Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
3.49
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind considers the age-old …
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1. Heaven
By: Randy Alcorn
4.28
Format: 533 pages, Hardcover
What is Heaven really going to be like? What will we look like? What will we do? Won't Heaven get b… read more
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- nonfiction
"Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King."-Randy Alcorn, Heaven
"Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come."-Randy Alcorn, Heaven
"For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand."-Randy Alcorn, Heaven
"Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God."-Randy Alcorn, Heaven
2. Madness: A Bipolar Life
By: Marya Hornbacher
4.03
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights W… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- self help
"Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
"I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
"My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
"When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
Similar categories in Terri Cheney's Manic: A Memoir book and Kay Redfield Jamison's Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind
- nonfiction
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
4. You Are The One You've Been Waiting For: Bringing Courageous Love To Intimate Relationships
By: Richard C. Schwartz , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In this new audio version, Richard Schwartz, the developer of the Internal Family Systems Model, ap… read more
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5. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the g… read more
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6. Holy the Firm
By: Annie Dillard
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with… read more
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7. Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life
By: Melody Moezzi
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences … read more
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8. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
9. Three Roads Back
By: Robert D. Richardson Jr.
3.67
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William Jam… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
11. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- self help
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
12. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- audiobook
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
13. The Framed Women of Ardemore House
By: Brandy Schillace
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sharp, savvy mystery about an autistic editor who inherits a crumbling English estate, only to fi… read more
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- audiobook
14. Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain
By: Dasha Kiper
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
These “moving and often surprising” ( The Wall Street Journal ) case histories meld science and sto… read more
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- self help
- memoir
- medicine
- psychology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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- audiobook
16. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
By: Ted Conover
3.90
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- audiobook
17. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
3.49
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind considers the age-old … read more
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- self help
- history
- memoir
- medicine
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability studies
- audiobook
19. Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention
By: Jeffrey A. Lieberman
4.29
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
“The most important book about schizophrenia in decades, and perhaps ever…a total game-changer.” —S… read more
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- medicine
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
21. On Giving Up
By: Adam Phillips
3.81
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive… read more
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- psychology
- self help
