Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg
By: Emily Rapp Black
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabil…
Want to Read $ 11.99"There was such powerlessness in difference, which created, it seemed, not just a barrier to success but also a barrier to love. Who could stand it?"-Emily Rapp Black, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg
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1. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
By: Anaïs Nin
3.71
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more
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- feminism
"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
2. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
By: Helene Hanff
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
3. 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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- adult
"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
4. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- adult
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
5. Delphi
By: Clare Pollard
3.46
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A captivating debut novel about a classics professor immersed in research for a new book on a proph… read more
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- adult
"We are so bored of our unreal lives it is a change, at least; it is history happening."-Clare Pollard, Delphi
"Force our every interaction online so they can scrape it for data and sell predictions to shadowy forces of what we'll do before we know ourselves."-Clare Pollard, Delphi
"In a globalized world, there are few purchases or gestures that do not - like the flicker of a butterfly's wings - negatively affect someone on earth. With almost every daily action I contribute to w…"-Clare Pollard, Delphi
6. Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s
By: B. Dylan Hollis
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from t… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
7. Where the Wild Ladies Are
By: Aoko Matsuda
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this witty and exuberant collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, hu… read more
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- feminism
"He who speaks of love must do so with courage."-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
"When they are truly into something, they are absolutely single-minded in their fixation. They give it all they have. They throw heaps of money at it, research it endlessly, and do whatever seems nece…"-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
"How unfair society was! Male employees had to pretend to be capable of doing things they couldn't do, while female employees had to pretend to be incapable of doing things they actually could do. Ove…"-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
"Previously she'd lacked confidence and was forever putting out feelers to the people around her to gauge what they were thinking, but these days she gave out an almost authoritative aura, as if to si…"-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
8. What You Need to Be Warm
By: Neil Gaiman
4.20
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
During the coldest season, when the world feels scary—what do you remember about being warm? Baked … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
9. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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10. Getting Lost
By: Annie Ernaux
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death."-Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost
11. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
By: Maddie Mortimer
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and d… read more
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- adult
"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
12. Crudo
By: Olivia Laing
3.19
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acc… read more
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- adult
"What a waste, what a crime, to wreck a world so abundantly full of different kinds of flowers."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"She missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"He read last, and when he got to a line about an entire bowl she gasped. Every word came out clean. We're a monstrous pair of crows, devoted to a single being."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"40, not a bad run in the history of human existence but she’d really rather it all kept going, water in the taps, whales in the oceans, fruit and duvets, the whole sumptuous parade, she was into it t…"-Olivia Laing, Crudo
13. Year of the Monkey
By: Patti Smith
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully reali… read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow. A tomorrow following a whole succession of tomorrows."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
14. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more
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- adult
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
15. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- disability
16. The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
By: Lee Kravetz
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"Lee Kravetz has created a bit of a miracle, a plot-driven literary puzzle box whose mystery lives … read more
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- adult
17. The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris
By: Marc Petitjean
3.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibran… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
18. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Other People's Love Affairs
By: D. Wystan Owen
3.58
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In the classic tradition of fiction by James Joyce, William Trevor, and Elizabeth Strout, these int… read more
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20. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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- adult
21. Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg
By: Emily Rapp Black
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabil… read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- medical
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- disability
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