The Silent Twins

The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins

Dean Jensen · 421 pages

The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton shares the tumultuous and poignant life story of twin sisters who were literally joined at the hip. Their journey begins in Brighton, England, where they were displayed to the publicf almost frrom the moment of their illegitimate birth. While still toddlers, they were taken to the Australian outback where they were adopted and kept in thrall by a pair

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

Amy Ellis Nutt · 304 pages

The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter for The Washington Post. When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn't long before they

The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels

Janet Martin Soskice · 334 pages

Written about Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson, 50ish twin sisters who travelled to Sinai around 1892 to visit the Convent of Saint Catherine to explore the library there, where they made a stunning discovery that changed the world's perception of the Gospels. You might also like to read Gibson's account, [*How the Codex Was Found*][1]. [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1106971W/How_the_co

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

John George Pearson · 336 pages

John Pearson details the lives of Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the infamous brothers who, for decades, ruled the criminal underground in London's East End. This biography of the identical twins is, at times, humorous and revealing, but always maintains a clear-eyed view of the seriousness of the brothers' crimes. An absorbing read.

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl

John Colapinto · 307 pages

Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited

Elyse Schein, Paula Bernstein · 271 pages

Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. When Elyse contacted her adoption agency, she was not prepared for the shocking, life-changing news she received: She had an identical twin sister. Elyse was then hit with another bombshell: she and her sister had been separated as infants, and for

Her

Christa Parravani · 308 pages

Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, shared a bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood, beyond friendship. Raised up from poverty by a determined single mother, the gifted and beautiful twins sheltered each other from family violence and loss by inventing a haven of playfulness and creativity between themselves. They went on to earn scholarships at a prestigious college, to

Surviving the Angel of Death

Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri · 175 pages

iv, 141 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm830L Lexile

Separated @ Birth: A True Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited

Samantha Futerman, Anais Bordier · 291 pages

"Imagine one day opening Facebook and reading a message from a stranger that says, 'I think we might be twins--don't freak out.' It all began when design student Anaïs Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anaïs found that the Los Angeles actress Samantha Futerman was born in a South Korean port city called Busan on November 19, 1987--the exact same

Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case

Debbie Nathan · 297 pages

The true story of the three women behind Sybil, the famous multiple-personality case.

Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

Deborah Blum · 336 pages

Deborah Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its strangest unsung hero: a brilliant, fearless, alcoholic psychologist named Harry Frederick Harlow. Pursuing the idea that human affection could be understood, studied, even measured, Harlow (1905-1981) arrived at his conclusions by conducting research-sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrible-on the primates in his University of Wisco

On The Black Hill

Bruce Chatwin · 272 pages

Dans la lignée de Thomas Hardy et du roman campagnard anglais de la fin du 19e siècle. Thème central : la gémellité. Pour P. Thevenon il s'agit d'un "exploit parodique."

Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia

Pamela Spiro Wagner, Carolyn S. Spiro · 336 pages

Relates the stories of a pair of identical twin sisters, a schizophrenic and a psychiatrist, in an account that traces the deterioration of the favored sister into mental illness, and the other's emergence from her troubled sibling's shadow.

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis · 362 pages

Examines the history of behavioral economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about the decision-making process and the influence it has had on evidence-based regulation.

Beethoven

Maynard Solomon · 400 pages

Maynard Solomon's Beethoven, first published in 1977, was instantly hailed as a major reinterpretation of the life, personality, and works of the enigmatic genius. Now, a generation later, the book has been thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded by the author to incorporate new materials and the findings of later research. Solomon divides Beethoven's life and works into four periods. In part o

Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets

Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin, Beth Carson · 201 pages

Kate Gosselin tells the amazing story of how she and her husband, Jon, have survived the overwhelming odds of birthing not only twins but also sextuplets in three years, and how they continue to strive every day to honor Christ while he teaches them to thrive in spite of emotional, financial, social, and physical exhaustion.

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

Mary L Trump · 240 pages

A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud & Sabina Spielrein

John Kerr · 656 pages

It Takes Two: Our Story

Jonathan Scott, Drew Scott · 287 pages

If you're a fan of Jonathan and Drew's hit shows -- Property Brothers, Brother vs. Brother, Property Brothers at Home, and Buying and Selling -- you probably think you know the guys pretty well. But in true Scott brother form, it's what you find once you knock the walls down that will surprise you most: The raw vulnerability of two driven brothers, each robbed of his fondest dream before fate, per

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII

Jack El-Hai · 281 pages

Ace reportage on the unique relationship between a prison physician and one of the Third Reich's highest ranking officials.

In the Freud Archives

Janet Malcolm · 165 pages

This book is a lively narrative about the efforts of a couple of young scholars to gain access to the private letters and archives of Sigmund Freud, being protected by his daughter Anna Freud.

Ice Trap

Kitty Sewell · 368 pages

A 46 year old Welsh surgeon's life is turned upside-down by a letter from teenage twins in the Canadian Arctic, claiming to be his children. With his marriage in ruins, he goes back to this remote ice-bound town intending to solve the mystery of the children he cannot remember fathering. The truth turns out to be more extraordinary than he ever imagined and changes the course of his life.

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Anthony Doerr · 224 pages

The author describes the year he spent in Rome after winning the Rome Prize, including his adventures around the city, life in a foreign but welcoming country, and parenthood as it applies to his newborn twins.

Mastery

Robert Greene · 336 pages

Robert Greene, the "modern Machiavelli" debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical new way to greatness.