7 must-read nonfiction books like Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid by William W. Forgey

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Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid

By: William W. Forgey

4.06

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Tells how to recognize, assess, and treat many kinds of medical emergencies in the wilderness. This…

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1. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

By: Judy Blume

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are p… read more

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2. Deenie

By: Judy Blume

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of th… read more

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3. Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.85

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – … read more

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"The appetites of the body were private battles."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

"She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

"It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men"

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

"Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

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4. The Rules of Magic

By: Alice Hoffman

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Find your magic For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was char… read more

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5. The Good Funeral: Death, Grief, and the Community of Care

By: Thomas Lynch , Thomas G. Long

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to di… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

7. The Burgess Boys

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the pub… read more

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8. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

By: Simon Sinek

3.50

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Why do you do what you do? Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential,… read more

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9. Anything Is Possible

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.20

Format: None pages,

Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more

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10. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

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"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

11. First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

By: Bee Wilson

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

We are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ou… read more

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12. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

By: Jordan B. Peterson

3.92

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's ans… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Treat yourself like you would someone you're responsible for helping."

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living - and the Ideal shames us all."

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of …"

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome …"

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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13. Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. The Beekeeper of Aleppo

By: Christy Lefteri

4.17

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

The unforgettable love story of a mother blinded by loss and her husband who insists on their survi… read more

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"It takes bravery to cry out, to release what is in your heart."

-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

"Inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know."

-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

"Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness."

-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

"You see?" he whispered. "You see? You have to relax and turn into nature. Then you will be fine"

-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

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15. The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (The ParentData Series)

By: Emily Oster

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller! “Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts … read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Brood

By: Jackie Polzin

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A new literary voice--wryly funny, honest and observational,--depicts one woman's attempt to keep h… read more

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"Life is the ongoing effort to live. Some people make it look easy. Chickens do not."

-Jackie Polzin, Brood

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17. The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

By: Steve Leder

4.45

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The national bestseller From the author of the bestselling More Beautiful Than Before comes an … read more

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  • nonfiction
"This is the beauty and the tragedy of my father's life and death. For him, for me, for most of us at the time, for better and for worse, death is life's mirror."

-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

"Understanding death - its rituals, its lessons, its gift to reshape love through memory, its grief, its powerful reminder that it is not what but who we have that matters - gives our lives exquisite …"

-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

"It is the impermanence of the body that has convinced me of the eternality of the soul. Physics tells us that energy never dies, it merely assumes a different form. I never feel this more deeply than…"

-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

"When you show people a picture of a circle with a small wedge cut out of it, their eyes first go to the missing piece every time. It is easy among the doctors, the needles, and the tubes to lose sigh…"

-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

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18. The Rocket Years: How Your Twenties Launch the Rest of Your Life

By: Elizabeth Segran

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Defining Decade for the #Adulting generation—a book that blends storytelling and data to unpack… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid

By: William W. Forgey

4.06

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Tells how to recognize, assess, and treat many kinds of medical emergencies in the wilderness. This… read more

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  • survival
  • health
  • medicine
  • research
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • outdoors

18 must-read fiction books like The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

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Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

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