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The Socrates Express

av Eric Weiner • 2020

A ticket, a train, and the dead philosophers who can still teach you how to live.

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🛠️ Practical Philosophy 🚂 Philosophical Travel 🏛️ Ancient Wisdom 🗿 Modern Stoicism 🧠 Intellectual Self-Help

The Socrates Express

A ticket, a train, and the dead philosophers who can still teach you how to live.

av Eric Weiner 2020 352 sidor

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🛠️ Practical Philosophy 🚂 Philosophical Travel 🏛️ Ancient Wisdom 🗿 Modern Stoicism 🧠 Intellectual Self-Help

Doppelganger

av Naomi Klein • 2023

Mistaken for her alt-right double, a leftist author maps the mirror world devouring our politics.

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🗳️ Political Memoir 🕳️ Conspiracy Theories 🎭 Digital Identity 📰 Media Criticism 🛡️ Information Warfare

Doppelganger

Mistaken for her alt-right double, a leftist author maps the mirror world devouring our politics.

av Naomi Klein 2023 416 sidor

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🗳️ Political Memoir 🕳️ Conspiracy Theories 🎭 Digital Identity 📰 Media Criticism 🛡️ Information Warfare

Iran Awakening

av Shirin Ebadi • 2006

Iran stripped her of her judgeship. She became the regime's most dangerous opponent: a lawyer.

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🧕 Iranian Women 🏛️ Post-Revolutionary Iran 📜 Islamic Feminism ⚖️ Human Rights Law ✊ Resistance Memoirs

Iran Awakening

Iran stripped her of her judgeship. She became the regime's most dangerous opponent: a lawyer.

av Shirin Ebadi 2006 256 sidor

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🧕 Iranian Women 🏛️ Post-Revolutionary Iran 📜 Islamic Feminism ⚖️ Human Rights Law ✊ Resistance Memoirs

Sybil

av Flora Rheta Schreiber • 1973

Sixteen selves, one body, and a childhood so brutal the mind split to survive it.

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🎭 Dissociative Identity 🧒 Childhood Trauma 🏥 Clinical Case Studies 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🧩 Recovered Memory

Sybil

Sixteen selves, one body, and a childhood so brutal the mind split to survive it.

av Flora Rheta Schreiber 1973 481 sidor

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🎭 Dissociative Identity 🧒 Childhood Trauma 🏥 Clinical Case Studies 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🧩 Recovered Memory

The Chronology of Water

av Lidia Yuknavitch • 2011

A swimmer's body remembered the abuse, the addiction, the stillbirth. One day she wrote it.

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🔥 Experimental Memoir 🌈 Queer Memoir 🧠 Trauma And The Body ✍️ Writing As Healing 🏊 Swimming Memoir

The Chronology of Water

A swimmer's body remembered the abuse, the addiction, the stillbirth. One day she wrote it.

av Lidia Yuknavitch 2011 289 sidor

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🔥 Experimental Memoir 🌈 Queer Memoir 🧠 Trauma And The Body ✍️ Writing As Healing 🏊 Swimming Memoir

Aftermath

av Rachel Cusk • 2012

A friend answers a late-night call, refuses to let her cry alone. A divorce memoir begins.

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💔 Divorce Memoirs 👩‍👧 Motherhood Memoirs 📝 Personal Essays ✊ Feminist Memoir 🛋️ Therapy Memoirs

Aftermath

A friend answers a late-night call, refuses to let her cry alone. A divorce memoir begins.

av Rachel Cusk 2012 160 sidor

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💔 Divorce Memoirs 👩‍👧 Motherhood Memoirs 📝 Personal Essays ✊ Feminist Memoir 🛋️ Therapy Memoirs

SEAL Team Six

av Howard E. Wasdin • 2011

The beatings taught him to dissociate. SEAL training weaponized it. Mogadishu shattered it.

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🪖 Military Memoir 🔱 Navy Seals 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🎯 Special Operations 💔 Survivors Guilt

SEAL Team Six

The beatings taught him to dissociate. SEAL training weaponized it. Mogadishu shattered it.

av Howard E. Wasdin 2011 331 sidor

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🪖 Military Memoir 🔱 Navy Seals 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🎯 Special Operations 💔 Survivors Guilt

Darkness Visible

av William Styron • 1990

Depression is not sadness. A Pulitzer-winning novelist on the illness that feels like drowning.

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🩺 Clinical Depression ✍️ Literary Memoir 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir 🌅 Depression Recovery 🛑 Suicide Prevention

Darkness Visible

Depression is not sadness. A Pulitzer-winning novelist on the illness that feels like drowning.

av William Styron 1990 84 sidor

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🩺 Clinical Depression ✍️ Literary Memoir 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir 🌅 Depression Recovery 🛑 Suicide Prevention

I Forgot to Die

av Khalil Rafati • 2015

How a homeless heroin addict became the interventionist families call when hope runs out.

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💉 Addiction Memoirs 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🌑 Heroin Addiction 🏚️ Homelessness

I Forgot to Die

How a homeless heroin addict became the interventionist families call when hope runs out.

av Khalil Rafati 2015 183 sidor

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💉 Addiction Memoirs 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🌑 Heroin Addiction 🏚️ Homelessness

Brain on Fire

av Susannah Cahalan • 2012

A phantom bug bite, then catatonia. A brain biopsy found an autoimmune disease, not mental illness.

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🔍 Medical Mystery 📖 Illness Memoir 🦠 Autoimmune Disease 🧠 Neurological Disorders 👁️ Firsthand Psychosis

Brain on Fire

A phantom bug bite, then catatonia. A brain biopsy found an autoimmune disease, not mental illness.

av Susannah Cahalan 2012 266 sidor

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🔍 Medical Mystery 📖 Illness Memoir 🦠 Autoimmune Disease 🧠 Neurological Disorders 👁️ Firsthand Psychosis

Living with the Himalayan Masters

av Swami Rama • 1899

A young yogi among Himalayan sages: their miracles test you, and even their curses are teachings.

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🏔️ Himalayan Spirituality 🧘 Yogic Philosophy 🧵 Master Disciple Bond ✨ Spiritual Experience 🌀 Maya And Illusion

Living with the Himalayan Masters

A young yogi among Himalayan sages: their miracles test you, and even their curses are teachings.

av Swami Rama 1899 486 sidor

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🏔️ Himalayan Spirituality 🧘 Yogic Philosophy 🧵 Master Disciple Bond ✨ Spiritual Experience 🌀 Maya And Illusion

Shoe Dog

av Phil Knight • 2016

A $35 logo, a waffle iron, a $25 million bill: the chaotic birth of Nike.

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👟 Sports Business 🏗️ Brand Origin Stories 📖 Founder Memoirs 🤹 Misfit Teams 💸 Bootstrapping

Shoe Dog

A $35 logo, a waffle iron, a $25 million bill: the chaotic birth of Nike.

av Phil Knight 2016 400 sidor

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👟 Sports Business 🏗️ Brand Origin Stories 📖 Founder Memoirs 🤹 Misfit Teams 💸 Bootstrapping

The Algebra of Happiness

av Scott Galloway • 2019

A formula for happiness that treats partner choice and daily sweat as non-negotiable variables.

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🧭 Career Strategy 🧬 Life Design 🏢 Business Memoirs 🥊 Anti-Self-Help 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

The Algebra of Happiness

A formula for happiness that treats partner choice and daily sweat as non-negotiable variables.

av Scott Galloway 2019 256 sidor

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🧭 Career Strategy 🧬 Life Design 🏢 Business Memoirs 🥊 Anti-Self-Help 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

How the Word Is Passed

av Clint Smith • 2021

From Monticello to Angola Prison, nine American sites where slavery's past has never really ended.

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📜 American Slavery 🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology

How the Word Is Passed

From Monticello to Angola Prison, nine American sites where slavery's past has never really ended.

av Clint Smith 2021 336 sidor

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📜 American Slavery 🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

av Haruki Murakami • 2007

Running a marathon every year taught a novelist more about writing than literature ever did.

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🏃 Marathon Running ✍️ Writing Life 🔁 Daily Practice 🧘 Meditative Exercise 🎨 Creative Process

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Running a marathon every year taught a novelist more about writing than literature ever did.

av Haruki Murakami 2007 189 sidor

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🏃 Marathon Running ✍️ Writing Life 🔁 Daily Practice 🧘 Meditative Exercise 🎨 Creative Process

Diana

av Andrew Morton • 1993

The secret tapes: a princess bingeing, purging, and sharing her husband with another woman.

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👑 British Monarchy 🎤 Celebrity Memoir 🍽️ Eating Disorders 💔 Emotional Neglect 📸 Tabloid Culture

Diana

The secret tapes: a princess bingeing, purging, and sharing her husband with another woman.

av Andrew Morton 1993 432 sidor

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👑 British Monarchy 🎤 Celebrity Memoir 🍽️ Eating Disorders 💔 Emotional Neglect 📸 Tabloid Culture

The Half of It

av Madison Beer • 2023

Leaked nudes made her infamous at fifteen. She was a minor; the internet blamed her anyway.

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🌟 Child Stardom 🎵 Music Industry 💻 Online Hate 🩹 Trauma Recovery 📢 Misogyny In Media

The Half of It

Leaked nudes made her infamous at fifteen. She was a minor; the internet blamed her anyway.

av Madison Beer 2023 176 sidor

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🌟 Child Stardom 🎵 Music Industry 💻 Online Hate 🩹 Trauma Recovery 📢 Misogyny In Media

Trading Bases

av Joe Peta • 2013

A Wall Street quant's baseball model found the betting market lagging reality, just like stocks.

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⚾ Baseball Analytics 🎲 Sports Betting 📈 Quantitative Finance 🏦 Wall Street Memoir 🔮 Predictive Modeling

Trading Bases

A Wall Street quant's baseball model found the betting market lagging reality, just like stocks.

av Joe Peta 2013 384 sidor

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⚾ Baseball Analytics 🎲 Sports Betting 📈 Quantitative Finance 🏦 Wall Street Memoir 🔮 Predictive Modeling

Under Siege

av Eric Trump • 2025

A bullet missed his father's head by inches. The real war had been raging for years.

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📕 Political Memoirs 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Political Families ⚖️ Weaponized Justice 🚫 Cancel Culture 🗳️ Election Integrity

Under Siege

A bullet missed his father's head by inches. The real war had been raging for years.

av Eric Trump 2025 272 sidor

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📕 Political Memoirs 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Political Families ⚖️ Weaponized Justice 🚫 Cancel Culture 🗳️ Election Integrity

Onward

av Howard Schultz • 2007

Starbucks, losing $6 million a day, asked its founder to save it without sacrificing its values.

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🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 👔 Ceo Memoirs 🤝 People-First Business ☕ Customer Experience 🧭 Values-Driven Leadership

Onward

Starbucks, losing $6 million a day, asked its founder to save it without sacrificing its values.

av Howard Schultz 2007 350 sidor

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🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 👔 Ceo Memoirs 🤝 People-First Business ☕ Customer Experience 🧭 Values-Driven Leadership

Eat, Pray, Love

av Elizabeth Gilbert • 2006

One year in Italy, India, and Indonesia: the journey that taught her how to live again.

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🍝 Culinary Journeys 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🌍 Transformative Travel 🔄 Midlife Reinvention 🧭 Personal Quests

Eat, Pray, Love

One year in Italy, India, and Indonesia: the journey that taught her how to live again.

av Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 458 sidor

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🍝 Culinary Journeys 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🌍 Transformative Travel 🔄 Midlife Reinvention 🧭 Personal Quests

A Well-Trained Wife

av Tia Levings • 2024

She followed every rule. When her husband turned violent, the church said: try harder.

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💔 Religious Trauma ⛓️ Patriarchal Religion 🙏 Spiritual Abuse 🧱 Faith Deconstruction 🔒 Purity Culture

A Well-Trained Wife

She followed every rule. When her husband turned violent, the church said: try harder.

av Tia Levings 2024 304 sidor

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💔 Religious Trauma ⛓️ Patriarchal Religion 🙏 Spiritual Abuse 🧱 Faith Deconstruction 🔒 Purity Culture

Do No Harm

av Henry Marsh • 2014

A brain surgeon confesses the gamble of every cut, the patients lost, the toll never paid.

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🧠 Neurosurgery ✍️ Surgical Memoir ⚠️ Medical Mistakes 🤝 Doctor-Patient Bond 🕯️ End Of Life Care

Do No Harm

A brain surgeon confesses the gamble of every cut, the patients lost, the toll never paid.

av Henry Marsh 2014 278 sidor

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🧠 Neurosurgery ✍️ Surgical Memoir ⚠️ Medical Mistakes 🤝 Doctor-Patient Bond 🕯️ End Of Life Care

Where We Stand

av bell hooks • 2000

Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.

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🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🏛️ Class Analysis ✊🏾 Black Feminism 💸 Poverty In America 🏚️ Housing Discrimination

Where We Stand

Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.

av bell hooks 2000 173 sidor

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🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🏛️ Class Analysis ✊🏾 Black Feminism 💸 Poverty In America 🏚️ Housing Discrimination

Dying to Be Me

av Anita Moorjani • 2012

Dying of cancer, she left her body and saw what lies beyond. Then her cancer disappeared.

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🔮 Near-Death Experiences 🧠 Mind-Body Healing 💖 Self-Love 🎗️ Cancer Memoirs ✨ Spontaneous Remission

Dying to Be Me

Dying of cancer, she left her body and saw what lies beyond. Then her cancer disappeared.

av Anita Moorjani 2012 191 sidor

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🔮 Near-Death Experiences 🧠 Mind-Body Healing 💖 Self-Love 🎗️ Cancer Memoirs ✨ Spontaneous Remission

Inspired

av Rachel Held Evans • 2018

The Bible is a library of warring ancient texts, and that is why it's worth loving.

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🧩 Biblical Interpretation 🌈 Progressive Christianity 🤼 Wrestling With Scripture ❓ Doubt And Faith ✊ Liberation Theology

Inspired

The Bible is a library of warring ancient texts, and that is why it's worth loving.

av Rachel Held Evans 2018 236 sidor

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🧩 Biblical Interpretation 🌈 Progressive Christianity 🤼 Wrestling With Scripture ❓ Doubt And Faith ✊ Liberation Theology

The Latte Factor

av David Bach • 2019

He ran the Iditarod to prove himself. His dogs ran it to save his soul.

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🌲 Wilderness Memoir 🐕 Man And Dog Bond 🧠 Animal Intelligence 🏔️ Alaskan Frontier ❄️ Near-Death Survival

The Latte Factor

He ran the Iditarod to prove himself. His dogs ran it to save his soul.

av David Bach 2019 144 sidor

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🌲 Wilderness Memoir 🐕 Man And Dog Bond 🧠 Animal Intelligence 🏔️ Alaskan Frontier ❄️ Near-Death Survival

How Full Is Your Bucket?

av Tom Rath • 2004

From Rosengård to world football: proof that rage, not politeness, wins titles.

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9 000+

🏃 Sports Memoir 🥅 Elite Football 🌍 Immigrant Identity 🏴 Outsider Mentality 🧠 Performance Psychology

How Full Is Your Bucket?

From Rosengård to world football: proof that rage, not politeness, wins titles.

av Tom Rath 2004 160 sidor

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🏃 Sports Memoir 🥅 Elite Football 🌍 Immigrant Identity 🏴 Outsider Mentality 🧠 Performance Psychology

No Shortcuts to the Top

av Ed Viesturs • 2006

Eighteen years, fourteen peaks, one rule that kept him alive when faster climbers died.

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🏔️ Mountaineering Memoirs ⛰️ Himalayan Expeditions 🗻 Eight-Thousanders ❄️ Death Zone Survival 🧭 Expedition Leadership

No Shortcuts to the Top

Eighteen years, fourteen peaks, one rule that kept him alive when faster climbers died.

av Ed Viesturs 2006 368 sidor

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🏔️ Mountaineering Memoirs ⛰️ Himalayan Expeditions 🗻 Eight-Thousanders ❄️ Death Zone Survival 🧭 Expedition Leadership

Boys in the Trees

av Carly Simon • 2015

The girl who stuttered could not speak. The woman who sang could not stop.

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🎤 Singer-Songwriter Memoir 🎸 Women In Rock 🧠 Mental Health And Creativity 💔 Complicated Marriages 👩‍👧 Art And Motherhood

Boys in the Trees

The girl who stuttered could not speak. The woman who sang could not stop.

av Carly Simon 2015 384 sidor

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🎤 Singer-Songwriter Memoir 🎸 Women In Rock 🧠 Mental Health And Creativity 💔 Complicated Marriages 👩‍👧 Art And Motherhood

The Art of Intelligence

av Henry A. Crumpton • 2012

Recruiting a spy means navigating greed, ideology, and revenge, and why it still beats technology.

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🕵️ Intelligence Tradecraft 🤝 Human Intelligence 🤫 Spy Recruitment 🧠 Spy Motivations ⚖️ Ethical Ambiguity

The Art of Intelligence

Recruiting a spy means navigating greed, ideology, and revenge, and why it still beats technology.

av Henry A. Crumpton 2012 11 sidor

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🕵️ Intelligence Tradecraft 🤝 Human Intelligence 🤫 Spy Recruitment 🧠 Spy Motivations ⚖️ Ethical Ambiguity

Knife

av Salman Rushdie • 2024

A knife onstage. One eye gone. Thirty-three years after the fatwa, he writes back.

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🩹 Trauma Memoir ✍️ Literary Memoir 🗽 Free Speech 🎯 Writers Under Threat ⚔️ Religious Violence

Knife

A knife onstage. One eye gone. Thirty-three years after the fatwa, he writes back.

av Salman Rushdie 2024 209 sidor

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🩹 Trauma Memoir ✍️ Literary Memoir 🗽 Free Speech 🎯 Writers Under Threat ⚔️ Religious Violence

My Stroke of Insight

av Jill Bolte Taylor • 2006

A brain scientist's stroke switched off her inner critic and revealed a peaceful right-brain state.

3.92

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🧠 Neuroscience 🚑 Stroke Recovery 🔄 Neuroplasticity ↔️ Brain Hemispheres 🌊 Emotional Regulation

My Stroke of Insight

A brain scientist's stroke switched off her inner critic and revealed a peaceful right-brain state.

av Jill Bolte Taylor 2006 193 sidor

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🧠 Neuroscience 🚑 Stroke Recovery 🔄 Neuroplasticity ↔️ Brain Hemispheres 🌊 Emotional Regulation

Down with the System

av Serj Tankian • 2024

System of a Down's frontman on metal, meditation, and a family history the world still denies.

4.42

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🎵 Music Memoirs ✊ Artist Activism 🕊️ Genocide Recognition 🧬 Inherited Trauma 🧘 Meditation Practice

Down with the System

System of a Down's frontman on metal, meditation, and a family history the world still denies.

av Serj Tankian 2024 352 sidor

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🎵 Music Memoirs ✊ Artist Activism 🕊️ Genocide Recognition 🧬 Inherited Trauma 🧘 Meditation Practice

A Moveable Feast

av Ernest Hemingway • 1964

Cafés as offices, hunger as discipline, and the 1920s Paris friends who become legends.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗼 1920s Paris 🇺🇸 American Expatriates ✍️ Writing Discipline 🎨 Literary Modernism

A Moveable Feast

Cafés as offices, hunger as discipline, and the 1920s Paris friends who become legends.

av Ernest Hemingway 1964 192 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗼 1920s Paris 🇺🇸 American Expatriates ✍️ Writing Discipline 🎨 Literary Modernism

Beyond The Story

av Myeongseok Kang • 2023

Seven trainees, a near-bankrupt label, and the improbable decade that made them a global phenomenon.

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11 000+

🎤 K-Pop 🎵 Boy Bands 👥 Fandom Culture 🎧 Music Industry 🌊 Korean Wave

Beyond The Story

Seven trainees, a near-bankrupt label, and the improbable decade that made them a global phenomenon.

av Myeongseok Kang 2023 544 sidor

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🎤 K-Pop 🎵 Boy Bands 👥 Fandom Culture 🎧 Music Industry 🌊 Korean Wave

Without Their Permission

av Alexis Ohanian • 2013

A college project became a top-ten site. Why that path is open to everyone.

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🚀 Tech Startups 🌐 Internet Culture 📖 Founder Memoir 🛠️ Lean Startup 🗽 Internet Freedom

Without Their Permission

A college project became a top-ten site. Why that path is open to everyone.

av Alexis Ohanian 2013 272 sidor

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🚀 Tech Startups 🌐 Internet Culture 📖 Founder Memoir 🛠️ Lean Startup 🗽 Internet Freedom

Maid

av Stephanie Land • 2019

A single mother cleans houses while barely holding onto her own: life inside the working poor.

3.86

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💰 Working Poor 🧹 Domestic Labor 🌫️ Invisible Labor 🏷️ Poverty Stigma 📋 Welfare System

Maid

A single mother cleans houses while barely holding onto her own: life inside the working poor.

av Stephanie Land 2019 270 sidor

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💰 Working Poor 🧹 Domestic Labor 🌫️ Invisible Labor 🏷️ Poverty Stigma 📋 Welfare System

Bibi

av Benjamin Netanyahu • 2022

A commando's memoir: how hostage rescues, economic overhaul, and a new diplomatic map remade Israel.

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🇮🇱 Israeli Politics 📜 Political Memoir 🕊️ Middle East Peace 🎖️ Military Leadership 🛡️ Counterterrorism

Bibi

A commando's memoir: how hostage rescues, economic overhaul, and a new diplomatic map remade Israel.

av Benjamin Netanyahu 2022 733 sidor

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🇮🇱 Israeli Politics 📜 Political Memoir 🕊️ Middle East Peace 🎖️ Military Leadership 🛡️ Counterterrorism

Letter to My Daughter

av Maya Angelou • 1987

Her life counsel on courage, honesty, and grace, addressed to the daughters she never had.

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📜 Personal Essays 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🌱 Gratitude Practice 🌍 Cultural Humility 🎨 Artistic Integrity

Letter to My Daughter

Her life counsel on courage, honesty, and grace, addressed to the daughters she never had.

av Maya Angelou 1987 192 sidor

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📜 Personal Essays 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🌱 Gratitude Practice 🌍 Cultural Humility 🎨 Artistic Integrity

Taking Flight

av Michaela DePrince • 2014

A magazine photo in a war orphanage gave a shunned girl a dream: to become a ballerina.

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🩰 Ballet Memoir 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 👨‍👩‍👧 Adoption Memoir 🩰🤎 Ballet And Race 💔 War Orphan

Taking Flight

A magazine photo in a war orphanage gave a shunned girl a dream: to become a ballerina.

av Michaela DePrince 2014 256 sidor

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🩰 Ballet Memoir 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 👨‍👩‍👧 Adoption Memoir 🩰🤎 Ballet And Race 💔 War Orphan

Conversations on Love

av Natasha Lunn • 2021

Love is a skill you build, not a feeling you chase. Conversations across romance, friendship, loss.

4.20

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🧠 Psychology Of Love 💌 Modern Love 🔧 Love As A Skill 🫂 Vulnerability 💞 Emotional Intimacy

Conversations on Love

Love is a skill you build, not a feeling you chase. Conversations across romance, friendship, loss.

av Natasha Lunn 2021 320 sidor

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🧠 Psychology Of Love 💌 Modern Love 🔧 Love As A Skill 🫂 Vulnerability 💞 Emotional Intimacy

Gang Leader for a Day

av Sudhir Venkatesh • 2008

A sociologist ran a Chicago gang for a day. The books were cleaner than he expected.

4.07

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🏙️ Urban Poverty 📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork 💰 Underground Economy 🏠 Housing Inequality 👁️ Participant Observation

Gang Leader for a Day

A sociologist ran a Chicago gang for a day. The books were cleaner than he expected.

av Sudhir Venkatesh 2008 332 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Poverty 📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork 💰 Underground Economy 🏠 Housing Inequality 👁️ Participant Observation

The World As It Is

av Ben Rhodes • 2018

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

4.30

12 000+

🏛️ Obama Administration 🌐 Foreign Policy 📖 Political Narrative 💻 Information Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Diplomacy

The World As It Is

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

av Ben Rhodes 2018 433 sidor

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🏛️ Obama Administration 🌐 Foreign Policy 📖 Political Narrative 💻 Information Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Diplomacy

Your Mom's Gonna Love Me

av Matt Rife • 2024

Bad teeth, small town, zero connections: the raw rules for outworking your flaws to sell out arenas.

3.83

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📚 Comedy Memoirs 🥊 Underdog Mentality 💪 Hustle Culture 😅 Self-Deprecation

Your Mom's Gonna Love Me

Bad teeth, small town, zero connections: the raw rules for outworking your flaws to sell out arenas.

av Matt Rife 2024 272 sidor

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📚 Comedy Memoirs 🥊 Underdog Mentality 💪 Hustle Culture 😅 Self-Deprecation

The Art of Resilience

av Ross Edgley • 2020

Stoic mindset plus sports science: the resilience system forged in a 1,780-mile ocean swim.

4.32

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🏊 Endurance Athletics 🧘 Stoic Philosophy 🧠 Mental Toughness 🔬 Sports Science 🍽️ Endurance Nutrition

The Art of Resilience

Stoic mindset plus sports science: the resilience system forged in a 1,780-mile ocean swim.

av Ross Edgley 2020 320 sidor

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🏊 Endurance Athletics 🧘 Stoic Philosophy 🧠 Mental Toughness 🔬 Sports Science 🍽️ Endurance Nutrition

Burn Book

av Kara Swisher • 2024

Decades interrogating tech's most powerful men, and the one question none of them could answer.

3.94

15 000+

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