Books written by Tom Shroder
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The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived: A True Story of My Family
The jury consisted of Francis Brown, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, and Carlos Baker, a renowned literary critic and Princeton professor who later wrote the best-known biography of Ernest Hemingway. Discovering that Baker ...
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Fire on the Horizon LP: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster
A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm, Fire on the Horizon recounts the life of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig—from its construction in South Korea in the year 2000 to its journey around the world to its ...
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Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster
Here is the harrowing minute-by-minute account of the fateful day, April 20, 2010, when the half-billion-dollar rig blew up, taking with it the lives of eleven people and leaving behind a swath of unprecedented natural destruction.
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Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives
From the moment these children can talk, they speak of people and events from the past—not vague stories of centuries ago, but details of specific, identifiable individuals who may have died just months, weeks, or even hours before the ...
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Seeing the Light: Wilderness and Salvation : a Photographer's Tale
Well known in the West, Clyde Butcher's successful landscape portraits of Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Badlands provided him with money and acclaim. But, in something of a midlife crisis, he...
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Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal
Through the stories of three very different men, award-winning journalist Tom Shroder covers the drugs’ roller-coaster history from their initial reception in the 1950s to the negative stereotypes that persist today.
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The Most Famous Writer who Ever Lived: A True Story of My Family
He was an early mentor to John D. MacDonald, and 'discovered' the singer Burl Ives. He wrote the novel Glory for Me, which became the multi-Oscar-winning film The Best Years of Our Lives.
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Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives
The boy's mother started to tell him he was mistaken. Then the shed appeared just beyond the trees. These are among the many cases that psychiatrist and scholar Dr. Ian Stevenson has investigated and documented for more than three decades.
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Acid Test: How a Daring Group of Psychonauts Rediscovered the Power of LSD, MDMA, and Other Psychedelic Drugs to Heal...
... Psychedelic Drugs to Heal Addiction, Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma Tom ... house in Belmont—not far from Harvard—that Rick shared with his wife, Lynne ... Acid Test–meets–Animal House vibe, is where Rick holes up, endlessly working ...