Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success
By: Shalini Shankar
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generati…
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1. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
By: None
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers … read more
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- nonfiction
- education
2. The Silver Star
By: Jeannette Walls
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen… read more
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- audiobook
3. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
By: Susan Cain
4.40
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
4. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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5. The Middle Place
By: Kelly Corrigan
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Corrigan opens her memoir with these words: "The thing yo… read more
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6. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
By: Hank Green
4.11
Format: 70 pages,
An art student in New York City named April May finds herself at the centre of a vast international… read more
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7. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
By: Matthew B. Crawford
4.00
Format: None pages,
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8. Heartburn
By: Nora Ephron
3.53
Format: 256 pages,
Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the wri… read more
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9. The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot, #2)
By: Peter Brown
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown. S… read more
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10. 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
- 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
11. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
By: Michael Easter
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and re… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood
By: Edward M. Hallowell
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help rea… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- education
- audiobook
13. The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
By: Alex Trebek
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition of this book, with ISBN 978198215799, can be found here. Longtime Jeo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Keep your head up. Move forward. Keep going."-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
"Courage is a conscious decision. You do it in a dangerous situation, when you have a choice."-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
"There is nothing worse than deluding yourself and trying to make yourself out to be somebody you're not--somebody you're not comfortable being."-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
"I just enjoy the moment I’m in. For me, life is a whole experience, not just a series of isolated moments. It’s like submerging yourself into a warm bath rather than sticking your toe under the fauce…"-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
14. Happy-Go-Lucky
By: David Sedaris
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. A Heart That Works
By: Rob Delaney
4.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Boo… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
16. Taste: My Life Through Food
By: Stanley Tucci
4.21
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical h…"-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"It is the connection between customer and purveyor that makes our interactions stronger, to me eating well is not just about what tastes good but about the connections that are made through the food …"-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
17. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
By: Jessi Klein
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
18. Worthy
By: Jada Pinkett Smith
3.64
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
20. Stillness Is the Key
By: Ryan Holiday
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdo… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Build a life you don't need to escape from."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"Routine, done for long enough and done sincerely enough, becomes more than routine. It becomes ritual—it becomes sanctified and holy."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"Put yourself in tough situations. Accept challenges. Familiarize yourself with the unfamiliar. That's how you widen your perspective and your understanding."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
21. Thicker than Water: A Memoir
By: Kerry Washington
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the "exquisitely movi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. 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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- audiobook
"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
23. Leave the World Behind
By: Rumaan Alam
3.16
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long wee… read more
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- audiobook
"Well, the sun was shining."-Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
"Humans were monsters but also perfect creations."-Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
"Sometimes, not knowing what else to do, you had sex."-Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
"The only things a person ever wanted were food and home."-Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
24. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
By: Mira Jacob
4.46
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more
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- audiobook
"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
25. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
By: Hank Green
4.24
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
April May and the Carls are back in the much-anticipated sequel to Hank Green's #1 New York Times b… read more
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- audiobook
"I read to occupy a mind other than my own"-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
"Often, restraint is far more remarkable than action."-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
"Your life is written on this body, and I love every piece of it."-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
"You can only pretend to be something so long before you become it."-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
26. Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
By: Angela Garbes
4.22
Format: 256 pages, ebook
What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the scie… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
"The origins of the placenta can be traced back to a virus."-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
"Her enthusiasm for the organ is contagious. Enough to convince you that the alphabet posters in kindergarten classrooms should declare that "P" is for 'placenta'..."-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
"The foundation of the female pelvis is composed of two hip bones, which come together to form a deep bowl that is filled by the uterus, ovaries, bladder, urethra, vagina, and colon."-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
"Throughout pregnancy, I liked to lie in bed and imagine all the changes happening inside me: cells splitting, fingernails and eyelashes growing, veins spreading, brain and gray matter forming and fol…"-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
27. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
By: Anya Kamenetz
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An NPR education reporter shows how the pandemic disrupted children’s lives—and how our country has… read more
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- social science
- history
- parenting
- nonfiction
- education
- sociology
- audiobook
29. Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six
By: Maya Payne Smart
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping y… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- education
- audiobook
30. It's Not Bragging If It's True: How to Be Awesome at Life, from a Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
By: Zaila Avant-Garde
3.74
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Kids will be inspired to embrace their inner weirdness and persevere th… read more
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- audiobook
31. Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success
By: Shalini Shankar
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generati… read more
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- history
- parenting
- nonfiction
- education
- sociology
- audiobook
