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In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end.Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on...
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author, "the most powerful and persuasive attack on Christian Science to have been written in this century" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).Millions of Americans—from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R....
A memoir of a childhood homesteading in frontier Colorado: "A book from the heart . . . the stuff of the American dream" (The New York Times).In this memoir of a lost America, Hal Borland tells the story of his family's migration to eastern Colorado as homesteaders at...
A hilarious collection of stories from the life of the New York Times bestselling author of Look Again At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline's wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to...
The New York Times bestseller: "A superb, thoughtful biography" of the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (David McCullough).Fred Rogers was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children....
"As much about a father-son relationship as it is a survival story . . . his father's life philosophy . . . got him down the mountain and through life." —USA TodayNorman Olstead's New York Times–bestselling memoir Crazy for the Storm is the story of the harrowing...
"Powerful and deeply moving personal stories about the physical and emotional toll one endures when forced out of one's homeland." —PBS OnlineIn January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim...
Actress and content creator Dylan Mulvaney’s honest account of her journey through girlhood—an instant New York Times bestseller!"Dylan makes me laugh and makes me brave. I love Paper Doll, and I love this woman.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author...
"[A] rolllicking history of Streep's early years . . . a love letter to a great actress and a behind-the-scenes study of iconic movies like Kramer vs. Kramer." —PeopleIn 1975 Meryl Streep was finding her place in the New York theater scene. Burning with talent and...
Set in a Hungarian estate on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains, this “lucid and crisp” memoir is a clear-eyed elegy to a country—and a marriage—torn apart by World War II (The New Yorker).Best known for her classic book Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden,...
