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10 best books like The Husbands and Wives Club: A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group (Laurie Abraham): I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, The House of Broken Angels, The Art of Fielding, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital, Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, Silent Witnesses, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Life

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
AuthorEd Yong
ISBN0062368591
Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin—a “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a marvelous,...
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
AuthorAmy Ellis Nutt
The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family’s extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning science reporter for The Washington Post

When Wayne...
The House of Broken Angels
AuthorLuis Alberto Urrea
The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, a sprawling and deeply felt portrait of a Mexican-American family occasioned by the impending loss of its patriarch, from one of the country's most beloved authors.

Prizewinning and bestselling writer Luis Urrea has written his Mexican...
The Art of Fielding
AuthorChad Harbach
ISBN0316126691
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.

Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future....
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
AuthorPete Buttigieg
ISBN1631494368
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation’s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American...
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
AuthorDavid M. Oshinsky
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.
Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime...
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
AuthorAlisa Roth
ISBN0465094198
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons


America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons...
Silent Witnesses
AuthorNigel McCrery
ISBN1847946836
A crime scene. A murder. A mystery.

The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us.

Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
AuthorTom Holland
ISBN0385513119
In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East,...
Life
AuthorKeith Richards
ISBN0297854399
Keith Richards was a clever kid, a talented artist, a choirboy who sang for the Queen and became an outstanding musician in one of the world's best bands. What is most on display in this book is his tremendous interest in music and musicians, not in rock, bands, money and fame - a lot of which he finds a bit...
Goodbye to All That
AuthorRobert Graves
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

In 1929 Robert Graves went...
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
AuthorJudith Grisel
ISBN0385542844
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories reveal how addiction happens, show why specific drugs--from opioids to alcohol to coke and...
At the Mountains of Madness
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0812974417
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of...
The River of Consciousness
AuthorOliver Sacks
ISBN0385352565
From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.

Oliver...
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
AuthorCordelia Fine
ISBN0393355489
Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force in human development. According to this false-yet-familiar story, the divisions between men and women are in nature alone and not part of culture. Drawing on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology,...
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
AuthorHenry Marsh
ISBN1250127262
Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical front line. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered.

Following the publication of his celebrated New York Times bestseller Do No Harm, Marsh retired...
The Mind's Eye
AuthorOliver Sacks
In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Mind's Eye, he writes about the myriad ways in which we experience the visual world: how we see in three dimensions; how we recognize individual faces or places; how we use language to communicate verbally; how we translate marks...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
AuthorJoshua D. Mezrich
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day.

When Death...
Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety
AuthorSeth J. Gillihan
ISBN1623157803
Masterfully written with relatable examples, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks allows the reader to quickly connect and feel understood, and offers hope for those who are looking to regain control over their life. —DR. ROBIN ZASIO, Psy. D., LCSW, director of The Anxiety Treatment Center...
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
AuthorDanielle Ofri
ISBN0807062634
Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?

Despite modern medicine's infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion's share of illnesses. However,...
When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life
AuthorDavid D. Burns
Are you plagued by fears, phobias, or panic attacks? Do you toss and turn at night with a knot in your stomach, worrying about your job, your family, work, your health, or relationships? Do you suffer from crippling shyness, obsessive doubts, or feelings of insecurity?
What you may not realize is...
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
AuthorJoseph Jebelli
ISBN0316360791
Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure.

Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved...
The Last Ocean: A Journey through Memory and Forgetting
AuthorNicci Gerrard
ISBN0525521968
From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, raw and humane investigation of dementia that explores both the journeys of the people who live with the condition and those of their loved ones

After a diagnosis of dementia, Nicci Gerrard's father, John, continued to live life on...
Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person: Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who Are the Majority of Clients
AuthorElaine N. Aron
ISBN0415800749
Dr. Elaine Aron's newest book, Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, redefines the term "highly sensitive" for the professional researcher and practitioner. She dispels common misconceptions about the relationship between sensitivity and other personality traits, such as introversion...
Djibouti
AuthorElmore Leonard
ISBN0061735175
Elmore Leonard, New York Times bestselling author and "the hippest, funniest national treasure in sight" (Washington Post), brings his trademark wit and inimitable style to this twisting, gripping—and sometimes playful—tale of modern-day piracy

Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker,...
The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America
AuthorJake Sherman
The inside story of the battle to control Congress and the unsparing fight for advantage in the 2018 midterm elections

With control of both the House and Senate up for grabs in 2018 and the direction of the nation resting on the outcome, never has a more savage, unrelenting fight been waged...
The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones
AuthorRich Cohen
ISBN0804179239
A panoramic narrative history of the Rolling Stones, viewed through the impassioned and opinionated lens of Vanity Fair contributor Rich Cohen, who traveled with the band in the 1990s as a reporter for Rolling Stone.

Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the...
Raylan
AuthorElmore Leonard
US Marshal Raylan Givens investigates a kidney stealing ring, acts as a bodyguard to a beautiful coal mining executive, and tracks down a missing college girl named Jackie Nevada who is a poker player and possibly a bank robber.

Bad Pun Alert: I've only seen the first season of the show starring...
The Starch Solution: Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good!
AuthorJohn A. McDougall
ISBN1609613937
A bestselling author’s groundbreaking eating plan that challenges the notion that starch is unhealthy

From Atkins to Dukan, the fear-mongering about carbs over the past few decades has reached a fever pitch; the mere mention of a starch-heavy food is enough to trigger a cavalcade of shame...
Their Finest Hour
AuthorWinston S. Churchill
ISBN0141441739
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction...
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