How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together
By: Dan Kois
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this "refreshingly relatable" (Outside) memoir, perfect for the self-isolating family, Slate edi…
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1. Redemption in Indigo
By: Karen Lord
3.88
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Paama's husband is a fool and a glutton. Bad enough that he followed her to her parents' home in th… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger's life, and then they're content."-Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo
"Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . …"-Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo
"Anyone can cook, but the true talent belongs to those who are capable of gently ensnaring with their delicacies, winning compliance with the mere suggestion that there might not be any goodies for a …"-Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo
"It is not the known danger that we most fear, the shark that patrols the bay, the lion that rules the savannah. It is the betrayal of what we trust and hold close to our hearts that is our undoing: t…"-Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo
2. Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years
By: Catherine Newman
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A comic and heartwarming memoir about childhood's second act from Real Simplejournalist Catherine N… read more
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- parenting
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
3. At Home in the World
By: Tsh Oxenreider
4.33
Format: None pages,
As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the w… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family
By: Catherine Newman
4.10
Format: None pages,
To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of Bringing Up Ben & Birdy,a week… read more
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- parenting
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
5. Joy for Beginners
By: Erica Bauermeister
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
At an intimate, festive dinner party in Seattle, six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's … read more
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6. Life Is Short (No Pun Intended): Love, Laughter, and Learning to Enjoy Every Moment
By: Jennifer Arnold , Bill Klein
3.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the beloved stars of TLC's The Little Couplecomes an uplifting and moving behind-the-scenes ac… read more
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7. Travel Light, Move Fast
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
8. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- family
- audiobook
9. When the Men Were Gone
By: Marjorie Herrera Lewis
3.71
Format: 240 pages, ebook
In Marjorie Herrera Lewis’s debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"These boys would be better off hog-tied than playing for a woman!"-Marjorie Herrera Lewis, When the Men Were Gone
10. Did I Ever Tell You?
By: Genevieve Kingston
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
11. The Adventurer's Son
By: Roman Dial
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle. . . . It should be difficult to get lost forever": The… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"During that golden age, we shared music and books, swapped interests and insights. And as he grew to know more than I did in economics, genetics, and politics, he shared his knowledge enriching my li…"-Roman Dial, The Adventurer's Son
12. Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
By: Jeff Horwitz
3.90
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
By an award-winning technology reporter for the Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at th… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
By: Nathalia Holt
4.18
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
In The Queens of Animation, author Nathalia Holt recounts the stories of a group of women who have … read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- biography
- audiobook
"Sadness transforms comedy, tingeing its edges with emotion and thus delivering fewer laughs but more real humor."-Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
"It doesn't matter whether one's limbs are wooden or flesh; it is not out bodies that make us human but the way we treat one another."-Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
14. How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together
By: Dan Kois
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this "refreshingly relatable" (Outside) memoir, perfect for the self-isolating family, Slate edi… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- travel
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
15. We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
By: Charles Wheelan
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family dec… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- travel
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
16. Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
4.03
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering fact: Our pare… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"In my midthirties, I realized that my parents would die soon. Not like a terminal illness. I just mean in the flow of time. It hit me hardest when my mother turned seventy. I did a quick bit of math.…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
"I wondered about my friendship with my mom. Is it friendship? How can it be? Friendship is chosen. Friendship is discovered. But a mother and a son have a bond that is necessary. If the son exists, t…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
17. Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
By: Erica Berry
3.55
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An original and probing debut work of nonfiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-lon… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"I see myself as a kaleidoscope of selves, wheeling through that poppy studded countryside, the colour from one self always tinting the colour of another. No barriers between them. Only the truth of t…"-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
"With both the last and the first wolf, I wonder, did you know just how alone you were? Beneath this question, lay the other one. The same one that now flickered in my chest as I travelled alone for i…"-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
18. Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle
By: Hopwood DePree
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story--with charm and humor in abundance--about a Los Ange… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
19. Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
By: Geoffrey L. Cohen
3.87
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for The Next Big Idea Bookclub • Book of the Year Selection Behavioral Scientist and Great… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The overwhelming conclusion across a large body of studies is that personality matters less than we think while the situation matters more than we think."-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
"When people reflect on harsh events in their lives, it's important that they write or talk and not just think. Thinking doesn't provide the narrative closure that writing or talking does, and it ofte…"-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
"The impact of personality was overridden by whether the employees at the company perceived social norms that favored speaking up. If a company were interested in getting people to speak up, they'd be…"-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
"The students on campuses with such a [Confederate] statue had higher levels of implicit racial bias. This finding speaks to the haunting effects of historical expressions of racism. Not only do these…"-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
20. Main Character Energy
By: Jamie Varon
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Though… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Life can continue to surprise you right up until the end, if you're brave enough to take risks."-Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy
"I have been living in service of my fear for too long. And I did it again. Cowered in the face of it."-Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy
"All you have to do is stay. And when you feel the urge to flee in fear, you don't. You stand firm. And you choose courage. You keep choosing courage over fear, until it feels natural. Until you reali…"-Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy
"I've realized that another person's greatness takes nothing from my own. And that the bravest thing you can do is support people and celebrate their success with as much excitement as it deserves. It…"-Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy
21. Nightwatch on the Hinterlands (The Weep, #1)
By: K. Eason
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Set in the universe of Rory Thorne, this new sci-fi mystery follows an unlikely duo who must discov… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
