In Fact Books imprint: 10 books
True Stories, Well Told
From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Creative nonfiction is the literary equivalent of jazz: it’s a rich mix of flavors, ideas, voices, and techniques-some newly invented, and others as old as writing itself. This collection of 20 gripping, beautifully-written nonfiction narratives is as diverse as the genre Creative Nonfiction magazine...
Show Me All Your Scars
True Stories of Living with Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter starts hearing...
True Crime
Real-Life Stories of Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, Grave-robbing, and More
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
The real-life stories collected here reflect not only the myriad ways in which a law can be broken, but also the countless ways in which crime - whether in the news or close to home - can be experienced. In these diverse and compelling narratives, award-winning journalists investigate the attempted assassination...
At the End of Life
True Stories About How We Die
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?The modern healthcare system has become proficient at staving off death with aggressive interventions. And yet, eventually everyone dies—and although most Americans say they would prefer to die peacefully at home, more than half of all deaths take...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first sticks,” first births, and first deaths, and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts, and keeps them in the profession....
Oh, Baby
True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In these 23 original stories, mothers and fathers from all walks of life-straight, gay, single, surrogate, biological, adoptive-explore the challenges and rewards of parenthood. Here, among other adventures, parents fall hopelessly in love with newborns, secretly fear having made huge mistakes, race...
Same Time Next Week
True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illness-and yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as mentally ill.” We hear about worst-case scenarios, but in many-maybe even most-cases, there is much room for hope. These frank, often intimate...
Southern Sin
True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
23 strange-but-true stories of women flirting with perdition... In the steamy South, temptation is as wild and plentiful as kudzu. Whether the sin in question is skinny-dipping or becoming an unlikely porn star, running rum or renting out a room to a pair of exhibitionistic adulterers, in these true...
An Immense New Power to Heal
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Is personalized medicine—what some scientists call genetic medicine—a pipe dream or a panacea? Francis Collins, current director of the National Institutes of Health and director of the Human Genome Project, considers this new era “the greatest revolution since Leonardo,” while Nobel Laureate...
What I Didn't Know
True Stories of Becoming a Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Teachers delve into the most difficult, rewarding, and transformative moments of their careers, as they discover that succeeding at teaching is a test not just of training or of subject matter, but of resolve, dedication, faith, and character. Whether in a New England prep school or a public school in...