The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
3.64
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you t…
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1. No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
By: Ron Powers
3.87
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the… read more
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"The mentally ill people in our lives, as they strive to build healthy, well-supported, and rewarding lives for themselves, can show us all how to reconnect with the most primal of human urges, the ur…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
"...I have sometimes imagined my own sanity as resting on the surface of a membrane, a thin and fragile membrane that can easily be ripped open, plunging me into the abyss of madness, where I join the…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
"The future will be decided in a thousand American urban neighborhoods and suburban conference centers and small-town church basements and library meeting rooms and rural kitchens... The future of men…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
2. Coroner's Journal: Stalking Death in Louisiana
By: Louis Cataldie
3.99
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The frank and unvarnished memoir of a life spent stalking death in the Deep South. Baton Rouge is … read more
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3. A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President
By: Jeffrey Toobin
3.83
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER It was the most extraordinary public saga of our time, and Jeffrey Toobin g… read more
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4. This Day in June
By: Gayle E. Pitman , Kristyna Litten
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
In a wildly whimsical, validating, and exuberant reflection of the LGBT community, this title welco… read more
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5. Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
By: Stacy Pershall
3.93
Format: None pages,
"An utterly unique journey down some of the mind's more mysterious byways . . . ranges from the sho… read more
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6. Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
By: Robert Whitaker
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics i… read more
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7. Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
By: Bill Nye
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling to… read more
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8. The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
By: Lori Schiller , Amanda Bennett
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit fa… read more
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9. The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel
By: Roberto Escobar Gaviria , David Fisher , None
3.44
Format: 216 pages,
"I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to k… read more
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10. The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
By: Lou Marinoff
4.26
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
The description tells potential customers about your title. A good example of an appropriate book s… read more
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"For the first time in human history, a significant percentage of heterosexual males are unable to become sexually aroused by women and need drugs or vacuum pumps to help them do nature’s work. Why?"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
"By uniting your mind with nature, you will experience the inner transformation that renders your thoughts radiant and your heart benevolent, surrounding you with an aura of purest golden light. When …"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
"From nuclear families to communities of nations, others without whom we cannot live get on our nerves at times, becoming sources of everything from mild irritation to deadly conflict. Balancing the t…"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
"Every civilization rests on these four pillars: marriage, family, society, and polity. If all four remain solid, then most people will know happiness and their civilization will flourish. But if any …"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
11. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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12. Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
By: Andrew Scull
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind--the sorts of things that were once calle… read more
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13. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
By: Adam Stern
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry r… read more
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14. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
3.64
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you t… read more
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15. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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16. Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention
By: Jeffrey A. Lieberman
4.29
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
“The most important book about schizophrenia in decades, and perhaps ever…a total game-changer.” —S… read more
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17. Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
By: Mark Godsey
4.40
Format: 264 pages, ebook
Awarded Digital Book World's Best Book Published by a University Press In this unprecedented view… read more
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18. Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
By: Tim Flannery
3.78
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist … read more
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19. Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey
By: Stephen Kuusisto
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how … read more
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"Empathy, at its core, is knowing how not to hurt each other."-Stephen Kuusisto, Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey
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20. Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
By: Amanda Stern
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah … read more
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21. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death
By: Spencer Henry
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Based on the popular podcast, The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American cul… read more
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