Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health
By: Alexandra Brewis
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How stigma derails well-intentioned public health efforts, creating suffering and worsening inequal…
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1. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
By: Pema Chödrön
4.28
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemp… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
2. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
By: Seth Holmes
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of … read more
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- nonfiction
3. Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person
By: Shonda Rhimes
5.00
Format: 64 pages,
In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the … read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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5. Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
By: Karyl McBride
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
The first book for the millions of daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-in… read more
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6. The Tiger's Wife
By: Téa Obreht
3.20
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Tea Obreht, the youngest of The N… read more
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7. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
4.28
Format: 282 pages, ebook
End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- health
"We don't naturally fall into perfect relationship; we create them"-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"I’m not doing this to disrespect you. I’m doing this to respect myself."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"Assume that people know only what you tell them, honor only what you request, and can't read your mind."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
8. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
9. The Princess Trap (The Midnight Heat Collection, #1)
By: Talia Hibbert
3.70
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
From bestselling author Talia Hibbert comes a story of wicked royals, fake engagements, and the fed… read more
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"Some people like to say that all is fair in love and war. Those people cannot be trusted with power."-Talia Hibbert, The Princess Trap (The Midnight Heat Collection, #1)
10. Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
By: Talia Hibbert
4.01
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake … read more
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"He held on to you, not enough that you felt suffocated, but more than enough to make it clear you should stay right there. With him. Because he wanted you to."-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
"She was wearing her glasses now, at least, along with an enormous pink dressing gown and a pair of equally enormous bunny-ear slippers. The slippers surprised him until he remembered that Chloe used …"-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
"He always stumbled over that part. Not because it hurt—although it really fucking did—but because it seemed so…small. So simple and flat and anticlimactic a phrase for something as monumental as deat…"-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
"It didn't last long—I wasn't famous enough. But it felt like forever to me. So now, I guess, I'm a bit... private." That wasn't the full story, just a fraction of it. Because the press had left Zaf a…"-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
11. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- health
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
12. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
By: Priya Parker
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at wor… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Chill" is a selfishness disguised as kindness"-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"Good controversy is much more likely to happen when it is invited in but carefully structured."-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating."-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to h…"-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
13. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
14. The Nest
By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
3.41
Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An instant Globe and Mail bestseller. On a wintry afternoon in New York City, Melody, Beatrice a… read more
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"Jack picked a piece of mint from his glass and chewed on it for a second. “I’m curious,"-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
"How tragic could a breakup be when it was a part of the fabric of expectation from the beginning?"-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
"Right now, it felt like there was nowhere for his thoughts to alight that wasn't rife with land mines of regret or anger or guilt."-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
"People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been."-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
15. Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
By: Talia Hibbert
3.80
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but no… read more
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"I am not hurt,"-Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
"Excuse me, universe,"-Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
"she saw him as poetry"-Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
"Disturbing things always seemed to happen on Tuesdays."-Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
16. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more
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- health
17. Rest and Be Thankful
By: Emma Glass
3.52
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their… read more
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"Toxicity drips out of him and I'll pour more into him."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
18. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
By: Daisy Hernández
3.99
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had be… read more
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- nonfiction
- health
19. Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2)
By: Lyssa Kay Adams
3.87
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
Braden Mack thinks reading romance novels makes him an expert in love, but he’ll soon discover that… read more
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"Fear is a powerful motivator, but so is love."-Lyssa Kay Adams, Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2)
"Because perfection is the opposite of authenticity, Mack."-Lyssa Kay Adams, Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2)
"Of course I can cook. I'm an adult. Feeding myself is part of the deal."-Lyssa Kay Adams, Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2)
"Not everyone is willing or able to take on the world in a great big fight. It doesn't make them weak or wrong."-Lyssa Kay Adams, Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2)
20. The Comeback
By: Ella Berman
3.74
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a cha… read more
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"I know that somebody hurt you. Now it's time for you to fuck shit up, baby lion."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
"It all seemed so fragile to me, the trust we put in others without thinking about it."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
"Surely there must be some limit to how many times you're allowed to hurt another human."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
"But what if every time something bad happens, it just makes your world a little smaller."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
21. Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health
By: Alexandra Brewis
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How stigma derails well-intentioned public health efforts, creating suffering and worsening inequal… read more
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- psychology
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