In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family
8 best books like In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family (Nansook Hong): The Empathy Exams, The Septembers of Shiraz, The Edible Woman, 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind, An Equal Justice, The Tent
| Author | Leslie Jamison |
| ISBN | 1555976719 |
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection; winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.
Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and...
| Author | Dalia Sofer |
| ISBN | 0061130400 |
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known.
As Isaac navigates the tedium and...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491069 |
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach......
| Author | Jane Smiley |
| ISBN | 1400040590 |
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores...
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
| Author | Gerald Clarke |
| ISBN | 0316855952 |
Judy Garland. The girl with the pigtails, the symbol of innocence in The Wizard of Oz. The brightest star of the Hollywood musical and an entertainer of almost magical power. The woman of a half-dozen comebacks, a hundred heartbreaks, and thousands of headlines. Yet much of what has been written about...
A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind
Cleanliness is next to enlightenment. In this Japanese bestseller a Buddhist monk explains the traditional meditative techniques that will help cleanse not only your house - but your soul.
Live clean. Feel calm. Be happy.
We remove dust to sweep away our worldly cares. We live simply...
Inside a prestigious law firm, a rookie lawyer is pulled into a dark maze of lies and violence.
An ambitious Stanford graduate, David Adams has begun a fast-track career at Austin’s most prestigious law firm. It’s a personal victory for the rising superstar—a satisfying reversal from his...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385516681 |
One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal,...
