An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the MonthIndiebound Bestseller Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extraordinary casesOur brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, navigate, empathise and understand...
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black...
Author: ANN POWERS
Publisher: Dey Street Books
In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores...
Black Is the Body: Stories from...
Author: Emily Bernard
Publisher: Knopf
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way--in twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays that explore, up-close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black in the South with a family...
The Hidden Secrets & Stories of Disneyland:...
Author: Mike Fox
Publisher: Mike Fox Publications
Now Discover the Magical Secrets & Stories The Imagineers Have Hidden In Disneyland - With Photos!"Since I was on Disneyland property during construction starting in late 1954, and the continuing additions over the next 60 years, I thought I knew a lot about Disneyland. Wrong! While reading The Hidden Secrets &...
The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes...
Author: Stephen Bates
Publisher: Overlook Press, The
In 1856, a baying crowd of over 30,000 people gathered outside Stafford prison to watch the hanging of Dr. William Palmer, "the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey" as Charles Dickens once called him. Palmer was convicted of poisoning and suspected in the murders of dozens of others, including his best...
Dancing with the Devil in the City...
Author: Juliana Barbassa
Publisher: Touchstone
In the tradition of Detroit An American Autopsy and Maximum City comes a deeply reported and beautifully written biography of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro from prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa. Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home....
The CBS Murders: A True Account...
Author: Richard Hammer
Publisher: Open Road Media
Winner of the Edgar Award: The gripping account of a gruesome mass murder in gritty 1980s New York and the relentless hunt for a coldblooded killer. On a warm spring evening in 1982, thirty-seven-year-old accountant Margaret Barbera left work in New York City and walked to the West Side parking lot where she kept her BMW....
Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights...
Author: Susan Senator
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
One of the biggest fears of parents with children with autism is looming adulthood and all that it entails. In her new book Susan Senator takes the mystery out of adult life on the autism spectrum and conveys the positive message that even though autism adulthood is complicated and challenging, there are many ways to make...
The Longing for Less: Living with...
Author: Kyle Chayka
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
"More than just a story of an abiding cultural preoccupation, The Longing For Less peels back the commodified husk of minimalism to reveal something surprising and thoroughly alive." -- Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing"Thoughtful and absorbing . . . A superb outing from a gifted young critic that...
Big Freakin' Change
Author: Cara Moeller Poppitt
Publisher: Page Two
GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERTORONTO STAR BESTSELLERReadiness is not a state of being -- it's a feeling that comes after you take action.Women are less likely to take risks than men. We wait to feel ready and often end up stuck. In Big Freakin' Change, Cara Moeller Poppitt introduces a new confidence model. Take action...
