The Soul of the Family Tree: Ancestors, Stories, and the Spirits We Inherit
By: Lori Erickson
3.75
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Growing up in a passionately Norwegian-American Iowa town, Lori Erickson rolled her eyes at traditi…
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1. The Sewing Machine
By: Natalie Fergie
1.00
Format: 96 pages,
It is 1911, and Jean is about to join the mass strike at the Singer factory. For her, nothing will … read more
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2. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
3. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
By: Hampton Sides
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Every Note Played
By: Lisa Genova
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From neuroscientist and New York Timesbestselling author of Still Alice comes a powerful and heartb… read more
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5. Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, #2)
By: Kate Jacobs
3.37
Format: 200 pages,
The Sequel to the Beloved #1 New York TimesBestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club The sequel to … read more
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6. WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source
By: Alisa Vitti
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
With WomanCode, holistic health coach Alisa Vitti shows women how to maintain health and vitality w… read more
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7. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
By: Rachel Held Evans
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more
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8. Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
By: None
3.26
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is Richard Hill's true and intensely … read more
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9. The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
By: Fannie Flagg
4.10
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
The beloved author returns to the small town at the heart of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle St… read more
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"They wolfed wolfly in the wolf den."-Fannie Flagg, The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
"You know, life can be hard sometimes. And I sort of think animals are little gifts the good Lord sends to help us get through it. Lady sure did that for me."-Fannie Flagg, The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
10. A Kilt for Christmas (The Enchanted Highlands #3)
By: Tricia O'Malley
4.40
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Legend has it that wishes made at the standing stones during Christmas come true. As if. Maisie… read more
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11. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
By: Andrew McCarthy
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following New York Times bestselling author and ac… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
13. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
14. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
15. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
16. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
17. The Good Turn (Cormac Reilly, #3)
By: Dervla McTiernan
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The unputdownable new novel from the bestselling author of The Ruin and The Scholar. Police corrupt… read more
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18. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
By: Olivia Campbell
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
3.65
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more
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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
20. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- spirituality
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
21. Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
By: Lisa Genova
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do … read more
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- nonfiction
"You don't need memory to love or feel loved."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
"Forgetting happens. If you stress about it, it'll happen even more."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
"Our brains don’t remember everything, but maybe what they remember is enough."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
"We frequently invent new information, often inaccurate, to fill in gaps in our memories so that the narrative feels more complete or pleasing."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
22. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
23. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- spirituality
24. Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)
By: Lev A.C. Rosen
3.87
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the … read more
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"Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life."-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)
"People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just…"-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)
25. No One Goes Alone
By: Erik Larson
3.32
Format: 8 pages, Audio CD
From New York Times best-selling author Erik Larson comes his first venture into fiction, an otherw… read more
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26. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
4.21
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
27. The Rome Apartment
By: Kerry Fisher
4.14
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
As I stood on the terrace and gazed out over the most glorious view, he studied my face and said to… read more
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28. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
29. The Soul of the Family Tree: Ancestors, Stories, and the Spirits We Inherit
By: Lori Erickson
3.75
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Growing up in a passionately Norwegian-American Iowa town, Lori Erickson rolled her eyes at traditi… read more
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- history
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- scandinavian literature
30. Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love
By: Brit Barron
4.07
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Renowned motivational speaker, teacher, and diversity trainer Brit Barron offers a path to holding … read more
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- nonfiction
