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Beyond the High Blue Air

A Memoir

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A mother reflects on the aftermath of her son’s traumatic brain injury in this unflinching portrait of loss, love, and the pitfalls of modern medicine.“Like The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion . . . a spare, sharp memoir about the speed with which a comfortable existence can be blighted by grief.” —The Sunday TimesWhen Lu Spinney’s 29-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, he ... Read more

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A mother reflects on the aftermath of her son’s traumatic brain injury in this unflinching portrait of loss, love, and the pitfalls of modern medicine.“Like The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion . . . a spare, sharp memoir about the speed with which a comfortable existence can be blighted by grief.” —The Sunday TimesWhen Lu Spinney’s 29-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, he
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Beyond the High Blue Air

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When Lu Spinney’s twenty-nine-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, “he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp,” writes his mother, “skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead…” He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma.Thus begins the erratic loss—Miles first in a coma and then trapped ... Read more

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When Lu Spinney’s twenty-nine-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, “he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp,” writes his mother, “skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead…” He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma.Thus begins the erratic loss—Miles first in a coma and then trapped
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Soles of a Survivor

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The Unbelievable True Story of a Vietnamese Refugee Who Not Only Made the United States Her Home, But Learned the True Value of Hope, Love, and Religion Along the WayThe soles of Nhi Aronheim's feet still bear the scars of her escape from Vietnam—trudging through the jungles of Cambodia as a twelve-year-old with a group of strangers seeking the land of opportunity: America. Her quest for survival ... Read more

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The Unbelievable True Story of a Vietnamese Refugee Who Not Only Made the United States Her Home, But Learned the True Value of Hope, Love, and Religion Along the WayThe soles of Nhi Aronheim's feet still bear the scars of her escape from Vietnam—trudging through the jungles of Cambodia as a twelve-year-old with a group of strangers seeking the land of opportunity: America. Her quest for survival
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My Brother Moochie

Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South

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Part of Electric Literature’s “Reading List for Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex”A younger brother’s heartfelt memoir “speaks to the inequities of the criminal justice system and the damage done to family and community when loved ones are locked away” (USA Today).“Represents a much larger story about the deeply rooted effects of systematic racism, the Jim Crow South and how race, ... Read more

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Part of Electric Literature’s “Reading List for Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex”A younger brother’s heartfelt memoir “speaks to the inequities of the criminal justice system and the damage done to family and community when loved ones are locked away” (USA Today).“Represents a much larger story about the deeply rooted effects of systematic racism, the Jim Crow South and how race,
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers

How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World

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A celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countries, cultures, and individuals take rules more seriously and how following the rules influences the way we think and act.In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, Michele Gelfand, “an engaging writer with intellectual range” (The New York Times Book Review), takes us on an epic journey ... Read more

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A celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countries, cultures, and individuals take rules more seriously and how following the rules influences the way we think and act.In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, Michele Gelfand, “an engaging writer with intellectual range” (The New York Times Book Review), takes us on an epic journey
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The King of Chicago

The Incredible True Story of a Jewish Orphan's Rise from Despair to Triumph in 1920s Chicago

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The King of Chicago is the story of a father-son relationship as real and hugely loving as that in Philip Roth’s Patrimony. At its heart is a young son who tries furiously to heal his father from a violent childhood inside a Chicago orphanage. The orphanage, the Marks Nathan Home, still stands today on the West Side of Chicago, marked by a tarnished, barely legible plaque. Once home to 14,000 ... Read more

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The King of Chicago is the story of a father-son relationship as real and hugely loving as that in Philip Roth’s Patrimony. At its heart is a young son who tries furiously to heal his father from a violent childhood inside a Chicago orphanage. The orphanage, the Marks Nathan Home, still stands today on the West Side of Chicago, marked by a tarnished, barely legible plaque. Once home to 14,000
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The Only Plane in the Sky

An Oral History of 9/11

by Garrett M. Graff ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” —Jon Meacham“Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken.” —The Wall Street Journal“Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat…There’s been a lot written about 9/11, but n... ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” —Jon Meacham“Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken.” —The Wall Street Journal“Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat…There’s been a lot written about 9/11, but n...
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When Memory Comes

The Classic Memoir

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The “classic of Holocaust literature” about childhood and family, faith and identity—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and featuring an introduction by Claire Messud (The Guardian).Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, 7-year-old Saul and his family were forced to flee to France, where they lived through the ... Read more

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The “classic of Holocaust literature” about childhood and family, faith and identity—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and featuring an introduction by Claire Messud (The Guardian).Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, 7-year-old Saul and his family were forced to flee to France, where they lived through the
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The Possible World

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“A brilliantly written, moving story” (The Washington Book Review) about the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a murder, the ER doctor who tends to him, and a woman guarding her long-buried past, from the author of What Could Be Saved.It seems like just another night shift for Lucy, an overworked ER physician in Providence, Rhode Island, until six-year-old Ben is brought in as the sole ... Read more

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“A brilliantly written, moving story” (The Washington Book Review) about the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a murder, the ER doctor who tends to him, and a woman guarding her long-buried past, from the author of What Could Be Saved.It seems like just another night shift for Lucy, an overworked ER physician in Providence, Rhode Island, until six-year-old Ben is brought in as the sole
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Mockingbird

A Portrait of Harper Lee, from Scout to Go Set a Watchman

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"This biography will not disappoint those who loved the novel and the feisty, independent, fiercely loyal Scout, in whom Harper Lee put so much of herself." —Garrison Keillor, The New York Times Book ReviewAn extensively revised and updated edition of the New York Times–bestselling biography of Harper Lee, reframed from the perspective of the recent publication of Lee's Go Set a Watchman.To Kill a ... Read more

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"This biography will not disappoint those who loved the novel and the feisty, independent, fiercely loyal Scout, in whom Harper Lee put so much of herself." —Garrison Keillor, The New York Times Book ReviewAn extensively revised and updated edition of the New York Times–bestselling biography of Harper Lee, reframed from the perspective of the recent publication of Lee's Go Set a Watchman.To Kill a
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Travels after Sixty-Five

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Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world.After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won’t and where the US government says don’t,” incorporating trekking into their travels as a way to see untouched areas of the world considered inhospitable by many.Armed ... Read more

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Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world.After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won’t and where the US government says don’t,” incorporating trekking into their travels as a way to see untouched areas of the world considered inhospitable by many.Armed
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The Man Who Knew Infinity

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL!A moving and enlightening look at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy Ramanujan stunned the scholars of Cambridge University and revolutionized mathematics.In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. ... Read more

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL!A moving and enlightening look at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy Ramanujan stunned the scholars of Cambridge University and revolutionized mathematics.In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers.
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