Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
By: Lise Funderburg
3.79
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
In this masterful collection of new essays, the apple looks at the tree. Twenty-five writers deftly…
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1. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more
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- short stories
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2. The Brand New Catastrophe
By: Mike Scalise
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
Raucous family memoir meets medical adventure in this heartfelt, hilarious book exploring the publi… read more
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4. Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family
By: Joy Castro
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Whenever a memoirist gives a reading, someone in the audience is sure to ask: How did your family r… read more
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5. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
By: Jonathan Lethem , Vivian Gornick
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle wi… read more
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6. Reading Lolita in Tehran
By: Azar Nafisi
4.20
Format: 172 pages,
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher n… read more
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7. Fates and Furies
By: Lauren Groff
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, th… read more
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8. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
By: Jon Krakauer
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
A multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyie… read more
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9. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
By: Ellen Forney
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between "crazy" and "creative" in this graphic me… read more
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10. The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
By: Matt Cain
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Albert Entwistle is a private man with a quiet, simple life. He lives alone with his cat Gracie. An… read more
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"I feel like a carefree, beautiful butterfly!"-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
"In some ways I’m like a picture that hasn’t been colored in yet."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
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"I love you a little bit more than yesterday and a little bit less than tomorrow."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
11. Happy-Go-Lucky
By: David Sedaris
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more
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12. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
By: Molly Shannon
4.13
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption b… read more
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"But I thought, I can do whatever I want. I can be friends with whoever I want. I'm going to be friends with the freaks and the geeks and I don't have to fit into any clique. And I'm Free! And I like …"-Molly Shannon, Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
13. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
14. The Beauty in Breaking
By: Michele Harper
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself… read more
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"...this is not a book about romance or a chronicle of loss. It is a story of love rebuilt better; the story of a butterfly birthed from goo; the story of newly grown wings that beat to a higher vibra…"-Michele Harper, The Beauty in Breaking
15. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
By: Lauren Graham
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals sto… read more
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"Because who wants to Fast Forward anyway? You might miss some of the good parts."-Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
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16. Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
By: Lise Funderburg
3.79
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
In this masterful collection of new essays, the apple looks at the tree. Twenty-five writers deftly… read more
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- memoir
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