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Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru · 419 pages
Both ESPN investigative reporters, the authors reveal how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage. This narrative moves between the NFL trenches, America's research labs and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science; it examines how the league used its power and resources to attac
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
Jeff Passan · 384 pages
Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor
Pam Belluck · 304 pages
"If you need an emergency appendectomy on Nantucket, the man who will perform it knows how to do so with an arrowhead. Island life is like that: a little unusual, improvised, independent and outside the mainstream. At a time when America's family doctors are under siege, and so many things in health care are combustible and complicated, Timothy Lepore is an extraordinary character. He is the glue
Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Juliet Macur · 480 pages
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · 381 pages
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
John Colapinto · 307 pages
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.
A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
John Feinstein · 324 pages
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer · 416 pages
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man's haunting journey. Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in th
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal · 432 pages
"An award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symp
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
Melissa Fay Greene · 480 pages
Offers a revealing study of the human cost of the AIDS pandemic in Africa in a portrait of Haregewoin Teferra, a widowed recluse in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, who has become the caretaker of sixty children orphaned and abandoned by the AIDS crisis. "There Is No Me Without You" is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan · 244 pages
What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the que
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Marcia Angell · 327 pages
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless in
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
Richard Ben Cramer · 553 pages
"In this biography, Richard Ben Cramer presents a stunning, often shocking portrait of the hero nobody knew. It is a story that sweeps through the twentieth century, bringing to light along the way not just America's national game, but her movie stars, mobsters, pols, writers...the birth (and the price) of modern national celebrity.". "This is the story Joe DiMaggio never wanted to tell - and nev
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis · 318 pages
"This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." ―Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur basebal
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Dan Fagin · 538 pages
Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals.
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
David Remnick · 326 pages
There were mythic sports figures before him - Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio - but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet. This unforgettable story of his rise and self-cre
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
Tim Schwab · 496 pages
The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes · 365 pages
"From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fat
One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2
Freddie Wilkinson · 347 pages
"In the early morning hours of August 1, 2008, more than two dozen men readied in the starry darkness for their final ascent to the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain. In little more than 24 hours, eleven climbers would be dead." -- back cover.
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France · 640 pages
"From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an Oscar nominee--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. Intimately reported, this is the story of the men and women who, watching their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials, reli
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price
Jonathan Cohn · 302 pages
America's health care system is unraveling. Every day, millions of hard-working people struggle to find affordable medical treatment for themselves and their families—unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Some of these people end up losing money. Others end up losing something even more valuable: their health or even their lives. In this powerful wor