This Chair Rocks
By: Ashton Applewhite
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an …
Want to Read $ 11.99"Fear of dying is human. Fear of aging is cultural."-Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks
"Fear of dying is human. Fear of aging is cultural."-Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks
"Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality."-Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks
"Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality."-Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks
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1. Younger Next Year for Women
By: Chris Crowley , Henry S. Lodge
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You're coming into the peak of your life. And because you're already more attuned to your physical … read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- health
2. The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
By: George Howe Colt
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
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3. 1968: The Year That Rocked the World
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
Brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of the pivotal year of 1968, when televis… read more
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4. Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
By: Pema Chödrön , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness… read more
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5. Devil at My Heels
By: Louis Zamperini , David Rensin
3.86
Format: None pages,
The inspirational and extraordinarymemoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation,… read more
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6. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
By: Terry Tempest Williams
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more
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7. Now and Forever
By: Ray Bradbury
3.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two never-before-published novellas by one of America's finest living writers, Ray Bradbury. A jour… read more
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8. The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications (The ParentData Series Book 4)
By: Emily Oster
3.85
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better, a guide to navigating a second preg… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
11. Permanent Astonishment
By: Tomson Highway
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Last Thing You Surrender
By: Leonard Pitts Jr.
4.65
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Leonard Pitts Jr.’s new historical page-… read more
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"Make sure your decency, your humanity, is the last thing you give up."-Leonard Pitts Jr., The Last Thing You Surrender
13. Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live
By: Becca Levy
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Recipient of the 2023 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Book Award Yale professor and leading e… read more
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- self help
- health
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
14. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
By: Louise Aronson
3.97
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's E… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- health
15. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
By: Elizabeth Crane
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
By: Haben Girma
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Audiobook
Born with deaf-blindness, Girma grew up with enough vision to know when someone was in front of her… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Communities designed with just one kind of person in mind isolate those of us defying our narrow definition of personhood."-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"Sighted or blind, Deaf or hearing, each of us holds just the tiniest fraction of the world's wisdom. Admitting we don't know everything will aid us on this Trek for Knowledge."-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"It's a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I'm disabled. They…"-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"Here at LCB, I'm surrounded by people who understand that blindness is just limited eyesight. With the right tools and training, blind people can compete as equals with sighted peers. Places like LCB…"-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
17. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
18. The Heirloom Gardener: Traditional Plants and Skills for the Modern World
By: John Forti
3.98
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
“Part essay collection, part gardening guide, The Heirloom Gardener encourages readers to embrace… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
By: Mary Gabriel
4.52
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
By: Corey Keyes
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Emory University sociologist who coined the term languishing—low-grade mental weariness that af… read more
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- self help
- health
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
21. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
By: Joy Buolamwini
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
By: Mary Pipher
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a… read more
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- health
- feminism
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sociology
- self help
"Working on my book about refugees, I learned a great deal about trauma and recover, and with the help of the people I spoke with developed what I called "a healing package of treatments." These treat…"-Mary Pipher, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
23. How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon
By: Lyn Slater
3.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characte… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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- sociology
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
25. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
By: Natalie Dykstra
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Last Ones Left Alive
By: Sarah Davis-Goff
3.52
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Watch your six. Beware tall buildings. Always have your knives. Growing up on a tiny island off … read more
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- audiobook
27. The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
By: Maggie Doherty
4.05
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
An important debut work of narrative nonfiction: the timely, never-before-told story of five brilli… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
28. Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
By: Rachel Sherman
3.62
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society Fr… read more
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- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
29. This Chair Rocks
By: Ashton Applewhite
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an … read more
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- self help
- health
- feminism
- politics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
"Fear of dying is human. Fear of aging is cultural."-Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks
"Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality."-Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks
"Why not, above all, learn to look more generously at each other as well as at ourselves?"-Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks
"We don’t ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?"-Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks
30. Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer
By: Avrum Bluming
4.34
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A compelling defense of hormone replacement therapy, exposing the faulty science behind its fall fr… read more
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- audiobook
- health
- feminism
- nonfiction
- self help
31. Ageism Unmasked: Exploring Age Bias and How to End It
By: Tracey Gendron
3.70
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do we still tolerate stereotypes and discrimination based on age? This bold account of the h… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
