What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
By: Tallu Schuyler Quinn
4.27
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Facing death is the hardest thing of all, and Tallu Quinn faces hers i…
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1. A Beautiful Mind
By: Sylvia Nasar
4.13
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model … read more
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- nonfiction
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"Nash was respected but not well liked."-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind
"A genius with a penis. Isn’t that what we all want?"-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind
"His heroes were solitary thinkers and supermen like Newton and Nietzsche."-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind
"Hey Nash! You scared?' 'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!"-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind
2. Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
By: Lynda Rutledge
3.64
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
On the last day of the millennium, sassy Faith Bass Darling, the richest old lady in Bass, Texas, d… read more
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3. The Tennis Partner
By: Abraham Verghese
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New Y… read more
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4. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
3.76
Format: 6 pages, ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grac… read more
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5. One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
By: Ann Voskamp
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Just like you, Ann Voskamp hungers to live her one life well. Forget the bucket lists that have us … read more
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6. In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
By: None
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient and her revelation of t… read more
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7. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
By: Keri Blakinger
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more
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8. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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9. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
10. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more
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"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
11. Crow Mary
By: Kathleen Grissom
4.33
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more
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12. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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13. Sipsworth
By: Simon Van Booy
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more
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14. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
By: Savannah Guthrie
4.36
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Mostly what God does is love you. If we could believe this, really believe this, how different w… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"He doesn't even need words from us. Just a sigh, a tear, or a whimper. What an amazing resource we have in a God who already understands our whole history, our intricate emotional fabric, our every i…"-Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
15. Olivetti
By: Allie Millington
4.10
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more
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16. 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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17. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more
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"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
18. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
19. Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out
By: Gracie Gold
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental il… read more
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20. Fly Girl: A Memoir
By: Ann Hood
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of gla… read more
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21. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
22. 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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"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
23. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more
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"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
24. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church
By: Amy Kenny
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more
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25. What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
By: Tallu Quinn
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Profound essays on nurturing life while facing a terminal diagnosis, from the dedicated humanitaria… read more
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26. The Orchard
By: Peter Heller
4.14
Format: 229 pages, ebook
From the bestselling author of The Dog Stars and The River, the story of a young girl coming of age… read more
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27. 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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28. Everything All at Once
By: Stephanie Catudal
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller An intimate and evocative memoir one woman’s experience with the univer… read more
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29. 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
30. Little and Often: A Memoir
By: Trent Preszler
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Trent Preszler thought he was living the life he always wanted, with a job at a winery and a seasid… read more
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31. What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
By: Tallu Schuyler Quinn
4.27
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Facing death is the hardest thing of all, and Tallu Quinn faces hers i… read more
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