Operation Jacknap: A True Story of Kidnapping, Extortion, Ransom, and Rescue
By: Jack Teich
4.20
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
The incredible true story of one of America’s largest ransom cases—and the massive FBI and police m…
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1. Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor
By: Martin Greenfield , Wynton C. Hall
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
He's been called "America's greatest living tailor" and "the most interesting man in the world." No… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
2. The Hired Girl
By: Laura Amy Schlitz
4.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Today Miss Chandler gave me this beautiful book. I vow that I will never forget her kindness to me,… read more
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3. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
By: Chelsea Handler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power - vodka… read more
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4. 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
- audiobook
"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
5. Fleishman Is in Trouble
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.64
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Recently separated Toby Fleishman is suddenly, somehow – and at age forty-one, short as ever – surr… read more
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- audiobook
"I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"They became sophisticated in a way that she wasn’t-in a way she’d never be because sophistication is either your first language or you always have an accent in it."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"I didn’t like the dark matter part. I feel like you can’t just decide something must exist because everything’s reacting to it. You can’t just give it a name and hope it’s true."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"He understood divorce in a macro way, of course. But he had not yet adjusted to it in a micro way, in the other-side-of-the-bed-being-empty way, in the nobody-to-tell-you-were-running-late way, in th…"-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
6. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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- audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
7. Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
By: Chelsea Handler
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a haze of vape smoke on a rare windy night in L.A. in the fall of 2016, Chelsea Handler daydream… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Whereas siblings tend to police you, cousins are your partners in crime."-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
"Now that I had a better understanding of why I was so pissed off, I could finally do something about it."-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
"Judging other people had become my way of avoiding judgment of myself, and I had to do better than that."-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
"Never in the history of humankind has a woman been told to calm down and then calmed down. We don't like that."-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
8. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
By: Ted Conover
3.90
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
9. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
10. 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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- audiobook
"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
11. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- audiobook
12. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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- audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
13. A Great Marriage
By: Frances Mayes
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people—and their … read more
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- audiobook
14. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
By: Mikita Brottman
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
- audiobook
15. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
By: Fred C. Trump
4.07
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
16. Shred Sisters
By: Betsy Lerner
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sister… read more
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17. Earth to Moon: A Memoir
By: Moon Unit Zappa
4.42
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheis… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
18. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
By: Mary L. Trump
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
19. Israel Alone
By: Bernard-Henri Lévy
4.37
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy analyzes global responses to O… read more
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20. Operation Jacknap: A True Story of Kidnapping, Extortion, Ransom, and Rescue
By: Jack Teich
4.20
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
The incredible true story of one of America’s largest ransom cases—and the massive FBI and police m… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
21. Sonny Boy: A Memoir
By: Al Pacino
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
"Where do I go to get a director? I’ve never hired one in my life. I’ve only starred in three films. I said, “Marty, I don’t know how to interview anybody. This is completely crazy."-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
"A strange and discordant mix of roles followed. I liked one film I did, The Humbling, because I did it with Barry Levinson. It was based on the novel by Philip Roth, who I met at a party in New York.…"-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
"As I was heading back, I began to hear the sound of someone crying, which you sort of expect in a graveyard. I looked around to see where it was coming from. And there, sitting on a tombstone, was Fr…"-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
"Another young actor in Charlie’s class with me was a guy by the name of Martin Sheen. In one session Marty did a monologue from The Iceman Cometh, and he blew the roof off—I said, this is it, this is…"-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
