"The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with...

Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.

In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with fire, cook with liquid, bake bread, and ferment everything from cheese to beer. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world, standing squarely between nature and culture.

Newly involved in his daughter's life shortly after she suffered a breakdown, Lucas takes the teen on a trip to Europe in the hopes that an immersion in regional history and culture will help her forget his past mistakes and her uncertain future.

Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis shortly after his daughter's birth, the author compares the joy, heartbreak, and anxiety of his own neurological decline with his daughter's flourishing brain activity.

Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation weighing 1 pound, 4 ounces. Babies like Juniper, born at the edge of viability, trigger the question: Which is the greater act of love--to save her, or to let her go? Kelley and Thomas French chose to fight for Juniper's life, and this is their incredible tale.

Documents the story of an amnesia survivor who permanently lost all of her memories after a traumatic brain injury and who endured a more than 25-year effort to relearn basic skills and reclaim her life.

"Newly updated with the latest science, Reverse Diabetes Forever offers more than 700 tips, plans, and recipes to beat diabetes. The only guide you'll ever need to mastering diabetes (type 1 or type 2), once and for all. In this comprehensive book, you'll find the latest science and expert advice that enables you--at long last--to take control. You'll learn how to shop, cook, and eat. Learn how to transform your favorite comfort foods into delectable,...

The author traces her childhood struggles with debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder, discussing the exhaustive secret routines she gradually transformed into healthier activities.