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In Search of The Color Purple

av Salamishah Tillet • 2021

A forgotten grave, a banned novel, and the Black women's voices America tried to erase.

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220

📚 Author Studies 🖋️ Black Women Writers 🌱 Womanist Thought ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🎨 Colorism

In Search of The Color Purple

A forgotten grave, a banned novel, and the Black women's voices America tried to erase.

av Salamishah Tillet 2021 223 sidor

4.21

220 betyg

📚 Author Studies 🖋️ Black Women Writers 🌱 Womanist Thought ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🎨 Colorism

Pryor Convictions

av Richard Pryor • 1995

Brothel childhood. Cocaine addiction. Self-immolation. Richard Pryor's life, before the punchline.

4.05

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 😢 Childhood Trauma 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🇺🇸 Race In America 🔥 Surviving Catastrophe

Pryor Convictions

Brothel childhood. Cocaine addiction. Self-immolation. Richard Pryor's life, before the punchline.

av Richard Pryor 1995 261 sidor

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 😢 Childhood Trauma 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🇺🇸 Race In America 🔥 Surviving Catastrophe

Hillbilly Elegy

av J.D. Vance • 2016

Escaping Appalachia wasn't about money; it was about cracking a hidden code.

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🏔️ Appalachian Culture 👷 White Working Class 🧬 Generational Trauma 📈 Upward Mobility 🤝 Social Capital

Hillbilly Elegy

Escaping Appalachia wasn't about money; it was about cracking a hidden code.

av J.D. Vance 2016 264 sidor

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🏔️ Appalachian Culture 👷 White Working Class 🧬 Generational Trauma 📈 Upward Mobility 🤝 Social Capital

Becoming Myself

av Irvin D. Yalom • 2017

At eighty-five, the master of existential therapy makes himself the last patient on his couch.

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🛋️ Existential Psychotherapy 👥 Group Therapy 🤝 Therapeutic Relationship 💀 Death Awareness 🎭 Therapist Authenticity

Becoming Myself

At eighty-five, the master of existential therapy makes himself the last patient on his couch.

av Irvin D. Yalom 2017 352 sidor

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🛋️ Existential Psychotherapy 👥 Group Therapy 🤝 Therapeutic Relationship 💀 Death Awareness 🎭 Therapist Authenticity

How Music Works

av David Byrne • 2014

Cathedrals demanded chant. Car stereos demanded bass. The spaces we build write the music we hear.

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🎶 Music History 💿 Music Industry 🎛️ Music Technology 💡 Creative Process 🏛️ Sound And Space

How Music Works

Cathedrals demanded chant. Car stereos demanded bass. The spaces we build write the music we hear.

av David Byrne 2014 345 sidor

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🎶 Music History 💿 Music Industry 🎛️ Music Technology 💡 Creative Process 🏛️ Sound And Space

Coming Home

av Brittney Griner • 2024

293 days in a Russian prison, and the arms dealer traded for her freedom.

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11 000+

🏅 Athlete Memoirs 🏀 Women In Sports 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Athletes ⛓️ Wrongful Detention 🧗 Captivity Survival

Coming Home

293 days in a Russian prison, and the arms dealer traded for her freedom.

av Brittney Griner 2024 320 sidor

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🏅 Athlete Memoirs 🏀 Women In Sports 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Athletes ⛓️ Wrongful Detention 🧗 Captivity Survival

Girl, Wash Your Face

av Rachel Hollis • 2018

Your limiting beliefs are reversible lies. A personal, story-driven manual for unlearning them.

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200 000+

💪 Women's Empowerment ✝️ Christian Self-Help 🧠 Limiting Beliefs 🫂 Self-Compassion 🎯 Perfectionism

Girl, Wash Your Face

Your limiting beliefs are reversible lies. A personal, story-driven manual for unlearning them.

av Rachel Hollis 2018 220 sidor

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💪 Women's Empowerment ✝️ Christian Self-Help 🧠 Limiting Beliefs 🫂 Self-Compassion 🎯 Perfectionism

There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather

av Linda Åkeson McGurk • 2017

A Swedish mother's argument for raising healthier kids: daily outdoor play, no matter the forecast.

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🏔️ Scandinavian Parenting 🌲 Outdoor Parenting 🧒 Unstructured Play 🌿 Nature Deficit 🧗 Risk In Childhood

There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather

A Swedish mother's argument for raising healthier kids: daily outdoor play, no matter the forecast.

av Linda Åkeson McGurk 2017 304 sidor

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🏔️ Scandinavian Parenting 🌲 Outdoor Parenting 🧒 Unstructured Play 🌿 Nature Deficit 🧗 Risk In Childhood

Somehow

av Anne Lamott • 2024

Love isn't soft. It's the floor under everything, the mending force in the rubble of life.

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🙏 Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Essays On Faith 🌈 Progressive Christianity ✨ Everyday Sacredness 🤲 Radical Self-Acceptance

Somehow

Love isn't soft. It's the floor under everything, the mending force in the rubble of life.

av Anne Lamott 2024 204 sidor

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🙏 Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Essays On Faith 🌈 Progressive Christianity ✨ Everyday Sacredness 🤲 Radical Self-Acceptance

The In-Between

av Hadley Vlahos • 2023

A patient asks for a slice of cake. A hospice nurse learns the secret the dying know.

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🏥 End-Of-Life Care ✍️ Nursing Memoirs 👻 Deathbed Visions 🕊️ Death Acceptance ✨ Afterlife Beliefs

The In-Between

A patient asks for a slice of cake. A hospice nurse learns the secret the dying know.

av Hadley Vlahos 2023 288 sidor

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🏥 End-Of-Life Care ✍️ Nursing Memoirs 👻 Deathbed Visions 🕊️ Death Acceptance ✨ Afterlife Beliefs

Mandela's Way

av Richard Stengel • 2009

Mandela's rules: why he led from behind, retired early, and saw his enemies as mentors.

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🌍 African Leadership 🦁 Moral Courage 🤝 Principled Negotiation ⏳ Long-Term Thinking ☮️ Conflict Resolution

Mandela's Way

Mandela's rules: why he led from behind, retired early, and saw his enemies as mentors.

av Richard Stengel 2009 243 sidor

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🌍 African Leadership 🦁 Moral Courage 🤝 Principled Negotiation ⏳ Long-Term Thinking ☮️ Conflict Resolution

What Happened

av Hillary Rodham Clinton • 2017

Emails, Russian hacking, media frenzy, and Comey: how a three-million-vote margin wasn't enough.

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🏛️ Presidential Campaigns 📖 Political Memoir 🔍 Election Postmortems 📺 Media Bias 🦠 Disinformation

What Happened

Emails, Russian hacking, media frenzy, and Comey: how a three-million-vote margin wasn't enough.

av Hillary Rodham Clinton 2017 494 sidor

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🏛️ Presidential Campaigns 📖 Political Memoir 🔍 Election Postmortems 📺 Media Bias 🦠 Disinformation

I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse

av Michael Franzese • 2009

What a former mob boss knows about negotiation and leadership that business school never taught you.

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🗣️ Business Negotiation ⚖️ Business Ethics 🛡️ Integrity In Business 👂 Listening Skills 🎭 Ego Management

I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse

What a former mob boss knows about negotiation and leadership that business school never taught you.

av Michael Franzese 2009 176 sidor

3.86

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🗣️ Business Negotiation ⚖️ Business Ethics 🛡️ Integrity In Business 👂 Listening Skills 🎭 Ego Management

We're Not Broken

av Eric Garcia • 2021

Why autism talk must shift from cure to acceptance, from an autistic journalist inside the movement.

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🧠 Neurodiversity Movement ⚖️ Disability Justice 🗣️ Autism Advocacy 🔀 Intersectional Autism ✊ Self-Advocacy

We're Not Broken

Why autism talk must shift from cure to acceptance, from an autistic journalist inside the movement.

av Eric Garcia 2021 309 sidor

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🧠 Neurodiversity Movement ⚖️ Disability Justice 🗣️ Autism Advocacy 🔀 Intersectional Autism ✊ Self-Advocacy

Will

av Will Smith • 2021

The secret to Will Smith's empire: a terrified kid, a pile of bricks, and a refusal to stop.

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📖 Celebrity Memoir 🎤 Hip-Hop Memoir 🦁 Overcoming Fear 🏆 Redefining Success 🏃 Taking Action

Will

The secret to Will Smith's empire: a terrified kid, a pile of bricks, and a refusal to stop.

av Will Smith 2021 418 sidor

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📖 Celebrity Memoir 🎤 Hip-Hop Memoir 🦁 Overcoming Fear 🏆 Redefining Success 🏃 Taking Action

When the Air Hits Your Brain

av Frank T. Vertosick Jr. • 1996

A young neurosurgeon learns to open skulls. The real incision is in his own humanity.

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🧠 Neurosurgery 🏥 Medical Training ⚕️ Medical Fallibility 💙 Medical Empathy 💀 Confronting Mortality

When the Air Hits Your Brain

A young neurosurgeon learns to open skulls. The real incision is in his own humanity.

av Frank T. Vertosick Jr. 1996 288 sidor

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🧠 Neurosurgery 🏥 Medical Training ⚕️ Medical Fallibility 💙 Medical Empathy 💀 Confronting Mortality

The Omnivore's Dilemma

av Michael Pollan • 2006

From McDonald's to a hunted wild pig: four meals that expose what you're really eating.

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🧬 Industrial Agriculture 🌾 Sustainable Farming 🔗 Food Systems 🥬 Organic Food Critique 🐄 Ethics Of Eating Animals

The Omnivore's Dilemma

From McDonald's to a hunted wild pig: four meals that expose what you're really eating.

av Michael Pollan 2006 460 sidor

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🧬 Industrial Agriculture 🌾 Sustainable Farming 🔗 Food Systems 🥬 Organic Food Critique 🐄 Ethics Of Eating Animals

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

av Dave Eggers • 2000

Orphaned at 21, raising his 8-year-old brother: a grief memoir that knows it's a memoir.

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100 000+

🪦 Parental Loss 🖤 Grief Memoir 👬 Brothers 🏠 Unconventional Families 🔄 Meta Memoir

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Orphaned at 21, raising his 8-year-old brother: a grief memoir that knows it's a memoir.

av Dave Eggers 2000 530 sidor

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🪦 Parental Loss 🖤 Grief Memoir 👬 Brothers 🏠 Unconventional Families 🔄 Meta Memoir

Mother Tongue

av Christine Gilbert • 2016

A family's two-year quest to learn Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish abroad. But her toddler objected.

3.72

449

🌊 Language Immersion 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multilingual Parenting ✈️ Family Travel 📖 Language Learning Memoir ❤️ Cultural Empathy

Mother Tongue

A family's two-year quest to learn Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish abroad. But her toddler objected.

av Christine Gilbert 2016 333 sidor

3.72

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🌊 Language Immersion 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multilingual Parenting ✈️ Family Travel 📖 Language Learning Memoir ❤️ Cultural Empathy

Nisei Daughter

av Monica Itoi Sone • 1979

A Seattle girl's American childhood shatters when Pearl Harbor turns her family into the enemy.

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⛩️ Japanese American History 🧳 Wwii Incarceration 🎭 Cultural Duality 🚧 Racial Prejudice 🧬 Immigrant Identity

Nisei Daughter

A Seattle girl's American childhood shatters when Pearl Harbor turns her family into the enemy.

av Monica Itoi Sone 1979 256 sidor

3.90

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⛩️ Japanese American History 🧳 Wwii Incarceration 🎭 Cultural Duality 🚧 Racial Prejudice 🧬 Immigrant Identity

The Art of Solitude

av Stephen Batchelor • 2020

The deeper you go into solitude, the more you find everyone else waiting there.

3.61

1 000+

🪷 Secular Buddhism 🧘 Contemplative Practice 🔍 Self-Inquiry 🌱 Beginner's Mind 🌑 Inner Work

The Art of Solitude

The deeper you go into solitude, the more you find everyone else waiting there.

av Stephen Batchelor 2020 200 sidor

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🪷 Secular Buddhism 🧘 Contemplative Practice 🔍 Self-Inquiry 🌱 Beginner's Mind 🌑 Inner Work

The Way of Aikido

av George Leonard • 1999

Centering, blending, and the art of winning without harm: aikido lessons for life beyond the dojo.

4.12

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🥋 Aikido ⚔️ Martial Arts Philosophy 🕊️ Conflict Resolution 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🌱 Adversity Transformation

The Way of Aikido

Centering, blending, and the art of winning without harm: aikido lessons for life beyond the dojo.

av George Leonard 1999 224 sidor

4.12

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🥋 Aikido ⚔️ Martial Arts Philosophy 🕊️ Conflict Resolution 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🌱 Adversity Transformation

Bringing Up Bébé

av Pamela Druckerman • 2012

French babies sleep at three months, toddlers eat vegetables. An American mom in Paris takes notes.

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🥐 French Parenting 🌍 Parenting Cultures 🧒 Child Autonomy 😴 Sleep Training 🍽️ Structured Mealtimes

Bringing Up Bébé

French babies sleep at three months, toddlers eat vegetables. An American mom in Paris takes notes.

av Pamela Druckerman 2012 284 sidor

4.02

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🥐 French Parenting 🌍 Parenting Cultures 🧒 Child Autonomy 😴 Sleep Training 🍽️ Structured Mealtimes

Holy Envy

av Barbara Brown Taylor • 2019

A Christian theology built on admiring other faiths, tested by students in the Bible Belt.

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☸️ Interfaith Dialogue 📚 Comparative Religion 🕊️ Spiritual Memoir 🙏 Religious Humility ⛪ Progressive Christianity

Holy Envy

A Christian theology built on admiring other faiths, tested by students in the Bible Belt.

av Barbara Brown Taylor 2019 256 sidor

4.39

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☸️ Interfaith Dialogue 📚 Comparative Religion 🕊️ Spiritual Memoir 🙏 Religious Humility ⛪ Progressive Christianity

Every Tool's a Hammer

av Adam Savage • 2019

A master maker's playbook: prototype in cardboard, plan in lists, and let obsession drive the work.

4.18

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🛠️ Maker Culture 🎨 Creative Process 💡 Design Thinking 🔄 Iterative Design 📋 Project Workflow

Every Tool's a Hammer

A master maker's playbook: prototype in cardboard, plan in lists, and let obsession drive the work.

av Adam Savage 2019 320 sidor

4.18

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🛠️ Maker Culture 🎨 Creative Process 💡 Design Thinking 🔄 Iterative Design 📋 Project Workflow

A Fish in the Water

av Mario Vargas Llosa • 1993

Peru, 1990. A novelist campaigns for president while the boy who discovered books haunts his memory.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗳️ Political Memoir ✍️ Writers And Politics 🌎 Latin American Politics 🔄 Political Conversion

A Fish in the Water

Peru, 1990. A novelist campaigns for president while the boy who discovered books haunts his memory.

av Mario Vargas Llosa 1993 532 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗳️ Political Memoir ✍️ Writers And Politics 🌎 Latin American Politics 🔄 Political Conversion

Here All Along

av Sarah Hurwitz • 2019

She dismissed Judaism as frozen ancient rules, then discovered a tradition that runs on questioning.

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🕍 Modern Judaism ✨ Jewish Spirituality 🌈 Progressive Judaism ⚖️ Jewish Ethics 📚 Adult Jewish Learning

Here All Along

She dismissed Judaism as frozen ancient rules, then discovered a tradition that runs on questioning.

av Sarah Hurwitz 2019 320 sidor

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🕍 Modern Judaism ✨ Jewish Spirituality 🌈 Progressive Judaism ⚖️ Jewish Ethics 📚 Adult Jewish Learning

The Beautiful Struggle

av Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2008

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

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🏙️ Urban Memoir 🖤 African American Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs ✊ Black Nationalism 🎤 Hip-Hop Culture

The Beautiful Struggle

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

av Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Memoir 🖤 African American Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs ✊ Black Nationalism 🎤 Hip-Hop Culture

Tools and Weapons

av Brad Smith • 2019

Tech weaponized your data, your vote, your face. An insider's plan to take them back.

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🏛️ Tech Policy 🔒 Privacy Rights 🛡️ Cybersecurity 🤖 Ai Ethics 🌐 Digital Divide

Tools and Weapons

Tech weaponized your data, your vote, your face. An insider's plan to take them back.

av Brad Smith 2019 368 sidor

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🏛️ Tech Policy 🔒 Privacy Rights 🛡️ Cybersecurity 🤖 Ai Ethics 🌐 Digital Divide

Believe Bigger

av Marshawn Evans Daniels • 2018

Disruption is God's redirect: five stages from breakdown to purpose, and finding your buried gifts.

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🕊️ Christian Self-Help 📍 Purpose And Calling 🔗 Limiting Beliefs 🎁 Spiritual Gifts 🌅 Life Transitions

Believe Bigger

Disruption is God's redirect: five stages from breakdown to purpose, and finding your buried gifts.

av Marshawn Evans Daniels 2018 353 sidor

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🕊️ Christian Self-Help 📍 Purpose And Calling 🔗 Limiting Beliefs 🎁 Spiritual Gifts 🌅 Life Transitions

The Instant Millionaire

av Mark Fisher • 1997

A childhood among taxidermied animals prepared her for the absurdity of adulthood and anxiety.

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🧠 Anxiety Memoir 😈 Dark Comedy 🏚️ Eccentric Family 🌻 Southern Memoir 🏠 Domestic Humor

The Instant Millionaire

A childhood among taxidermied animals prepared her for the absurdity of adulthood and anxiety.

av Mark Fisher 1997 136 sidor

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🧠 Anxiety Memoir 😈 Dark Comedy 🏚️ Eccentric Family 🌻 Southern Memoir 🏠 Domestic Humor

After the Rain

av Alexandra Elle • 2020

A soft-spoken guide to repairing your relationship with yourself, one honest breath at a time.

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🌿 Gentle Self-Help 🩹 Healing Journey 💗 Self-Compassion 🧒 Inner Child Healing 🌬️ Breathwork

After the Rain

A soft-spoken guide to repairing your relationship with yourself, one honest breath at a time.

av Alexandra Elle 2020 208 sidor

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🌿 Gentle Self-Help 🩹 Healing Journey 💗 Self-Compassion 🧒 Inner Child Healing 🌬️ Breathwork

My Life in Full

av Indra Nooyi • 2021

An immigrant's rise to PepsiCo CEO, and the family tradeoffs no corner office can fix.

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🏢 Corporate Leadership 👩‍💼 Women In Leadership 📝 Executive Memoirs ⚖️ Work-Life Integration 👩‍👧‍👦 Working Mothers

My Life in Full

An immigrant's rise to PepsiCo CEO, and the family tradeoffs no corner office can fix.

av Indra Nooyi 2021 320 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Leadership 👩‍💼 Women In Leadership 📝 Executive Memoirs ⚖️ Work-Life Integration 👩‍👧‍👦 Working Mothers

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez • 2021

Tired of translating yourself for others? Here is the toolkit to reclaim your mind, language, anger.

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🤎 Woc Feminism 🧹 Decolonial Feminism 🧬 Generational Trauma 👔 Respectability Politics 🪶 Cultural Identity

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

Tired of translating yourself for others? Here is the toolkit to reclaim your mind, language, anger.

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez 2021 272 sidor

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🤎 Woc Feminism 🧹 Decolonial Feminism 🧬 Generational Trauma 👔 Respectability Politics 🪶 Cultural Identity

Bihar Diaries

av Amit Lodha • 2018

An IIT failure turned cop pursues Bihar's most feared gangster, armed with only a Nokia phone.

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🚔 Police Memoirs 🔍 True Crime Procedural 🇮🇳 Indian Policing 🕶️ Criminal Underworld 🏛️ Crime And Politics

Bihar Diaries

An IIT failure turned cop pursues Bihar's most feared gangster, armed with only a Nokia phone.

av Amit Lodha 2018 304 sidor

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🚔 Police Memoirs 🔍 True Crime Procedural 🇮🇳 Indian Policing 🕶️ Criminal Underworld 🏛️ Crime And Politics

Mao's America

av Xi Van Fleet • 2023

Mao's Red Guards burned the books of her childhood. Now she watches America strike the match.

4.42

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🏮 Maoist China 🕯️ Survivor Testimony ⚖️ Totalitarian Parallels 🎭 Identity Politics Critique 🌏 Cultural Comparison

Mao's America

Mao's Red Guards burned the books of her childhood. Now she watches America strike the match.

av Xi Van Fleet 2023 279 sidor

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🏮 Maoist China 🕯️ Survivor Testimony ⚖️ Totalitarian Parallels 🎭 Identity Politics Critique 🌏 Cultural Comparison

How to Giggle

av Hannah Berner • 2025

Caring less is a skill. A comedian's blunt playbook for anxiety, bad dates, and toxic friends.

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🎭 Comedy Self-Help 👯 Female Friendships 🧠 Anxiety Coping 💔 Modern Dating 💗 Self-Acceptance

How to Giggle

Caring less is a skill. A comedian's blunt playbook for anxiety, bad dates, and toxic friends.

av Hannah Berner 2025 208 sidor

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🎭 Comedy Self-Help 👯 Female Friendships 🧠 Anxiety Coping 💔 Modern Dating 💗 Self-Acceptance

Mind Without Fear

av Rajat Gupta • 2013

Orphaned in India, he rose to lead McKinsey. One phone call later, he faced prison.

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🏢 Corporate Memoir 📉 Insider Trading 📈 Rise And Fall 🔒 Prison Memoir 🕉️ Eastern Philosophy

Mind Without Fear

Orphaned in India, he rose to lead McKinsey. One phone call later, he faced prison.

av Rajat Gupta 2013 376 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Memoir 📉 Insider Trading 📈 Rise And Fall 🔒 Prison Memoir 🕉️ Eastern Philosophy

The Philosopher and the Wolf

av Mark Rowlands • 2008

A philosopher's decade with a wolf revealed that humans misunderstand love, happiness, and death.

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📖 Philosophical Memoir ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🐺 Animal Consciousness 🤝 Human-Animal Bond ⌛ Existentialism

The Philosopher and the Wolf

A philosopher's decade with a wolf revealed that humans misunderstand love, happiness, and death.

av Mark Rowlands 2008 268 sidor

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📖 Philosophical Memoir ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🐺 Animal Consciousness 🤝 Human-Animal Bond ⌛ Existentialism

Escape

av Carolyn Jessop • 2007

Forced into polygamy at eighteen. Fifteen years and eight children later, she fled with all of them.

3.99

46 000+

🐝 Mormon Fundamentalism 🔗 Polygamous Sects 🏃‍♀️ Cult Escape 💍 Forced Marriage ⛪ Religious Trauma

Escape

Forced into polygamy at eighteen. Fifteen years and eight children later, she fled with all of them.

av Carolyn Jessop 2007 304 sidor

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🐝 Mormon Fundamentalism 🔗 Polygamous Sects 🏃‍♀️ Cult Escape 💍 Forced Marriage ⛪ Religious Trauma

A Childhood

av Harry Crews • 1978

By age six he had lived a lifetime. The writing was just aftermath.

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🏚️ Rural Poverty 🌾 Southern Memoir 🩸 Childhood Trauma 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🦴 Southern Gothic

A Childhood

By age six he had lived a lifetime. The writing was just aftermath.

av Harry Crews 1978 192 sidor

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🏚️ Rural Poverty 🌾 Southern Memoir 🩸 Childhood Trauma 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🦴 Southern Gothic

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

av Daisy Hernández • 2014

A childhood translating for her parents gave her everything except a language for her bisexuality.

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✈️ Immigrant Memoir 🌈 Coming Out Stories 🗣️ Language And Identity 🇺🇸 Assimilation 💰 Class Consciousness

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

A childhood translating for her parents gave her everything except a language for her bisexuality.

av Daisy Hernández 2014 185 sidor

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✈️ Immigrant Memoir 🌈 Coming Out Stories 🗣️ Language And Identity 🇺🇸 Assimilation 💰 Class Consciousness

Phosphorescence

av Julia Baird • 2020

What sustains you when optimism fails: nature, deep friendship, and the discipline of noticing.

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✨ Everyday Awe 🌿 Nature Connection 🔍 Attention Practice 🤝 Deep Friendships 💗 Self-Compassion

Phosphorescence

What sustains you when optimism fails: nature, deep friendship, and the discipline of noticing.

av Julia Baird 2020 320 sidor

3.77

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✨ Everyday Awe 🌿 Nature Connection 🔍 Attention Practice 🤝 Deep Friendships 💗 Self-Compassion

Becoming Nicole

av Amy Ellis Nutt • 2015

Identical twins, one boy and one girl. A bathroom battle that reached the Maine Supreme Court.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Rights 🏠 Lgbtq Families 🏷️ Gender Identity 🧒 Trans Youth 💊 Medical Transition

Becoming Nicole

Identical twins, one boy and one girl. A bathroom battle that reached the Maine Supreme Court.

av Amy Ellis Nutt 2015 279 sidor

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🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Rights 🏠 Lgbtq Families 🏷️ Gender Identity 🧒 Trans Youth 💊 Medical Transition

Freeing Jesus

av Diana Butler Bass • 2021

Six Jesuses across a lifetime. Clinging to one is why faith goes stale.

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🕊️ Progressive Christianity 🧩 Faith Deconstruction 🌱 Spiritual Evolution ✝️ Christology 📖 Christian Memoir

Freeing Jesus

Six Jesuses across a lifetime. Clinging to one is why faith goes stale.

av Diana Butler Bass 2021 285 sidor

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🕊️ Progressive Christianity 🧩 Faith Deconstruction 🌱 Spiritual Evolution ✝️ Christology 📖 Christian Memoir

Hagitude

av Sharon Blackie • 2022

Menopause opens more than it closes. The Celtic myths and elderhood traditions that show how.

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🔥 Menopause And Aging 🌙 Feminist Spirituality 🌀 Celtic Mythology 👵 Elderhood 🎭 Archetypal Psychology

Hagitude

Menopause opens more than it closes. The Celtic myths and elderhood traditions that show how.

av Sharon Blackie 2022 319 sidor

3.72

2 000+ betyg

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3.98

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📖 Autofiction 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🇯🇵 Postwar Japan 👧 Child Narrator ✈️ Expat Childhood

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A Belgian infant in Japan stays mute for two years. White chocolate awakens a furious consciousness.

av Amélie Nothomb 2000 156 sidor

3.98

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3.89

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Novelist as a Vocation

Originality is subtraction: how writing badly in English gave a Japanese novelist his voice.

av Haruki Murakami 2015 213 sidor

3.89

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To the world, a pop icon. To her music-mogul husband, a possession. Her story of escape.

4.09

25 000+

🌟 Celebrity Memoir 👑 Pop Stardom 🌍 Biracial Identity 🏚️ Family Dysfunction 🎨 Creative Control

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

To the world, a pop icon. To her music-mogul husband, a possession. Her story of escape.

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4.09

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av Richard Sennett • 2003

Invisibility is inequality's deepest cut; the systems meant to heal it often cut deeper.

3.69

244

🗽 Social Inequality 🏆 Meritocracy Critique 🏛️ Welfare State 🎁 Gift Economies 🤝 Recognition And Dignity

Respect in a World of Inequality

Invisibility is inequality's deepest cut; the systems meant to heal it often cut deeper.

av Richard Sennett 2003 306 sidor

3.69

244 betyg

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