“Death in the Afternoon” “For Whom the Bell Tolls” “Green Hills of Africa” “Hills like White Elephants” “In Our Time” “Islands in the Stream” “The Fifth Column” “The Old Man and the Sea” “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” ...
This book was the inspiration for “The Last Alaskans,” the eight-part documentary series on Animal Planet. Esquire called it one of “the greatest life-or-death-tales ever told.” Campbell provides an insider account of a family’s nomadic life in the Arctic wilderness which “stands as ...
Sylvia Plath (1932–63) was an American poet and novelist whose best-known works explore the themes of alienation, death, and self-destruction. Her novel, The Bell Jar, is strongly autobiographical, and her later poems, such as ‘Daddy’ and ‘Lady Lazar
InThe Next World, historian of religions Gregory Shushan explores the relationships between extraordinary experiences and beliefs in life after death. He first shows how throughout history and around the world, near-death experiences have influenced ideas about the afterlife. Shushan also takes a deep ...
This is a book about life and living, as much as it’s a book about death and dying. It’s a reflection on the beauties, blessings and tragedies of life, the exquisite agony and ecstasy of being alive, and the fragility of everything we hold dear. It’s as simple and as complicated...
I also listened to the audiobook of Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which is a short book about the sudden death of her father. I could relate so much too her feelings over the loss of her dad, she expresses how grief is so well. I now want to buy a print copy of ...
He chooses the best books on biology, from the death of the dodo to the discovery of DNA. The best books on Science Writing, recommended by Tim Radford Read 1 Possible Worlds by J.B.S. Haldane Read 2 Of a Fire on the Moon (also called Moonfire) by Norman Mailer Read 3 The ...
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about ou...
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marshis the neurosurgeon’s account of being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer shortly after his retirement. If you have read Marsh’s first two books about his career,Do No HarmandAdmissions, then you will know that he doesn’t sugar co...
Always paired with her husband as 'the Rosenbergs'—executed in New York State for spying for the Soviet Union—in this book Anne Sebba brings Ethel's own story to life, from her dreams for becoming a singer when she was young to the last hugs before she was put to death. As Se...