Starving in Search of Me: A Coming-of-Age Story of Overcoming an Eating Disorder and Finding Self-Acceptance
By: Marissa LaRocca
3.35
Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
By: Rachel Reiland
3.95
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and fe… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- mental health
" Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is not my intention for my book to be seen as some sort of c…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
"I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotiona…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
"You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether i…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
"(...) istnieje pewna ciekawa teoria grzechu pierworodnego, o której chciałem ci opowiedzieć (...) – niektórzy teologowie uważają, że w przypadku Adama i Ewy nie chodziło o zjedzenie zakazanego jabłka…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
2. The Witchcraft of Salem Village
By: Shirley Jackson
3.80
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A detailed account of one of the strangest and most shocking episodes in American history, written … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
By: Portia de Rossi
3.68
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
"I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
4. Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
3.34
Format: 320 pages,
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularl… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. The Bitter Taste of Dying: A Memoir
By: Jason Smith
3.96
Format: 425 pages,
In his first book, author Jason Smith explores the depravity and desperation required to maintain a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
6. Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
By: Bridget Quinn
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with th… read more
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7. Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir
By: Lisa F. Smith
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Lisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in NYC when alcoholism and drug addi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness
By: Sheila Hamilton
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"A boldly beautiful page-turner about loving and losing someone with mental illness. I'll be recomm… read more
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9. Letting Ana Go
By: Anonymous
5.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction… read more
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10. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
By: Marya Hornbacher
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Thr… read more
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11. The Burnout Generation
By: Anne Helen Petersen
3.18
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
1 hora y 47 minutos. In January 2019, culture writer Anne Helen Petersen set the Internet on fir… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- mental health
12. The Debutante
By: Jon Ronson
3.41
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
13. Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You
By: Maisie Hill
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Period Power is a profound but practical blueprint for aligning daily life with the menstrual cycle… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Love After Love
By: Ingrid Persaud
4.07
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love. Irre… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
"Miss Betty, relaxing is not a crime. Live a little. Best to do things while you still have your own teeth in your mouth."-Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love
15. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
By: Hadley Freeman
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
16. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
By: Gad Saad
3.94
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
17. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
By: David Sheff
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"You're as sick as your secrets."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
18. On Pills and Needles: The Relentless Fight to Save My Son from Opioid Addiction
By: Rick Van Warner
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
When Rick Van Warner found himself searching abandoned buildings and dangerous streets looking for … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
19. True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us
By: Danielle J. Lindemann
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by EsquireA sociological study of reality TV that explores its… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We learn about the core features of society by looking at the extremes."-Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us
20. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
21. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
By: Chloé Hayden
4.34
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
22. Addicted to Perfect: A Journey Out of the Grips of Adderall
By: Vitale Buford
3.69
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Perfection is a mask we use to avoid pain. We think that if we can achieve perfection, we will achi… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
23. Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Peter Canning
4.22
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, twenty-five… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
24. Starving in Search of Me: A Coming-of-Age Story of Overcoming an Eating Disorder and Finding Self-Acceptance
By: Marissa LaRocca
3.35
Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition
#1 Amazon New Release ─ The true confessions of an eating disorders survivorThis confessional self-… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
By: Jonathan Van Ness
4.10
Format: 6 pages, Audiobook
Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a new collec… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
By: Anna Mehler Paperny
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A vibrant, compelling memoir that bravely reveals the real-life havoc the depression wreaks and an … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Depression affects everyone on the planet, directly or indirectly, in every possible sphere. its very ubiquity robs it of sexiness but not urgency."-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
"Suicidality and curiosity are anathema to each other: You can’t want to know things if you want to die. As long as I had questions I had reason to live, and when I was overwhelmed by a desire for dea…"-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
27. Can't Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination
By: Nancy Colier
3.80
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
“Read this book and experience the freedom to create your reality.” —Deepak Chopra, MD, author of T… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- mental health
28. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Techniques for Retraining Your Brain
By: Jason M. Satterfield
4.05
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Why is it so hard to lose weight, stop smoking, or establish healthy habits? Why do couples argue a… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- mental health
29. Continuum (Pocket Change Collective)
By: Chella Man
4.41
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space … read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"That is the one of the beauties of my identity. It acts as a filter, guiding me toward the gems in life"-Chella Man, Continuum (Pocket Change Collective)
30. Every Moment of a Fall: A Memoir of Recovery Through EMDR Therapy
By: Carol E. Miller
3.91
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Carol E. Miller was sixteen when the private plane piloted by her father crashed, pinning her in th… read more
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- audiobook
31. Living Full: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders
By: Danielle Sherman-Lazar
3.75
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
A survivor takes those struggling with anorexia and/or bulimia on "a passionate, heartbreaking to h… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
