The Art of the Wasted Day
By: Patricia Hampl
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream The Art of the Wasted Day is a pi…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Faith isn't what you think, what you 'believe'. It's what you do."-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
"Faith isn't what you think, what you 'believe'. It's what you do."-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
"In my reading, I sought a contemporary, someone who lived what I thought of as my “other life,"-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
"In my reading, I sought a contemporary, someone who lived what I thought of as my “other life,"-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
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1. The Littlest Bigfoot (The Littlest Bigfoot, #1)
By: Jennifer Weiner
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alice Mayfair, twelve years old, slips through the world unseen and unnoticed. Ignored by her famil… read more
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- audiobook
2. Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor (Jane Austen Mysteries, #1)
By: Stephanie Barron
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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3. Under the Harrow
By: Flynn Berry
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find h… read more
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- audiobook
4. Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse
By: Faith Sullivan
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Throughout her life, Nell Stillman has struggled to find meaning in an increasingly chaotic world. … read more
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5. Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this delightful hybrid of a book--part memoir and part travel journal--the bestselling author ta… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
6. Someone
By: Alice McDermott
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
An ordinary life - its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confus… read more
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7. The Art of Travel
By: Alain de Botton
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Any Baedeker will tell us wherewe ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us howand why… read more
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8. Quietly in Their Sleep (Commissario Brunetti, #6)
By: Donna Leon
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In Quietly In Their Sleep,a nun, Suorimmacolata, leaves her order and the nursing home it runs when… read more
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9. Give a Girl a Knife
By: Amy Thielen
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one cook's journey from her rural Midwestern hometown… read more
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10. Small Wonder
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.03
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful exami… read more
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- philosophy
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"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to …"-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
11. A Long Way from Verona
By: Jane Gardam
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at… read more
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12. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
By: Greg Lukianoff
3.93
Format: 432 pages, ebook
A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
13. The Motion of the Body Through Space
By: Lionel Shriver
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages bett… read more
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"She herself was only sixty, though hers was the first generation to append "only" to such a sobering milestone."-Lionel Shriver, The Motion of the Body Through Space
"I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they are lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment, it's dull and hard as in effortful but not as in d…"-Lionel Shriver, The Motion of the Body Through Space
14. Orwell's Roses
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on Geo… read more
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- biography memoir
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"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"The contemporary world is full of things that look beautiful and are produced through hideous means. People died so that this mine may profit, that these shoes maybe produced as cheaply as possible, …"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"As withheld information, a lie is a sort of shield for the liar; as falsity it is a sword. It matters whether or not people believe the lies, but unbelievable lies wielded by those with power do thei…"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
15. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
By: Maggie Smith
3.89
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more
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"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
16. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Goldenrod: Poems
By: Maggie Smith
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more
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- audiobook
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
18. Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson
4.00
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
From the “Icelandic Dickens (Irish Examiner),” a writer who “shares the elemental grandeur of Corma… read more
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"Le lacrime sono fatte come remi, il dolore e la tristezza vogano. Chi piange a un funerale, piange nondimeno la propria morte e quella del mondo, perché tutto muore e alla fine non resta niente. - Lu…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
"Erano i tardi anni Ottanta, a breve sarebbe crollato il muro di Berlino e i pezzi sarebbero stati venduti come souvenir, l'essere umano ha la capacità straordinaria di convertire le minacce, la morte…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
"في الصمت يدخر الذهب، ذاك الذي يبقى صامتا يلتزم بنفسه، يمكنه اكتشاف امور مختلفة، الصمت يتسرب تحت الجلد، يسكن القلب، يخدر القلق، يغمر الغرفة التي يشغلها المرء، يملأ البيت، وفي الخارج يهدر الزمن الحاضر،…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
"En de vogels op de muren zijn zo levendig geschilderd dat de kat uit de buurt, een geel rotbeest dat ons al van nodeloos veel vogels heeft beroofd, de eerste weken herhaaldelijk tegen het gebouw op s…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
19. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
20. The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel finds herself navigating … read more
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21. Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life
By: Joshua Becker
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • Discover practical steps you can take today to live a life focu… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
By: Kristine S. Ervin
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more
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23. Moonbound
By: Robin Sloan
4.09
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future a… read more
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24. A Deadly Walk in Devon (A Walk Through England Mystery, #1)
By: Nicholas George
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of M.C. Beaton, Martha Grimes, and Alexander McCall Smith, the first in a charming new mys… read more
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25. That Kind of Mother
By: Rumaan Alam
3.07
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and tho… read more
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26. Once Upon a Tim (Once Upon a Tim, #1)
By: Stuart Gibbs
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A middle grade series about a peasant boy who wants to be a knight.Tim is just a peasant, but he dr… read more
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27. Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions
By: Patricia Marx
3.46
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The perfect Mother's Day gift: A collection of witty one-line advice New Yorker writer Patricia Mar… read more
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"Some people like meat well done, but they are wrong."-Patricia Marx, Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions
28. The Art of the Wasted Day
By: Patricia Hampl
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream The Art of the Wasted Day is a pi… read more
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- history
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- travel
- philosophy
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- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- audiobook
"Faith isn't what you think, what you 'believe'. It's what you do."-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
"In my reading, I sought a contemporary, someone who lived what I thought of as my “other life,"-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
"Faith in our time can seem like signing on the dotted line of a prefab doctrine composed of absurdities."-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
"what is the foundation of contemplative life? 'Oh, she said, without a pause -- leisure, it's based on leisure."-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
29. The Beginners
By: Anne Serre
3.38
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she sudd… read more
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30. Omega Farm: A Memoir
By: Martha McPhee
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist—a candid, riveting account of her complicated,… read more
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- nonfiction
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31. A Great Marriage
By: Frances Mayes
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people—and their … read more
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