Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD
By: Beth Alison Maloney
3.46
Format: 103 pages,
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1. Rules
By: Cynthia Lord
3.97
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
This Newbery Honor Book is a heartfelt and witty story about feeling different and finding acceptan… read more
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"rules"-Cynthia Lord, Rules
"No toys in the fish tank "-Cynthia Lord, Rules
"Just this once, let it be easy."-Cynthia Lord, Rules
"...choosing words is harder than I thought."-Cynthia Lord, Rules
2. Salem Falls
By: Jodi Picoult
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Jack buries his past, content to become the mysterious stranger who has appeared out of the blue. A… read more
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3. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
By: Henry Marsh
3.69
Format: 192 pages,
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cu… read more
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- medical
- nonfiction
- memoir
4. The Cradle Will Fall
By: Mary Higgins Clark
4.01
Format: 511 pages,
This hospital-based horror tale features abduction and a research project that violates every princ… read more
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5. Defending Jacob
By: William Landay
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in cris… read more
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6. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By: Susan Wise Bauer
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Flight Behavior
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.81
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a d… read more
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"She would die of him or be cured."-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
"For scientists, reality is not optional."-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
"I never learn anything from listening to myself."-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
"Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto."-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
8. Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD
By: Beth Alison Maloney
3.46
Format: 103 pages,
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- parenting
- memoir
- medical
- psychology
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- illness
9. The Wheel on the School
By: Maurice Sendak , Meindert DeJong
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why do the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina,… read more
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"... but first to dream and then to do - isn't that the way to make a dream come true?"-Maurice Sendak, The Wheel on the School
"That's the trouble with being twins - if you don't know something, you don't know it double."-Maurice Sendak, The Wheel on the School
10. Harvesting the Heart
By: Jodi Picoult
4.15
Format: 447 pages, Paperback
From the #1 New York TimesBestselling author of Leaving Time Paige has only a few vivid memories of… read more
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11. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
By: Sally Denton
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
13. Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again
By: Lysa TerKeurst
4.16
Format: 288 pages, ebook
*#1 New York Times Bestseller* You deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have do… read more
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- nonfiction
14. I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
By: Shauna Niequist
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When everything we've been clinging to falls apart, how do we know what to keep and what to let go … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
15. It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
By: Mary Louise Kelly
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- parenting
- memoir
"In his book "Being Mortal", the surgeon Atul Gawande accurately describes the joy that flows from being good at your work. 'You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work…"-Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
16. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
By: Max Marshall
3.50
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
18. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more
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"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
19. An Evil Heart (Kate Burkholder, #15)
By: Linda Castillo
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the brutal death of a young Amish man in An Evil Heart… read more
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20. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
By: David Sheff
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our… read more
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- parenting
- memoir
- psychology
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"You're as sick as your secrets."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
21. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
By: Jay Wellons
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more
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- medical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
22. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
By: Anthony Ray Hinton
4.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Life was a crazy, strange mix of tragedy and sorrow and triumph and joy."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Oh, the sanitized way of saying it is "sentenced to death." But let's call it what it is. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Life is brutal, tragic, unbearable, and inhumane at times. The pain one man can cause another is limitless, but I didn't see, I couldn't see, how creating more pain made anything better."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"I had just turned twenty-nine, and honestly, I still didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
23. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
By: Adam Stern
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry r… read more
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- memoir
- medical
- psychology
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
24. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more
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- medical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
25. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
26. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
By: Fredrik Backman
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World collects the personal dispatches from the front lines o… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- memoir
"Remember, a good friend helps you move, but a great friend helps you move a dead body."-Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
"There is plenty that can be said about your grandfathers' generation of men, but they wouldn't have had time to learn about everything in the world if the women of their generation hadn't taken care …"-Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
"And I hope that you’ll never get it into your head that just because a woman deserves every opportunity you do, you have to stop holding the door open for her when you can. That you'll never think it…"-Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
"That whole first year, jeez, your entire life revolves around poop. The presence of poop. The absence of poop. The discovery of poop. The aromatic sensation of poop. The waiting for poop. Seriously, …"-Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
27. We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
By: Charles Wheelan
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family dec… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- parenting
- memoir
28. Mothered
By: Zoje Stage
3.31
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
A claustrophobic psychological thriller about one woman’s nightmarish spiral while quarantined with… read more
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29. A Good Marriage
By: Kimberly McCreight
3.91
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law fi… read more
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"Pretty bows on a pile of sh$t only make it harder to flush."-Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
30. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
31. From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
By: Tembi Locke
3.95
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New Y… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Cooking is about surrender."-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
"We had to begin at an ending and make a new beginning."-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
"But I had learned that identity is prismatic, that belonging requires claiming."-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
"Yet nothing about dying was easy. Not for him nor for me. It was labor, as much labor as coming into this world."-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
