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The Long Slide

av Tucker Carlson • 2021

A reporter's thirty-year tour: magazine adventures, foreign wars, and the slow death of free speech.

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📰 Political Journalism 📺 Media Criticism 🗣️ Free Speech 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🎖️ War Correspondence

The Long Slide

A reporter's thirty-year tour: magazine adventures, foreign wars, and the slow death of free speech.

av Tucker Carlson 2021 277 sidor

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📰 Political Journalism 📺 Media Criticism 🗣️ Free Speech 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🎖️ War Correspondence

The Apprentice

av Jacques Pépin • 2003

From kitchen boy at thirteen to de Gaulle's chef. Then a car crash changed everything.

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🍳 Chef Memoirs 🥖 French Cuisine 🔪 Culinary Apprenticeship 🍲 Food And Memory 🔄 Career Reinvention

The Apprentice

From kitchen boy at thirteen to de Gaulle's chef. Then a car crash changed everything.

av Jacques Pépin 2003 336 sidor

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🍳 Chef Memoirs 🥖 French Cuisine 🔪 Culinary Apprenticeship 🍲 Food And Memory 🔄 Career Reinvention

I'd Like to Play Alone, Please

av Tom Segura • 2022

A comedian's memoir where the most normal person is the one who names his bowel movements.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📖 Comedian Memoirs ✍️ Essay Collections 👪 Eccentric Families 🤪 Absurdist Humor

I'd Like to Play Alone, Please

A comedian's memoir where the most normal person is the one who names his bowel movements.

av Tom Segura 2022 229 sidor

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📖 Comedian Memoirs ✍️ Essay Collections 👪 Eccentric Families 🤪 Absurdist Humor

1001 Nights in Iraq

av Shant Kenderian • 2005

How does a Chicago teen end up in Saddam's navy, dodging American bombs, praying for capture?

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146

🏜️ Gulf War 🔗 Pow Memoirs 🌍 Identity In Exile 🤝 Cultural Bridging ✝️ Faith Under Duress

1001 Nights in Iraq

How does a Chicago teen end up in Saddam's navy, dodging American bombs, praying for capture?

av Shant Kenderian 2005 288 sidor

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146 betyg

🏜️ Gulf War 🔗 Pow Memoirs 🌍 Identity In Exile 🤝 Cultural Bridging ✝️ Faith Under Duress

Gordon Ramsay's Playing with Fire

av Gordon Ramsay • 2007

One restaurant lost a fortune. The brutal postmortem that followed built a global empire.

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👨‍🍳 Chef Memoirs 🍽️ Restaurant Business 🔪 Kitchen Leadership 💼 Food Entrepreneurship 📉 Learning From Failure

Gordon Ramsay's Playing with Fire

One restaurant lost a fortune. The brutal postmortem that followed built a global empire.

av Gordon Ramsay 2007 304 sidor

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👨‍🍳 Chef Memoirs 🍽️ Restaurant Business 🔪 Kitchen Leadership 💼 Food Entrepreneurship 📉 Learning From Failure

Myself and Other More Important Matters

av Charles B. Handy • 2006

Peak, then decline: the universal pattern you can beat by starting over before you have to.

4.12

133

🏛️ Management Philosophy 🤝 Organizational Trust 🔄 Lifelong Reinvention ⚖️ Work-Life Integration 👥 Humanistic Management

Myself and Other More Important Matters

Peak, then decline: the universal pattern you can beat by starting over before you have to.

av Charles B. Handy 2006 320 sidor

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🏛️ Management Philosophy 🤝 Organizational Trust 🔄 Lifelong Reinvention ⚖️ Work-Life Integration 👥 Humanistic Management

Danger Music

av Eddie Ayres • 2017

Afghan girls risk death to play cello. Their teacher risks everything to become himself.

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🎵 Music Education 🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Memoir 🎒 Teaching Amid War 👩‍🎓 Women's Education 🎻 Musician Memoir

Danger Music

Afghan girls risk death to play cello. Their teacher risks everything to become himself.

av Eddie Ayres 2017 296 sidor

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🎵 Music Education 🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Memoir 🎒 Teaching Amid War 👩‍🎓 Women's Education 🎻 Musician Memoir

Gnar Country

av Steven Kotler • 2023

Aging is a high-risk, high-reward sport. A peak-performance scientist proves it on the slopes.

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🏔️ Aging And Vitality 🌊 Flow State 🧠 Sports Psychology 🧩 Skill Acquisition ⛓️ Risk Taking

Gnar Country

Aging is a high-risk, high-reward sport. A peak-performance scientist proves it on the slopes.

av Steven Kotler 2023 304 sidor

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🏔️ Aging And Vitality 🌊 Flow State 🧠 Sports Psychology 🧩 Skill Acquisition ⛓️ Risk Taking

The Flying Scotsman

av Graeme Obree • 2003

A world-record bike from washing machine parts, and a mind determined to destroy its owner.

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🚴 Competitive Cycling 🧠 Mental Health In Sport 🎭 Bipolar Disorder 🔧 Bike Engineering 🌅 Suicide Survival

The Flying Scotsman

A world-record bike from washing machine parts, and a mind determined to destroy its owner.

av Graeme Obree 2003 256 sidor

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🚴 Competitive Cycling 🧠 Mental Health In Sport 🎭 Bipolar Disorder 🔧 Bike Engineering 🌅 Suicide Survival

The Smallest Lights in the Universe

av Sara Seager • 2020

Widowed at forty with two sons, an astrophysicist puts her grief into searching for other Earths.

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🔭 Exoplanet Astronomy 💔 Grief Memoirs 👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🧬 Astrobiology 👩‍👦 Single Motherhood

The Smallest Lights in the Universe

Widowed at forty with two sons, an astrophysicist puts her grief into searching for other Earths.

av Sara Seager 2020 308 sidor

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🔭 Exoplanet Astronomy 💔 Grief Memoirs 👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🧬 Astrobiology 👩‍👦 Single Motherhood

When Women Were Birds

av Terry Tempest Williams • 2012

Her mother's journals arrived after her death: every page blank. The silence became the gift.

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📖 Lyric Essay 🗣️ Finding Voice 🤫 Women's Silence 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🌿 Nature As Teacher

When Women Were Birds

Her mother's journals arrived after her death: every page blank. The silence became the gift.

av Terry Tempest Williams 2012 224 sidor

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📖 Lyric Essay 🗣️ Finding Voice 🤫 Women's Silence 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🌿 Nature As Teacher

Behind the Door

av Amy Price • 2023

An interior designer becomes manager of L.A.'s Cecil Hotel, where the dead outnumber the living.

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🏚️ Urban Decay 🏨 Hotel Memoir 💼 Workplace Memoir 🏠 Homelessness 🧠 Mental Health Crisis

Behind the Door

An interior designer becomes manager of L.A.'s Cecil Hotel, where the dead outnumber the living.

av Amy Price 2023 240 sidor

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🏚️ Urban Decay 🏨 Hotel Memoir 💼 Workplace Memoir 🏠 Homelessness 🧠 Mental Health Crisis

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

av Nick Flynn • 2004

His estranged father walked into the shelter where he worked. Helping him meant becoming him.

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👤 Absent Fathers 🏚️ Homelessness In America 🍷 Addiction And Family 🩹 Memoir Of Recovery 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

His estranged father walked into the shelter where he worked. Helping him meant becoming him.

av Nick Flynn 2004 347 sidor

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👤 Absent Fathers 🏚️ Homelessness In America 🍷 Addiction And Family 🩹 Memoir Of Recovery 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

We're All Mad Here

av Claire Eastham • 2016

The brain, the meds, and daily moves that shrink social anxiety, from someone who lived it.

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475

🧠 Social Anxiety 🔬 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 💪 Coping Strategies 📖 Mental Health Memoir 🧪 Brain Chemistry

We're All Mad Here

The brain, the meds, and daily moves that shrink social anxiety, from someone who lived it.

av Claire Eastham 2016 200 sidor

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475 betyg

🧠 Social Anxiety 🔬 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 💪 Coping Strategies 📖 Mental Health Memoir 🧪 Brain Chemistry

Made in China

av Anna Qu • 2021

At fourteen, she worked her parents' sweatshop. What the CPS file revealed decades later was worse.

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🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🏚️ Family Abuse Memoirs 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🪤 Labor Exploitation 🎓 Education As Escape

Made in China

At fourteen, she worked her parents' sweatshop. What the CPS file revealed decades later was worse.

av Anna Qu 2021 224 sidor

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🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🏚️ Family Abuse Memoirs 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🪤 Labor Exploitation 🎓 Education As Escape

Papa Hemingway

av A.E. Hotchner • 1955

From Paris to Cuba, a trusted friend documents the fourteen-year unmaking of a literary giant.

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🖋️ Literary Biography 🥂 Lost Generation ✍️ Writing Craft 🌑 Depression And Creativity 🤝 Literary Friendships

Papa Hemingway

From Paris to Cuba, a trusted friend documents the fourteen-year unmaking of a literary giant.

av A.E. Hotchner 1955 371 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Biography 🥂 Lost Generation ✍️ Writing Craft 🌑 Depression And Creativity 🤝 Literary Friendships

Adventure Capitalist

av Jim Rogers • 2003

One car, 116 countries, zero flights. The investment lessons hiding at the world's border crossings.

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📈 Emerging Markets 🚗 Travel Memoir 🛣️ Overland Travel 📊 Demographic Trends 🏗️ Economic Development

Adventure Capitalist

One car, 116 countries, zero flights. The investment lessons hiding at the world's border crossings.

av Jim Rogers 2003 392 sidor

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📈 Emerging Markets 🚗 Travel Memoir 🛣️ Overland Travel 📊 Demographic Trends 🏗️ Economic Development

This Is How

av Augusten Burroughs • 2012

Positive thinking is a lie. The way through is honesty about what will never get better.

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🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🎯 Radical Honesty 🌊 Emotional Acceptance 🍷 Addiction Recovery 🔍 Dealing With Shame

This Is How

Positive thinking is a lie. The way through is honesty about what will never get better.

av Augusten Burroughs 2012 230 sidor

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🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🎯 Radical Honesty 🌊 Emotional Acceptance 🍷 Addiction Recovery 🔍 Dealing With Shame

The Gift

av Edith Eger • 2020

A Holocaust survivor turned therapist maps the escape from the mental prisons we construct.

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🕊️ Trauma Healing 🔒 Self-Limiting Beliefs ✋ Personal Agency 💖 Self-Compassion ❤️‍🩹 Forgiveness Work

The Gift

A Holocaust survivor turned therapist maps the escape from the mental prisons we construct.

av Edith Eger 2020 224 sidor

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🕊️ Trauma Healing 🔒 Self-Limiting Beliefs ✋ Personal Agency 💖 Self-Compassion ❤️‍🩹 Forgiveness Work

My Losing Season

av Pat Conroy • 2002

Revisiting his worst college basketball season, a novelist finds the writer forged in every loss.

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⛹️ Sports Memoirs ✍️ Literary Memoirs 🏀 Basketball Writing 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons 🎖️ Military Education

My Losing Season

Revisiting his worst college basketball season, a novelist finds the writer forged in every loss.

av Pat Conroy 2002 432 sidor

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⛹️ Sports Memoirs ✍️ Literary Memoirs 🏀 Basketball Writing 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons 🎖️ Military Education

Tough Broad

av Caroline Paul • 2024

What a 52-year-old BASE jumper knows about aging that your doctor won't tell you.

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🏃 Active Aging 🌲 Nature Therapy 👵 Midlife Women 🧠 Positive Aging 🚵 Women Adventurers

Tough Broad

What a 52-year-old BASE jumper knows about aging that your doctor won't tell you.

av Caroline Paul 2024 288 sidor

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🏃 Active Aging 🌲 Nature Therapy 👵 Midlife Women 🧠 Positive Aging 🚵 Women Adventurers

Home

av Julie Andrews Edwards • 2008

Her stepfather taught her to sing. Her mother couldn't protect her. The stage became home.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Theater Memoir 👧 Child Performer 🎵 Golden Age Of Musicals 💔 Family Dysfunction

Home

Her stepfather taught her to sing. Her mother couldn't protect her. The stage became home.

av Julie Andrews Edwards 2008 352 sidor

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Theater Memoir 👧 Child Performer 🎵 Golden Age Of Musicals 💔 Family Dysfunction

Things I Learned from Falling

av Claire Nelson • 2020

Four days alone, immobile, dying of thirst. The helicopter came. The real rescue took years.

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🏜️ Survival Memoirs 🥾 Solo Hiking 🧱 Emotional Isolation ❤️‍🩹 Vulnerability 📱 Social Media Detox

Things I Learned from Falling

Four days alone, immobile, dying of thirst. The helicopter came. The real rescue took years.

av Claire Nelson 2020 241 sidor

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🏜️ Survival Memoirs 🥾 Solo Hiking 🧱 Emotional Isolation ❤️‍🩹 Vulnerability 📱 Social Media Detox

The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting

av Evanna Lynch • 2021

Before Hogwarts, a treatment center made her eat. After Hogwarts, she had to learn why.

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🏥 Eating Disorder Recovery 📖 Mental Health Memoirs 🪞 Body Image 🏨 Inpatient Treatment 🎭 Creative Healing

The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting

Before Hogwarts, a treatment center made her eat. After Hogwarts, she had to learn why.

av Evanna Lynch 2021 480 sidor

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🏥 Eating Disorder Recovery 📖 Mental Health Memoirs 🪞 Body Image 🏨 Inpatient Treatment 🎭 Creative Healing

Heaven Is a Place on Earth

av Adrian Shirk • 2022

Utopia is a practice, not a place. Three centuries of Americans building communities from scratch.

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215

🗺️ Memoir Of Place 🛖 Intentional Communities 🗽 American Utopianism ✌️ Countercultural History 🧪 Social Experimentation

Heaven Is a Place on Earth

Utopia is a practice, not a place. Three centuries of Americans building communities from scratch.

av Adrian Shirk 2022 352 sidor

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215 betyg

🗺️ Memoir Of Place 🛖 Intentional Communities 🗽 American Utopianism ✌️ Countercultural History 🧪 Social Experimentation

Showing Up for Life

av Bill Gates Sr. • 2009

Father, lawyer, philanthropist: quiet principles that built a life of meaning across nine decades.

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🧭 Values-Based Living 👴 Elder Wisdom 🤲 Philanthropic Giving 🎯 Being Present 📚 Lifelong Learning

Showing Up for Life

Father, lawyer, philanthropist: quiet principles that built a life of meaning across nine decades.

av Bill Gates Sr. 2009 208 sidor

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🧭 Values-Based Living 👴 Elder Wisdom 🤲 Philanthropic Giving 🎯 Being Present 📚 Lifelong Learning

Enough

av Cassidy Hutchinson • 2023

Trump knew his crowd was armed and sent them to the Capitol. His young aide watched.

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🏛️ Trump Administration 🏠 White House Memoirs 📢 Whistleblowing 💔 Political Defectors 🏴 January 6th

Enough

Trump knew his crowd was armed and sent them to the Capitol. His young aide watched.

av Cassidy Hutchinson 2023 384 sidor

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🏛️ Trump Administration 🏠 White House Memoirs 📢 Whistleblowing 💔 Political Defectors 🏴 January 6th

Silent No More

av Aaron Fisher • 2012

Victim 1 was 15. His words exposed a predator and a cover-up; the system punished him.

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🛡️ Child Sexual Abuse 🏛️ Institutional Cover-Ups 🗣️ Survivor Testimony ⚖️ Legal Trauma 📰 Media Sensationalism

Silent No More

Victim 1 was 15. His words exposed a predator and a cover-up; the system punished him.

av Aaron Fisher 2012 242 sidor

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🛡️ Child Sexual Abuse 🏛️ Institutional Cover-Ups 🗣️ Survivor Testimony ⚖️ Legal Trauma 📰 Media Sensationalism

Life In The Uniform

av Amit Lodha • 2021

An IPS officer. Bihar. Kidnappers. Naxal jungles. Politicians calling. What the uniform costs.

4.18

181

🚔 Police Memoirs 🇮🇳 Indian Memoir 👮 Law Enforcement 🤝 Community Policing ⚔️ Counterinsurgency

Life In The Uniform

An IPS officer. Bihar. Kidnappers. Naxal jungles. Politicians calling. What the uniform costs.

av Amit Lodha 2021 308 sidor

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🚔 Police Memoirs 🇮🇳 Indian Memoir 👮 Law Enforcement 🤝 Community Policing ⚔️ Counterinsurgency

The Road to Little Dribbling

av Bill Bryson • 2015

Twenty years on, Bryson returns to Britain: prettier, richer, and somehow even more perplexing.

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🗺️ British Travelogue 🌳 English Countryside 😤 Curmudgeonly Humor 🔬 Cultural Anthropology 🇬🇧 Modern Britain

The Road to Little Dribbling

Twenty years on, Bryson returns to Britain: prettier, richer, and somehow even more perplexing.

av Bill Bryson 2015 380 sidor

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🗺️ British Travelogue 🌳 English Countryside 😤 Curmudgeonly Humor 🔬 Cultural Anthropology 🇬🇧 Modern Britain

The Gift of Forgiveness

av Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt • 2020

The worst harms can be forgiven. The reason has nothing to do with who hurt you.

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🕊️ Forgiveness Practice ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Healing 🪞 Self-Forgiveness 🎙️ Interview Collection 🌿 Modern Spirituality

The Gift of Forgiveness

The worst harms can be forgiven. The reason has nothing to do with who hurt you.

av Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt 2020 224 sidor

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🕊️ Forgiveness Practice ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Healing 🪞 Self-Forgiveness 🎙️ Interview Collection 🌿 Modern Spirituality

Born Again This Way

av Rachel Gilson • 2020

A same-sex attracted atheist meets Jesus at Yale. Her desires don't change. Everything else does.

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📖 Biblical Sexuality 💬 Same-Sex Attraction 🔑 Faith And Sexuality 🕊️ Celibate Singleness 💍 Mixed-Orientation Marriage

Born Again This Way

A same-sex attracted atheist meets Jesus at Yale. Her desires don't change. Everything else does.

av Rachel Gilson 2020 163 sidor

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📖 Biblical Sexuality 💬 Same-Sex Attraction 🔑 Faith And Sexuality 🕊️ Celibate Singleness 💍 Mixed-Orientation Marriage

F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow

av Action Bronson • 2021

His chef career shattered with his leg. Rap stardom and hard-won confidence rose from the wreckage.

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🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs 🍳 Chef Memoirs 💪 Body Acceptance 🔄 Career Reinvention 🎨 Creative Self-Expression

F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow

His chef career shattered with his leg. Rap stardom and hard-won confidence rose from the wreckage.

av Action Bronson 2021 186 sidor

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🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs 🍳 Chef Memoirs 💪 Body Acceptance 🔄 Career Reinvention 🎨 Creative Self-Expression

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

av Bill Maher • 2024

From cancel culture to pandemic theater, a comedian dismantles the pieties nobody else will touch.

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🎭 Political Satire 🚫 Cancel Culture 🗣️ Free Speech ⚔️ Culture Wars 📺 Media Criticism

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

From cancel culture to pandemic theater, a comedian dismantles the pieties nobody else will touch.

av Bill Maher 2024 395 sidor

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🎭 Political Satire 🚫 Cancel Culture 🗣️ Free Speech ⚔️ Culture Wars 📺 Media Criticism

Travels with Epicurus

av Daniel Klein • 2012

On a Greek island, one man discovers that Epicurus had old age figured out.

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🧓 Philosophy Of Aging 🏛️ Epicurean Philosophy 🌿 Aging With Intention 🍷 Simple Pleasures 💀 Mortality Acceptance

Travels with Epicurus

On a Greek island, one man discovers that Epicurus had old age figured out.

av Daniel Klein 2012 115 sidor

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🧓 Philosophy Of Aging 🏛️ Epicurean Philosophy 🌿 Aging With Intention 🍷 Simple Pleasures 💀 Mortality Acceptance

The Unseen Body

av Jonathan Reisman • 2021

Twelve organs, twelve revelations: a physician's tour through the body's unseen interior.

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🧬 Human Anatomy 📖 Medical Memoir 📚 Popular Medicine 🔍 Organ Exploration 👀 Clinical Observation

The Unseen Body

Twelve organs, twelve revelations: a physician's tour through the body's unseen interior.

av Jonathan Reisman 2021 224 sidor

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🧬 Human Anatomy 📖 Medical Memoir 📚 Popular Medicine 🔍 Organ Exploration 👀 Clinical Observation

A Curious Mind

av Brian Grazer • 2014

What a Hollywood producer learned from decades of asking total strangers for one-hour conversations.

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🧐 Cultivating Curiosity 👁️ Perspective Taking 🧠 Intellectual Humility 💬 Conversation Skills 🎬 Creative Leadership

A Curious Mind

What a Hollywood producer learned from decades of asking total strangers for one-hour conversations.

av Brian Grazer 2014 320 sidor

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🧐 Cultivating Curiosity 👁️ Perspective Taking 🧠 Intellectual Humility 💬 Conversation Skills 🎬 Creative Leadership

WOLFPACK

av Abby Wambach • 2019

Why gratitude kept you small, and the eight wild rules for taking your power back.

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🐺 Women's Leadership 🤝 Collective Success 🗣️ Self-Advocacy 🧠 Abundance Mindset 🔄 Failure Resilience

WOLFPACK

Why gratitude kept you small, and the eight wild rules for taking your power back.

av Abby Wambach 2019 91 sidor

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🐺 Women's Leadership 🤝 Collective Success 🗣️ Self-Advocacy 🧠 Abundance Mindset 🔄 Failure Resilience

Rogue Trader

av Nick Leeson • 1996

A 233-year-old bank collapsed because one young trader was allowed to hide his own losses.

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🔍 Financial Fraud 🏦 Banking Failures 📊 Derivatives Trading ⚠️ Risk Management 📝 Confession Memoirs

Rogue Trader

A 233-year-old bank collapsed because one young trader was allowed to hide his own losses.

av Nick Leeson 1996 365 sidor

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🔍 Financial Fraud 🏦 Banking Failures 📊 Derivatives Trading ⚠️ Risk Management 📝 Confession Memoirs

Down and Delirious in Mexico City

av Daniel Hernandez • 2011

A Mexican-American writer goes home to a city that swallows him with punks, cults, and riots.

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🏙️ Mexico City 🎸 Youth Subcultures 🙏 Popular Religion 📰 Gonzo Journalism 🗺️ Borderland Studies

Down and Delirious in Mexico City

A Mexican-American writer goes home to a city that swallows him with punks, cults, and riots.

av Daniel Hernandez 2011 288 sidor

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🏙️ Mexico City 🎸 Youth Subcultures 🙏 Popular Religion 📰 Gonzo Journalism 🗺️ Borderland Studies

Barefoot to Billionaire

av Jon M. Huntsman Sr. • 2014

Creative deals built his fortune. Faith, family, and cancer decided where billions went.

4.00

312

📖 Business Memoirs 💎 Values In Business 🎁 Wealth And Giving 🌱 Ethical Capitalism 🏠 American Dream

Barefoot to Billionaire

Creative deals built his fortune. Faith, family, and cancer decided where billions went.

av Jon M. Huntsman Sr. 2014 448 sidor

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📖 Business Memoirs 💎 Values In Business 🎁 Wealth And Giving 🌱 Ethical Capitalism 🏠 American Dream

Portrait of a Turkish Family

av Irfan Orga • 1950

Fire, famine, and madness: one Turkish family's slow destruction inside the collapse of an empire.

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🏛️ Ottoman Decline 🇹🇷 Early Republic Turkey 🧠 Maternal Mental Health 💔 War And Family 🥖 Poverty And Resilience

Portrait of a Turkish Family

Fire, famine, and madness: one Turkish family's slow destruction inside the collapse of an empire.

av Irfan Orga 1950 316 sidor

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🏛️ Ottoman Decline 🇹🇷 Early Republic Turkey 🧠 Maternal Mental Health 💔 War And Family 🥖 Poverty And Resilience

Hello, Fears

av Michelle Poler • 2020

Seven universal fears keep you small. A 100-day challenge teaches you to act despite them.

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😨 Fear Management 🏋️ Comfort Zone Growth 🪜 Exposure Therapy ⚙️ Behavioral Activation 🤗 Self-Acceptance

Hello, Fears

Seven universal fears keep you small. A 100-day challenge teaches you to act despite them.

av Michelle Poler 2020 169 sidor

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😨 Fear Management 🏋️ Comfort Zone Growth 🪜 Exposure Therapy ⚙️ Behavioral Activation 🤗 Self-Acceptance

How We Fight For Our Lives

av Saeed Jones • 2019

Texas taught him fear. A brutal attack taught him rage. Writing taught him to survive.

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🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 🌵 Southern Memoir 🖤 Black Gay Identity 🚪 Coming Out Stories 👩‍👦 Mother Son Bonds

How We Fight For Our Lives

Texas taught him fear. A brutal attack taught him rage. Writing taught him to survive.

av Saeed Jones 2019 208 sidor

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🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 🌵 Southern Memoir 🖤 Black Gay Identity 🚪 Coming Out Stories 👩‍👦 Mother Son Bonds

Thinking In Numbers

av Daniel Tammet • 2013

Numbers live in a family of nine, an Icelandic counting word, snowflakes, and how decades shrink.

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🧮 Everyday Mathematics 🌍 Cultural Mathematics ✨ Mathematical Imagination 🌈 Synesthesia 🕳️ Zero And Infinity

Thinking In Numbers

Numbers live in a family of nine, an Icelandic counting word, snowflakes, and how decades shrink.

av Daniel Tammet 2013 288 sidor

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🧮 Everyday Mathematics 🌍 Cultural Mathematics ✨ Mathematical Imagination 🌈 Synesthesia 🕳️ Zero And Infinity

Birds Art Life Death

av Kyo Maclear • 2017

As her father faded, a writer watched city birds. Small things, closely seen, restored her life.

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🌿 Nature Writing 🖤 Grief Memoir 🐦 Birding Memoir 🏙️ Urban Nature 👁️ Attention Cultivation

Birds Art Life Death

As her father faded, a writer watched city birds. Small things, closely seen, restored her life.

av Kyo Maclear 2017 274 sidor

4.00

3 000+ betyg

🌿 Nature Writing 🖤 Grief Memoir 🐦 Birding Memoir 🏙️ Urban Nature 👁️ Attention Cultivation

I Stand Corrected

av Eden Collinsworth • 2014

When a Western etiquette expert tried to teach China about manners, China politely corrected her.

3.20

188

🏢 Business Etiquette 🇨🇳 Modern China 📖 China Memoir 🗣️ Cultural Fluency 📜 Confucian Values

I Stand Corrected

When a Western etiquette expert tried to teach China about manners, China politely corrected her.

av Eden Collinsworth 2014 272 sidor

3.20

188 betyg

🏢 Business Etiquette 🇨🇳 Modern China 📖 China Memoir 🗣️ Cultural Fluency 📜 Confucian Values

Last to Eat, Last to Learn

av Pashtana Durrani • 2023

Afghanistan's first female tribal chief ran secret tablet schools until the Taliban came for her.

4.38

500+

🎓 Girls' Education 🧕 Afghan Women 📚 Conflict-Zone Education 🏫 Rural Education 👑 Tribal Leadership

Last to Eat, Last to Learn

Afghanistan's first female tribal chief ran secret tablet schools until the Taliban came for her.

av Pashtana Durrani 2023 224 sidor

4.38

500+ betyg

🎓 Girls' Education 🧕 Afghan Women 📚 Conflict-Zone Education 🏫 Rural Education 👑 Tribal Leadership

7 Lessons from Heaven

av Mary C. Neal • 2017

She died, saw heaven, and came back with the secret to joy that nothing can shake.

4.15

1 000+

☁️ Near Death Experiences ✝️ Christian Spirituality 📖 Spiritual Memoir ❤️ Divine Love 👼 Angel Encounters

7 Lessons from Heaven

She died, saw heaven, and came back with the secret to joy that nothing can shake.

av Mary C. Neal 2017 288 sidor

4.15

1 000+ betyg

☁️ Near Death Experiences ✝️ Christian Spirituality 📖 Spiritual Memoir ❤️ Divine Love 👼 Angel Encounters

I Must Say

av Martin Short • 2014

Orphaned at twenty, widowed decades later. The memoir that reveals grief as just another tough room.

4.12

18 000+

🎙️ Comedy Memoirs 🇨🇦 Canadian Comedy 🕊️ Grief And Loss 🛡️ Humor As Resilience 🏙️ Second City Alumni

I Must Say

Orphaned at twenty, widowed decades later. The memoir that reveals grief as just another tough room.

av Martin Short 2014 336 sidor

4.12

18 000+ betyg

🎙️ Comedy Memoirs 🇨🇦 Canadian Comedy 🕊️ Grief And Loss 🛡️ Humor As Resilience 🏙️ Second City Alumni

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