Books of 2017
List created by Bridget O. (sixteendays) - on Jan 5, 2017
List Votes: 1 Books: 11 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
List created by Bridget O. (sixteendays) -
List Votes: 1 Books: 11 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
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Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.
?I?m excited to publish my first book, and because I get uncomfortable when people have high expectations, I'd like to use this opportunity to showcase my... more
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Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find... more
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Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Betw...
In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um,... more
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Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival by Alison Wright
An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive . . . one breath at a time While traveling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning journalist Alison Wright was riding in collided with a logging truck. As she waited fourteen hours for proper medical care-in... more
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The Buddha & The Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Through...
Kiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships-all of which eventually led to doctors' belated diagnosis of borderline personality disorder... more
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Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Karyl M...
The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of... more
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Pershall
"An utterly unique journey down some of the mind's more mysterious byways . . . ranges from the shocking to the simply lovely."?Marya HornbacherStacy Pershall grew up depressed and too smart for her own good, a deeply strange girl in Prairie Grove, Arkansas (population 1,000), where the... more
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Feed (Newsflesh, Bk 1) by Mira Grant
Urban fantasist Seanan McGuire picks up a new pen name for this gripping, thrilling, and brutal depiction of a postapocalyptic 2039.
Twin bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason and their colleague Buffy are thrilled when Sen. Peter Ryman, the first presidential candidate to come of age since... more
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Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim
Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem "Explaining My Depression to My Mother" has become a cultural phenomenon with over 5,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental... more
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England by Carol F. Kar...
Confessing to "Familiarity with the Devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange Fits" and fueled an outbreak of... more
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Outlander (Outlander, Bk 1) by Diana Gabaldon
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon -- when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach -- an "outlander" --... more
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