The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
By: Julie Yip-Williams
4.10
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story…
Want to Read $ 8.99"Paradoxes abound in this life. Living is an exercise in navigating within them."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"Walk through the fire and you will emerge on the other end, whole and stronger. I promise. You will ultimately find truth and beauty and wisdom and peace."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"I think God is beyond what my little, limited, human brain can fathom. But, perhaps, something my limitless soul can just being to grasp in my moments of utmost clarity."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"It is in the acceptance of truth that real wisdom and peace come. It is in the acceptance of truth that real living begins. Conversely, avoidance of truth is the denial of life."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
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1. Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living
By: Susan Spencer-Wendel
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)--Lou Gehrig'… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her to try to find her birth mother before I die, so that I might meet her and say, "Your broug…"-Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living
2. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
By: Nina Riggs
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An exquisite memoir about how to live--and love--every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina… read more
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3. Send for Me
By: Lauren Fox
3.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War… read more
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- audiobook
"She went out for dinner with the guy who fixed her computer. All evening long, she couldn't remember his name. But he smiled sweetly as he explained motherboards to her and asked her about her life. …"-Lauren Fox, Send for Me
4. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
5. We Must Not Think of Ourselves
By: Lauren Grodstein
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more
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- audiobook
"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
6. The Sun Sets in Singapore
By: Kehinde Fadipe
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Basking in Singapore’s nonstop sunshine, low tax rate, and luxury goods market, Dara, Amaka, and Li… read more
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- audiobook
7. The Last Romantics
By: Tara Conklin
3.71
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“The greatest works of poetry are the stories we tell about ourselves." When the renowned poet F… read more
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- audiobook
"I believe now that certain events are inevitable. Not in a fateful way, for I have never had faith in anything but myself, but in the way of human nature."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
"This then is the true lesson: there is nothing romantic about love. Only the most naive believe it will save them. Only the hardiest of us will survive it."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
"For many years love seemed to me not something that enriched or emboldened but a blind hole into which you fell, and in the falling you forgot what it was to live in your own light."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
"Caroline. Listen to me. You have to decide what you love. Joe wasn't the only one. You have to decide now and hold on. Start small. Begin with the small things and work up from here."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
8. A Woman Is No Man
By: Etaf Rum
4.26
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
This debut novel by a Palestinian-American voice takes us inside the lives of a conservative Arab f… read more
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- audiobook
"It’s hard to belong anywhere, truly belong, if we don’t belong to ourselves first."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn't change things - that she didn't have a choice - made living it more bearable."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"Sadness was like a cancer, she thought, a presence that staked it's claim so quietly you might not even notice it until it was too late. She hoped her other daughters didn't see."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"It's the loneliest people who love books the most...it was the opposite of loneliness, too, like there were too many people around me, forced connections, that I needed a little isolation to think on…"-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
9. Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
By: Jayson Greene
4.17
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side o… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- death
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Grief at its peak has a terrible beauty to it, a blinding fission of every emotion. The world is charged with significance, with meaning, and the world around you, normally so solid and implacable, s…"-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
"If you were built for optimism, you just had to figure out a way to stay that way. We couldn't keep not caring, even if we wanted to; we just weren't made for it. I felt an unexpected throb of empath…"-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
10. Valentine
By: Elizabeth Wetmore
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of on… read more
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- audiobook
"The only thing I hate more that being home with Alice all day long is feeling guilty about not wanting to do it. Corrine's voice breaks and she pushes her fist against her mouth. She is trying not to…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
"He wears a Stetson so clean you could eat a sandwich off the brim. All hat, no cattle. Keith leaned forward and looked me right in the eye,. Family's been in Texas since forever. Probably got a whole…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
"Yeah. What do you need, Corrine, to be happy with me and Alice? She doesn't hesitate. I need to go back to my work, Potter. Honey, you work, taking care of Alice and me. Yes, I do. I'd prefer to teac…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
"In the church where I grew up, we were taught that sin, even if it happens only in your heart, condemns you all the same. Grace is not assured to any of us, maybe not even most of us, and while being…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
11. Searching for Sylvie Lee
By: Jean Kwok
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sister… read more
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- audiobook
"While nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Ma told me that while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Once you loved him, everything in your life fell into a before and after. Nothing would ever be the same."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Helena's eyes glittered with naked intensity. I could not tell if they were filled with greed or a desperate need to be loved. I was not even sure if it made a difference: it came down to hunger. Per…"-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
12. Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.03
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Elle's "Eric Reads the News," a poignant and hilarious memoir-in-essays about g… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Who am I doing this for and do they want what I want?"-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
"No, but has the tyranny of facts ever stopped me before? Again, no."-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
"...the thing about success is that it doesn't seem like a natural result of unsuccessfulness."-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
"What is more romantic than the sudden revelation of the thing you didn't even dare to hope for?"-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
13. The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
By: Julie Yip-Williams
4.10
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- death
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Paradoxes abound in this life. Living is an exercise in navigating within them."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"Walk through the fire and you will emerge on the other end, whole and stronger. I promise. You will ultimately find truth and beauty and wisdom and peace."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"I think God is beyond what my little, limited, human brain can fathom. But, perhaps, something my limitless soul can just being to grasp in my moments of utmost clarity."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"It is in the acceptance of truth that real wisdom and peace come. It is in the acceptance of truth that real living begins. Conversely, avoidance of truth is the denial of life."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
14. The Dearly Beloved
By: Cara Wall
4.07
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are … read more
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- audiobook
""-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"She would never be free again. But she would also never be alone."-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"This minister, a small, balding, quick-spoken man, said often that faith, at its simplest, was the acceptance of the possibility that things one had never seen could be real."-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"Nan had known, as a child, that God did not answer prayers for more candy or new shoes. Those were worldly things, not sacred. God answered prayers about being a better friend, or being able to get a…"-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
15. Evvie Drake Starts Over
By: Linda Holmes
3.82
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, … read more
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- audiobook
"Oh, that's right, she thought. I remember having good days."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
"Everything she said, he treated like it ended in a semicolon."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
"Trying to buck yourself up is the tooth pliers of mental health."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
"All she could think as she finally, finally kissed him was finally, finally."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
16. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
By: Margaret Renkl
4.30
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
17. Patsy
By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
3.92
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfi… read more
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- audiobook
18. Reunion
By: Elise Juska
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more
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- audiobook
19. 150 Days: The true story of how I lost 88 pound and became a mountain goat on the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Lise Kristine Viken
4.08
Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition
The Pacific Crest Trail will change your life... Lise Kristine Viken was an overweight nicotine sl… read more
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20. That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
By: Sunita Puri
4.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf be… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. When I Was White: A Memoir
By: Sarah Valentine
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white gir… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
