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The near-death experiences of Barbara ButcherThe New York City death investigator shares what it was like to have a career that both saved and ruined her life.
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Social Justice for the Sensitive SoulDorcas Cheng-Tozun’s hopeful, practical book will equip highly sensitive people to work toward justice and social reform while still taking care of...
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Through the GrovesAnne Hull’s exquisite memoir carries readers back to a time when citrus was king in central Florida, even as she reveals the fissures in her life...
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth IHistorian Tracy Borman triumphantly shows that Anne Boleyn’s love and influence guided her daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, through her tumultuous life...
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A Very Gay BookA Very Gay Book is a beautifully absurd satirical take on history in which everything is really, really gay.
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Jennifer Ackerman brings owls into the lightThe bestselling author of bird books turns her attention to one of the most alluring avians in What an Owl Knows.
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What an Owl KnowsBestselling author and passionate bird advocate Jennifer Ackerman goes around the world to find out why owls so intrigue humans in her wide-ranging...
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The Woman Beyond the AtticThis Edgar Award–nominated celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews features family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an...
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Black history is American historyEight excellent nonfiction books tell true stories of Black persistence and progress.
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The funniest nonfiction books of 2023 (so far)These nine rollicking histories, memoirs and travelogues range from chuckle-inducing to wet-your-pants hilarious. Read in public at your own risk.
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Black FolkBlack Folk illuminates the intelligence, sense of community, hard work, resilience and courage of the Black working class, whose members have...
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Painting CalmInga Buividavice’s Painting Calm is full of exercises and tips for creating delicate watercolor paintings of leaves, flowers and various...
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A Most Tolerant Little TownIn A Most Tolerant Little Town , Rachel Louise Martin captures the violence, fear and fortitude that accompanied the first court-mandated school...
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How to Stay MarriedHumorist Harrison Scott Key’s memoir of the fallout following his wife’s affair offers plentiful food for thought about faith, humor, courage and...
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What’s funny about infidelity, according to Harrison Scott KeyIn his third memoir, the award-winning humor writer tackles a rather somber subject, to hilarious and heartbreaking effect.
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Your big, gay reading list for Pride 2023Celebrate Pride Month with 28 queer stories by pioneering novelists, memoirists and journalists.
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LegBitingly funny and full of blistering commentary and fierce familial love, Greg Marshall's memoir is a winning debut.
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Better Living Through BirdingIn thoughtful prose, birder Christian Cooper reminisces about his life before and after the day a white woman threatened to call the police on him...
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The Psilocybin Handbook for WomenJennifer Chesak’s guide to psilocybin for women is an empowering, enlightening read, full of evidence-based information on the therapeutic uses of...
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Moby DykeKrista Burton’s obsessive quest to visit each lesbian bar in the U.S. offers a hilarious and affectionate investigation into the past and future of...
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Say AnarchaSay Anarcha is J.C. Hallman’s dual biography of the so-called “father of gynecology” and the enslaved woman he experimented on without anesthesia...
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BookPage’s 2023 summer reading guideThe editors of BookPage share their top selections for the hottest season of the year.
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WannabeWhen Aisha Harris applies her journalistic scrutiny to the subversive pop culture icons who shaped her millennial upbringing and worldview, the...
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IceAmy Brady uses commentary from food writers, scientists and physicians to illuminate how something as commonplace as ice came to shape America’s...
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Amy Brady’s plunge into the ice-cold archivesThe author of Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity recounts the lost history of the doctor who invented the...
