Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
By: Kate Pickert
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The science, culture and history of breast cancer as told by a reporter who survived it As a hea…
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1. Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
By: Karen Lindsey , Marcia Williams , Susan M. Love
3.93
Format: None pages,
Recent research is rapidly changing the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of breast cancer. Just a… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- health
2. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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3. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
4. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
5. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
6. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- science
7. Interesting Facts about Space
By: Emily R. Austin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more
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- audiobook
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
8. When He Dares (Olympus Pride, #6)
By: Suzanne Wright
4.27
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Get painfully rejected by true mate. Check. Join a website for shifters seeking an arranged mating… read more
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"Do you think they're dead? No. Satan protects his minions. - about Alex's uncles"-Suzanne Wright, When He Dares (Olympus Pride, #6)
9. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
By: Barbara K. Lipska
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- nonfiction
- science
"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
10. Small Joys
By: Elvin James Mensah
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chos… read more
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- audiobook
"He was tired of there being something shameful or unsettling about the blunt expression of friendship, of the simple desire to be there for someone needing to be mocked before it could be respected, …"-Elvin James Mensah, Small Joys
11. Linea Nigra
By: Jazmina Barrera
4.30
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Simultaneously a work of collaboration between mother and child and a diary of worry and joy, Linea… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Una amiga me contó de Mary Shelley, que estaba embarazada mientras escribía Frankenstein. Era evidente, y sin embargo todas las veces que leí la novela no lo había visto: Frankenstein es una histori…"-Jazmina Barrera, Linea Nigra
12. I Hope This Finds You Well
By: Natalie Sue
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more
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- audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
13. The Undying
By: Anne Boyer
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggr… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
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- nonfiction
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"Amnesia is vice-president to pain and the mother of philosophy."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"You will understand, I hope, that because of all of this, every pink ribbon looks like the flag of a conqueror stuck in a woman's grave."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"As soon as a patient lies down on the exam table, she has laid down her life on a bed of narrowed answers, but the questions are never sufficiently clear."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"A person who complains about any aspect of breast cancer treatment in public is often drowned out by a chorus of people, many of whom have never had cancer, accusing her of ingratitude, saying she is…"-Anne Boyer, The Undying
14. Bitch: On the Female of the Species
By: Lucy Cooke
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
15. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
4.30
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more
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- biography
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"Home is not something I should have to earn."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
16. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
By: Jane Wong
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing u… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
17. Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates
By: Katie Barnes
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women’s sports and the controversy surroun… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
18. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
19. The History of Sound: Stories
By: Ben Shattuck
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more
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- audiobook
"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories
"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories
20. Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
By: Kate Pickert
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The science, culture and history of breast cancer as told by a reporter who survived it As a hea… read more
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- memoir
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- health
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