Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance
By: Ady Barkan
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this “gripping story of resistance and the triumph of human will” (Senator Elizabeth Warren), ac…
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1. Astrid and Veronika
By: Linda Olsson
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Veronika 32, a writer whose boyfriend just drowned in New Zealand, rents a house in a small Swedish… read more
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"I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness."-Linda Olsson, Astrid and Veronika
"There are no secrets here. Everybody knows everything about everybody. Or they would like to think they do. Secrets have to be well guarded, and the price is high."-Linda Olsson, Astrid and Veronika
"But once you accept the fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can begin to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grat…"-Linda Olsson, Astrid and Veronika
"Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness. Nobody has ever lived our lives; ther are no guidelines. Trust your instincts. Accept nothing but the best. But then a…"-Linda Olsson, Astrid and Veronika
2. Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living
By: Susan Spencer-Wendel
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)--Lou Gehrig'… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her to try to find her birth mother before I die, so that I might meet her and say, "Your broug…"-Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living
3. Purity
By: Jonathan Franzen , Lucie Mikolajková
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know… read more
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- audiobook
4. Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
By: Scott Simon
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Instant New York TimesBestseller "In a return to the bighearted storytelling that made him a star N… read more
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5. I'm Just a Person
By: Tig Notaro
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
One of America's most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotiona… read more
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6. The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
By: Daniel H. Pink
3.84
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- health
7. Künstlers in Paradise
By: Cathleen Schine
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more
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- audiobook
"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise
8. The Adult
By: Bronwyn Fischer
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance. In the wet grass… read more
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9. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
10. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
11. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
12. I Will Greet the Sun Again
By: Khashayar J. Khabushani
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American fam… read more
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13. Alice Sadie Celine
By: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
3.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale i… read more
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14. The Home Edit: Stay Organized: The Ultimate Guide to Making Systems Stick
By: Clea Shearer
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the authors of The Home Edit and The Home Edit Life and hosts of t… read more
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- audiobook
15. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.84
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's… read more
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- politics
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When Washington became president of the United States, he was still wrestling with the meaning of the American Revolution. He'd entered the conflict an unrepentant Virginia slaveholder. By the end of…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
16. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability
- audiobook
"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
17. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability
- audiobook
18. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
By: Bushra Rehman
3.98
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more
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- audiobook
"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
19. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
By: Pete Buttigieg
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete B… read more
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- memoir
- politics
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"At one point I learned that when I'd told them my college coursework in Arabic might make me a good intelligence officer, they had recorded that my minor at Harvard had been in aerobics."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
20. The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
By: Sarah Miller
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When they were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expecte… read more
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21. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
By: Derecka Purnell
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
22. Night Shift (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #13)
By: Robin Cook
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
" In this exhilarating medical mystery-thriller by Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are lu… read more
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23. In This Place Together: A Palestinian's Journey to Collective Liberation
By: Penina Eilberg-Schwartz
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A narrative meditation on joint nonviolence, opening a window to the questions of power, multiple n… read more
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- nonfiction
24. My Vanishing Country
By: Bakari Sellers
3.98
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey … read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
25. Like a House on Fire
By: Lauren McBrayer
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
After twelve years of marriage and two kids, Merit has begun to feel like a stranger in her own lif… read more
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26. Soul Shift: The Weary Human's Guide to Getting Unstuck and Reclaiming Your Path to Joy
By: Rachel Macy Stafford
4.40
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Reclaim Joy, Inner Freedom, and Zest for Life. How often do you feel joy—a truly pure, unadulterat… read more
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- audiobook
27. A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence
By: Steve Gleason
4.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family… read more
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- health
- autobiography
- nonfiction
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28. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
By: Donna Freitas
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this "compelling and disturbing" true story (Rebecca Traister), a young woman's toxic mentor dev… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
"But is there such a thing as trauma without shame? Isn’t shame an integral part of what causes an event or series of events to become a trauma?"-Donna Freitas, Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
"There is a liminal space created between the powerful person and the person who is the target of unwanted attention, a liminal space between outright yes and outright no -- not a maybe-yes or maybe-n…"-Donna Freitas, Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
"We cannot sanitize every comment, every come-on, every gesture in our efforts to stamp out harassment and assault. We cannot sanitize all of our spaces, we cannot make them irrefutably safe from word…"-Donna Freitas, Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
30. Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance
By: Ady Barkan
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this “gripping story of resistance and the triumph of human will” (Senator Elizabeth Warren), ac… read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability
- audiobook
31. What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service
By: Melissa Fitzgerald
4.49
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Mel… read more
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