Dear Oliver: An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks
By: Susan R. Barry
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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1. Skeletons at the Feast
By: Chris Bohjalian
4.00
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest jo… read more
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"She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself."-Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast
"When this war was over, he and his family--all Germans--were going to have to live with the black mark of this (whatever this was) for a long, long time. "-Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast
2. Til We Meet Again: A Memoir of Love and War
By: Craig Borlase , Ray Whipps , Betty Whipps
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Ray and Betty Whipps both served in Europe during WWII: Ray as an infantryman under General Patton … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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3. On Chesil Beach
By: Ian McEwan
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more
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4. The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
By: Anderson Cooper , Gloria Vanderbilt
3.33
Format: 161 pages, ebook
A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, o… read more
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5. Atonement
By: Ian McEwan
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides a… read more
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6. The River of Consciousness
By: Oliver Sacks
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, andMusicophilia, a collection of essays tha… read more
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7. The Shell Seekers
By: Rosamunde Pilcher
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
The Shell Seekersis a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that h… read more
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8. Murder on Black Swan Lane (A Wrexford & Sloane Mystery, #1)
By: Andrea Penrose
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Regency London, an unconventional scientist and a fearless female artist form an unlikely allian… read more
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9. The Essex Serpent
By: Sarah Perry
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more
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10. The Princess of Las Vegas
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more
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11. The Mother
By: T.M. Logan
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Framed for murder. Now she's free . . . A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and w… read more
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12. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
13. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
14. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
15. My Name Is Barbra
By: Barbra Streisand
4.20
Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
16. Sipsworth
By: Simon Van Booy
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more
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17. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
By: Anderson Cooper
3.82
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestsell… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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18. Reykjavík: A Crime Story
By: Ragnar Jónasson
3.66
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, bri… read more
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19. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
By: Brad Gooch
4.39
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
“It’s all the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
20. Good Night, Irene
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
4.14
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more
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"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene
21. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
22. In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist
By: Sohom Das
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that h… read more
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23. The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
By: Guy Leschziner
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narco… read more
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24. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
25. Shelterwood
By: Lisa Wingate
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more
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"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
26. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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- nonfiction
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
27. Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
By: Keren Blankfeld
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Mesmerizing and inspirational.”—Judy Batalion, New York Times bestselling author of The Light of D… read more
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- biography
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28. The Twilight Garden
By: Sara Nisha Adams
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There's life all around you, if you just take the time to look for it... In a small pocket of th… read more
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29. Dear Oliver: An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks
By: Susan R. Barry
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this intimate and inspiring book, Susan Barry shares the heartfelt letters through which she and… read more
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- writing
30. Locust in the Sandbox
By: Cynthia Gray
3.88
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, Josie Bee Johnson is on her way to visit Sixteenth Street Ba… read more
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