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by John McCain, Mark Salter
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain tellsthe story of his great American journey, from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying campaign for the presidency in 2000, interwoven with heartfelt portraits of the mavericks who have inspired him through the years. After five and a half years as...
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Lazy B

Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest

by Sandra Day O'Connor, H. Alan Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2002

**The remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today: the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and one of the most powerful women in America. “A charming memoir about...
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by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who first identified CTE in professional football players, a discovery that challenges the existence of America’s favorite sport and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football’s most powerful corporation:...
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The Unwinding of the Miracle

A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

by Julie Yip-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living. **“An exquisitely...
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Crashing Through

A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See

by Robert Kurson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007

In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight. Mike May spent his life crashing...
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by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Los Angeles Times•San Francisco Chronicle•Chicago Tribune• The Christian Science Monitor • Publishers Weekly In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people...
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When My World Was Very Small

A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch

by Ruth Rakoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010

In the whirlwind of life with three young sons, an active member in her tight-knit community, Ruth Rakoff felt in supreme control of her wide world. But when a routine mammogram revealed a tumor, that world rapidly shrunk down to the size of one breast.              And so begins the journey...
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by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

“A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”—Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy—the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder...
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe

A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

by Katrina Firlik
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006

Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr....
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Alpha Docs

The Making of a Cardiologist

by Daniel Muñoz, James M. Dale
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015

In the tradition of Scott Turow’s One L and Atul Gawande’s Better comes a real-time, real-life chronicle from an impassioned young doctor on the front lines of high-stakes cardiology. It takes drive, persistence, and plenty of stamina to practice cardiology at the highest level. The competition...
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Everything Happens for a Reason

And Other Lies I've Loved

by Kate Bowler
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi **“Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject,...
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by Lauren Slater
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

The author of the acclaimed Welcome to My Country describes in this provocative and funny memoir the ups and downs of living on Prozac for ten years, and the strange adjustments she had to make to living "normal life."            Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren...
Cover of The Story of My Father
by Sue Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. She was, she claims, perhaps the least constitutionally suited of all her siblings to be in the role in which she suddenly found herself, and in The Story of My Father she grapples...
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Banquet at Delmonico's

Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America

by Barry Werth
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009

In Banquet at Delmonico’s, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin’s controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil...
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