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  • The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

    My Tale of Madness and Recovery

    by Barbara K. Lipska, Elaine McArdle ...
    In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts Barbara Lipska's deadly brain cancer and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind.Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and was treated, she experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms connected to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

    My Tale of Madness and Recovery

    by Barbara K. Lipska, Elaine McArdle ...
    Narrated by Beata Pozniak ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 45 min

    In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts Barbara Lipska's deadly brain cancer and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind.Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and was treated, she experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms connected to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

    My Tale of Madness and Recovery

    by Barbara K. Lipska ...
    Narrated by Emma Powell ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    In January 2015, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness—was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia—and schizophrenia—like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But miraculously, just as her doctors figured out what ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sefer

    by Ewa Lipska ...
    Translated by Barbara Bogoczek, Tony Howard ...
    Series series Mingling Voices
    Poetic, witty, and ever so faintly surreal, Sefer delicately explores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwar generation, a generation for whom a devastating history has grown distant, both temporally and emotionally. The novel’s protagonist, Jan Sefer, is a psychotherapist living in Vienna—someone whose professional life puts him in daily contact with the traumas of others but who has found ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Requiem for the Massacre

    A Black History on the Conflict, Hope and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

    by R.J. Young ...
    Narrated by R.J. Young ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 30 min

    With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American historyMore than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents. For generations, the true story was ignored, covered up, and diminished by those in power ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Brain on Fire

    My Month of Madness

    by Susannah Cahalan ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZA “captivating” (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is a powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and ... Read more

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  • The Far Side of the Sky

    A Novel of Love and Survival in War-Torn Shanghai

    by Daniel Kalla ...
    Series Book 1 - Shanghai Series
    A Jewish doctor in WWII shanghai must protect his family and community in this "amazing novel" of terror, love, and resilience in the face of danger (Huffington Post).On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai, a city that becomes the last haven for ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Healthy Brain, Happy Life

    A Personal Program to to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better

    by Wendy Suzuki, Billie Fitzpatrick ...
    A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide to improving your brain health—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.49 USD

  • Patient H.M.

    A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

    by Luke Dittrich ...
    “Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless pursuit of knowledge.Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award • Los Angeles Times Book ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

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  • The Weight Of Ink

    by Rachel Kadish ...
    **WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDA USA TODAY BESTSELLER"A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison**Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi ... Read more

    Was $15.49 USD Now $13.49 USD

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  • Blue Mind

    The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do

    by Wallace J. Nichols ...
    A landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being.Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Eden Express

    by Mark Vonnegut M.D. ...
    “One of the best books about going crazy . . . required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside.”—The New York Times Book ReviewMark Vonnegut set out in search of Eden with his VW bug, his girlfriend, his dog, and his ideals. But genetic predisposition and “a whole lot of **** going down” made Mark Vonnegut crazy in a culture that told him “mental illness is a myth” and ... Read more

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