The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity
By: Catherine Ricketts
4.65
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Are caregiving and creative labor fundamentally at odds? Is it possible for mothers to attend to bo…
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1. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
By: Kelly Barnhill
4.12
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in th… read more
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"Sorrow is dangerous."-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon
"Magic and madness are link after all."-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon
"Death is always sudden, even when it isn't"-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon
"It was wrong not to be curious, it was wrong not to wonder."-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon
2. The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew, #6)
By: Carolyn Keene , Amanda Cross , Mildred Benson , Russell H. Tandy
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Bess Marvin purchased an expensive bottle of Oriental perfume, she never expected to stumble i… read more
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3. 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
- writing
"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
4. Hello, Universe
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
3.49
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and… read more
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5. The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, #1)
By: Carolyn Keene , Sara Paretsky , Russell H. Tandy
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
This is a facsimile reprint of the first ever Nancy Drew book, published 1930. Nancy Drew's keen mi… read more
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6. Nancy's Mysterious Letter (Nancy Drew, #8)
By: Carolyn Keene , None
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
Nancy receives a letter informing her that she is heir to a fortune. This story tells of her search… read more
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7. The Secret of Shadow Ranch (Nancy Drew, #5)
By: Carolyn Keene , Mildred Benson
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nancy drew arrives in Phoenix, Arizona, eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled vacation at Shadow … read more
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8. 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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9. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
By: Joanna Biggs
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- writing
"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
10. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- memoir
11. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
12. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- memoir
13. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- parenting
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
14. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
15. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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- nonfiction
16. When You Trap a Tiger
By: Tae Keller
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Newbery Medal Winner (2021) Some stories refuse to stay bottled up... When Lily and her famil… read more
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"I am a girl who sees invisible things, but I am not invisible."-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger
"Does it get easier? Does the sadness go away? The sadness fades, yeah. Eventually. But the missing ... I don't know if that ever does."-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger
"If you put things off for later, you'll never do them. They'll become harder and scarier, and one day you'll realize you've run out of time."-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger
"It's hard to breathe. I know now: The moment when everything really falls apart--it's not during the big explosion. It's in the quiet after. And the feeling is not a shattering. Not quite"-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger
17. Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy
By: Aundi Kolber
4.40
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
"In the wise and soulful tradition of teachers like Shauna Niequist and Brene Brown, therapist Aund… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
19. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
By: Beth Nguyen
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter r… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
20. How to Be an Artist
By: Jerry Saltz
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for … read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
"Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"Surely, your crappy art can fake out twelve stupid people. I've seen it done with one or two."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"For now, make something, learn something, and move on. Or you’ll be buried waist-deep in the big muddy of perfectionism."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"But doubt is a sign of faith: it tests and humbles you, allows newness into your life. Best of all, doubt banishes the stifling effect of certainty. Certainty kills curiosity and change."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
21. A Ghost in the Throat
By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
4.04
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
22. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
By: Liza Mundy
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Garden
By: Clare Beams
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically th… read more
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24. Here After
By: Amy Lin
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
25. The Glassmaker
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more
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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
26. Masquerade
By: O.O. Sangoyomi
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more
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27. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
28. Reproduction
By: Louisa Hall
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood … read more
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- parenting
29. The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby’s Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting
By: Greer Kirshenbaum
4.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The latest research in neuroscience and parenting come together in this groundbreaking book, which … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
30. The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives
By: Jennifer Michael Hecht
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent roadmap to meaning and connection t… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
31. The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity
By: Catherine Ricketts
4.65
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Are caregiving and creative labor fundamentally at odds? Is it possible for mothers to attend to bo… read more
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- parenting
- memoir
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