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Bryson's examination of the human body, its processes, its wonders, and its limitations is surprising, illuminating, and wonderful. “We...

Parton shares the background and context for 175 of her songs, frankly discussing her inspiration, life, and the formerly untouchable...

May explains her own yearning to power down and turn inward during difficult times, and she connects with other interesting people who...

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ICYMI: Forty Autumns offers fascinating, wonderfully detailed perspectives in a rich, layered family memoir that reads like fiction. The...

Caste is consistently powerful, profound, disturbing, and absolutely necessary nonfiction reading from the brilliant Isabel Wilkerson....

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Haig is vulnerable and specific in his short memoir about his own experiences with mental illness and depression--and he shares the small...

Browder takes the reader deep into the intrigue and terror of the corrupt Russian political and business systems he uncovered. Despite...

Miller outlines many of the frightening, difficult, relentless aspects of coping with a chronic illness. She lays a journalistic view...

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Wilson's bubbly personality comes through in these essays, and her show business experiences were interesting, but I often couldn't...

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