In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Dying
7 best books like In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Dying (Eve Joseph): Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Ark, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, The Last Conversation, Randomize, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
| Author | Armistead Maupin |
| ISBN | 0552998761 |
Tales of the City is not great literature. That's not what Maupin's aiming for. In what is the first and best book in a six-part series constructed from a serial column in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tales of the City is smart, guilty entertainment at its best. It's a soap opera. But like, say, Six Feet...
A surreal sequel to the first volume of the series, More Tales of the City heightens the stakes of the original: mystery, romance, and drama now feature even more prominently in the intertwining storylines of the residents of 28 Barbary Lane. Maupin established his characters' personalities and their...
On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.
It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already...
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
| Author | Dr. Gabor Maté |
| ISBN | 0676977405 |
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treating the drug addicts of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside with sympathy in his heart and legislative reform in mind can't be easy. But Maté never judges. His book is a powerful call-to-arms,...
What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.
Imagine you’ve woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where...
In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.
An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number...
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
| Author | Annie Duke |
| ISBN | 0735216355 |
In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing by four at the Patriots' one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks lost....
