Slackjaw

10 best books like Slackjaw (Jim Knipfel): Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, Thunderstruck, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Hope: A Tragedy, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, The House Husband

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Author	Tara Brach
ISBN	0553380990

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become...

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Author	David Sedaris
ISBN	0965904830

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t...

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Author	Helen Fielding
ISBN	0140298479

Lurching from the cappuccino bars of Notting Hill to the blissed-out shores of Thailand, Bridget Jones searches for The Truth in spite of pathetically unevolved men, insane dating theories, and Smug Married advice ("'I'm just calling to say in the potty! In the potty! Well, do it in Daddy's hand, then!'")....

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Author	Erik Larson
ISBN	0375708278

National Bestseller

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere...

Thunderstruck

Author	Erik Larson
ISBN	1400080665

The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time - Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication.

A true story of love, murder, and the...

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

Author

Jon Kabat-Zinn

2005 15th anniversary edition reprint

Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is perhaps the best-known proponent of using meditation to help patients deal with illness. (The somewhat confusing title is from a line in Zorba...

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Author	Andrew Solomon
ISBN	0684854678

Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly...

Hope: A Tragedy

Author

Shalom Auslander

FROM THE CREATOR OF SHOWTIME'S "HAPPYISH"

The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskin’s Lament and Beware of God.

A New York Times Notable Book 2012

The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there,...

Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

Author	Gerd Gigerenzer
ISBN	0670038636

An engaging explanation of the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling Blink

Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink. Gladwell showed us how snap decisions often yield better...

The House Husband

Author	James Patterson
ISBN	1786530988

Harry Posehn is the best dad, the best husband...well, maybe not.


Detective Teaghan Beaumont is getting closer and closer to discovering the truth about Harry Posehn. But there's a twist that she--and you, dear reader--will never see coming.

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