Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life (American Lives)
By: Suzanne Ohlmann
4.49
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
With her feet firmly rooted on the plains of Nebraska, Suzanne Ohlmann launches the reader into fli…
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. The Chronology of Water
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the r… read more
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"my parents Oedipal fakers"-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"...what is a couple over time but a line..."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"Make up stories until you find one you can live with."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"Always we were making. Making love, making trouble, making art."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
3. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
By: Jeanne Birdsall
4.19
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Penderwick sisters busily discover the summertime magic of Arundel estate’s sprawling gardens, … read more
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"The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain."-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
"Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey."-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
"Maybe it's fate Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost."-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
"Toward the urn the three children raced in a dead heat, Jane still shouting . FOR CHURCHILL, NELSON, AND PRINCE WILLIAM!"-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
4. After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
By: Sarah Perry
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning." --Entertainment Weekly |"Raw and perfect." --Laura Miller, Slate "Heartbreaking yet hop… read more
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- memoir
5. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
By: David Sedaris
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them retur… read more
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- memoir
6. Wishful Drinking
By: Carrie Fisher
3.82
Format: 163 pages, Hardcover
In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more
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"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
7. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
By: Dusti Bowling
3.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
*"Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even a… read more
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8. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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9. Camp Damascus
By: Chuck Tingle
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more
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"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
10. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
By: Bess Kalb
4.23
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmoth… read more
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- memoir
"If the earth is cracking behind you right up to your heels, put one foot in front of the other. You keep going. Nothing's as important as moving forward."-Bess Kalb, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
11. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
By: Nicholas Day
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more
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"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
12. Odder
By: Katherine Applegate
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn't just swim to the bottom, s… read more
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13. Sisters of Belfast
By: Melanie Maure
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An enthralling and deeply moving story that begins during World War II, about orphaned twin sisters… read more
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14. These Precious Days: Essays
By: Ann Patchett
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more
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"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
15. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
16. The Labors of Hercules Beal
By: Gary D. Schmidt
4.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more
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"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal
"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal
17. Cost of Living: Essays
By: Emily Maloney
3.59
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The searing intimacy of Girl, Interrupted combined with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exa… read more
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18. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more
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"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
19. Song for a Whale
By: Lynne Kelly
4.23
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The story of a deaf girl's connection to a whale whose song can't be heard by his species, and the … read more
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"A sound can move anything if it's strong enough."-Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale
20. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By: Rebekah Taussig
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more
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"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
21. The Ogress and the Orphans
By: Kelly Barnhill
4.28
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more
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"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
22. I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton
By: Lynn Melnick
3.88
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
“An ode to storytelling itself…. A gorgeous and heart-rending story of survival.“―Melissa Febos, au… read more
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23. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
By: Debora Harding
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more
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24. Girl in the Blue Coat
By: Monica Hesse
4.04
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods t… read more
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"Sometimes hope can be poisonous."-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
"Isn't love the opposite of rational?"-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
"But when it comes down to it, we all die alone."-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
"Girls in love will do desperate and creative things."-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
25. If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
By: Jill Christman
4.43
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car … read more
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26. Craving Spring: A Mother’s Quest, a Daughter’s Depression, and the Greek Myth That Brought Them Together
By: Ann Batchelder
4.92
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
ANN IS CONVINCED SHE IS A GOOD MOTHER until her teenage daughter admits to suicidal thoughts. In a … read more
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- memoir
27. Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss
By: Eileen Vorbach Collins
4.96
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bere… read more
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28. Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life (American Lives)
By: Suzanne Ohlmann
4.49
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
With her feet firmly rooted on the plains of Nebraska, Suzanne Ohlmann launches the reader into fli… read more
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29. Under My Bed and Other Essays (American Lives)
By: Jody Keisner
4.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jody Keisner was raised in rural Nebraska towns by a volatile father and kind but passive mother. A… read more
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30. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide
By: Rachel Zimmerman
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more
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31. Tap Dancing on Everest
By: Mimi Zieman
4.61
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
The plan was outrageous: A small team of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face o… read more
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