Past New Nonfiction
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity and to rediscover herself among the fragments left behind. Using all her considerable journalistic skills, and building from hospital records and surveillance video, interviews with family and friends, and excerpts from the deeply moving journal her father kept during her illness, Susannah pieces together the story of her “lost month” to write an unforgettable memoir about memory and identity, faith and love.
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Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Mother
The author argues that Louisa's "Marmee," Abigail May Alcott, was in fact the intellectual and emotional center of her daughter's world--exploding the myth that her outspoken idealist father was the source of her progressive thinking and remarkable independence.
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May I Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Yoga, and Changing My Mind
In the candid, contemplative memoir May I Be Happy, revered yoga teacher Lee gives readers an unforgettable gift: the ability to focus on experiences as people encounter them, on the way to a lighter life. Applying the ancient Buddhist practice of loving-kindness meditation to herself, Lee learned that compassion is the only antidote to hatred, thereby healing her heart.
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The End of Men: and the Rise of Women
Men have been the dominant sex since the dawn of mankind. But the author has noticed that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. At this unprecedented moment, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: they have pulled decisively ahead. And "the end of men", the title of her Atlantic magazine cover story on the subject, has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan's "Feminine Mystique," Simone de Beauvoir's "Second Sex," Susan Faludi's "Backlash," and Naomi Wolf's "Beauty Myth" once did.
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The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War. Over a period of 13 days in 1861, a legendary detective worked feverishly to thwart the plot, assisted by America's first female private eye.
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The Utter Relief of Holiness: How God's Goodness Frees Us from Everything That Plagues Us
What a relief it would be to be set free from all that plagues us -- the inner struggle with anger, or contempt, the habitual sins. Is such an experience possible? John Eldredge believes it is, and in THE UTTER RELIEF OF HOLINESS, he shows readers how they can be that free, through the healing work of Christ in their lives. It begins when we discover what the salvation of Jesus Christ means for our own restoration and find that holiness is an expression of the healing of our humanity.
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1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die
Offers garden lovers profiles of the world's most beautiful gardens around the world, from Spain's famous gardens of the Moorish Alhambra at Granada to San Diego's Healing Garden.
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.
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25 Great Bike Rides of the Twin Cities
The Twin Cities offer some of the most beautiful, scenic bike trails in the country. In fact, Minneapolis was named America’s #1 Bike City by Bicycling magazine! Get the book that guides you and your family to the area’s 25 best trails. Maps, details and inside information from an avid bicyclist ensure that you have everything you need to know about each route.
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30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans
More than one thousand extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness. Pillemer interviewed people over the age of sixty-five to seek their counsel on all the big issues-- children, marriage, money, career, aging-- and found that he consistently heard advice that pointed to these thirty lessons for living.
