True crime is catalogued under 364.1523 here in our library.
Midnight in Peking by Paul French, about the murder of an English Diplomat's daughter in 1930's China, will be found there.
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett along with many other memoirs is in the BIO (first letters of subject's last name) section.
Pema Chodron's When Things Fall Apart: Heart advice for Diffiicult times may be found in our our religion (Buddhism) section 294.3
Hot Zone by Richard Preston about a rogue Ebola virus is found with other nonfiction medical thrillers in... 614.57
Truth & Beauty is a beautifully written memoir of Ann Patchett's friendship with Lucy Grealy, the author of Autobiography of a Face. Grealy lost a jaw to childhood cancer and struggled mightily with her disfigurement and uncooperative body.
Patchett and she met in college and this is an exploration of their twenty-odd year friendship that ended with Grealy's death.
Grealy, like Patchett, wrote. She also did heroin and had alot of sex. The Heroin likely killed her.
This is a sad, yearning book.
For readers of novels about friendship and tragic young lives.
Pema Chodron's chatty self-help book, When Things Fall Apart: Heart advice for Diffiicult times may be found in our very helpful Buddhist section. Chodron is a Buddhist monk who found herself one evening in mid-life with a drink in hand as her husband blithely dumped her. Self-discovery and Budhism followed.
She is a smart, self-aware, funny woman who gives ageless advice in a conversational style.
Readers who are looking for a book about our relationships and human foibles would like this, I think.
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