Spare
Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023 memoir of grief, love…
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Bourdain on rough kitchens, past drug use, Les Halles years, and why you should never order fish on Monday.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy behind the Reign of…
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John Adams
McCullough follows Adams from Braintree lawyer to second president.
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Greenlights
McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Raoul Duke and Gonzo binge Vegas covering Mint 400 and drug conference.
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Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Edwards teaches seeing edges spaces to draw via right brain exercises.
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Between the World and Me
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
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Who Moved My Cheese?
A tiny parable about two mice and two little people hunting cheese in a maze, and why adapting to change beats waiting for old days to return.
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Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
Behind the scenes guide to the first Twilight film with cast photos, sets, and effects stories.
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The Story of Art
Gombrich traces art from cave painting to modernism with clear stories and famous images.
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The Five Love Languages
Chapman maps words, time, gifts, service, and touch through counseling stories and the empty love-tank idea.
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Quiet
Cain traces the Extrovert Ideal from Harvard Business School to open offices and defends the power of quiet.
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Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis builds a plain case for Christian belief from morals, faith, and habit.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others.
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A Child Called It
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.
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A Brief History of Time
Hawking walks from ancient spheres to big bang, black holes, and time arrows without equations.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's tour of two minds: fast gut System 1 and slow careful System 2, and how biases, overconfidence, and framing shape every choice.
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The Power of Habit
Why we do what we do: the cue routine reward loop, keystone habits, and how companies and movements use the same science, from toothpaste to the bus boycott.
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu's thirteen chapters on winning without fighting: laying plans, knowing ground, using spies, and why the best victory costs least, in the classic Giles…
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Into Thin Air
Krakauer's account of the 1996 Everest disaster: a guided summit push, a sudden storm, and the choices that left eight dead above 26,000 feet.
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.
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