Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
By: Lauren Slater
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
A groundbreaking and revelatory history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilar…
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1. When Rabbit Howls
By: Truddi Chase , None
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Truddi Chase began therapy to discover why she suffered from blackouts. What surfaced was terrifyin… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
"I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters."-Truddi Chase, When Rabbit Howls
2. An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.44
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Her own powerful story up to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction. With an intr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"I sank deep into the moment, husbanding this delight, hoarding it. For I knew it would be short-lived. Work. Struggle. Confrontation lay before us like a rock-strewn road. We would walk it ... But fi…"-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography
"This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harde…"-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography
3. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
By: Rich Cohen
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and Sweet and LowWhe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
4. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
By: Robert Whitaker
4.17
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker in… read more
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- history
- health
- medical
- medicine
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- science
"...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)"-Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
"If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medication…"-Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
"And what science had revealed was this: Prior to treatment, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric disorders do not suffer from any known "chemical imbalance". Howev…"-Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
5. Negroland
By: Margo Jefferson
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac--here is a deeply … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- audiobook
6. Untitled (Once & Future, #1)
By: None , None , A.R. Capetta
3.87
Format: 160 pages,
Aubrey Poole at Little, Brown/Jimmy Patterson has acquired, at auction, North American rights to Am… read more
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7. The Skeleton Cupboard: Stories from a clinical psychologist
By: Tanya Byron
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her years of training as a clinical psy… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Every Fifteen Minutes
By: Lisa Scottoline
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A visceral thriller, which brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, in the q… read more
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- audiobook
9. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
By: Kate Atkinson
3.00
Format: None pages,
Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whi… read more
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10. Always Watching
By: Chevy Stevens
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
She helps people put their demons to rest. But she has a few of her own... In the lockdown ward of … read more
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11. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more
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12. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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13. The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
By: Stephen Grosz
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Echoing Socrates' time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanaly… read more
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14. Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
By: James Davies
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Controversial and powerful - a shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psy… read more
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15. Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
By: Marc Lewis
4.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A gripping, ultimately triumphant memoir that's also the most comprehensive and comprehensible stud… read more
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16. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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17. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
By: Elise Loehnen
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
- audiobook
"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
18. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
By: Katherine Eban
4.42
Format: 512 pages, ebook
Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health dev… read more
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- science
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- science
- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
20. Alice Isn't Dead
By: Joseph Fink
3.62
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a tru… read more
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- audiobook
"Happiness is not negated by subsequent pain."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
"The only way to be brave is to first be afraid."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
"Inside she would be a vessel of fluids and mourning."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
"The stories of old women are the quiet, overlooked fabric of history."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
21. Cost of Living: Essays
By: Emily Maloney
3.59
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The searing intimacy of Girl, Interrupted combined with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exa… read more
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- science
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Wolf at the Table
By: Adam Rapp
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a … read more
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- audiobook
23. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
By: Sam Quinones
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more
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- history
- health
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
24. Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
By: Mark Epstein
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is … read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"The ego's instinctive favoring of itself is eroded by a sense of the infinite"-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
"There is much self-esteem to be gained from learning how and when to surrender."-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
"The most important events in our lives, from falling in love to giving birth to facing death, all require the ego to let go."-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
"We are already equipped to meet whatever befalls us. Life's challenges are challenging, but there is room for faith, for confidence, even for optimism."-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
25. The Girls at 17 Swann Street
By: Yara Zgheib
3.97
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, … read more
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- mental health
- audiobook
"I do not suffer from anorexia, I have anorexia. The two states are not the same. I know my anorexia, I understand it better than the world around me."-Yara Zgheib, The Girls at 17 Swann Street
26. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
By: Ramie Targoff
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
27. Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
By: Lily Bailey
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a … read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"For as long as I could remember, I wasn't me, I was me."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"I suppose I should be thankful that if I have to go mad, at least I get to do it in a fashionable, aristocratic way."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"I’d love to learn everything all over again, but learn it right this time. I’d love to return my brain to factory settings."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"Two of us sat side by side in my head, woven together, inseparable. She didn't even have a name; she was just She. Really, it was hard to say where She ended and I began. But food was not shared with…"-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
28. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
By: Keith O'Brien
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air ra… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
29. Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
By: Roy Richard Grinker
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining… read more
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- history
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- science
". . . symptoms of mental illnesses are inevitably local."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
"The value of any diagnosis is what it has to offer the sufferer."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
". . . illnesses that derive from the stresses of war come in many different forms. Every war has its own syndromes."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
". . . mental illness categories are just temporary names or frameworks to help us understand patterns of behavior that cause suffering."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
30. Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
By: Lauren Slater
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
A groundbreaking and revelatory history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilar… read more
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- psychology
- mental health
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