The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be
By: Thomas Lynch
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The effort to minimize the hurt by minimizing the loss, pretending that a dead body has lost it's meaning or identity, is another tune we whistle past the graveyard. the sad truths I've been taught by the families of the dead are these: seeing is believing; knowing is better than not knowing; to name the hurt returns a kind of comfort; the grief ignored will never go away. for those whose sons and daughters, husbands wives, mothers, fathers and friends went off alive and never did return, the worst that can happen has already happened. The light and the air of what is known, however difficult, is better than the dark. The facts of death, like the facts of life, are required learning. But oh, so difficult, the tuition."-Thomas Lynch, The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be
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1. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner
4.40
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- death
"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
2. The Magicians (The Magicians #1)
By: Lev Grossman
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the r… read more
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3. Dandelion Wine
By: Ray Bradbury
4.08
Format: 239 pages, Paperback
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawn… read more
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"No,"-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
"and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,"-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
"And the sea moved her back down the shore."-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
"Those women like to see their tongues dance."-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
4. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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- short stories
5. All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
By: James Herriot
3.59
Format: 251 pages,
The classic multimillion copy bestseller Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herri… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
6. The Magician King (The Magicians, #2)
By: Lev Grossman
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to The New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon o… read more
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7. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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- philosophy
"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
8. The Bhagavad Gita
By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more
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9. All Things Bright and Beautiful
By: James Herriot
4.00
Format: None pages,
"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --Associated Pre… read more
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10. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
11. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- death
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
12. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
13. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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14. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
15. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
16. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
17. The Best of Me
By: David Sedaris
4.21
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
“Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, … read more
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"I can't bear to hear other people's dreams unless I myself am in them."-David Sedaris, The Best of Me
18. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
By: Ron Howard
4.27
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben—these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the… read more
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19. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
By: Mary Laura Philpott
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful memoir that ta… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
20. Lost & Found: A Memoir
By: Kathryn Schulz
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
21. Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
By: Jason Kander
4.53
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kan… read more
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"PTSD is an injury. That’s all it is."-Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
"Reader, let’s talk about ambition. First of all, the word is almost always used against young people—especially women. No one calls Bernie Sanders ambitious, but the man ran for president twice. When…"-Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
22. How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
By: Mia Birdsong
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection After almost every presentation activist a… read more
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23. All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak: A Funeral Director on Life, Death, and the Hereafter
By: Caleb Wilde
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
What if our dead remain with us? What if closure is not the goal? No matter what you believe about … read more
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- memoir
- death
24. Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose
By: Colin Campbell
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful account of one father’s journey through unimaginable grief, offering readers a new visio… read more
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- memoir
25. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By: John Green
4.36
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fict… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here."-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
"I...took some pride in 'not fulfilling my potential,' in part because I was terrified that if I tried my hardest, the world would learn I didn't actually have that much potential."-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
"One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of."-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
"I think two of the fundamental facts of being a person are 1. We must go on, and 2. None of us ever walks alone. We may feel alone (in fact, we will feel alone), but even in the crushing grind of iso…"-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
26. The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
By: Steve Leder
4.45
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The national bestseller From the author of the bestselling More Beautiful Than Before comes an … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
- death
"This is the beauty and the tragedy of my father's life and death. For him, for me, for most of us at the time, for better and for worse, death is life's mirror."-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
"Understanding death - its rituals, its lessons, its gift to reshape love through memory, its grief, its powerful reminder that it is not what but who we have that matters - gives our lives exquisite …"-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
"It is the impermanence of the body that has convinced me of the eternality of the soul. Physics tells us that energy never dies, it merely assumes a different form. I never feel this more deeply than…"-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
"When you show people a picture of a circle with a small wedge cut out of it, their eyes first go to the missing piece every time. It is easy among the doctors, the needles, and the tubes to lose sigh…"-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
27. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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28. The Bright Sword
By: Lev Grossman
4.06
Format: 673 pages, Hardcover
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more
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"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
29. The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be
By: Thomas Lynch
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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- death
- philosophy
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- sociology
"The effort to minimize the hurt by minimizing the loss, pretending that a dead body has lost it's meaning or identity, is another tune we whistle past the graveyard. the sad truths I've been taught b…"-Thomas Lynch, The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be
30. At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life
By: Samuel Harrington
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The authoritative, informative, and reassuring guide on end-of-life care for our aging population. … read more
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