Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son
By: Mindy Greiling
4.50
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
One mother’s fight to support her son and change a broken system In his early twenties, Mindy Grei…
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1. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
By: Elyn R. Saks
4.31
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"in my experience, the words “now just calm down"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"I needed to put two critical ideas together: that I could both be mentally ill and lead a rich and satisfying life."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
2. See Me
By: Nicholas Sparks
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
See me just as I see you . . . Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a hist… read more
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3. A Stolen Life
By: Jaycee Dugard
3.44
Format: 198 pages,
On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of … read more
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4. Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
By: Pamela Spiro Wagner , Carolyn S. Spiro , Carolyn Spiro
2.84
Format: 306 pages,
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5. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
By: Elisabeth Rosenthal
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestseller "The definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.… read more
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- nonfiction
6. My Story
By: Chris Stewart , Elizabeth Smart
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart … read more
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7. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more
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8. Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
By: Pete Earley
3.82
Format: None pages,
Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice syst… read more
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9. Ben Behind His Voices: One Family's Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
By: Randye Kaye
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
When readers first meet Ben, he is a sweet, intelligent, seemingly well-adjusted youngster. Fast fo… read more
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10. The Face on the Milk Carton (Janie Johnson, #1)
By: Caroline B. Cooney
3.00
Format: 107 pages,
The face on the milk carton looks like an ordinary little girl: hair in tight pigtails, a dress wit… read more
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11. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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12. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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13. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- memoir
14. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.21
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more
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15. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- memoir
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
16. Worthy
By: Jada Pinkett Smith
3.64
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator… read more
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- memoir
17. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
18. All In: An Autobiography
By: Billie Jean King
4.32
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of a champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant te… read more
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19. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
By: Esmé Weijun Wang
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more
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- memoir
"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
20. Someone Like You (The Baxter Family, #6)
By: Karen Kingsbury
4.14
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
One frozen embryo. Two families with secrets. And a guy who never planned to fall in love again… read more
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21. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
By: Anthony Ray Hinton
4.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thi… read more
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- memoir
"Life was a crazy, strange mix of tragedy and sorrow and triumph and joy."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Oh, the sanitized way of saying it is "sentenced to death." But let's call it what it is. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Life is brutal, tragic, unbearable, and inhumane at times. The pain one man can cause another is limitless, but I didn't see, I couldn't see, how creating more pain made anything better."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"I had just turned twenty-nine, and honestly, I still didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
22. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
23. A Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more
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"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
24. Rebel Rising
By: Rebel Wilson
3.91
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more
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"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising
"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising
25. Silent Sisters
By: Joanne Lee
4.13
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the rema… read more
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26. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more
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- memoir
27. Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention
By: Jeffrey A. Lieberman
4.29
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
“The most important book about schizophrenia in decades, and perhaps ever…a total game-changer.” —S… read more
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28. Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son
By: Mindy Greiling
4.50
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
One mother’s fight to support her son and change a broken system In his early twenties, Mindy Grei… read more
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29. He Came in with It: A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness
By: Miriam Feldman
4.32
Format: None pages, ebook
In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations of families enjoy deep roots in old homes… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
30. MEANINGFUL RECOVERY from Schizophrenia and Serious Mental Illness with Clozapine: Hope & Help
By: Robert S. Laitman
4.36
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
ARE YOU...A MOTHER, A FATHER who has lost all hope of being able to help your child…A WIFE, A HUSBA… read more
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31. The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
By: Sharon McMahon
4.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
America’s favorite government teacher offers thrilling, heartfelt stories of ordinary American hero… read more
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