To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence
By: Lisa Kohn
3.92
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
The best seats Lisa Kohn ever had at Madison Square Garden were at her mother’s wedding, and the be…
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1. I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
By: Kyria Abrahams
3.41
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, Kyria Abrahams’s childhood was haunted by the knowledge that her nei… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- cults
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- nonfiction
2. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
3. Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
By: Rebecca Paley , Leah Remini
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- cults
- religion
- nonfiction
"By their actions, they will show you who they are."-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
"Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves."-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
"He wasn't attached to Scientology like I was. For him it was simply a tool to better your life. Then, if it wasn't doing that, it was time to leave the church."-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
"I hate when people say 'Enjoy it' when you're complaining or something. I am enjoying it. But I also enjoy complaining about it. It's one of my favorite pastimes."-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
4. Gifted
By: Nikita Lalwani
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Rumi Vasi is 10 years, 2 months, 13 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes, and 6 seconds old. She's figured tha… read more
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5. Stories I Only Tell My Friends
By: Rob Lowe
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Hardcover
A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the… read more
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6. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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- nonfiction
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
7. The Patron Saint of Liars
By: Ann Patchett
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elega… read more
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8. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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9. In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family
By: None
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The author recounts her fourteen years of abuse at the hands of her husband, the drug-addicted elde… read more
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10. My Own Words
By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Mary Hartnett , Wendy W. Williams
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, en… read more
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11. Barefoot
By: Elin Hilderbrand
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Visiting Nantucket for the summer, three women seek peace and comfort as they cope with the challen… read more
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12. Stash: My Life in Hiding
By: Laura Cathcart Robbins
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more
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- biography
- memoir
13. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
14. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
15. Reputation
By: Lex Croucher
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The hilarious debut novel from Lex Croucher. A classic romcom with a Regency-era twist, for fans of… read more
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16. How to Be an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.37
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Racist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"I use “anticapitalist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
17. Red at the Bone
By: Jacqueline Woodson
3.97
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the … read more
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"A new fear like a dragging bruise moving in his stomach."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
". . . Love changes and changes. Then it changes again. . ."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
"God'll make a butt-ugly boy, but I ain't never seen him make a ugly girl child."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
"Iris didn't understand his happiness. How this was so absolutely enough for him."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
18. 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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- biography
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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
19. The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
By: Libby Copeland
4.02
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
In The Lost Family, journalist Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast so… read more
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- nonfiction
"Time is the enemy of secret-keepers, because with time comes the inevitable revelation, one way or another."-Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
"Linda would say that she was so excited to have half-sisters that she didn't fully appreciate how her story posted a fundamental threat to their story."-Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
"Seeking out genetic information... may allow adult adoptees, who had no choice in whether to be adopted, or by whom, to exercise their autonomy in making meaning out of it."-Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
"People thought they could get away with everything, she says– and indeed, they did until genetic genealogy came along. In Moore's view, DNA is an equalizer, a revelatory force with the power to right…"-Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
20. Crimson Summer (Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #2)
By: Heather Graham
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
They're not going down without a fight. When FDLE special agent Amy Larson discovers a small hor… read more
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21. To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence
By: Lisa Kohn
3.92
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
The best seats Lisa Kohn ever had at Madison Square Garden were at her mother’s wedding, and the be… read more
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- cults
- religion
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