By: Michael Jamin
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
When we think about the moments that change our lives, our minds often go to the big ones: survivin…
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By: Hugh Laurie
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
When Thomas Lang, a hired gunman with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American indust… read more
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"Not before the harvest is in, and the mules are rested"-Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
"This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed."-Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
"Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy."-Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
"This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get."-Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
By: Gene Wilder
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gene Wilder was one of the great comic actors who defined the 1970's and 1980's in movies. From his… read more
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By: Laurie Colwin
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this bel… read more
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By: Ben Mezrich
Format: 96 pages, ebook
A real-life mix of The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mezrich "writes vividly and … read more
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By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling Author Rosaria Butterfield Confronts 5 Cultural Lies She Once Believed Modern culture i… read more
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By: Stephen McCauley
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more
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By: Lucy Sante
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Morgan Talty
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
By: Ramani Durvasula
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more
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"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
By: Bill Maher
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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By: Griffin Dunne
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Johann Hari
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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By: Michael Richards
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved… read more
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By: Paul Scheer
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Scott Dikkers
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
The Definitive Guide to Writing Comedic Characters From one of the world’s most celebrated humor… read more
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By: Kevin Fedarko
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Paulette Kennedy
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors o… read more
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By: Will Storr
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more
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"The gift of story is wisdom"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
By: Jesse David Fox
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture , Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions , and Lit Hub " C… read more
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By: Elise Hart Kipness
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
After a tumultuous murder case that almost cost more than her job, sports reporter Kate Green is ba… read more
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By: Jill Ciment
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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By: Jason Pargin
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bes… read more
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By: Sarah Easter Collins
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years ago, a young girl left home to walk to school. Her younger sister soon followed. … read more
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By: Jo Hamya
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
By: Donna Leon
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more
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By: Ali Smith
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired … read more
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By: Lev Grossman
Format: 673 pages, Hardcover
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more
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"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
By: Simon Rich
Format: 224 pages, Audiobook
The new collection of stories capturing the travails of aging Millennials from “one of the funniest… read more
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By: Michael Jamin
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
When we think about the moments that change our lives, our minds often go to the big ones: survivin… read more
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By: Stanley Tucci
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique… read more
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By: Louise Penny
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone ca… read more
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