Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
By: Nell Irvin Painter
3.50
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
How are women, and artists, "seen" and judged by their age, race, and looks? And how does this seei…
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1. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.23
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
2. The Cookbook Collector
By: Allegra Goodman
3.37
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
Heralded as "a modern day Jane Austen" by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Time… read more
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3. This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
By: Alan Lew
3.80
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
There are moments in life when one is caught utterly unprepared. Drawing on both his rabbinical tra… read more
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4. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- audiobook
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
5. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
By: Annabelle Tometich
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more
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- biography
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
By: Daniel J. Levitin
3.93
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhappiness and instead offers a trove … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Spend time with people who encourage you to grow, to explore new things, and who take joy in your successes."-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
"The Greek physicians Herophilus and Erasistratus discovered the nervous system in 322 BC, placing the seat of thought in the brain. It might be fair to say that they were the first neuroscientists. P…"-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
"Booker T. Washington wrote that "character, not circumstances", makes the person. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." While character makes for a…"-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
"A large part of people who manage to stay young, in spite of their chronological age, relates to synaptic plasticity - the ability of the brain to make and form new connections. As we've seen, plasti…"-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
7. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
8. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By: Susan Magsamen
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
10. Rental Person Who Does Nothing
By: Shoji Morimoto
3.34
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more
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"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
11. How to Be an Artist
By: Jerry Saltz
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"Surely, your crappy art can fake out twelve stupid people. I've seen it done with one or two."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"For now, make something, learn something, and move on. Or you’ll be buried waist-deep in the big muddy of perfectionism."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"But doubt is a sign of faith: it tests and humbles you, allows newness into your life. Best of all, doubt banishes the stifling effect of certainty. Certainty kills curiosity and change."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
12. The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
By: Carrot Quinn
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to trav… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
13. This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
By: Daniel Wallace
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronic… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
By: Nell Irvin Painter
3.50
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
How are women, and artists, "seen" and judged by their age, race, and looks? And how does this seei… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
By: Alexander Nemerov
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth-century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. The 12-Hour Walk: Invest One Day, Conquer Your Mind, and Unlock Your Best Life
By: Colin O'Brady
3.82
Format: 256 pages, ebook
“A master class in athleticism, resilience, and human potential.” —Hoda Kotb, Today From the New Yo… read more
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- audiobook
17. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
18. Women Holding Things
By: Maira Kalman
4.58
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Unc… read more
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19. Don't Let the Devil Ride
By: Ace Atkins
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“An instant Southern noir classic” –S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thri… read more
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20. The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
By: Adam Moss
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations exami… read more
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21. The Art of Is: Improvising as a Way of LIfe
By: Stephen Nachmanovitch
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A MASTERFUL BOOK ABOUT BREATHING LIFE INTO ART AND ART INTO LIFE “Stephen Nachmanovitch’s The Art … read more
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