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Action Park was the legendary amusement park so dangerous it was called, variously, "Traction Par," "Accident Park," or…

This book contains a collection of entertaining diversions including singing and rhyming games, memory games, guessing…

Author Rachel Friedman gets in touch with a group of old friends from her time at Interlochen performing arts camp, and…

In 1979, Iranian militants captured dozens of American hostages at the American embassy in Tehran, sparking a 444-day…

Patricia Hampl travels the world to visit the homes of historic people who lived lives of intentional seclusion or…

One of Lovecraft's most celebrated works, At the Mountains of Madness follows a group of explorers on an antarctic…

From the author of the My Struggle series comes the first of four autobiographical volumes based on the seasons.…

In this witty and incisive book, author Shelby Lorman skewers this one type of guy. We've all met him. He says he's a…

Author Jen Sincero knows what there is to know about transforming your habits. With blunt humor and…

The game of Exquisite Corpse is simple: two or more people collaborate on an art piece by folding the paper to hide each…

Tom Junod's profile of Fred Rodgers in Esquire Magazine, "Can you say... Hero?" has been widely recognized as one of the…

From the person who helped brought you the Americans with Disabilities Act, this memoir recounts the life of Judith…

From grappling with celebrity to an inability to conform to suburban life, you’ll find something altogether different…

In this volume dedicated to exploring the potential of bioenergetics, a revolutionary therapeutic approach, author and…

For three years, Jennifer Ackerman lived in the small coastal town of Lewes, Delaware, in the sort of blue-water,…

Paul Hawkes has spent over a decade researching organizations in the worldwide movement for social and environmental…

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans…

When author Christine Montross started her tenure as a medical student, she felt nervous about cutting into a human body…

Thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins hearing voices from objects in his house after his father’s death. The voices convey…

While it seems like you have plenty of choice when it comes to whiskey, in actually 95% of whiskey in America is owned…

This book exands on the emerging field of neuroplasticity, the ways the brain can grow, heal, and change. It describes…

As the new millennium dawned, one of the things it brought was a restaurant mania; an age that was as golden as it was…

This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water explores more than a century of both public and…

Get some iconic fantasy stories about some weirdo monsters from the mind of of the creepiest writers in history: H.P.…

Tossing a recyclable in the bin isn't always so simple a task, or rather it is until it isn't. Given how variable…

If feminism has a future, it must be intersectional. How can we build a feminist movement that relies on community, not…

Learn the shortcuts to take charge of your interactions with this book by an expert in human behavior. Understand the…

Learn how to plan, create, and maintain a multi-cat environment, without leading to a complete kitty apocalypse. This…

Pam Johnson-Bennett describes herself as "America's favorite cat expert" and in this book she shows us all how adding a…

A graphic novel of the life of Che Guevara, the famous revolutionary whose image is plastered on t-shirts and bumper…