A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment
By: Spring Washam
4.18
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
Spring Washam is a founder of the East Bay Meditation Center, one of the most diverse and accessibl…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Listen to your heart and trust the direction you are being pulled. Something inside you already know what to do."-Spring Washam, A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment
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1. Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
By: Anne Lamott
3.70
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- memoir
- spirituality
"...being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised."-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
"...my disease wanted me dead, but would settle for getting me drunk..."-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
"Sigh: who was it who said that to get into heaven, you needed a letter of recommendation from the poor?"-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
"Trauma, which is stored differently in the brain than memory, seeps out of us as warnings of worse to come."-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
2. Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
By: Jewel
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling poet and multiplatinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventio… read more
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3. The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
By: Jack Kornfield
3.77
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshak… read more
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4. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
By: Eben Alexander
3.73
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impos… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- spirituality
"A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can."-Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
"Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it."-Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
"Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator."-Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
"My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the…"-Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
5. Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
By: Debbie Tung
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sweet, funny, and quietlypoignant, Debbie Tung's comics reveal the ups and downs of coming of age a… read more
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6. A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
By: Jack Kornfield
3.64
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A guide to reconciling Buddhist spirituality with the American way of life addresses the challenges… read more
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7. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
8. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
By: Zoe Thorogood
4.21
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
9. 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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- personal development
- health
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
"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
10. The Hilarious World of Depression
By: John Moe
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For years John Moe, critically-acclaimed public radio personality and host of The Hilarious World o… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- memoir
- health
"it makes sense when you think about the confluence of puberty hormones, stress from academics and the emergence of primitive appalling forms of dating, depression starts in your junior high."-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
"Novelist John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars among many other megaselling books, has struggled with [depression] for many years. "There is this weird perpetual hope," he told me, "not just a…"-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
"My dad loved telling ghost stories from the times he went camping with his father in Sweden. In one story they were driving on a country road at night and kept having to stop because they'd see feet …"-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
11. Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power
By: Carolyn Elliott
3.86
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
A smart, sexy guide to embracing the repressed, tabooed, and often unwanted aspects of ourselves so… read more
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- personal development
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
12. Everything Is OK
By: Debbie Tung
4.31
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Quiet Girl in a Noisy World comes a gently humorous and poignant col… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- self help
13. 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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- race
- 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
14. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
By: Julissa Arce
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
15. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
By: Rabia Chaudry
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate me… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Every person, I'd argue, has the right to pursue what feeling good means to them."-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
"But when I dug deeper, I realized the self-loathing was less about what I looked like on the outside, and more about feeling out of control and helpless."-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
16. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
By: Resmaa Menakem
4.40
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trau… read more
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- self help
- race
- nonfiction
- health
"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
17. Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a soc… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
- memoir
"We die all the time to avoid being killed."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?"-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"Davis calls PTSD living at the whim of your worst memories."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"When Giverny came out with a Gemina B. perfume advertised as with the slogan 'the fatal flower', I wondered if women should aspire to smell like a mutilated corpse."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
18. How We Live Is How We Die
By: Pema Chodron
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more
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- buddhism
- health
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
19. Beyond the Gender Binary
By: Alok Vaid-Menon
4.49
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I learned about gender through shame."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
20. 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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- memoir
- health
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
21. Glow in the F*cking Dark
By: Tara Schuster
3.95
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
The author of the runaway hit Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies shares honest and practical lessons f… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- memoir
- self help
22. The Last Animal
By: Ramona Ausubel
3.47
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in … read more
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23. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
24. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
By: Isaac Fitzgerald
3.59
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
25. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
26. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
By: Anna Mehler Paperny
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A vibrant, compelling memoir that bravely reveals the real-life havoc the depression wreaks and an … read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- memoir
- health
"Depression affects everyone on the planet, directly or indirectly, in every possible sphere. its very ubiquity robs it of sexiness but not urgency."-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
"Suicidality and curiosity are anathema to each other: You can’t want to know things if you want to die. As long as I had questions I had reason to live, and when I was overwhelmed by a desire for dea…"-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
27. Ordinary Hazards
By: Nikki Grimes
4.40
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
In her own voice, author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a mem… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own."-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards
"this writing thing was some kind of magic trick I didn't yet understand, except for this: Magicians rarely share their secrets."-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards
"Trauma is a memory hog, It gobbles up all available space in the brain, leaves little room to mark daily happenstances, or even routine injuries which are less than life-threatening."-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards
"MY BLACK ME My father fed me Invisible Man, Native Son, No Longer at Ease, Black Man's Burden, and the more I read, the madder I got, and I already had reason to scream, but my father kept me dreamin…"-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards
28. Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
By: Beth Kempton
3.91
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE 'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessi… read more
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- personal development
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
"We have to stop telling ourselves that everyone is watching, waiting for us to fail. They really aren’t."-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
"Wabi sabi teaches us to be content with less in a way that feels like more. Less stuff, more soul. Less hustle, more ease. Less chaos, more calm. Less mass consumption and more unique creation. Less …"-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
"The Japanese see the seasons as signposts, visible reminders of our own natural rhytms. In modern life, these often get disrupted, as we extend our days with strong artificial light, interrupt our se…"-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
"A wabi sabi inspired world view opens up a space for love. Just as we're not perfect, neither is anyone else. What difference would it make if you saw others with your heart instead of seeing and jud…"-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
29. We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption
By: Kaira Jewel Lingo
4.43
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In ten concise chapters, you’ll learn powerful ways to meet life’s challenges with wisdom, resilien… read more
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- buddhism
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
30. You Belong: A Call for Connection
By: Sebene Selassie
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From much-admired meditation expert and Western Buddhist thought leader, You Belong is a social and… read more
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- buddhism
- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
31. A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment
By: Spring Washam
4.18
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
Spring Washam is a founder of the East Bay Meditation Center, one of the most diverse and accessibl… read more
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- buddhism
- personal development
- memoir
- race
- health
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- womens
- self help
"Listen to your heart and trust the direction you are being pulled. Something inside you already know what to do."-Spring Washam, A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment
