Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title
By: Leslie Gray Streeter
4.30
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
With her signature warmth and hilarity, Leslie Gray Streeter offers us a portrait of widowhood we h…
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1. The Michigan Murders
By: Edward Keyes
4.50
Format: 168 pages,
Between July 1967 and July 1969, seven sexual murders were committed in Michigan with horrifying fu… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
2. Confessions of a Mediocre Widow: Or, How I Lost My Husband and My Sanity
By: None
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
I spent my 11th wedding anniversary planning my husband's funeral. If I could just figure out how t… read more
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3. Meet the Austins
By: Madeleine L'Engle
3.79
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
A revised edition, including one section of the manuscript that was omitted in the original publica… read more
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4. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
By: Harrison Scott Key
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
5. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
6. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
7. River Mumma
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
8. Fighting Words
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had … read more
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- audiobook
- family
- contemporary
"Broken bones take a long time to heal. Why shouldn't brains?"-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Fighting Words
"Sometimes you've got a story you need to find the courage to tell."-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Fighting Words
"This is to remind me of the best day of my life." She looks down at me. For a wonder, she smiles back. "When was that?" she asks. "Tomorrow," I say."-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Fighting Words
9. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
By: Elizabeth Winkler
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shak… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
11. Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
By: Joanne Cacciatore
4.42
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. Dr.… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- death
"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
12. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
By: Whoopi Goldberg
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
13. Rebecca, Not Becky
By: Christine Platt
3.51
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
14. Hope
By: Andrew Ridker
3.67
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more
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- audiobook
- family
- contemporary
15. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
By: Jen Psaki
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
16. To Slip the Bonds of Earth (Katharine Wright, #1)
By: Amanda Flower
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, K… read more
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- adult
- family
- audiobook
17. What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love
By: Laurel Braitman
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A true story about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become. “What Looks L… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
By: Alexandra Petri
3.67
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri’s US History is the fake textbook … read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
19. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
20. Welcome to the Grief Club: Because You Don't Have to Go Through It Alone
By: Janine Kwoh
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the club that no one ever wants to join but so many of us end up needing. We’re so sorry… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
21. This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained
By: Cara Natterson
4.28
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate roadmap for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty. … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
22. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
By: Kristine S. Ervin
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
23. I Curse You With Joy
By: Tiffany Haddish
3.95
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
Tiffany Haddish is back with her highly anticipated new essay collection, I Curse You With Joy … read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Representation isn’t just checking off boxes, it’s validating experience."-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy
"What I was learning was, in its own fucked up way, no feelings was as bad as too many."-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy
"I wish that men got endometriosis. If it was painful when they ejaculated, you know they would find a cure immediately and every doctor would know what to do to make it less painful, even a foot doct…"-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy
"Going through all that, taught me that you get to choose your response when you are afraid. You might not be able to control everything that happens to you but you do get to control how you respond t…"-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy
24. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"
By: Emily Raboteau
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
26. The Girls of Summer
By: Katie Bishop
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in tho… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
27. No Happy Endings
By: Nora McInerny Purmort
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interv… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
By: Erika Hayasaki
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, eac… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
29. What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman
By: Lerita Coleman Brown
4.58
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the worl… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title
By: Leslie Gray Streeter
4.30
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
With her signature warmth and hilarity, Leslie Gray Streeter offers us a portrait of widowhood we h… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
31. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography
By: RoseMarie Terenzio
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look … read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
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