Turning
By: Jessica J. Lee
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Through the heat of summer to the frozen depths of winter, Lee traces her journey swimming through …
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1. Pienin yhteinen jaettava (#1)
By: Pirkko Saisio
3.88
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Isän äkillinen kuolema sysää keski-ikäisen tyttären muistot liikkeelle, ja lapsuuden maisema saa uu… read more
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"Avaan kirjan. Luen ensimmäisen sivun kirjasta. Koska lukeminen sujuu aika hyvin, luen heti perään toisenkin rivin. Luen koko sivun. Luen koko kirjan. Sitten makaan nuorisohetekalla ja itken, enkä ymm…"-Pirkko Saisio, Pienin yhteinen jaettava (#1)
2. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
3. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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4. If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
By: Heather Lende
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air--and only w… read more
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5. Nowhere to Be Found
By: Bae Suah , Sora Kim-Russell
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences sh… read more
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6. A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
By: Juliet Nicolson
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable wome… read more
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7. Maud Martha
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
3.75
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poe… read more
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8. This Could Be Everything
By: Eva Rice
3.83
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From the author of ‘modern vintage classic’ The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good nosta… read more
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9. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
10. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
11. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more
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- canada
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel
12. Gewässer im Ziplock
By: Dana Vowinckel
4.30
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Ein Sommer zwischen Berlin, Chicago und Jerusalem. Wie jedes Jahr verbringt die fünfzehnjährige Mar… read more
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- germany
13. Why We Swim
By: Bonnie Tsui
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself. … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
14. Small Bodies of Water
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
15. Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
By: Lucy Jones
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet na… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
16. Life in the Garden
By: Penelope Lively
3.58
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening. Pen… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
"So far as I am concerned the difference between men and women is that men are interested in cutting grass and women are not. I actually prefer a daisy-sprinkled lawn; Jack, of course, wanted meticulo…"-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden
"Anthropomorphism is unavoidable, I am finding, in writing about gardening: weeds don't just grow, they grow with intent, they grow aggressively. Well, they do, as any gardener knows. They sneak in an…"-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden
17. The Instant
By: Amy Liptrot
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Wishing to leave the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- germany
- nonfiction
- nature
"In the simplest terms, the internet is made from pulses of light."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
"Hearts and futures can turn on a single afternoon or an accepted invitation - but more often lead to nothing but themselves."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
18. Indelicacy
By: Amina Cain
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more
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"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
19. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
By: Alice Vincent
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
20. How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
By: Florentyna Leow
3.89
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can fill a place and… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
21. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
22. Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.23
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Home sickness comes in waves, sometimes leaving me reeling."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"I often end up biking home with a paper bag in my basket, a warm boluo bao inside. Whatever the time of year, they remind me of sun, tropical heat, being with family. Mooncakes, the little cakes eate…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is tiring to be a woman who loves to eat in a society where hunger is something not to be satisfied but controlled. Where a long history of female hunger is associated with shame and madness. The …"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
23. The Agency for Scandal (The Agency for Scandal, #1)
By: Laura Wood
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a… read more
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24. At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond
By: Ava Wong Davies
4.23
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
'There was something magical about the unplumbed depths, the moorhens, the dragonflies, the waterli… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
25. Wir hätten uns alles gesagt
By: Judith Hermann
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Eine Kindheit in unkonventionellen Verhältnissen, das geteilte Berlin, Familienbande und Wahlverwan… read more
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- nonfiction
- germany
26. And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
By: Helen Humphreys
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
And a Dog Called Fig is the story of one writer’s life with dogs (including a frisky new puppy), ho… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- canada
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
27. Not on My Watch: How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon
By: Alexandra Morton
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her p… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
28. Turning
By: Jessica J. Lee
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Through the heat of summer to the frozen depths of winter, Lee traces her journey swimming through … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- canada
- travel
- germany
- natural history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- nature
29. Women on Nature
By: Katharine Norbury
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What would happen, I wondered, if I simply missed out the fifty per cent of the population whose vo… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
30. By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge
By: Amy-Jane Beer
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
What is a river?, asks Amy-Jane Beer, in the opening essay of this collection, which blends nature … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
31. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
