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Sarah Chihaya
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“A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”—Hua Hsu, author of Stay True
“[A] stirring and sparkling new memoir.”—The Washington Post
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH: Time, Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan
Books can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this kind of unsettling literary encounter. Sarah calls books that have this effect “Life Ruiners”.
Her Life Ruiner, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, became a talisman for her in high school when its electrifying treatment of race exposed Sarah’s deepest feelings about being Japanese American in a predominantly white suburb of Cleveland. But Sarah had always lived through her books, seeking escape, self-definition, and rules for living. She built her life around reading, wrote criticism, and taught literature at an Ivy League University. Then she was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown, and the world became an unreadable blank page. In the aftermath, she was faced with a question. Could we ever truly rewrite the stories that govern our lives?
Bibliophobia is an alternately searing and darkly humorous story of breakdown and survival told through books. Delving into texts such as Anne of Green Gables, Possession, A Tale for the Time Being, The Last Samurai, Chihaya interrogates her cultural identity, her relationship with depression, and the intoxicating, sometimes painful, ways books push back on those who love them.
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In Ibadan, Nigeria, a mother receives a divination that foretells danger for her daughter in America. In spite of this warning, she allows her to forge her own path, and Amina arrives in New Orleans filled with hope. But just as Amina begins to find her way, a hurricane threatens to destroy the city, upending everything she’d dreamed of and the lives of all she holds dear. Years later, her daughter is left with questions about the mother she barely knew, and the family she has yet to discover in Nigeria.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding performance!
- De Amazon Customer en 05-04-25
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Darkmotherland
- De: Samrat Upadhyay
- Narrado por: Amrita Acharia
- Duración: 23 h y 35 m
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In Darkmotherland, Nepali writer Samrat Upadhyay has created a novel of infinite embrace—filled with lovers and widows, dictators and dissidents, paupers, fundamentalists, and a genderqueer power player with her eyes on the throne—in an earthquake-ravaged dystopian reimagining of Nepal.
De: Samrat Upadhyay
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Trauma Plot
- A Life
- De: Jamie Hood
- Narrado por: Jamie Hood
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, how to be a good girl, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. The Rumpus praised Hood’s “bold vulnerability,” and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020. In Trauma Plot, Hood draws on disparate literary forms to tell the story that lurked in good girl’s margins—of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage left behind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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powerful
- De Anonymous User en 06-05-25
De: Jamie Hood
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Going Home
- A Novel
- De: Tom Lamont
- Narrado por: Jot Davies
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men—all of whom are completely ill-suited for fatherhood—take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story
- De E G Neufeld en 03-12-25
De: Tom Lamont
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Alphabetical Diaries
- De: Sheila Heti
- Narrado por: Kate Berlant
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. Passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are her alphabetical diaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audio format amplifies the ruminative experience of/through time. An incredible, must-listen audiobook.
- De Anonymous User en 12-01-24
De: Sheila Heti
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Theory & Practice
- De: Michelle de Kretser
- Narrado por: Melissa Madden Gray
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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It's 1986, and "beautiful, radical ideas" are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a "deconstructed relationship." They become lovers, and the narrator's feminism comes up against her jealousy. Meanwhile, an entry in Woolf's diary upends what the narrator knows about her literary idol, and throws her own work into disarray.
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Reading the Waves
- A Memoir
- De: Lidia Yuknavitch
- Narrado por: Lidia Yuknavitch
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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Drawing on her background—her father's abuse, her complicated dynamic with her disabled mother, the death of her child, her sexual relationships with men and women—and her creative life as an author and teacher, Yuknavitch has come to understand that by using the power of literature and storytelling to reframe her memories, she can loosen the bonds that have enslaved her emotional growth. Armed with this insight, she allows herself to look with the eye of an artist at the wounds she suffered and come to understand the transformational power this has to restore her soul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lyrical prose that stirs and startles.
- De Noelle en 04-20-25
De: Lidia Yuknavitch
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Alligator Tears
- A Memoir in Essays
- De: Edgar Gomez
- Narrado por: Edgar Gomez
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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In Florida, one of the first things you’re taught as a child is that if you’re ever chased by a wild alligator, the only way to save yourself is to run away in zigzags. It’s a lesson on survival that has guided much of Edgar Gomez’s life. Alligator Tears is a fiercely defiant memoir-in-essays charting Gomez’s quest to claw his family out of poverty by any means necessary, and learning to see the archetype of the humble poor person for what it is: a scam that insists we remain quiet and servile while we wait for a prize that will always be out of reach.
De: Edgar Gomez
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You Didn't Hear This from Me
- (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
- De: Kelsey McKinney
- Narrado por: Kelsey McKinney
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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As the pandemic forced us to socialize at a distance, Kelsey McKinney was mourning the juicy updates and jaw-dropping stories she’d typically collect over drinks with friends—and from her hunger, the blockbuster Normal Gossip podcast was born. With listenership in the millions, Kelsey found herself thinking more critically about gossip as a form, and wanting to better understand the role it plays in our culture. In You Didn't Hear This From Me, McKinney explores the murkiness of everyday storytelling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breaking down gossip
- De JASmall en 04-30-25
De: Kelsey McKinney
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We Could Be Rats
- A Novel
- De: Emily Austin
- Narrado por: Candace Thaxton
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal, but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of adulthood, she did not graduate high school, preferring to roam the streets of her small town with her best friend Greta, the only person in the world who ever understood her. Her older sister Margit is baffled and frustrated by Sigrid’s inability to conform to the expectations of polite society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I cried
- De Hannah Putna en 05-12-25
De: Emily Austin
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I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
- A Memoir
- De: Youngmi Mayer
- Narrado por: Youngmi Mayer
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 91
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In I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, Youngmi jokes through the retelling of her childhood as an offbeat biracial kid in Saipan, a place next to a place that Americans might know. She jokes through her difficult adolescence where she must parent her own parents: a mother who married her husband because he looked like white Jesus (and the singer of The Bee Gees). And with humor and irreverence and full-throated openness, she jokes even while sharing the story of what her family went through during the last century of colonialism and war in Korea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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not sure
- De Amazon_Customer en 04-24-25
De: Youngmi Mayer
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Gliff
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Eliot Sumner
- Duración: 4 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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An uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A not-very brave new world. Add two children. And a horse. From a Scottish word meaning a transient moment, a shock, a faint glimpse, Gliff explores how and why we endeavour to make a mark on the world. In a time when western industry wants to reduce us to algorithms and data—something easily categorizable and predictable—Smith shows us why our humanity, our individual complexities, matter more than ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No other author comes close!
- De Franki en 02-08-25
De: Ali Smith
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Sleep
- A Novel
- De: Honor Jones
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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From a dazzling new talent, the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the big house where she was raised.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best “literary fiction” book in years
- De Lydia Paddon en 05-30-25
De: Honor Jones
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf
- A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
- De: Rebecca Romney
- Narrado por: Rebecca Romney
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 38
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Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that Austen’s books took the lives of women seriously, explored relationships with wit and confidence, and always, allowed for the possibility of a happy ending. She read and reread them, often wishing Austen wrote just one more. But Austen wasn’t a lone genius. She wrote at a time of great experimentation for women writers—and clues about those women, and the exceptional books they wrote, are sprinkled like breadcrumbs throughout Austen’s work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating!
- De pjb en 05-31-25
De: Rebecca Romney
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Memorial Days
- A Memoir
- De: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrado por: Geraldine Brooks
- Duración: 4 h y 56 m
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Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz–just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy–collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Uninspired, mediocre writing.
- De C. Tyler en 03-04-25
De: Geraldine Brooks
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Cerebral Entanglements
- How the Brain Shapes Our Public and Private Lives
- De: Allan J. Hamilton
- Narrado por: Tom Beyer
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.
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Original Sins
- The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
- De: Eve L. Ewing
- Narrado por: Robin Miles, Eve L. Ewing
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 13
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Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for educators and everyone!
- De Alonna en 05-06-25
De: Eve L. Ewing