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Blood, Bones & Butter

av Gabrielle Hamilton • 2001

Her parents threw lamb roasts for a hundred guests. Then they left. She found kitchens anyway.

3.77

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🍽️ Restaurant Memoirs 🌱 Culinary Coming Of Age 👩‍🍳 Women In Kitchens 🏠 Food And Family ✈️ Culinary Travel

Blood, Bones & Butter

Her parents threw lamb roasts for a hundred guests. Then they left. She found kitchens anyway.

av Gabrielle Hamilton 2001 281 sidor

3.77

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🍽️ Restaurant Memoirs 🌱 Culinary Coming Of Age 👩‍🍳 Women In Kitchens 🏠 Food And Family ✈️ Culinary Travel

High Achiever

av Tiffany Jenkins • 2017

Her boyfriend was the cop investigating her crime: the true story of addiction's double life.

4.20

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💉 Opiate Addiction 🔗 Women In Prison 🎭 Functional Addicts 🕊️ Addiction Recovery 🔫 Addiction And Crime

High Achiever

Her boyfriend was the cop investigating her crime: the true story of addiction's double life.

av Tiffany Jenkins 2017 384 sidor

4.20

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💉 Opiate Addiction 🔗 Women In Prison 🎭 Functional Addicts 🕊️ Addiction Recovery 🔫 Addiction And Crime

Still Here

av Ram Dass • 2000

Aging is your final spiritual practice. Learn to do it consciously and die awake.

4.21

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🌄 Conscious Aging 💀 Conscious Dying 🧘 Ego Transcendence 🧘‍♂️ Mindfulness Practice 🪷 Reframing Suffering

Still Here

Aging is your final spiritual practice. Learn to do it consciously and die awake.

av Ram Dass 2000 223 sidor

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🌄 Conscious Aging 💀 Conscious Dying 🧘 Ego Transcendence 🧘‍♂️ Mindfulness Practice 🪷 Reframing Suffering

The Reason

av Lacey Sturm • 2014

Suicidal and atheist, she walked into a church and left as the future voice of Flyleaf.

4.36

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🕊️ Christian Testimony 🎸 Rock Memoir 💙 Suicide Survival 👩‍🎤 Women In Rock 🎨 Faith And Artistry

The Reason

Suicidal and atheist, she walked into a church and left as the future voice of Flyleaf.

av Lacey Sturm 2014 210 sidor

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🕊️ Christian Testimony 🎸 Rock Memoir 💙 Suicide Survival 👩‍🎤 Women In Rock 🎨 Faith And Artistry

Afghanistan

av Mohammad Yousaf • 1992

The war that broke the Soviet Union was run from a covert Pakistani camp, not Langley.

3.93

228

🇦🇫 Soviet Afghan War ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Cold War Proxy Wars 🕵️ Covert Operations 📡 Military Intelligence

Afghanistan

The war that broke the Soviet Union was run from a covert Pakistani camp, not Langley.

av Mohammad Yousaf 1992 256 sidor

3.93

228 betyg

🇦🇫 Soviet Afghan War ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Cold War Proxy Wars 🕵️ Covert Operations 📡 Military Intelligence

Tokyo Noir

av Jake Adelstein • 2024

An American journalist in Tokyo exposes yakuza corruption, facing cancer, loss, and a Zen path.

3.90

500+

🐉 Yakuza True Crime 🌆 Tokyo Underworld 🇰🇷 Korean Diaspora ☢️ Fukushima Disaster 💔 Cancer Memoir

Tokyo Noir

An American journalist in Tokyo exposes yakuza corruption, facing cancer, loss, and a Zen path.

av Jake Adelstein 2024 320 sidor

3.90

500+ betyg

🐉 Yakuza True Crime 🌆 Tokyo Underworld 🇰🇷 Korean Diaspora ☢️ Fukushima Disaster 💔 Cancer Memoir

The Other Wes Moore

av Wes Moore • 2010

Two boys named Wes Moore, same city. One became a Rhodes Scholar; the other got life.

3.87

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👥 Parallel Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty 🌱 Coming Of Age 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🔄 Second Chances

The Other Wes Moore

Two boys named Wes Moore, same city. One became a Rhodes Scholar; the other got life.

av Wes Moore 2010 233 sidor

3.87

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👥 Parallel Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty 🌱 Coming Of Age 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🔄 Second Chances

Nobody Knows My Name

av James Baldwin • 1961

Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.

4.36

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📝 Literary Essays 🌍 Black Diaspora ✊ Civil Rights Era ✈️ Expatriate Writing 🪞 Racial Identity

Nobody Knows My Name

Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.

av James Baldwin 1961 242 sidor

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📝 Literary Essays 🌍 Black Diaspora ✊ Civil Rights Era ✈️ Expatriate Writing 🪞 Racial Identity

Building Evolutionary Architectures

av Neal Ford • 2017

F1's smallest team chose to lose for a year. Then its Russian money became radioactive overnight.

3.74

1 000+

🏎️ Formula One 🏆 Sports Leadership 📉 Underdog Strategy 🚨 Crisis Management 📋 Accountability Culture

Building Evolutionary Architectures

F1's smallest team chose to lose for a year. Then its Russian money became radioactive overnight.

av Neal Ford 2017 190 sidor

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🏎️ Formula One 🏆 Sports Leadership 📉 Underdog Strategy 🚨 Crisis Management 📋 Accountability Culture

Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain

av Ryan Blair • 2011

A former gang member says desperation is your sharpest tool. Here is how to aim it.

3.57

500+

🧱 Underdog Entrepreneurs 🤝 Integrity In Business 🧠 Mentorship And Learning 🔗 Network Marketing 🥊 Adversity To Success

Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain

A former gang member says desperation is your sharpest tool. Here is how to aim it.

av Ryan Blair 2011 240 sidor

3.57

500+ betyg

🧱 Underdog Entrepreneurs 🤝 Integrity In Business 🧠 Mentorship And Learning 🔗 Network Marketing 🥊 Adversity To Success

We Are Bellingcat

av Eliot Higgins • 2021

A jobless blogger proved that public data can expose war crimes, hit squads, and missile launchers.

4.12

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🗞️ Citizen Journalism 🔍 Open-Source Investigation 📱 Social Media Analysis 🖥️ Digital Forensics 👥 Crowdsourcing

We Are Bellingcat

A jobless blogger proved that public data can expose war crimes, hit squads, and missile launchers.

av Eliot Higgins 2021 273 sidor

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🗞️ Citizen Journalism 🔍 Open-Source Investigation 📱 Social Media Analysis 🖥️ Digital Forensics 👥 Crowdsourcing

The Emergency

av Coomi Kapoor • 2015

When the lights went out at the Indian Express, a journalist knew the democracy had broken.

4.00

1 000+

🏛️ Indian Political History ⚠️ Democratic Backsliding 📰 Press Censorship 👑 Dynastic Politics ✍️ Political Memoir

The Emergency

When the lights went out at the Indian Express, a journalist knew the democracy had broken.

av Coomi Kapoor 2015 400 sidor

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🏛️ Indian Political History ⚠️ Democratic Backsliding 📰 Press Censorship 👑 Dynastic Politics ✍️ Political Memoir

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

av Charles Bukowski • 1986

Five cats, a bottle, and a typewriter: what survival looks like when you stop pretending.

4.17

19 000+

🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🚬 Dirty Realism 🍷 Alcoholism And Art 🏭 Working Class Life 🏙️ Urban Isolation

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Five cats, a bottle, and a typewriter: what survival looks like when you stop pretending.

av Charles Bukowski 1986 320 sidor

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🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🚬 Dirty Realism 🍷 Alcoholism And Art 🏭 Working Class Life 🏙️ Urban Isolation

Just Another Kid

av Torey L. Hayden • 1988

271 pills, a bottle of scotch, and six children no one else could reach.

4.24

6 000+

🏫 Special Education 💔 Childhood Trauma 🤐 Selective Mutism 🍷 Family Alcoholism ✏️ Classroom Memoirs

Just Another Kid

271 pills, a bottle of scotch, and six children no one else could reach.

av Torey L. Hayden 1988 515 sidor

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🏫 Special Education 💔 Childhood Trauma 🤐 Selective Mutism 🍷 Family Alcoholism ✏️ Classroom Memoirs

Somewhere There Is Still a Sun

av Michael Gruenbaum • 2015

An eight-year-old's Prague becomes Terezin, where soccer and a children's opera are his defiance.

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivors 🚂 Concentration Camps 📚 Middle Grade Holocaust ✍️ Bearing Witness

Somewhere There Is Still a Sun

An eight-year-old's Prague becomes Terezin, where soccer and a children's opera are his defiance.

av Michael Gruenbaum 2015 384 sidor

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivors 🚂 Concentration Camps 📚 Middle Grade Holocaust ✍️ Bearing Witness

Traveling Mercies

av Anne Lamott • 1999

Faith for people who swear, drink too much, and can't stomach Sunday school answers.

4.14

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✝️ Spiritual Memoir 💔 Messy Spirituality 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery 😂 Comic Memoir 🌧️ Grief And Loss

Traveling Mercies

Faith for people who swear, drink too much, and can't stomach Sunday school answers.

av Anne Lamott 1999 275 sidor

4.14

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✝️ Spiritual Memoir 💔 Messy Spirituality 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery 😂 Comic Memoir 🌧️ Grief And Loss

Earth to Moon

av Moon Unit Zappa • 2024

She called her rock star father Frank. Her mother brought the chaos. Becoming herself took decades.

4.20

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🎬 Celebrity Childhood 🎨 Bohemian Childhood 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 💔 Family Dysfunction ✍️ Narrative Reclamation

Earth to Moon

She called her rock star father Frank. Her mother brought the chaos. Becoming herself took decades.

av Moon Unit Zappa 2024 351 sidor

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🎬 Celebrity Childhood 🎨 Bohemian Childhood 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 💔 Family Dysfunction ✍️ Narrative Reclamation

My Life in Red and White

av Arsène Wenger • 2020

From an Alsace village to 22 years at Arsenal: an outsider who changed English football.

3.66

5 000+

⚽ Football Management 🏆 Premier League History 🌱 Youth Development 🏢 Organizational Leadership 💼 Football Business

My Life in Red and White

From an Alsace village to 22 years at Arsenal: an outsider who changed English football.

av Arsène Wenger 2020 352 sidor

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⚽ Football Management 🏆 Premier League History 🌱 Youth Development 🏢 Organizational Leadership 💼 Football Business

Bad Mormon

av Heather Gay • 2023

A devout Mormon wife discovers that perfect obedience cannot save her marriage or her soul.

3.51

35 000+

🎬 Celebrity Memoir ⛪ Religious Deconstruction 🏔️ Mormon Culture 💪 Good Girl Rebellion 😂 Irreverent Humor

Bad Mormon

A devout Mormon wife discovers that perfect obedience cannot save her marriage or her soul.

av Heather Gay 2023 304 sidor

3.51

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir ⛪ Religious Deconstruction 🏔️ Mormon Culture 💪 Good Girl Rebellion 😂 Irreverent Humor

Men Explain Things to Me

av Rebecca Solnit • 2014

Male confidence overwriting female expertise: a landmark essay on the roots of that silencing.

3.83

88 000+

😊 Feminist Essays 🎭 Cultural Criticism ⚠️ Gender-Based Violence ✊ Modern Feminism 🗣️ Women's Voices

Men Explain Things to Me

Male confidence overwriting female expertise: a landmark essay on the roots of that silencing.

av Rebecca Solnit 2014 130 sidor

3.83

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😊 Feminist Essays 🎭 Cultural Criticism ⚠️ Gender-Based Violence ✊ Modern Feminism 🗣️ Women's Voices

Never Stop Walking

av Christina Rickardsson • 2016

Adoption carried her from Brazilian caves to Sweden at eight. Learning the cost took decades.

3.98

9 000+

🧳 Transnational Adoption 🏚️ Street Survival 💔 Childhood Trauma 🎭 Dual Identity 🗣️ Adoptee Voices

Never Stop Walking

Adoption carried her from Brazilian caves to Sweden at eight. Learning the cost took decades.

av Christina Rickardsson 2016 256 sidor

3.98

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🧳 Transnational Adoption 🏚️ Street Survival 💔 Childhood Trauma 🎭 Dual Identity 🗣️ Adoptee Voices

Life in Two Worlds

av Ted Nolan • 2023

Called a savage by teammates, he won Coach of the Year, then the league blackballed him.

4.22

500+

🏒 Hockey Memoirs 🦅 Indigenous Athletes ✊ Racism In Sports 🌿 Cultural Reclamation 🛡️ Servant Leadership

Life in Two Worlds

Called a savage by teammates, he won Coach of the Year, then the league blackballed him.

av Ted Nolan 2023 332 sidor

4.22

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🏒 Hockey Memoirs 🦅 Indigenous Athletes ✊ Racism In Sports 🌿 Cultural Reclamation 🛡️ Servant Leadership

Walden and Civil Disobedience

av Henry David Thoreau • 1849

A cabin, a pond, two years, one tax refusal: the American original on freedom and conscience.

3.93

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🏞️ American Transcendentalism 🌿 Nature Writing 🏡 Simple Living 🚶 Nonconformity ✊ Civil Disobedience

Walden and Civil Disobedience

A cabin, a pond, two years, one tax refusal: the American original on freedom and conscience.

av Henry David Thoreau 1849 352 sidor

3.93

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🏞️ American Transcendentalism 🌿 Nature Writing 🏡 Simple Living 🚶 Nonconformity ✊ Civil Disobedience

Docile

av Hyeseung Song • 2024

Top of her class, then Princeton, then a locked psych ward. The way out was paint.

3.97

500+

🇰🇷 Korean American Identity 🏠 Immigrant Family Memoir 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir 📊 Model Minority Myth 📚 Academic Burnout

Docile

Top of her class, then Princeton, then a locked psych ward. The way out was paint.

av Hyeseung Song 2024 300 sidor

3.97

500+ betyg

🇰🇷 Korean American Identity 🏠 Immigrant Family Memoir 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir 📊 Model Minority Myth 📚 Academic Burnout

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

av Rebecca Solnit • 2005

Getting lost is where transformation begins. The unknown is the destination, not the detour.

3.90

21 000+

🖋️ Lyric Essay 🌿 Nature Essays 🗺️ Psychogeography 🏔️ Landscape And Memory ❓ Limits Of Knowledge

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Getting lost is where transformation begins. The unknown is the destination, not the detour.

av Rebecca Solnit 2005 209 sidor

3.90

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🖋️ Lyric Essay 🌿 Nature Essays 🗺️ Psychogeography 🏔️ Landscape And Memory ❓ Limits Of Knowledge

Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam

av Kenneth W. Ford • 1998

He rushed to build the bomb. Decades later, he named black holes and chased quantum foam.

4.16

352

⚛️ Nuclear Physics 🌌 Quantum Gravity 📜 History Of Physics 💣 Manhattan Project 👨‍🔬 Scientific Biography

Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam

He rushed to build the bomb. Decades later, he named black holes and chased quantum foam.

av Kenneth W. Ford 1998 380 sidor

4.16

352 betyg

⚛️ Nuclear Physics 🌌 Quantum Gravity 📜 History Of Physics 💣 Manhattan Project 👨‍🔬 Scientific Biography

People vs. Donald Trump

av Mark Pomerantz • 2023

Why a veteran prosecutor quit after building the fraud case against Trump: the inside story.

4.06

500+

🕵️ White-Collar Crime ⚖️ Prosecutorial Ethics 📜 Legal Memoir 💸 Financial Fraud 🏛️ Prosecutorial Discretion

People vs. Donald Trump

Why a veteran prosecutor quit after building the fraud case against Trump: the inside story.

av Mark Pomerantz 2023 299 sidor

4.06

500+ betyg

🕵️ White-Collar Crime ⚖️ Prosecutorial Ethics 📜 Legal Memoir 💸 Financial Fraud 🏛️ Prosecutorial Discretion

Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate

av Cynthia Kim • 2014

Diagnosed autistic at 40, she found the instructions for her own brain. Now she shares them.

4.33

1 000+

🧠 Adult Autism 🔍 Late Diagnosis 📋 Executive Function 🔊 Sensory Processing 🌈 Neurodiversity

Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate

Diagnosed autistic at 40, she found the instructions for her own brain. Now she shares them.

av Cynthia Kim 2014 239 sidor

4.33

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🧠 Adult Autism 🔍 Late Diagnosis 📋 Executive Function 🔊 Sensory Processing 🌈 Neurodiversity

Brutally Honest

av Melanie Brown • 2018

The world called her Scary Spice. One man called her his prisoner, for a decade.

4.05

5 000+

🎤 Celebrity Memoirs 💔 Domestic Abuse Survival ⛓️ Coercive Control 🌱 Trauma And Recovery 📸 Fame And Exploitation

Brutally Honest

The world called her Scary Spice. One man called her his prisoner, for a decade.

av Melanie Brown 2018 270 sidor

4.05

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🎤 Celebrity Memoirs 💔 Domestic Abuse Survival ⛓️ Coercive Control 🌱 Trauma And Recovery 📸 Fame And Exploitation

The Pianist from Syria

av Aeham Ahmad • 2017

After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.

4.27

2 000+

🏚️ Syrian Civil War 🫒 Palestinian Diaspora 🎹 Art As Resistance 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 💪 Survival Stories

The Pianist from Syria

After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.

av Aeham Ahmad 2017 240 sidor

4.27

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🏚️ Syrian Civil War 🫒 Palestinian Diaspora 🎹 Art As Resistance 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 💪 Survival Stories

My Life And Work

av Henry Ford • 1922

Profit is a side effect: service-first thinking built an auto empire and doubled wages overnight.

4.18

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🏭 Mass Production 🛍️ Customer-First Business 💰 Profit Sharing 🏦 Financial Conservatism 🧭 Self-Reliance

My Life And Work

Profit is a side effect: service-first thinking built an auto empire and doubled wages overnight.

av Henry Ford 1922 384 sidor

4.18

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🏭 Mass Production 🛍️ Customer-First Business 💰 Profit Sharing 🏦 Financial Conservatism 🧭 Self-Reliance

Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Hardback Edition

av John Taylor Gatto • 2002

An award-winning teacher walked away. His reason: the system is designed to crush independence.

4.14

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🌱 Alternative Education 🏫 Compulsory Schooling 📝 Hidden Curriculum 🧒 Unschooling 🏭 Factory Schooling

Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Hardback Edition

An award-winning teacher walked away. His reason: the system is designed to crush independence.

av John Taylor Gatto 2002 144 sidor

4.14

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🌱 Alternative Education 🏫 Compulsory Schooling 📝 Hidden Curriculum 🧒 Unschooling 🏭 Factory Schooling

When It All Burns

av Jordan Thomas • 2025

A hotshot watches a megafire push ancient sequoias toward extinction and asks who lit the fuse.

4.36

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🌲 Fire Ecology 🔥 Wildfire History 🌾 Cultural Burning 💰 Disaster Capitalism 🛢️ Climate Denialism

When It All Burns

A hotshot watches a megafire push ancient sequoias toward extinction and asks who lit the fuse.

av Jordan Thomas 2025 361 sidor

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🌲 Fire Ecology 🔥 Wildfire History 🌾 Cultural Burning 💰 Disaster Capitalism 🛢️ Climate Denialism

Providence

av Daniel Quinn • 1994

A week of uncanny coincidences sets him on a fifty-year search for the story humanity forgot.

3.70

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📖 Spiritual Memoir 🌍 Ecological Philosophy 🔮 Animism 🏛️ Civilization Critique 🌱 Ecological Belonging

Providence

A week of uncanny coincidences sets him on a fifty-year search for the story humanity forgot.

av Daniel Quinn 1994 175 sidor

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📖 Spiritual Memoir 🌍 Ecological Philosophy 🔮 Animism 🏛️ Civilization Critique 🌱 Ecological Belonging

The Body Papers

av Grace Talusan • 2019

Abused by her grandfather from age seven. At forty, a genetic test forced a different reckoning.

4.27

2 000+

🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🇵🇭 Filipino Diaspora 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🧬 Generational Trauma

The Body Papers

Abused by her grandfather from age seven. At forty, a genetic test forced a different reckoning.

av Grace Talusan 2019 272 sidor

4.27

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🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🇵🇭 Filipino Diaspora 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🧬 Generational Trauma

Get Me Out of Here

av Rachel Reiland • 2002

A desperate wife and mother enters psychoanalysis with a therapist who will not give up on her.

3.97

7 000+

🧠 Borderline Personality Disorder 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Therapy 🧸 Inner Child Healing 🫂 Therapist-Patient Bond 🥀 Overcoming Childhood Abuse

Get Me Out of Here

A desperate wife and mother enters psychoanalysis with a therapist who will not give up on her.

av Rachel Reiland 2002 436 sidor

3.97

7 000+ betyg

🧠 Borderline Personality Disorder 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Therapy 🧸 Inner Child Healing 🫂 Therapist-Patient Bond 🥀 Overcoming Childhood Abuse

Books vs. Cigarettes

av George Orwell • 1946

A dusty bookshop, a public ward, a totalitarian state: Orwell's unsparing truth in each.

3.83

8 000+

📚 Book Culture ✍️ Literary Criticism 📖 Bookshop Memoirs 🗽 Intellectual Freedom ⚔️ Anti-Totalitarianism

Books vs. Cigarettes

A dusty bookshop, a public ward, a totalitarian state: Orwell's unsparing truth in each.

av George Orwell 1946

3.83

8 000+ betyg

📚 Book Culture ✍️ Literary Criticism 📖 Bookshop Memoirs 🗽 Intellectual Freedom ⚔️ Anti-Totalitarianism

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

av Madeline Pendleton • 2024

The financial rules that work when you are broke look nothing like the ones in the bestsellers.

4.52

4 000+

💰 Financial Memoir 📱 Millennial Money 🏚️ Economic Precarity 🤝 Ethical Business ✊ Anti-Capitalist Critique

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

The financial rules that work when you are broke look nothing like the ones in the bestsellers.

av Madeline Pendleton 2024 336 sidor

4.52

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💰 Financial Memoir 📱 Millennial Money 🏚️ Economic Precarity 🤝 Ethical Business ✊ Anti-Capitalist Critique

Thanks a Thousand

av A.J. Jacobs • 2018

He traveled the world to thank the thousand strangers behind his single cup of morning coffee.

3.73

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🧘 Gratitude Practice 🎪 Stunt Journalism 📦 Supply Chain Stories ☕ Coffee Culture 🔬 Positive Psychology

Thanks a Thousand

He traveled the world to thank the thousand strangers behind his single cup of morning coffee.

av A.J. Jacobs 2018 160 sidor

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🧘 Gratitude Practice 🎪 Stunt Journalism 📦 Supply Chain Stories ☕ Coffee Culture 🔬 Positive Psychology

Bits and Pieces

av Whoopi Goldberg • 2024

Her mother lost her memory. Then she taught Whoopi Goldberg everything that mattered.

4.28

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🎭 Celebrity Memoir 💕 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🏙️ Working Class Roots 💡 Everyday Wisdom 🏠 Unconventional Families

Bits and Pieces

Her mother lost her memory. Then she taught Whoopi Goldberg everything that mattered.

av Whoopi Goldberg 2024 256 sidor

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🎭 Celebrity Memoir 💕 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🏙️ Working Class Roots 💡 Everyday Wisdom 🏠 Unconventional Families

Every Second Counts

av Lance Armstrong • 2003

Cancer nearly killed him, then gave him the mindset to win the Tour de France.

3.53

4 000+

🚴 Elite Cycling 🎗️ Cancer Survival 🧠 Mental Toughness 🗻 Embracing Suffering 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth

Every Second Counts

Cancer nearly killed him, then gave him the mindset to win the Tour de France.

av Lance Armstrong 2003 256 sidor

3.53

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🚴 Elite Cycling 🎗️ Cancer Survival 🧠 Mental Toughness 🗻 Embracing Suffering 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth

Down and Out in Paris and London

av George Orwell • 1933

Broke in Paris, Orwell descends into the invisible world of dishwashers and tramps.

4.09

100 000+

🪶 Poverty Memoir 🎥 Social Documentary 🧹 Working Poor 🍽️ Restaurant Labor 🏛️ Class Analysis

Down and Out in Paris and London

Broke in Paris, Orwell descends into the invisible world of dishwashers and tramps.

av George Orwell 1933 213 sidor

4.09

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🪶 Poverty Memoir 🎥 Social Documentary 🧹 Working Poor 🍽️ Restaurant Labor 🏛️ Class Analysis

Aftermath

av Susan J. Brison • 2001

The self is made of story and connection. Violence shatters both. Rebuilding takes witnesses.

4.35

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🧠 Philosophy Of Self 📚 Trauma Theory ✊ Feminist Philosophy 📖 Narrative Identity 🧩 Traumatic Memory

Aftermath

The self is made of story and connection. Violence shatters both. Rebuilding takes witnesses.

av Susan J. Brison 2001 184 sidor

4.35

486 betyg

🧠 Philosophy Of Self 📚 Trauma Theory ✊ Feminist Philosophy 📖 Narrative Identity 🧩 Traumatic Memory

Our Malady

av Timothy Snyder • 2020

From a hospital bed, a tyranny scholar diagnoses America's for-profit medicine as a freedom crisis.

4.14

2 000+

🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏥 Healthcare Reform 💰 Profit In Medicine ⚖️ Health Inequality 🌐 Universal Healthcare

Our Malady

From a hospital bed, a tyranny scholar diagnoses America's for-profit medicine as a freedom crisis.

av Timothy Snyder 2020 181 sidor

4.14

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🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏥 Healthcare Reform 💰 Profit In Medicine ⚖️ Health Inequality 🌐 Universal Healthcare

Chaos Monkeys

av Antonio García Martínez • 2016

He built Facebook's ad machine and walked away with the ugly truth about startup success.

3.71

13 000+

🏙️ Silicon Valley 🚀 Startup Culture 🕵️ Insider Accounts ⚖️ Ethical Compromises 📊 Data Economy

Chaos Monkeys

He built Facebook's ad machine and walked away with the ugly truth about startup success.

av Antonio García Martínez 2016 528 sidor

3.71

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🏙️ Silicon Valley 🚀 Startup Culture 🕵️ Insider Accounts ⚖️ Ethical Compromises 📊 Data Economy

The Envoy

av Zalmay Khalilzad • 2016

An Afghan immigrant becomes America's envoy in the Muslim world, finding a crisis wars cannot solve.

3.64

163

🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌍 Middle East Politics 📜 Diplomatic Memoir 🏗️ State Building 💥 Post-9/11 Wars

The Envoy

An Afghan immigrant becomes America's envoy in the Muslim world, finding a crisis wars cannot solve.

av Zalmay Khalilzad 2016 336 sidor

3.64

163 betyg

🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌍 Middle East Politics 📜 Diplomatic Memoir 🏗️ State Building 💥 Post-9/11 Wars

How I Write

av Janet Evanovich • 2006

What a decade of rejection teaches about characters, dialogue, pacing, and writing books that sell.

3.78

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🛠️ Fiction Craft 👤 Character Development 💬 Dialogue Craft 🗺️ Plot And Structure ✂️ Revision And Editing

How I Write

What a decade of rejection teaches about characters, dialogue, pacing, and writing books that sell.

av Janet Evanovich 2006 272 sidor

3.78

2 000+ betyg

🛠️ Fiction Craft 👤 Character Development 💬 Dialogue Craft 🗺️ Plot And Structure ✂️ Revision And Editing

Somebody Else's Kids

av Torey L. Hayden • 1981

Boo barely spoke. Lori couldn't read. Tomaso raged. Claudia was pregnant. They were just kids.

4.28

7 000+

🏫 Special Education 💔 Childhood Trauma 🩹 Trauma-Informed Teaching 🍎 Memoirs By Teachers 🧩 Autism In Children

Somebody Else's Kids

Boo barely spoke. Lori couldn't read. Tomaso raged. Claudia was pregnant. They were just kids.

av Torey L. Hayden 1981 345 sidor

4.28

7 000+ betyg

🏫 Special Education 💔 Childhood Trauma 🩹 Trauma-Informed Teaching 🍎 Memoirs By Teachers 🧩 Autism In Children

The Secret Piano

av Zhu Xiao-Mei • 2007

Mao's labor camps couldn't silence her Bach. The Paris debut came at 46.

4.01

2 000+

🎹 Classical Music 🏮 Cultural Revolution 🎵 Music And Survival ✊ Art As Resistance 🌱 Late Career Rebirth

The Secret Piano

Mao's labor camps couldn't silence her Bach. The Paris debut came at 46.

av Zhu Xiao-Mei 2007 311 sidor

4.01

2 000+ betyg

🎹 Classical Music 🏮 Cultural Revolution 🎵 Music And Survival ✊ Art As Resistance 🌱 Late Career Rebirth

Sorcerer's Apprentice

av Amy Wallace • 2003

Drawn into Carlos Castaneda's magical inner circle, she found a cult masquerading as enlightenment.

3.95

500+

📖 Cult Memoirs 🙏 Spiritual Abuse 🔮 New Age Movement 🗣️ Charismatic Leaders 🪤 Coercive Control

Sorcerer's Apprentice

Drawn into Carlos Castaneda's magical inner circle, she found a cult masquerading as enlightenment.

av Amy Wallace 2003 448 sidor

3.95

500+ betyg

📖 Cult Memoirs 🙏 Spiritual Abuse 🔮 New Age Movement 🗣️ Charismatic Leaders 🪤 Coercive Control

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