The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
By: Natalie Goldberg
3.82
Format: None pages,
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1. Chalice
By: Robin McKinley
3.83
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
As the newly appointed Chalice, Mirasol is the most important member of the Master’s Circle. It is … read more
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"Swords. That is no faenorn ; that is slaughter."-Robin McKinley, Chalice
"Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge."-Robin McKinley, Chalice
"Water— plain water from the Ladywell— and a spoonful of honey, Master."-Robin McKinley, Chalice
"She thought, I need no cup. I am Chalice. I am filling with the grief and hurt and fear of my demesne; the shattered earthlines weigh me down; I am brimming with the needs of my people."-Robin McKinley, Chalice
2. Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land
By: Dan O'Brien
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O’Brien’s home. Working as a w… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
By: None , Velma Wallis
4.08
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of… read more
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"They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting."-None, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
"Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world."-None, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
4. The Writing Life
By: Annie Dillard
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- writing
5. The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
By: Natalie Goldberg
3.82
Format: None pages,
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- buddhism
- memoir
- zen
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- essays
- writing
6. The Art of Memoir
By: Mary Karr
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Clubspent more than a y… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- writing
7. All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
8. Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
By: Ram Dass , Richard Alpert
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- spirituality
9. I Heard the Owl Call My Name
By: Margaret Craven
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In a world that knows too well the anguish inherent in the clash of old ways and new lifestyles, Ma… read more
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10. Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
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11. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
12. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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13. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
14. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.46
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more
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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
15. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
16. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
17. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
By: Maggie Smith
3.89
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
18. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
19. The Furrows
By: Namwali Serpell
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the awar… read more
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20. You Are Here
By: Karin Lin-Greenberg
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal the local … read more
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21. Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
By: Abigail Thomas
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trade… read more
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- memoir
- essays
