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Here, There and Everywhere

av Geoff Emerick • 2006

The Beatles' most radical sounds were built by a teenager breaking every rule at Abbey Road.

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🎸 Beatles History 🎛️ Music Production 🏢 Recording Studios 🔊 Sonic Experimentation 👥 Band Dynamics

Here, There and Everywhere

The Beatles' most radical sounds were built by a teenager breaking every rule at Abbey Road.

av Geoff Emerick 2006 387 sidor

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🎸 Beatles History 🎛️ Music Production 🏢 Recording Studios 🔊 Sonic Experimentation 👥 Band Dynamics

I Wish Someone Had Told Me...

av Dana Perino • 2025

The secrets of a meaningful career, from saving early to the habit that outranks talent.

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💼 Career Advice 📈 Professional Development 🧑‍🎓 Early Career 💰 Financial Literacy 🧘 Resilience Training

I Wish Someone Had Told Me...

The secrets of a meaningful career, from saving early to the habit that outranks talent.

av Dana Perino 2025 304 sidor

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💼 Career Advice 📈 Professional Development 🧑‍🎓 Early Career 💰 Financial Literacy 🧘 Resilience Training

Mobile Home

av Megan Harlan • 2020

Seventeen homes on four continents before age 17: a memoir that excavates the meaning of home.

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🏕️ Third Culture Kids 🧳 Nomadic Childhood 🏛️ Landscape And Memory 🍷 Family Alcoholism 🏺 Material Culture

Mobile Home

Seventeen homes on four continents before age 17: a memoir that excavates the meaning of home.

av Megan Harlan 2020 184 sidor

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🏕️ Third Culture Kids 🧳 Nomadic Childhood 🏛️ Landscape And Memory 🍷 Family Alcoholism 🏺 Material Culture

The Sunset Route

av Carrot Quinn • 2021

A young woman rides freight trains west to escape a broken past, searching for a new kind of family.

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🚂 Freight Train Culture 🏡 Off-Grid Living 🎒 Nomadic Lifestyles 💔 Childhood Trauma 👩‍👧 Maternal Mental Illness

The Sunset Route

A young woman rides freight trains west to escape a broken past, searching for a new kind of family.

av Carrot Quinn 2021 320 sidor

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🚂 Freight Train Culture 🏡 Off-Grid Living 🎒 Nomadic Lifestyles 💔 Childhood Trauma 👩‍👧 Maternal Mental Illness

Shark Life

av Peter Benchley • 2002

Sharks kill fewer than 10 people a year. The author of Jaws explains why.

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🐠 Marine Biology 🌊 Ocean Conservation 🎲 Risk Perception 🦈 Apex Predators 🛟 Ocean Safety

Shark Life

Sharks kill fewer than 10 people a year. The author of Jaws explains why.

av Peter Benchley 2002 208 sidor

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🐠 Marine Biology 🌊 Ocean Conservation 🎲 Risk Perception 🦈 Apex Predators 🛟 Ocean Safety

Love Language

av Linda Marigliano • 2023

She hid her boyfriend, her pain, and her real self until her jaw locked shut.

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👨‍👩‍👧 Immigrant Families 🎵 Music Memoirs 🍝 Food Memoirs 🎭 People-Pleasing 🚧 Boundary Setting

Love Language

She hid her boyfriend, her pain, and her real self until her jaw locked shut.

av Linda Marigliano 2023 280 sidor

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👨‍👩‍👧 Immigrant Families 🎵 Music Memoirs 🍝 Food Memoirs 🎭 People-Pleasing 🚧 Boundary Setting

Pass with Care

av Cooper Lee Bombardier • 2020

A trans man's essays: the desert, the bar, the body, and the long work of belonging.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Transmasculinity 🛠️ Working-Class Queer 🌊 Gender Fluidity 🫂 Chosen Family 🩹 Trauma Recovery

Pass with Care

A trans man's essays: the desert, the bar, the body, and the long work of belonging.

av Cooper Lee Bombardier 2020 240 sidor

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🏳️‍⚧️ Transmasculinity 🛠️ Working-Class Queer 🌊 Gender Fluidity 🫂 Chosen Family 🩹 Trauma Recovery

A Quaker Book of Wisdom

av Robert Lawrence Smith • 1998

Silence, truth, simplicity: a Quaker guide to integrity in a noisy world.

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🧘 Quaker Spirituality 🌿 Simple Living 🤫 Silent Worship 🏢 Ethical Business ☮️ Nonviolence

A Quaker Book of Wisdom

Silence, truth, simplicity: a Quaker guide to integrity in a noisy world.

av Robert Lawrence Smith 1998 210 sidor

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🧘 Quaker Spirituality 🌿 Simple Living 🤫 Silent Worship 🏢 Ethical Business ☮️ Nonviolence

The Accidental President of Brazil

av Fernando Henrique Cardoso • 2006

Exiled by a military regime, he returned to kill Brazil's 2,500% inflation with a new currency.

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📝 Political Memoirs 🇧🇷 Brazilian History 📊 Economic Policymaking 💸 Hyperinflation 🗳️ Democratic Transition

The Accidental President of Brazil

Exiled by a military regime, he returned to kill Brazil's 2,500% inflation with a new currency.

av Fernando Henrique Cardoso 2006 320 sidor

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📝 Political Memoirs 🇧🇷 Brazilian History 📊 Economic Policymaking 💸 Hyperinflation 🗳️ Democratic Transition

Wild Comfort

av Kathleen Dean Moore • 2010

The natural world holds no cure for grief, only a rhythm vast enough to carry it.

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🖋️ Nature Writing 🌿 Environmental Essays 🍂 Grief And Nature 👁️ Mindful Observation 🔄 Cycles Of Life

Wild Comfort

The natural world holds no cure for grief, only a rhythm vast enough to carry it.

av Kathleen Dean Moore 2010 208 sidor

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🖋️ Nature Writing 🌿 Environmental Essays 🍂 Grief And Nature 👁️ Mindful Observation 🔄 Cycles Of Life

Uh-oh

av Robert Fulghum • 1991

Life's philosophy lives inside your refrigerator door and in the first sound you ever made.

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🧠 Everyday Philosophy ✍️ Personal Essays ✨ Finding Wonder 🕯️ The Sacred Ordinary 🌱 Embracing Imperfection

Uh-oh

Life's philosophy lives inside your refrigerator door and in the first sound you ever made.

av Robert Fulghum 1991 244 sidor

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🧠 Everyday Philosophy ✍️ Personal Essays ✨ Finding Wonder 🕯️ The Sacred Ordinary 🌱 Embracing Imperfection

On Pluto

av Greg O'Brien • 2014

What a journalist sees when he turns his reporter's eye on his own disappearing brain.

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🧠 Dementia Memoir 🩺 Medical Memoir 🌫️ Cognitive Decline 🧬 Early-Onset Alzheimer's 🫂 Family Caregiving

On Pluto

What a journalist sees when he turns his reporter's eye on his own disappearing brain.

av Greg O'Brien 2014 240 sidor

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🧠 Dementia Memoir 🩺 Medical Memoir 🌫️ Cognitive Decline 🧬 Early-Onset Alzheimer's 🫂 Family Caregiving

I'd Rather Be Reading

av Anne Bogel • 2018

Finished her first book by flashlight at 2 a.m. and never stopped: a bibliophile's confessions.

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📚 Bibliophilia 📖 Reading Habits 🏛️ Library Nostalgia 👥 Book Community 📦 Book Collecting

I'd Rather Be Reading

Finished her first book by flashlight at 2 a.m. and never stopped: a bibliophile's confessions.

av Anne Bogel 2018 156 sidor

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📚 Bibliophilia 📖 Reading Habits 🏛️ Library Nostalgia 👥 Book Community 📦 Book Collecting

Never Enough

av Mike Hayes • 2021

A SEAL commander on choosing the hard path, leading and following, and finding meaning in work.

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🎖️ Military Leadership 🏋️ Resilience Building 🧘 Emotional Control 🧠 Decision Frameworks 🤲 Humility

Never Enough

A SEAL commander on choosing the hard path, leading and following, and finding meaning in work.

av Mike Hayes 2021 232 sidor

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🎖️ Military Leadership 🏋️ Resilience Building 🧘 Emotional Control 🧠 Decision Frameworks 🤲 Humility

Glow in the F*cking Dark

av Tara Schuster • 2023

The unglamorous daily practices that rebuilt a life, from a hot mess who tried everything else.

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📖 Self-Help Memoir 🩹 Trauma Healing 🧒 Reparenting 📓 Journaling 🧘 Body Neutrality

Glow in the F*cking Dark

The unglamorous daily practices that rebuilt a life, from a hot mess who tried everything else.

av Tara Schuster 2023 320 sidor

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📖 Self-Help Memoir 🩹 Trauma Healing 🧒 Reparenting 📓 Journaling 🧘 Body Neutrality

Rowing the Atlantic

av Roz Savage • 2009

How three thousand miles alone on the Atlantic rewired one woman's relationship with fear.

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🧭 Solo Expeditions 💪 Extreme Endurance 🌊 Ocean Crossings 🚣 Women Adventurers 🔄 Midlife Reinvention

Rowing the Atlantic

How three thousand miles alone on the Atlantic rewired one woman's relationship with fear.

av Roz Savage 2009 256 sidor

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🧭 Solo Expeditions 💪 Extreme Endurance 🌊 Ocean Crossings 🚣 Women Adventurers 🔄 Midlife Reinvention

The Light We Give

av Simran Jeet Singh • 2022

Find the sacred in every person, even those who hurt you: the Sikh practice that rewires conflict.

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🧡 Sikh Spirituality 🤲 Selfless Service 🙏 Gratitude Practice 💛 Radical Empathy ⚖️ Authentic Living

The Light We Give

Find the sacred in every person, even those who hurt you: the Sikh practice that rewires conflict.

av Simran Jeet Singh 2022 319 sidor

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🧡 Sikh Spirituality 🤲 Selfless Service 🙏 Gratitude Practice 💛 Radical Empathy ⚖️ Authentic Living

The Forgotten Highlander

av Alistair Urquhart • 2010

Death Railway, hellship, Nagasaki. A Scottish soldier breaks his silence to demand Japan atone.

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🏯 Japanese Pow Camps 🌊 Pacific War Theatre ⛏️ Forced Labor 🎙️ Survivor Testimony ☢️ Atomic Bomb Survivors

The Forgotten Highlander

Death Railway, hellship, Nagasaki. A Scottish soldier breaks his silence to demand Japan atone.

av Alistair Urquhart 2010 321 sidor

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🏯 Japanese Pow Camps 🌊 Pacific War Theatre ⛏️ Forced Labor 🎙️ Survivor Testimony ☢️ Atomic Bomb Survivors

Education of a Felon

av Edward Bunker • 1999

A career criminal's brutal education behind bars, and how literature gave him a way out.

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⛓️ Prison Memoir 💰 Career Criminal 🔪 Prison Survival 🔄 Recidivism 🧒 Juvenile Injustice

Education of a Felon

A career criminal's brutal education behind bars, and how literature gave him a way out.

av Edward Bunker 1999 320 sidor

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⛓️ Prison Memoir 💰 Career Criminal 🔪 Prison Survival 🔄 Recidivism 🧒 Juvenile Injustice

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

av Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1973

A secret network of camps swallowed millions on quotas, using bodies until nothing remained.

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🏛️ Soviet History ⛓️ Totalitarian Regimes 🚫 Political Repression 🔒 Prison Memoirs 🏗️ Forced Labor Camps

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

A secret network of camps swallowed millions on quotas, using bodies until nothing remained.

av Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 512 sidor

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🏛️ Soviet History ⛓️ Totalitarian Regimes 🚫 Political Repression 🔒 Prison Memoirs 🏗️ Forced Labor Camps

I'm Judging You

av Luvvie Ajayi • 2016

Common sense is dead. A manual for navigating a world of selfish friends and clout chasers.

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🤝 Social Etiquette 📝 Cultural Criticism ✊ Intersectional Feminism 🗣️ Everyday Racism 📱 Social Media Critique

I'm Judging You

Common sense is dead. A manual for navigating a world of selfish friends and clout chasers.

av Luvvie Ajayi 2016 241 sidor

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🤝 Social Etiquette 📝 Cultural Criticism ✊ Intersectional Feminism 🗣️ Everyday Racism 📱 Social Media Critique

Brilliant Moon

av Dilgo Khyentse • 2008

He walked out of Tibet with goats and monks, then became the Dalai Lama's teacher.

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🏔️ Tibetan Buddhism 📿 Spiritual Biography 🔀 Rimé Movement 🔴 Nyingma Tradition 🌀 Dzogchen Teachings

Brilliant Moon

He walked out of Tibet with goats and monks, then became the Dalai Lama's teacher.

av Dilgo Khyentse 2008 402 sidor

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🏔️ Tibetan Buddhism 📿 Spiritual Biography 🔀 Rimé Movement 🔴 Nyingma Tradition 🌀 Dzogchen Teachings

Back to Earth

av Nicole Stott • 2021

From orbit, Earth has no borders. An astronaut's argument for upgrading from passenger to crew.

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🚀 Astronaut Memoirs 🌿 Ecological Memoir 🌎 The Overview Effect 🛡️ Environmental Stewardship ⚡ Climate Action

Back to Earth

From orbit, Earth has no borders. An astronaut's argument for upgrading from passenger to crew.

av Nicole Stott 2021 304 sidor

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🚀 Astronaut Memoirs 🌿 Ecological Memoir 🌎 The Overview Effect 🛡️ Environmental Stewardship ⚡ Climate Action

Already Toast

av Kate Washington • 2021

Her husband's cancer made her an unpaid nurse. The system was counting on it.

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🏥 Medical Memoir 🔥 Caregiver Burnout 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Caregiving 👩 Gendered Care Work 🏛️ Healthcare Critique

Already Toast

Her husband's cancer made her an unpaid nurse. The system was counting on it.

av Kate Washington 2021 224 sidor

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🏥 Medical Memoir 🔥 Caregiver Burnout 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Caregiving 👩 Gendered Care Work 🏛️ Healthcare Critique

On the Shoulders of Giants

av Kareem Abdul-Jabbar • 2007

Jazz, poetry, and the Rens: a basketball legend traces his roots to the Harlem Renaissance.

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🎷 Harlem Renaissance 📚 African American History 🎺 Jazz Age Culture 🎵 Jazz History 🏀 Basketball History

On the Shoulders of Giants

Jazz, poetry, and the Rens: a basketball legend traces his roots to the Harlem Renaissance.

av Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2007 308 sidor

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🎷 Harlem Renaissance 📚 African American History 🎺 Jazz Age Culture 🎵 Jazz History 🏀 Basketball History

Made in Italy

av Giorgio Locatelli • 2006

A fight for real Italian food: protecting the inner bite of pasta and the shared table.

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🍽️ Culinary Memoir 🇮🇹 Regional Italian 🐌 Slow Food Movement 🍝 Pasta Making 🥩 Nose To Tail

Made in Italy

A fight for real Italian food: protecting the inner bite of pasta and the shared table.

av Giorgio Locatelli 2006 624 sidor

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🍽️ Culinary Memoir 🇮🇹 Regional Italian 🐌 Slow Food Movement 🍝 Pasta Making 🥩 Nose To Tail

Gay Girl, Good God

av Jackie Hill Perry • 2018

A lesbian poet heard God. He wasn't calling her to be straight.

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✝️ Christian Testimony 🔄 Sexual Identity 🔥 Sanctification 👩 Biblical Womanhood 🌈 Lgbt Christians

Gay Girl, Good God

A lesbian poet heard God. He wasn't calling her to be straight.

av Jackie Hill Perry 2018 193 sidor

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✝️ Christian Testimony 🔄 Sexual Identity 🔥 Sanctification 👩 Biblical Womanhood 🌈 Lgbt Christians

Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet

av Sara Hagerty • 2014

God's goodness isn't waiting past the pain. It's inside the barren decade itself.

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🌱 Spiritual Formation 🌊 Suffering And Faith 🙏 Contemplative Prayer ✨ Divine Goodness ⏳ Waiting On God

Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet

God's goodness isn't waiting past the pain. It's inside the barren decade itself.

av Sara Hagerty 2014 196 sidor

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🌱 Spiritual Formation 🌊 Suffering And Faith 🙏 Contemplative Prayer ✨ Divine Goodness ⏳ Waiting On God

Soil and Sacrament

av Fred Bahnson • 2013

What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?

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🛐 Faith And Farming 🌻 Community Gardens 🙏 Agrarian Spirituality 🤝 Interfaith Ecology 🌍 Creation Care

Soil and Sacrament

What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?

av Fred Bahnson 2013 288 sidor

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🛐 Faith And Farming 🌻 Community Gardens 🙏 Agrarian Spirituality 🤝 Interfaith Ecology 🌍 Creation Care

Crazy for God

av Frank Schaeffer • 2007

Inside the machine: a son of evangelical royalty helps build the religious right, then defects.

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⛪ Evangelical Movement 🐘 Religious Right 🧩 Faith Deconstruction 🏚️ Insular Communities 📜 Fundamentalism

Crazy for God

Inside the machine: a son of evangelical royalty helps build the religious right, then defects.

av Frank Schaeffer 2007 390 sidor

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⛪ Evangelical Movement 🐘 Religious Right 🧩 Faith Deconstruction 🏚️ Insular Communities 📜 Fundamentalism

Safe

av Mark Daley • 2024

They became a family of four. Foster care's goal was to make them three again.

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🏠 Foster Care 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Parenting ⚖️ Child Welfare Reform 🧠 Trauma-Informed Care 💔 Ambiguous Loss

Safe

They became a family of four. Foster care's goal was to make them three again.

av Mark Daley 2024 304 sidor

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🏠 Foster Care 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Parenting ⚖️ Child Welfare Reform 🧠 Trauma-Informed Care 💔 Ambiguous Loss

Touched Out

av Amanda Montei • 2023

From consent to care work: how motherhood traps women in a system that owns their bodies.

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👩‍👧 Modern Motherhood ✊ Feminist Critique 🫂 Care Work ✋ Bodily Autonomy 🛑 Consent And Boundaries

Touched Out

From consent to care work: how motherhood traps women in a system that owns their bodies.

av Amanda Montei 2023 256 sidor

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👩‍👧 Modern Motherhood ✊ Feminist Critique 🫂 Care Work ✋ Bodily Autonomy 🛑 Consent And Boundaries

One Dress. One Year.

av Bethany Winz • 2016

One girl, one dress, 365 days: a fight against trafficking that unraveled her first.

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🔗 Human Trafficking ✊ Teen Activism 🙏 Faith In Action 👕 Everyday Activism 💔 Perfectionism

One Dress. One Year.

One girl, one dress, 365 days: a fight against trafficking that unraveled her first.

av Bethany Winz 2016 160 sidor

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🔗 Human Trafficking ✊ Teen Activism 🙏 Faith In Action 👕 Everyday Activism 💔 Perfectionism

Girl at the End of the World

av Elizabeth Esther • 2014

Her grandfather's cult taught her the world was ending. Motherhood taught her otherwise.

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🧱 Cult Memoirs 🕊️ Religious Trauma ⛪ Spiritual Abuse 🔄 Breaking Cycles 🚪 Ex-Fundamentalist

Girl at the End of the World

Her grandfather's cult taught her the world was ending. Motherhood taught her otherwise.

av Elizabeth Esther 2014 213 sidor

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🧱 Cult Memoirs 🕊️ Religious Trauma ⛪ Spiritual Abuse 🔄 Breaking Cycles 🚪 Ex-Fundamentalist

Eating for Beginners

av Melanie Rehak • 2010

A food writer butchered a lamb and worked a fishing boat. Her toddler still refused broccoli.

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🌱 Farm To Table 🔪 Restaurant Kitchens 🌍 Sustainable Eating 🧀 Artisanal Food 🧒 Picky Eating

Eating for Beginners

A food writer butchered a lamb and worked a fishing boat. Her toddler still refused broccoli.

av Melanie Rehak 2010 275 sidor

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🌱 Farm To Table 🔪 Restaurant Kitchens 🌍 Sustainable Eating 🧀 Artisanal Food 🧒 Picky Eating

Not Forgotten

av Kenneth Bae • 2016

North Korea sentences a missionary to 15 years hard labor. His jailers become his congregation.

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🏕️ North Korean Labor Camps 📖 Missionary Memoirs ✝️ Faith Under Persecution 🔗 Labor Camp Survival 🙏 Christian Testimony

Not Forgotten

North Korea sentences a missionary to 15 years hard labor. His jailers become his congregation.

av Kenneth Bae 2016

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🏕️ North Korean Labor Camps 📖 Missionary Memoirs ✝️ Faith Under Persecution 🔗 Labor Camp Survival 🙏 Christian Testimony

Born Again by Colson, Charles W. (2008) Paperback

av Charles W. Colson • 1975

He engineered Nixon's landslide reelection, then went to prison. Between them: a prayer on a beach.

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🏛️ Political Memoirs 🔗 Prison Memoirs 📝 Watergate Era 🔄 Conversion Narratives 🔍 Political Corruption

Born Again by Colson, Charles W. (2008) Paperback

He engineered Nixon's landslide reelection, then went to prison. Between them: a prayer on a beach.

av Charles W. Colson 1975

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🏛️ Political Memoirs 🔗 Prison Memoirs 📝 Watergate Era 🔄 Conversion Narratives 🔍 Political Corruption

Paper Girl

av Beth Macy • 2025

A Pell Grant was her exit from working-class Ohio. Four decades later, the road is closed.

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🏡 Rural America 👷 Working-Class Memoir 🏭 Post-Industrial Decline 🔄 Generational Poverty 🔀 Political Polarization

Paper Girl

A Pell Grant was her exit from working-class Ohio. Four decades later, the road is closed.

av Beth Macy 2025 368 sidor

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🏡 Rural America 👷 Working-Class Memoir 🏭 Post-Industrial Decline 🔄 Generational Poverty 🔀 Political Polarization

Six Days of Impossible

av Robert Adams • 2017

Heart rates over 100, near-zero sleep, hypothermia: a Navy doctor's six days inside SEAL Hell Week.

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🦭 Navy Seals 🎖️ Military Training ⚔️ Special Operations 🥵 Extreme Endurance 🤝 Team Cohesion

Six Days of Impossible

Heart rates over 100, near-zero sleep, hypothermia: a Navy doctor's six days inside SEAL Hell Week.

av Robert Adams 2017 228 sidor

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🦭 Navy Seals 🎖️ Military Training ⚔️ Special Operations 🥵 Extreme Endurance 🤝 Team Cohesion

The 52 Week Project

av Lauren Keenan • 2020

Fifty-two uncomfortable firsts in one year: how a mother rebuilt the identity she'd lost.

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🎪 Stunt Memoir 🆕 New Experiences 🚧 Comfort Zones 👩‍👧‍👦 Working Mothers 😊 Positive Psychology

The 52 Week Project

Fifty-two uncomfortable firsts in one year: how a mother rebuilt the identity she'd lost.

av Lauren Keenan 2020 186 sidor

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🎪 Stunt Memoir 🆕 New Experiences 🚧 Comfort Zones 👩‍👧‍👦 Working Mothers 😊 Positive Psychology

Unfinished Business

av James Van Praagh • 2009

The dead confess their regrets through a medium. Their stories are a warning for the living.

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📡 Mediumship 👻 Life After Death ✨ Spiritual Self-Help 💚 Forgiveness And Healing 🔄 Karma And Reincarnation

Unfinished Business

The dead confess their regrets through a medium. Their stories are a warning for the living.

av James Van Praagh 2009 256 sidor

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📡 Mediumship 👻 Life After Death ✨ Spiritual Self-Help 💚 Forgiveness And Healing 🔄 Karma And Reincarnation

Prisoners of Hope

av Dayna Curry • 2002

Arrested by the Taliban for their faith. Then the towers fell, and the bombing began.

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🕊️ Missionary Memoirs 🔒 Captivity Narratives 🇦🇫 Women In Afghanistan 🏴 Taliban Afghanistan 🌏 Cross-Cultural Service

Prisoners of Hope

Arrested by the Taliban for their faith. Then the towers fell, and the bombing began.

av Dayna Curry 2002 336 sidor

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🕊️ Missionary Memoirs 🔒 Captivity Narratives 🇦🇫 Women In Afghanistan 🏴 Taliban Afghanistan 🌏 Cross-Cultural Service

Freaks, Geeks & Aspergers Syndrome

av Luke Jackson • 2002

Asperger's isn't a disease and adolescence isn't a death sentence. A 13-year-old tells you how.

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📖 Autism Memoir 🧠 Neurodiversity Movement 🔊 Sensory Processing 🥗 Dietary Interventions 🏠 Alternative Education

Freaks, Geeks & Aspergers Syndrome

Asperger's isn't a disease and adolescence isn't a death sentence. A 13-year-old tells you how.

av Luke Jackson 2002 216 sidor

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📖 Autism Memoir 🧠 Neurodiversity Movement 🔊 Sensory Processing 🥗 Dietary Interventions 🏠 Alternative Education

Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening

av Carol Wall • 2014

Carol wanted a tidy yard. Giles, a Kenyan immigrant, gave her a way to face death.

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🌱 Gardening Memoirs 🤝 Unlikely Friendships 🌿 Healing Through Nature 💀 Confronting Mortality ✝️ Christian Spirituality

Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening

Carol wanted a tidy yard. Giles, a Kenyan immigrant, gave her a way to face death.

av Carol Wall 2014 294 sidor

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🌱 Gardening Memoirs 🤝 Unlikely Friendships 🌿 Healing Through Nature 💀 Confronting Mortality ✝️ Christian Spirituality

The Story of a Life

av Aharon Appelfeld • 1983

War silenced him. What grew in the silence, decades later, became a writer's whole art.

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🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🏛️ Cultural Memory 🧭 Displaced Identity ✍️ Writing As Healing

The Story of a Life

War silenced him. What grew in the silence, decades later, became a writer's whole art.

av Aharon Appelfeld 1983 208 sidor

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🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🏛️ Cultural Memory 🧭 Displaced Identity ✍️ Writing As Healing

Three Pianos

av Andrew McMahon • 2021

At 22, his exhaustion was leukemia. The cure: a stem cell transplant from his sister.

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🎹 Musician Memoirs 🚐 Touring Life 🎗️ Cancer Survival 🧪 Parental Addiction 🩹 Addiction Recovery

Three Pianos

At 22, his exhaustion was leukemia. The cure: a stem cell transplant from his sister.

av Andrew McMahon 2021 240 sidor

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🎹 Musician Memoirs 🚐 Touring Life 🎗️ Cancer Survival 🧪 Parental Addiction 🩹 Addiction Recovery

Notes on a Silencing

av Lacy Crawford • 2020

Two senior boys assaulted a 15-year-old. The boarding school spent decades burying what happened.

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🏫 Boarding Schools 📖 Survivor Memoir 🚨 Sexual Assault ⚖️ Victim Blaming 🏛️ Institutional Betrayal

Notes on a Silencing

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