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Mimi Zieman Author Of Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure

From Mimi's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Mimi's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Mimi Zieman Why Mimi loves this book

The loss of a child is a difficult topic to read about but the author's writing style invites you in. This book has deservedly won awards because the author's writing is crisp, unique, and clever. It's a book of essays and the voice of each one changes, often imbuing humor into this sad topic which elevates it. Anyone grieving a child or who has experienced the loss of a loved one should read this book.

By Eileen Vorbach Collins ,

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4 authors picked Love in the Archives as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Winner of a 2022 Gold Royal Palm Award- Florida Writers Association
Winner of the 2023 Sarton Women's Book Award for Memoir
Winner of 2024 Pencraft Award - Literary Excellence
Finalist 2023 Foreword Indies -Grief/Grieving

When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bereaved parents who understand her pain on a level others cannot. No one in the group places a time limit on this grief. As the years pass, Eileen finds ways to honor the memories. She even learns to laugh again.

In Love in the Archives, a collection of linked narrative essays…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most

Mimi Zieman Author Of Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure

From Mimi's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Mimi's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Mimi Zieman Why Mimi loves this book

The subtitle is A Guide to What Matters which captures why this is an important book. It's based on the course at Yale University that's received a lot of media attention, and I think it's worthwhile to check in on the decisions we make about how we want to live our lives.

By Miroslav Volf , Matthew Croasmun , Ryan McAnnally-Linz

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2 authors picked Life Worth Living as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How should we live?

We are facing a crisis of meaning. Swept up in the obstacles of the day-to-day, the deeper questions of our fundamental purpose linger just beneath the surface of our personal lives and our collective culture. What we need is to seek the truth.

In Life Worth Living, leading Yale theologians Volf, Croasmun and McAnnally-Linz offer a deep dive beneath the levels of habit, strategy and introspection to the bedrock question of what kind of life is truly worth…


Book cover of Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure

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From Ilene's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Unknown Author Why Ilene loves this book

I have always had an interest in the climbing world and medicine. Mimi’s book was a wonderful combination of both. I couldn’t put it down.

By Mimi Zieman ,

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33 authors picked Tap Dancing on Everest as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The plan was outrageous: A small team of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, which had only been successfully climbed once before. Unlike the first large team, Mimi Zieman and her team would climb without using supplemental oxygen or porter support. While the unpredictable weather and high altitude of 29,035 feet make climbing Everest perilous in any condition, attempting a new route, with no idea of what obstacles lay ahead, was especially audacious. Team members were expected to push themselves to their…


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Trusting Her Duke by Arietta Richmond,

A Duke with rigid opinions, a Lady whose beliefs conflict with his, a long disputed parcel of land, a conniving neighbour, a desperate collaboration, a failure of trust, a love found despite it all.

Alexander Cavendish, Duke of Ravensworth, returned from war to find that his father and brother had…

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