Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn
By: Carl Rollyson
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The first full biography of the great American journalist and traveler, who reported on wars from S…
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- journalism
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
By: Lesley M.M. Blume
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
3. Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage
By: Ruth A. Hawkins
3.96
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
It was the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates in which Pauline Pfeiffer, a wr… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
4. Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories (Harry Bosch, #16.1)
By: Michael Connelly
3.95
Format: None pages,
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch as we've never seen him before, in three never-before-collected stories.… read more
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5. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
6. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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7. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
By: Bianca Marais
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apart… read more
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8. Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)
By: John Sandford
4.36
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel … read more
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9. Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)
By: John Sandford
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest p… read more
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10. Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
By: Mary Rodgers
4.24
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Mary Rodgers Guettel--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried eve… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
11. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- nonfiction
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
12. Dark Angel (Letty Davenport, #2)
By: John Sandford
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
First, "Investigator,' now 'Dark Angel.' A stunning new series from John Sandford. This time we … read more
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13. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
14. The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
By: Catherine Grace Katz
4.10
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fa… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
15. Chances Are...
By: Richard Russo
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a … read more
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"The only thing a warrior cannot fight is her own fierce nature."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"Fear is what makes us human and it is in overcoming fear that we show our strength."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"I don't know this song. They haven't taught me it to us at school." " When in doubt, just do what I do, Robs. Hum if you don't know the words"-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"Bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang, bang. It seemed that only policemen and social workers—people who wanted to take you away—announced their arrival in that way."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
16. Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
By: Laurie Notaro
3.97
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife. L… read more
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- nonfiction
17. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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- nonfiction
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
18. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
By: Ron Howard
4.27
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben—these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
19. Christy
By: Catherine Marshall
4.24
Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition
The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Car… read more
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"Truth could never be wholly contained in words."-Catherine Marshall, Christy
"I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered."-Catherine Marshall, Christy
"The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'."-Catherine Marshall, Christy
"Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains."-Catherine Marshall, Christy
20. The Investigator (Letty Davenport, #1)
By: John Sandford
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investi… read more
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21. Jackie After Jack: Portrait of the Lady (The Jackie [Kennedy] Chronicles)
By: Christopher Andersen
4.28
Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition
Compelling." ---People "Undeniably a guilty pleasure." ---Newsweek "Comes closest to making Jacki… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
22. The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.32
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the myst… read more
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"The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen."-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
"People don't realize how desolate you feel. How this ache never goes; it's like a weight in the middle of the body, a bad ache in the gut every single day. And the thing is, it's not simply a case of…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
23. The Tide Between Us: An Irish-Caribbean Story of Slavery & Emancipation (The O'Neill Trilogy Book 1)
By: Olive Collins
4.19
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
1821: Among the thousands of Irish deportees to the Caribbean British Colonies is a 10-year-old Iri… read more
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24. Mrs Van Gogh
By: Caroline Cauchi
3.83
Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition
She’s been painted out of history…until now Who tells her story? In 1890, Vincent Van Gogh di… read more
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25. The Innocents
By: Michael Crummey
3.78
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother … read more
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"A body must bear what can't be helped."-Michael Crummey, The Innocents
26. Big Summer
By: Jennifer Weiner
3.59
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “nothing short of brilliant” (People) Mrs. Everythi… read more
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"Research shows that shaming fat folks into thinness doesn't work. And come on if it did, most of the fat women in the world would have probably disappeared by now"-Jennifer Weiner, Big Summer
"When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world. And these days, they're all online"-Jennifer Weiner, Big Summer
"You are fine, just the way you are... Bodies come in all shapes and sized. Don't let anyone make you feel any differently. I wanted to believe him, but by then, of course, the damage had been done."-Jennifer Weiner, Big Summer
"The trick of the internet, I had learned, was not being unapologetically yourself or completely unfiltered; it was mastering the trick of appearing that way. It was spiking your posts with just the r…"-Jennifer Weiner, Big Summer
27. Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
By: Heather Havrilesky
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice … read more
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- nonfiction
"I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend forever with anyone, least of all myself."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"But we weren’t married yet, so he still thought he could do whatever he wanted."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"Forever is two immortal elves, sipping pink champagne by a burbling stream, then exploring the wild, gorgeous woods around them in everlasting harmony. Forever is set in New Zealand, not New Jersey."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"I wrote this book to explore that tedium, along with everything else that marriage brings: the feeling of safety, the creeping darkness, the raw fear and suspense of growing older together, the tiny …"-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
28. Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn
By: Carl Rollyson
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The first full biography of the great American journalist and traveler, who reported on wars from S… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- journalism
29. The James Bond Films 1962-1989: Interviews with the Actors, Writers and Producers
By: Lee Goldberg
3.90
Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition
The inside story on the James Bond movies...from the people who made them.In the 1980s, long before… read more
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