Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life
By: Diane Cardwell
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The inspirational story of one woman learning to surf and creating a new life in gritty, eccentric…
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1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
By: William Finnegan
4.27
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
2. All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride
By: Jaimal Yogis
4.25
Format: 272 pages, ebook
In this meditative memoir—a compelling fusion of Barbarian Days and the journals of Thomas Merton—t… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
3. The Machine Crusade (Legends of Dune, #2)
By: Brian Herbert , Kevin J. Anderson
3.79
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover edition located . The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian H… read more
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4. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
5. Along the Infinite Sea
By: Beatriz Williams
4.32
Format: 650 pages, Hardcover
Each of the three Schuyler sisters has her own world-class problems, but in the autumn of 1966, Pep… read more
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6. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
By: Robert M. Pirsig
3.78
Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more
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"This forest silence improves anyone."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"The more you read, the more you calm down."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
7. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship… read more
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8. The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
By: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel--the setting of the New York … read more
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9. It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
By: Lynsey Addario
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit … read more
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10. Little Witch
By: Helen Stone , None
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Minikin Snickasnee - called Minx for short - was nine years old and wished with all her heart that … read more
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11. West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief
By: Steven Kotler
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
A spiritual and scientific surf quest. After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven K… read more
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12. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
By: Ruth Kassinger
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of… read more
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- nonfiction
13. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
14. Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales
By: Doreen Cunningham
3.92
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
15. Snow, Glass, Apples
By: Neil Gaiman
4.07
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and C… read more
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"I will not scream. I will not give them that satisfaction. They will have my body, but my soul and my story are my own, and will die with me."-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples
"Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life."-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples
16. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
17. In Waves
By: A.J. Dungo
4.37
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner and the shared lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
- biography
- memoir
18. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more
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- nonfiction
19. 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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- nonfiction
- sports
- biography
- memoir
20. The Nazis Knew My Name
By: Magda Hellinger
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped ) memoir by a Holoca… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
21. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
By: Timothy Egan
4.12
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Ti… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"I don't expect a miracle cure, but I have found that wishing for one is the most humbling form of prayer."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"Poverty is the ultimate freedom. You can't rob someone who has no possessions. You can't insult a person without pride."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"The audacity. Not only was she (Joan of Arc) a peasant girl, unschooled and clueless in the ways of power, class and the military strategy, weaponry, the mechanics of a siege, but was determined to g…"-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
22. Properties of Thirst
By: Marianne Wiggins
4.17
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evi… read more
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23. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
By: Elizabeth Beller
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
24. The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
By: Andrew Yang
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asi… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Fever
By: Mary Beth Keane
3.73
Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first known healthy carrier … read more
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26. The Swell
By: Allie Reynolds
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangero… read more
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27. Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening
By: Liz Clark
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
True surfers understand that surfing is not a sport, a hobby or even a lifestyle. Instead, it is a … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- outdoors
28. Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir
By: Brianna Madia
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and triumphant memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Ver… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
29. Ordinary Girls
By: Jaquira Díaz
4.03
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Jul… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I was there a couple of years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that yo…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"Every time I leave Miami, I tell myself I'm never coming back, only to end up right back where I started. I leave and come back again and again. Miami, like my family, is a place you learn to love an…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"All these years later, I'll be back on that dance floor. I will be swaying and the music will fill me and I will be a girl again. My friends will be there, and we'll dance all night, one song after a…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
30. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
31. Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life
By: Diane Cardwell
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The inspirational story of one woman learning to surf and creating a new life in gritty, eccentric… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- sports
- outdoors
