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I Killed

Shydner, Ritch / Schiff, Mark
I Killed
The biggest names in standup comedy reveal the howlingly funny, completely shocking, and disturbingly bizarre moments they've experienced on the road.

CHF 28.50

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospital...

Hager, Thomas
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine. The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. Sulfa saved millions of lives-among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.-but its real effects are even more far reachi...

CHF 22.50

How I Paid for College

Acito, Marc
How I Paid for College
A deliciously funny romp of a novel about one overly theatrical and sexually confused New Jersey teenager's larcenous quest for his acting school tuition.It's 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy bedroom community outside of Manhattan. Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni, a feckless Ferris Bueller-type, is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief. The fun comes to a halt, however, when Edward's father remarries an...

CHF 19.50

Stuck in the Middle with You

Boylan, Jennifer Finney
Stuck in the Middle with You
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting that discusses how families are shaped and the difficulties and wonders of being human. A father for six years, a mother for ten, and for a time in between, neither, or both, Jennifer Finney Boylan has seen parenthood from both sides of the gender divide. When her two children were young, Boylan came out as transgender, and as J...

CHF 21.90

Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the D...

Peraino, Kevin
Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power
A captivating look at how Abraham Lincoln evolved into one of our seminal foreign-policy presidents-and helped point the way to America's rise to world power. Abraham Lincoln is not often remembered as a great foreign-policy president. He had never traveled overseas and spoke no foreign languages. And yet, during the Civil War, Lincoln and his team skillfully managed to stare down the Continent's great powers-deftly avoiding European intervent...

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The Summer of Katya

Trevanian
The Summer of Katya
Part love story and part psychological thriller from best-selling author Trevanian, "a tour de force... A story that explores meticulously some of the darker corners of the human soul." -- The Washington PostIn the quiet Basque countryside in 1914, Jean-Marc Montjean, a handsome young doctor, moves to the small French village of Salies to assist the village physician. It's there that he meets the seductive, beautiful Katya Treville. Jean-Marc ...

CHF 27.50

Leaving the Saints

Beck, Martha
Leaving the Saints
As "Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church's high elders in an existence framed by the strictest code of conduct. As an adult, she moved to the east coast, outside of her Mormon enclave for the first time in her life. When her son was born with Down syndrome, Martha and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Utah, where they kne...

CHF 21.90

How to Iron Your Own Damn Shirt

Boreth, Craig
How to Iron Your Own Damn Shirt
PERFECT HUSBANDS ARE MADE, NOT BORNLADIES: At long last, a practical guide to help your man become the perfect husband. How to Iron Your Own Damn Shirt is your salvation, with simple, easy-for-a-guy-to-follow instructions on those little things you can never get him to do, such as:• How to Put the Toilet Seat Down• How to Stop Snoring • How to Ask for Directions• Plus, more than 50 other essential topics (even How to Dance at a Wedding)It's a ...

CHF 27.50

The Girl in the Road

Byrne, Monica
The Girl in the Road
A debut that Neil Gaiman calls "Glorious. . . . So sharp, so focused and so human." The Girl in the Road describes a future that is culturally lush and emotionally wrenching. Monica Byrne bursts on to the literary scene with an extraordinary vision of the future. In a world where global power has shifted east and revolution is brewing, two women embark on vastly different journeys-each harrowing and urgent and wholly unexpected. When Meena f...

CHF 23.90

Child Bride

Finstad, Suzanne
Child Bride
The myth-shattering account of the most famous and most taboo love story in rock-and-roll history Child Bride reveals the hidden story of rock icon Elvis Presley's love affair with fourteen-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, the ninth-grader he wooed as a G.I. in Germany and cloistered at Graceland before marrying her to fulfill a promise to her starstruck parents. Award-winning biographer Suzanne Finstad perceptively pieces together the clues from ...

CHF 24.90

Wilt, 1962

Pomerantz, Gary M
Wilt, 1962
Capturing the nation on the cusp of social and cultural revolution, this is the story of Wilt Chamberlain's legendary 100-point game in 1962. 8-page photo insert.

CHF 28.50

The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War

Dreazen, Yochi
The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War
The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons-one to suicide and one in combat-and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces' suicide epidemic. Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspired his sons, Jeff and Kevin, to pursue military careers of their own. His wife Carol was a teacher who held the family together while Mark's career took them to bases around the...

CHF 21.90

Passing for Thin

Kuffel, Frances
Passing for Thin
An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body.When she was in her early forties, Frances Kuffel lost half her body weight. In Passing for Thin, Frances describes with unflinching honesty and a wickedly dark sense of humor her first fumbling introductions to her newly slender body, shining a light on the shared human experience of feeling uncomfortable in one's own skin. She gradually moves from observer to player—...

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How to Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct

Gutfeld, Greg
How to Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct
It's not enough to be right, these days-especially when you're not left. To survive, the right must learn how to express nonliberal principles as effectively as possible, and persuade others of their point of view. It is an art that demands patience, research, humor, understanding, creative thinking, learning from your opponent and even mimicking their tactics. In How to Be Right: the Art of Being Persuasively Correct, Gutfeld reveals the stra...

CHF 36.50

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of Crossfit and the Pr...

Herz, J. C.
Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of Crossfit and the Primal Future of Fitness
The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon. One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, Learning to Breathe Fire combines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human. In the book, veteran journalist J.C. Herz explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the p...

CHF 24.90

I Take You

Kennedy, Eliza
I Take You
Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man. Lily's fiancé Will is a brilliant, handsome archaeologist. Lily is sassy, impulsive, fond of a good drink (or five) and has no business getting married. Lily likes Will, but does she love him? Will loves Lily, but does he know her? As the wedding approaches, Lily's nights-and mornings, and afternoons-of booze, laughter and q...

CHF 23.50

Can't Get Enough

Briscoe, Connie
Can't Get Enough
The memorable men and women of P.G. County are back in Connie Briscoe's wickedly funny and deliciously daring novel of romance and betrayal, dangerous choices and seductive second chances.Barbara Bentley, the grand dame of Prince George's County, an elite suburb in Washington D.C., is tentatively embarking on a fresh approach to life. She's abandoning the alcohol that served to soften the edges of her marriage to her bimbo-loving millionaire h...

CHF 21.90

Who's Got Your Back

Ferrazzi, Keith
Who's Got Your Back
The author of the bestselling "Never Eat Alone" offers the real secret to career and personal success: the importance of developing a circle of trusted friends and advisors.

CHF 38.90

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive...

Achor, Shawn
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we'll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way aroun...

CHF 38.90