Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
By: Akash Kapur
3.73
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN , New Statesman, Air…
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1. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner
4.40
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more
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"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
2. Two Serious Ladies
By: Jane Bowles
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfiel… read more
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3. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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4. Un roman russe
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
La folie et l'horreur ont obsédé ma vie. Les livres que j'ai écrits ne parlent de rien d'autre. Apr… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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6. Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Linda Coverdale
3.48
Format: 241 pages, ebook
From the acclaimed Emmanuel Carrere, an act of generous imagination that unflinchingly records deva… read more
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7. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
By: Arundhati Roy
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more
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8. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone
By: Richard Lloyd Parry
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of nort… read more
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9. The Carpet Makers
By: Orson Scott Card , Andreas Eschbach , None
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Since the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of th… read more
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10. Divisadero
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated author of The English Patientand Anil's Ghostcomes a remarkable, intimate novel… read more
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11. Slaves in the Family
By: Edward Ball
3.93
Format: 265 pages,
Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the… read more
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12. Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
By: Tyler Cowen
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The art and science of talent how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people. How do… read more
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13. Yoga
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.87
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression. La méditation et le terrorisme. L'aspirat… read more
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14. The New Naturals
By: Gabriel Bump
2.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, a touching, timely n… read more
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15. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Whale
By: Cheon Myeong-Kwan
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot… read more
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17. Are You Willing to Die for the Cause
By: Chris Oliveros
4.09
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into a contentious and dramatic period in Canadian history―the rise of a militant separ… read more
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- history
18. Com un batec en un micròfon
By: Clara Queraltó
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Amb el carnet de conduir acabat d’estrenar, la Gabriela puja a passar l’estiu al poble de l’avi, on… read more
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19. Red Pill
By: Hari Kunzru
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a w… read more
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- audiobook
"Now what I think of when I think of my “self"-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
"You do strike me more as the secular type. A believer in progress, religion of the liberals."-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
"Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality."-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
"Ο άνθρωπος μόνος του είναι κρέας για τους λύκους. Έτσι μας θέλουν. Απομονωμένους. Θηράματα. Άρα πρέπει να βρούμε ο ένας τον άλλον. Πρέπει να θυμόμαστε ότι δεν μπορούμε να υπάρξουμε μόνοι."-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
20. Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong
By: Giles Yeo
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Cambridge obesity researcher upends everything we thought we knew about calories and calorie-coun… read more
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21. Acts of God
By: Kanan Gill
3.92
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
Channelling the craft of Neil Gaiman, the humour of Douglas Adams and the genius of Terry Pratchett… read more
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22. All of This
By: Rebecca Woolf
3.93
Format: 256 pages, ebook
"Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir."--ROXANE GA… read more
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23. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir
By: Ai Weiwei
3.74
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei… read more
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24. The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
By: C.J. Hauser
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essa… read more
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"What were you told had to happen in a story for it to feel complete?"-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"The Story rules are coming from inside the house. And the house always wins."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"How do we talk about the loss of a thing for which their is no word? The lack of a word implies that it was never anything. It was never real."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"I'm starting to think that living a dramatic, story-worthy life and happiness are, at worst, mutually exclusive, and, at best, giving each other a run for their money."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
25. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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26. On Java Road
By: Lawrence Osborne
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A veteran journalist in Hong Kong is caught in a shadowy web of tr… read more
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27. The Good Ones
By: Polly Stewart
3.19
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing work of literary suspense that illuminates the push and pull of female friendship and… read more
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28. What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You
By: Heather Corinna
3.97
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
An informative, blisteringly funny, somewhat cranky and always spot-on guide to perimenopause and m… read more
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"Menopause isn't "Cocoon." Sorry."-Heather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You
"[As in puberty,] There will be tears. And anger. And tragically unfortunate haircuts."-Heather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You
"Have no shame ... as another woman friend of mine counseled with perfect sincerity and cheer: 'Just gain the 25 pounds. I really think I would not have survived menopause--AND the death of my mother-…"-Heather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You
"Messages we get about menopause more often tell us we must keep ourselves from much of what we want and need in this time. It's easy to get the idea that life in and after menopause is going to be li…"-Heather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You
29. What's Left of Me Is Yours
By: Stephanie Scott
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, for readers of Everything I … read more
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"Some words are buried, others are even burned, but over the years they reemerge, ringing out like temple bells, rising above the din."-Stephanie Scott, What's Left of Me Is Yours
"That afternoon, alone on the floor of my grandfather's study, looking at those words, I realized that of all the lies we are told, the very best ones are close to the truth."-Stephanie Scott, What's Left of Me Is Yours
"That evening in Meguro, standing outside the white metal gate of the house I still shared with my grandfather, I realized I had not seen my home clearly in quite some time. The image I had created in…"-Stephanie Scott, What's Left of Me Is Yours
"We erase events from our lives, experiences that do not fit in with the stories we tell ourselves. Still, there are some memories that hover on the periphery. They reach out to you from another time …"-Stephanie Scott, What's Left of Me Is Yours
30. People Like Them
By: Samira Sedira
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A prizewinning, riveting (The New York Times Book Review) psychological suspense novel inspired by … read more
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31. Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
By: Akash Kapur
3.73
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN , New Statesman, Air… read more
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