The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting
By: Alanna Okun
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is a memoir about life truths learned through crafting. Peopl…
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1. How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials, #1)
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.33
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
"Sit" = "Meditate." Clear, simple directions for anyone wanting to explore mindfulness meditation. … read more
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- nonfiction
"Happiness isn't possible without freedom."-Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials, #1)
"There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment."-Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials, #1)
"Sit in order to sit. Stand in order to stand. There is no goal or aim in sitting."-Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials, #1)
"We sit as if we are sitting on a lotus flower, not on a heap of burning charcoal."-Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials, #1)
2. Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World
By: Clara Parkes
3.83
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this insp… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- knitting
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- crafts
- audiobook
"Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and ar…"-Clara Parkes, Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World
"A funny thing happens when more than one knitter gathers in a public place. A solo knitter, presuming she is a woman, quickly fades into the backdrop like a potted palm or a quietly nursing mother. .…"-Clara Parkes, Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World
3. The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting
By: Clara Parkes
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, … read more
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- memoir
- knitting
- nonfiction
- essays
- crafts
- audiobook
4. The Art of Memoir
By: Mary Karr
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Clubspent more than a y… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
5. A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn
By: Clara Parkes
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From New York Timesbestselling knitting writer Clara Parkes, comes a new collection of essays and s… read more
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- memoir
- knitting
- nonfiction
- essays
- crafts
- audiobook
6. Love in Every Stitch: Stories of Knitting and Healing
By: Lee Gant
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Paperback
In her inspiring book, Love in Every Stitch: Stories of Knitting and Healing, master knitter, teach… read more
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7. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
By: Christopher Clark
3.35
Format: None pages,
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8. The Night Will Find Us
By: Matthew Lyons
3.30
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this supernatural thriller, six teenagers attempt to survive the horrors – both human and supern… read more
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- audiobook
9. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
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- audiobook
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
10. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
11. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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- biography memoir
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- essays
- audiobook
12. Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark
By: Ulla Thynell
3.85
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A deluxe volume of 16 traditional Nordic folk tales that is sure to impress any fan of cultural and… read more
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- short stories
- audiobook
13. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- memoir
- knitting
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
14. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
By: Perumal Murugan
4.11
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more
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15. Corps vivante
By: Julie Delporte
4.30
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
En 1990, Julie Delporte n’a encore jamais vu de butch, mais sa tante préférée chasse et fume le cig… read more
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- memoir
"On entend dire que le sexe est bon pour la santé, mais la moitié du monde autour de moi a été violée."-Julie Delporte, Corps vivante
16. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
17. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
By: Gabrielle Moss
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A hilarious and nostalgic trip through the history of paperback pre-teen series of the '80s and '90… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD
By: Matilda Boseley
4.45
Format: 433 pages, ebook
Matilda Boseley’s adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a presc… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
19. The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World
By: Mason Funk
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Meet the leaders and activists on the front lines of the LGBTQ movement, from the 1960’s to the pre… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
20. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
By: Clara Parkes
4.19
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yar… read more
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- memoir
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
21. First Love: Essays on Friendship
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more
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- biography memoir
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- essays
- audiobook
22. Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 sanity saving hacks for better knitting
By: Patty Lyons
4.61
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Do you wish your knitting was better and that you had an expert knitter by your side to help you wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- knitting
23. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
24. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.98
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
25. The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting
By: Alanna Okun
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is a memoir about life truths learned through crafting. Peopl… read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- knitting
- biography memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- crafts
- audiobook
26. Nice Work, Nora November
By: Julia London
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
After a near death experience, one woman creates her "reverse" bucket the things she wants to do a… read more
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- audiobook
27. Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide
By: Brandi Cheyenne Harper
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From knitting expert Brandi Harper, a must-have pattern book for modern knitters, with essays on se… read more
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- crafts
- art
- nonfiction
- knitting
"Every stitch you knit can be a self-care practice. Knitting is our constant companion as we grow and expand our capacity for joy."-Brandi Cheyenne Harper, Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide
"You can own the title of adventurous beginner from day one of your knitting journey. You can be an experienced knitter for half your life and still be an adventurous beginner. This book will ask you …"-Brandi Cheyenne Harper, Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide
28. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio
Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more
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- biography
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