Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
By: David Giffels
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“A lifetime’s worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a fa…
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1. Living at the End of Life: A Hospice Nurse Addresses the Most Common Questions
By: Karen Whitley Bell
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What’s going to happen? How will we manage? There are things I still want to do. I’m afraid… As de… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
2. The Cellist of Sarajevo
By: Steven Galloway
4.00
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
This brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the st… read more
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- audiobook
"A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"The choices she's made have left her without choice."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
3. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
4. The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
By: Theresa Brown
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Timescolumnist Theresa Br… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
5. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
6. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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- audiobook
"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
7. Days Without End
By: Sebastian Barry
2.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… read more
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8. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Andrea Lankford
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
9. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
By: Susan Cain
3.98
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
10. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
11. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
By: Oliver Darkshire
3.97
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
12. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Upright Women Wanted
By: Sarah Gailey
3.61
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway. She… read more
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- audiobook
"Just because he needed killing doesn't mean I can sleep easy."-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"You really believe all that? About how there’s only one end in sight for people like you?"-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she."-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"Good," Esther said back, echoing Cye's words automatically because she didn't know what else to say, because you have a freckle on your bottom lip seemed like the wrong thing to say but it was the on…"-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
15. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
By: Weiwei Ai
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
16. Everyone Knows You Go Home
By: Natalia Sylvester
4.03
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
An International Latino Book Award winner. The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, … read more
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- audiobook
"He recognized his own fear in them, and now that he knows what it looks like he sees it everywhere — in the man who pumps gas across the street, in the teenage girls who stumble down the sidewalk, in…"-Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home
"there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether it was a burden or a blessing, it was hers to keep. She’d known better than …"-Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home
17. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- death
18. The High Tide Club
By: Mary Kay Andrews
4.04
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Weekenders comes a delightful new novel about new… read more
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- audiobook
19. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
By: Laurie Zaleski
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Z… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"That was the end of church for Mom. She retained custody of the kids, and Dad got custody of God."-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
"Many years ago, I made up my mind that, even if a person is 95 percent bad, you focus on the 5 percent that's good and decent---that's what you hold on to."-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
20. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
By: Sue Black
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
21. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
22. The Kitchen Front
By: Jennifer Ryan
3.97
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
In a new World War II-set story from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, four wom… read more
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- audiobook
23. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Which Way Tree
By: Elizabeth Crook
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The poignant odyssey of a tenacious young girl who braves the dangers of the Texas frontier to aven… read more
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- audiobook
25. Mortal Follies
By: Alexis Hall
3.43
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A young noblewoman must pair up with a rumoured witch to ward off a curse. It is the year 1814 a… read more
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- audiobook
"I’ve half a mind to seek her out right now and tell her to corrupt my daughter immediately"-Alexis Hall, Mortal Follies
26. Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
By: Reid Mitenbuler
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greates… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. The Lost Story
By: Meg Shaffer
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more
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- audiobook
28. Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan
By: Eileen Rivers
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Eileen Rivers, comes a riveting account of three women who fought in … read more
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- nonfiction
29. Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
By: David Giffels
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“A lifetime’s worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a fa… read more
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- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction
By: Dave Kindred
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Dave Kindred's extraordinary investigation of the death of his grandson yields a powerful memoir of… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist
By: Jane Rosenberg
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of America's top courtroom… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
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