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  • Beyond the High Blue Air

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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 ... Leer más

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    Beyond the High Blue Air

    de Lu Spinney ...
    Narrado por Henrietta Meire ...

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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 ... Leer más

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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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  • Rule Makers, Rule Breakers

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  • The King of 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Only Plane in the Sky

    An Oral History of 9/11

    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... ... Leer más

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  • Mockingbird

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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 ... Leer más

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