A Field Guide to the Common Sea and Estuary Fishes of Non-Tropical Australia

Thompson, J.M.

Senior, Margaret

Science & Math

Wm. Collins Sons & Co.

Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life. "Voluntary or involuntary" asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was falling into an inescapable darkness. He decided that death was his only exit route from the torture of his mind. After a suicide attempt, he spent weeks confined on the psych ward, feeling scared, alone, and trapped. One afternoon during an exercise break he experienced a sudden urge. "Run, I thought. Run before it's too late and you're stuck down there. Right now. Run. " The impulse that starts with sprints across a hospital rooftop turns into all night runs in the mountains. Through motion and immersion in the beauty of nature, Thompson finds a way out of the hell of depression and drug addiction. Step by step, mile by mile, his body and mind heal. In this lyrical, vulnerable, and breathtaking memoir, J. M. Thompson, now a successful psychologist, retraces the path that led him from despair to wellness, detailing the chilling childhood trauma that caused his depression, and the unorthodox treatment that saved him. Running Is a Kind of Dreaming is a luminous literary testament to the universal human capacity to recover from our deepest wounds.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

HarperOne

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life. "Voluntary or involuntary?" asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was falling into an inescapable darkness. He decided that death was his only exit route from the torture of his mind. After a suicide attempt, he spent weeks confined on the psych ward, feeling scared, alone, and trapped. One afternoon during an exercise break he experienced a sudden urge. "Run, I thought. Run before it's too late and you're stuck down there. Right now. Run. " The impulse that starts with sprints across a hospital rooftop turns into all night runs in the mountains. Through motion and immersion in the beauty of nature, Thompson finds a way out of the hell of depression and drug addiction. Step by step, mile by mile, his body and mind heal. In this lyrical, vulnerable, and breathtaking memoir, J. M. Thompson, now a successful psychologist, retraces the path that led him from despair to wellness, detailing the chilling childhood trauma that caused his depression, and the unorthodox treatment that saved him. Running Is a Kind of Dreaming is a luminous literary testament to the universal human capacity to recover from our deepest wounds.

The Synoptic Gospels

Religion & Spirituality

Oxford: Clarendon Press

Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire

From the back cover, "A richly documented study of the times as well as of the man."

Norton & Company

Former Confederate soldier Billy Blue hopes to build a peaceful new life in the West as a cattle detective responsible for tracking down rustlers, but a vicious gunman from Hell's Half Acre and outlaw king Cherokee Bill threaten to destroy everything. Original.

Riding for the Brand

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

BERKLEY

For the woman looking to get ahead, a collection of advice from eighteen image consultants covers appearance, grooming, speech, gestures, and manners

Image Impact

Ace Trade

A retired physician with a talent for portrait painting and gunslinging heads for Abilene, Kansas, to paint Wild Bill Hickok, where he will take on a group of bandits called the Ghost Riders. Original.

Ghost Riders

Bean, Frederic

Contemporary

Signet

Leo LeMat heads to Tombstone, Arizona, to paint a portrait of infamous lawman Wyatt Earp only to find the town overrun with desperadoes, and he discovers that to complete his painting he will have to perfect the art of the quick draw.

Tombstone

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A Field Guide to the Common Sea and Estuary Fishes of Non-Tropical Australia

Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir

Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir

The Synoptic Gospels

Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire

Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire

Riding for the Brand

Image Impact

Ghost Riders

Tombstone