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“michael t roper”

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  • Memories of My Gay Brothers

    by Michael T. Roper ...
    I could never have imagined what the future had in store for me and my Castro Street friends when I began a memory book in 1985. This is my memoir of more than ninety people I knew in San Francisco who died of AIDS. It was the decimation of a thriving culture in just over a decade. Who cares? We all should. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    National Book Award Winner

    by Joan Didion ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America’s most iconic writersOne of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Guardian’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyJoan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Blue Nights

    A Memoir

    by Joan Didion ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Notes to John.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century**Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Killer Book of True Crime

    Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Murder and Mayhem

    by Tom Philbin, Michael Philbin ...
    Series series The Killer Books
    The perfect read for any true crime junkie!You've read all the stories…but can you match the mobster with the way he met his end? Do you know how they caught the Boston Strangler? Can you define chickens, a Shotaro complex or Colombian neckties?The Killer Book of True Crime is the ultimate collection of in-depth stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes and photos gruesome and interesting enough to make ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Good Father

    by Noah Hawley ...
    From the award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo and author of the bestseller Before the Fall, an intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • And the Band Played On

    Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition

    by Randy Shilts ...
    Upon its first publication more than twenty years ago, And the Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting.An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Twelve Patients

    Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (The Inspiration for the NBC

    by Eric Manheimer, MD ...
    **In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives, highlighting the complex mind-body connection."As intensely involving as any scripted for a television medical drama." —The New York Daily News**Twelve Patients shows the plights of twelve very different patients—from ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Night of the Gun

    A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own.

    by David Carr ...
    From David Carr (1956–2015), the “undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist” (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bestseller that the Chicago Sun-Times called “a compelling tale of drug abuse, despair, and, finally, hope.”Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In The Night of the Gun, David Carr ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Confessions of Emergency Room Doctors

    by Rocky Lang, Erick Montero ...
    Rocky Lang and Dr. Erick Montero offer up more than 200 firsthand accounts of emergency room dramas along with bizarre and insightful medical facts and stats inside Confessions of Emergency Room Doctors. Sample entries include:* Strange Disease Fact: A melcryptovestimentaphilliac is someone who compulsively steals ladies underwear.* Dr. Brown, Chicago Hospital, writes: "A woman came into the ER, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unmeasured Strength

    A Story of Survival and Transformation

    by Lauren Manning ...
    A survivor's awe-inspiring story of how she overcame tragedy and re-created herself as a wife, mother, and woman.She was a hardworking business woman, had a loving husband and an infant son, and a confidence born of intelligence and beauty. But on 9/11, good fortune was no match for catastrophe. When a wall of flame at the World Trade Center burned more than 80 percent of her body, Lauren Manning ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    A Play by Joan Didion Based on Her Memoir

    by Joan Didion ...
    Series series Vintage International
    In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play.“This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you....”Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called the memoir that was the basis ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • Too Soon to Say Goodbye

    by Art Buchwald ...
    “[Art Buchwald] has given his friends, their families, and his audiences so many laughs and so much joy through the years that that alone would be an enduring legacy. But Art has never been just about the quick laugh. His humor is a road map to essential truths and insights that might otherwise have eluded us.”—Tom BrokawWhen doctors told Art Buchwald that his kidneys were kaput, the renowned ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD