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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
by Harold Schechter
The true story of Belle Gunness, a notorious female serial killer who lured men to their deaths in the early 1900s.
“A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America’s most notorious female killers.” —,The New York Times Book Review,, An Amazon Charts bestseller., In the pantheon of serial ... (Barnes & Noble)
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
by Amy Ellis Nutt
The true story of a transgender girl and her family's journey to acceptance and understanding.
The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family’s extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, ... (Goodreads)
Dog Songs
by Mary Oliver
A lyrical collection of poems celebrating the companionship of dogs.
Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationship to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her ... (Goodreads)
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life In Christ
by Peter Scazzero
Exploring the depths of spiritual maturity, finding emotional health and freedom.
What Are You Missing? Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can’t be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Even though he was pastor of a growing church, he did what most people ... (Goodreads)
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
by Shauna Niequist
An exploration of the power of food, hospitality, community and relationships.
Author of the, New York Times, bestseller, Present Over Perfect,, Shauna Niequist provides the perfect read for those who love food and value the community and connection of family and friends around ... (Barnes & Noble)
What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
by Carole Radziwill
A memoir of a woman's journey through love, loss, and friendship.
On a clear summer night in July 1999, a small plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, carrying John Kennedy, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister Laura. Three weeks later, John's cousin Anthony Radziwill ... (Goodreads)
A Year of Biblical Womanhood
by Rachel Held Evans
A journey of personal exploration, seeking to understand what it means to be a woman of faith.
Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment–a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the traditionalist ... (Goodreads)
My Losing Season: A Memoir
by Pat Conroy
A personal recollection of a college basketball season, exploring the struggles of an athlete's journey.
“I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition ... (Goodreads)
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
by Garrett M. Graff
A comprehensive oral history of the events of 9/11, told through the voices of those who experienced it firsthand.
15 hours, 54 minutes Read by a 45-person cast, with Holter Graham and the author Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming ... (Goodreads)
On Immunity: An Inoculation
by Eula Biss
An exploration of the cultural implications of vaccination and its impact on society.
Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear–fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. ... (Goodreads)
Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
by Wayne W. Dyer
A journey of self-discovery, exploring the Tao Te Ching to cultivate inner peace and spiritual growth.
Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Zookeeper's Wife
by Diane Ackerman
A true story of courage and resilience during the Holocaust, as a zookeeper and his wife risk their lives to save hundreds of Jews.
In the 1930s, Jan Żabiński is the director of a thriving zoo in Warsaw, Poland. His wife, Antonina, has a remarkable empathy with animals, and their villa in the zoo acts as a nursery and residence ... (Wikipedia)
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin
An autobiographical account of a woman with autism who thinks in pictures, and how she learned to navigate a world that doesn't understand her.
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin ... (Goodreads)
The Water is Wide
by Pat Conroy
A teacher's journey of helping disadvantaged children escape poverty and ignorance.
The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw Island, America is a world away. For years the people here ... (Goodreads)
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
by Maggie O'Farrell
A collection of personal stories of near-death experiences, exploring life and mortality.
We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and ... (Goodreads)
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton
A memoir of a chef's journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the struggles of creating an independent life.
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an ... (Goodreads)
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
by Vicki Myron
The heartwarming true story of a library cat who touched the lives of a small-town community.
How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually ... (Goodreads)
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
by Jim DeFede
True story of how a small Canadian town opened their doors to thousands of stranded passengers after 9/11.
Perfect for fans of the hit Broadway musical Come from Away . When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. ... (Goodreads)
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
by Michael Pollan
A guide to mindful eating, exploring the connection between health, environment and culture.
A DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF FOOD WISDOM Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings a welcome simplicity to our ... (Goodreads)
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
Exploration of the human costs and consequences of medical care, highlighting our imperfections and vulnerabilities.
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in ... (Goodreads)
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
by Ruth Reichl
A memoir of a food critic's childhood, filled with eccentric characters and culinary adventures that shaped her love for food and writing.
At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. . . . If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted ... (Goodreads)
A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
A humorous memoir of a British couple's first year in Provence, France, adjusting to the culture shock and idiosyncrasies of their new home.
In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron ... (Goodreads)
The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
by Brennan Manning
A reflection on the unconditional love of God, inviting readers to find healing and peace.
Are you bedraggled, beat-up, burnt-out? Most of us believe in God’s grace—in theory. But somehow we can’t seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, ... (Barnes & Noble)
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
by Michael Lewis
A journey through the economic crisis in Europe and the United States, and its global implications.
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects ... (Goodreads)
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
by Pema Chödrön
A guide to overcoming fear and embracing life, through spiritual practice and self-reflection.
Lifelong guidance for learning to change the way we relate to the scary and difficult moments of our lives, showing us how we can use all of our difficulties and fears as a way to soften our hearts ... (Barnes & Noble)
A Girl Named Zippy
by Haven Kimmel
A charming account of growing up in rural Indiana, exploring the joys and hardships of life.
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965 in Mooreland, Indiana, it was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was ... (Goodreads)
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
by Mary Pipher
Examination of the psychological struggles faced by adolescent girls and how to help them.
As a therapist, Mary Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why were so many of them turning to therapy in the first place? Why had these lovely and ... (Goodreads)
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
by Thich Nhat Hanh
A guide to cultivating mindful awareness and inner peace in the midst of everyday life.
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make ... (Goodreads)
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
by Timothy Snyder
History of the mass extermination of civilians in Central and Eastern Europe during WWII.
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the ... (Goodreads)
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
by Blaine Harden
True story of a man who escaped from a North Korean prison camp and his journey to freedom.
A, New York Times, bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and ... (Goodreads)
