The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors
10 best books like The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors (Lance Dodes): Grave Descend (Hard Case Crime #26), Every Thing You Are, The Dharma Bums, The Night Swimmers, Country Girl, The Country Girls Trilogy, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, A Dangerous Place, Jasmine
Grave Descend (Hard Case Crime #26)
The Barnes & Noble Review
Fans of Michael Crichton who are certain that they've read every single one of the prolific writer's masterworks (The Great Train Robbery, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Disclosure, et al.) may have overlooked one: Grave Descend. Written while Crichton was attending Harvard...
| Author | Kerry Anne King |
| ISBN | 1542041961 |
From the bestselling author of Whisper Me This comes a haunting and lyrical novel about the promises we make and the forgiveness we need when we break them.
One tragic twist of fate destroyed Braden Healey’s hands, his musical career, and his family. Now, unable to play, adrift in an alcoholic...
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation...
“Swimming at night, to compare its slipperiness to that of a dream would be to ignore the work of staying afloat, the mesmerism brought on by the rhythm, the repetition of the strokes.”
Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs,...
When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl...
The Country Girls Trilogy
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0452263948 |
“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...captures the vigilance of childhood and reproduces, eerily intact, its heightened sensations.”
—Newsday
From the acclaimed author of Country Girl: A Memoir
Kate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls...
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
| Author | Ian Mortimer |
| ISBN | 1847921140 |
The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.
We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat?...
| Author | Vivian Gornick |
| ISBN | 0374529965 |
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking...
| Author | Jacqueline Winspear |
| ISBN | 0062220551 |
Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger
Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love,...
| Author | Bharati Mukherjee |
| ISBN | 0802136303 |
When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes...
| Author | Lidia Yuknavitch |
| ISBN | 0983477574 |
Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, whom she nicknames Siggy, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida, whose alter ego is Dora, and her small posse...
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0316378232 |
The much-anticipated new novel from the literary world's master of storytelling, Edna O'Brien.
A woman discovers that the foreigner she thinks will redeem her life is a notorious war criminal.
Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish...
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
| Author | Jonathan White |
| ISBN | 1595348050 |
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China,...
The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery
With their signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, Martha Grimes’s New York Times bestselling Richard Jury mysteries are “utterly unlike anyone else’s detective novels” (Washington Post). In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective...
The Quiet Blossom: A Story about the Modern Wild West, the American Dream, and Marijuana
This is a nonfiction novel about the subculture that formed around the marijuana industry in Northern California. It documents a unique time and place in American history that is today impacting society on a global scale. It is a personal narrative that tells the story of one young man's experiences...
| Author | Joanna Scott |
| ISBN | 0316363839 |
New York in the late 1950s. A city, and a world, on the cusp of change..
Maggie Gleason is looking toward the future. Part of a midcentury wave of young women seeking new lives in New York City, Maggie works for legendary Port Authority public relations maven Lee K. Jaffe--affectionately known...
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
| Author | Elizabeth von Arnim |
| ISBN | 0860684237 |
"Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, was popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" is a year's diary written by Elizabeth about her experiences learning gardening and interacting with her friends....
