. Nina Shapiro’s engaging and informative look at the real science behind our most...
Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor
| Author | Temple Grandin |
| ISBN | 0525632298 |
From world-renowned autism spokesperson, scientist, and inventor Temple Grandin -- a book of personal stories, inventions, and facts that will blow young inventors' minds and make them soar.
Have you ever wondered what makes a kite fly or a boat float? Have you ever thought about why snowflakes...
