What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
By: Alan Light
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimat…
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1. Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
By: Nadine Cohodas
3.52
Format: 449 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed Dinah Washington biography Queen comes this complete account of th… read more
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- music
- biography
- jazz
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
By: Alan Light
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimat… read more
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- music
- biography
- jazz
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. No One Here Gets Out Alive
By: Danny Sugerman , Jerry Hopkins
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, cha… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
5. Hygiène de l'assassin
By: Amélie Nothomb
4.11
Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Pretextat Tach, prix Nobel de litterature, n'a plus que deux mois a vivre. Des journalistes du mond… read more
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6. I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
By: Stephen Cleary , Nina Simone
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The inimitable, gorgeously talented Nina Simone (1933-2003)--the "high priestess of soul"--sets the… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
7. Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
By: Howard Sounes
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Based on three years of research, new documentary evidence, and interviews with 250 of Dylan's inti… read more
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- music
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period
By: Michelle Mercer
4.54
Format: 380 pages,
A revealing, lyrical book that uses Joni Mitchell's groundbreaking albums of the 1970s to explore t… read more
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9. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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10. The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Astonishing Dialogue Taking Place in Our Bodies Impacts Health, Weight, and Mood
By: Emeran Mayer
4.20
Format: None pages, ebook
Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practica… read more
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11. Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Iv… read more
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12. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
13. Spatriati
By: Mario Desiati
3.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Claudia è solitaria ma sicura di sé, stravagante, si veste da uomo. Francesco è acceso e frenato da… read more
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- audiobook
"Ad aspettare che qualcosa accada può venire il peggio."-Mario Desiati, Spatriati
"In quella dilatazione del tempo della giovinezza, quando ogni istante è un tergiversare del futuro, sognavo di andare a passo agile verso l'estate, di montare i motorini nelle strade grigie tra i pin…"-Mario Desiati, Spatriati
"Il mio periodo berlinese mi ha bollato per sempre ai loro occhi come «il tedesco», parola che pronunciano con aria sarcastica. So bene che per gran parte di loro sono uno che non ce l'ha fatta, che è…"-Mario Desiati, Spatriati
"Non sopportavo gran parte dei miei coetanei all’estero, una volta espatriati scoprivano di aver vissuto per venti o trent’anni in mezzo ai barbari. Non importa in che città fossero: Parigi, Barcellon…"-Mario Desiati, Spatriati
14. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
By: Jeff Guinn
4.16
Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition
By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
15. Nina Simone's Gum
By: Warren Ellis
4.26
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
17. Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
By: Tade Thompson
3.75
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by… read more
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- audiobook
"It is never a good idea to cause pain to angels."-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
"What’s a quantum extrapolator?’ I ask. ‘You are,"-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
"...even the Gujarat-bot dreams of electric sheep."-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
"The Yoruba say ‘o d’oju ala’ when someone dies. I will see you in dreams."-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
18. Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage (Eileen Atkins)
By: Eileen Atkins
4.13
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to an electric… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
19. Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
By: Lauren Hough
3.40
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
Searing and extremely personal essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with th… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"There are few codes held more deeply among the poor, the religious, and the uneducated than that it is good and healthy and wholesome parenting to hit your kids. That their kids grow up with anger-ma…"-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
"People describe falling in love as meeting someone who they feel like they've known all their lives. Someone who understands them immediately. To me, that seems more like a nightmare than a fantasy. …"-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
"I told him it would be a week, seven to ten days to get a new line. He said through his teeth he needed an exact day. I gave him my supervisor's number. This whole time, his wife was in the kitchen w…"-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
"Those are the moments I’m proud of. The times I saw through them. The times I made them work to break me, even though I knew they would. The times I questioned the lies being fed to me, though everyo…"-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
20. You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
By: Tarana Burke
4.52
Format: 6 pages, Audio CD
Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artis… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"The truth always needs a resting place or it will lie down wherever it sees fit."-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"At the time, the whispers to keep silent and appear normal were deafening. And so we did. There is no blame here. We were just trying to survive. (Where the Truth Rests)"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"Dangerous is the woman who can give herself what she used to seek from others. Limitless is the woman who dares to name herself. The way I see it, shame cannot oppress what acceptance has already cla…"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"Systems of white supremacy teach us shame because they have no guilt. Rejecting shame for Black lives means rejecting individual responsibility for structural failures. (Unlearning Shame and Remember…"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
21. Horror Stories: A Memoir
By: Liz Phair
3.71
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyvi… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Childhood is a time of curiosity and peril, and nobody comes out of it unscarred."-Liz Phair, Horror Stories: A Memoir
