The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives
By: Jennifer Michael Hecht
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent roadmap to meaning and connection t…
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1. Shakespeare: The World as Stage
By: Bill Bryson
3.81
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be--I weep to say it--Elizabeth I."-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"So it needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment—actually all of it, every bit—involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. Shakespeare “never owned a …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample l…"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
2. Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a wor… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We are winning,"-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"The moon is profound except when we land on it."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
3. Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
By: Lewis Hyde
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, "the most … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
4. Holy the Firm
By: Annie Dillard
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with… read more
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5. The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
By: Neil Gaiman , Yoshitaka Amano
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Sandman fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world… read more
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6. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
By: None
4.12
Format: 288 pages,
From the bestselling author of "The Know-It-All" comes a fascinating and timely exploration of reli… read more
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7. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
8. Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
By: Anne Carson
4.07
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and … read more
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- poetry
"Oh my darlings, they tell you you’re born with a precious pearl. Truth is, it’s a disaster to be a girl."-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
"Aristotle thought earthquakes were caused by winds trapped in subterranean caves. We’re more scientific now, we know it’s just five guys fracking the fuck out of the world while it’s still legal."-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
"In ancient Greek you use the verb ἁρπάζειν, which comes over into Latin as rapio, rapper, raptus sum and gives us English rapture and rape—words stained with the very early blood of girls, with the v…"-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
9. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
10. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- nonfiction
- self help
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
11. The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club)
By: Martha N. Beck
4.17
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author, life coach, and sociologist Martha Beck explains why “ integrity ”— needed now … read more
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- audiobook
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
12. Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
By: Stephanie Cacioppo
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the world’s foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"Love is a biological necessity"-Stephanie Cacioppo, Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
"Humans evolved because of love."-Stephanie Cacioppo, Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
"We need to love others to survive."-Stephanie Cacioppo, Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
"Sometimes we just have to remember to look up."-Stephanie Cacioppo, Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
13. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
14. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
15. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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16. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
By: Barbara McQuade
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
By: Cecelia Watson
3.67
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuat… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
- audiobook
"The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494"-Cecelia Watson, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
"At times I've felt less like a punctuation theorist than like a punctuation therapist"-Cecelia Watson, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
18. The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives
By: Jennifer Michael Hecht
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent roadmap to meaning and connection t… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- literature
- psychology
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- writing
- self help
19. Runaway: New Poems
By: Jorie Graham
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
An NPR Best Book of the Year A new collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporar… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
20. The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity
By: Catherine Ricketts
4.65
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Are caregiving and creative labor fundamentally at odds? Is it possible for mothers to attend to bo… read more
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- writing
21. The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry
By: Maria Popova
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Universe in Verse is an ode to wonder and an exploration of the human search for truth and mean… read more
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- nonfiction
