Lights to Guide Me Home: A Journey Off the Beaten Track in Life, Love, Adventure, and Parenting
By: Meghan J. Ward
4.12
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
This debut memoir is at once a captivating travelogue and an introspective look at what it takes to…
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1. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more
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- nature
2. Ragged Company
By: Richard Wagamese
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Four chronically homeless people-Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger-seek refuge in a wa… read more
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3. A Million Little Pieces
By: James Frey
3.72
Format: 134 pages,
Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehab… read more
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4. A Banquet of Consequences (Inspector Lynley, #19)
By: Elizabeth George
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Inspector Lynley investigates the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, with Barbara H… read more
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5. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
By: Cea Sunrise Person
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castleand Wild,Cea Sunrise Person's compel… read more
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6. There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids
By: Linda Åkeson McGurk
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"A perfect antidote to the hyper-vigilant, extra-electrified, standardized-tested, house-arrested, … read more
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7. When the Angels Left the Old Country
By: Sacha Lamb
4.27
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power o… read more
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8. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
9. 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go
By: Jay Shetty
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every… read more
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10. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
By: Pooja Lakshmin
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From board-certified psychiatrist and women's mental health specialist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a … read more
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11. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
12. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
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13. Nowhere for Very Long
By: Brianna Madia
4.11
Format: 304 pages, ebook
In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more
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- travel
- memoir
- nature
- adventure
"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long
14. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
15. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
By: Caroline Van Hemert
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Paci… read more
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- travel
- memoir
- nature
- adventure
"In life, we're always closer to the edge than we like to admit, never guaranteed our next breath, never sure of what will follow this moment. We're human. We're vulnerable. With love comes the risk o…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
"About Northern Wheatears: ...birds from Alaska flew nine thousand miles to Kenya; those from Canada crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter in Mauritania. For young birds, just a few weeks old, this…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
16. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
17. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By: Jesse Thistle
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more
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18. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
By: Brett Popplewell
4.31
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of… read more
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- memoir
- nature
- adventure
19. All the Quiet Places
By: Brian Thomas Isaac
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more
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20. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
By: Kristi Coulter
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more
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21. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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22. The Glassmaker
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more
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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
23. The White Mosque
By: Sofia Samatar
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, … read more
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- travel
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24. Manmade Monsters
By: Andrea L. Rogers
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-… read more
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25. More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood
By: Majka Burhardt
4.01
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
An intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world's top ice climbers, born at the conf… read more
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26. A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among Mountains
By: Graham Zimmerman
4.07
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
" A Fine Line reveals the realities of climbing and highlights an intentional approach to reaching … read more
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- nature
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27. End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood
By: Jan Redford
3.96
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild comes this funny and gritty debut memoir in which Jan Red… read more
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28. Lights to Guide Me Home: A Journey Off the Beaten Track in Life, Love, Adventure, and Parenting
By: Meghan J. Ward
4.12
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
This debut memoir is at once a captivating travelogue and an introspective look at what it takes to… read more
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29. A Story of Karma: Finding Love and Truth in the Lost Valley of the Himalaya
By: Michael Schauch
4.36
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
WINNER of the 2021 Readers Favorite Book Award (Non-Fiction Adventure) In 2012, Michael Schauch … read more
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30. Searching for Happy Valley: A Modern Quest for Shangri-La
By: Jane Marshall
4.38
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A global quest to comprehend the meaning of “Happy Valley” on three continents and how these mounta… read more
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31. The Art of Misadventure
By: Curtis Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Experience the quirky missteps, humorous adventures, and professional development of a renowned Can… read more
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