Books like The Midnight Disease by Alice Weaver Flaherty

Explores the groundbreaking science of neuroplasticity, showing how the brain can recover from injury, learn new skills, and even rewire itself to overcome long‑standing mental limits.

Marvin Minsky presents an interconnected framework that explains human cognition and its implications for artificial intelligence.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

Ann Patchett's essays explore life's moments of enchantment and universal truths.

When Adam Lightfoot, Marquis of Ravenskeep, summons the Devil to save his son, he unwittingly bargains with the rakish Lord Appleby and draws in the Irish healer Caitlin O'Brian, whose sight and resolve pull them into a perilous love that may transform miracles into reality.

A five‑hundred‑year‑old ghost, who can see stars, returns to the castle she was killed in when a handsome young astronomer purchases it.