On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
By: Lynn Casteel Harper
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Eula Biss’s On Immunity, and Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath …
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1. An Exorcist Tells His Story
By: Benedict J. Groeschel , Gabriele Amorth , Nicoletta V. MacKenzie , None
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this powerful book, the renowned exorcist of Rome tells of his many experiences in his ministry … read more
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2. The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain
By: Steven R. Gundry
4.37
Format: None pages,
From renowned cardiac surgeon Steven R. Gundry, MD, a revolutionary look at the hidden compounds in… read more
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3. Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
By: Anne Elizabeth Moore
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Unspeakable acts are committed on women's bodies under capitalism everyday. In Body Horror, Anne El… read more
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4. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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5. The Rule of Saint Benedict
By: Benedict of Nursia , None
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more
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6. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
7. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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8. I Must Be Dreaming
By: Roz Chast
3.65
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more
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9. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
By: Lawrence Ingrassia
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more
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10. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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11. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
By: Jon Billman
3.69
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more
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12. My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
By: Sandeep Jauhar
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert scienc… read more
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13. 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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14. Floating in the Deep End: How Caregivers Can See Beyond Alzheimer's
By: Patti Davis
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With the heartfelt prose of a loving daughter, Patti Davis provides a life raft for the caregivers … read more
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15. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- nonfiction
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
16. Bestiary
By: K-Ming Chang
3.44
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more
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"It was a relief to love something already dead."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
17. The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
By: Thomas Morris
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions, A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick … read more
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18. Spoiler Alert: You're Gonna Die
By: Korttany Finn
3.90
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
One thing you can count on in life is the fact that you are going to die. How’s that for a buzzkill… read more
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- death
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- audiobook
19. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- medical
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- nonfiction
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"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
20. A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective
By: Françoise Vergès
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN… read more
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21. We Cast a Shadow
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father who wil… read more
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22. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from se… read more
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23. Inconvenient Daughter
By: Lauren J. Sharkey
3.42
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A vibrant and provocative debut novel that dispels myths surrounding transracial adoption. Rowan… read more
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24. In the Country of Women
By: Susan Straight
3.98
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a white self… read more
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25. Infinite Detail
By: Tim Maughan
3.72
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
Before: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the constant surve… read more
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26. We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption
By: Kaira Jewel Lingo
4.43
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In ten concise chapters, you’ll learn powerful ways to meet life’s challenges with wisdom, resilien… read more
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27. On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
By: Lynn Casteel Harper
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Eula Biss’s On Immunity, and Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath … read more
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- science
28. Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s
By: Dale Maharidge
3.52
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Dale Maharidge has spent his career documenting the downward spir… read more
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29. Understanding the Changing Brain: A Positive Approach to Dementia Care
By: Teepa Snow
4.06
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
You can continue living a meaningful life - even if Alzheimer Disease, Lewy Body, Frontotemporal, o… read more
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30. Future Tense: How We Made Artificial Intelligence—and How It Will Change Everything
By: Martha Brockenbrough
3.99
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
Human history has always been shaped by technology, but AI is like no technology that has come befo… read more
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31. The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class
By: Jim Tankersley
3.88
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and r… read more
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