Welcome.
An positive open space for book lovers to find reading guidance, reviews, blogs, and connect with other alike.

The Woman in Me

by Britney Spears

 

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing

her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others.

The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the

greatest performers in pop music history.

 

Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power

of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.

 

 

 

 

​​​​​​​​

 

A Sucky Love Story:

Overcoming Unhappily Ever After

by BrittanTaylori Louise

​

Where does a moderately popular internet star who never leaves her house look for potential suitors? Online.

Tinder, Bumble, Match.com, OkCupid - I tried them all. My 31-year-old self clicked and swiped her little heart

out, leading to more dates than I could count, and more disappointment than I was prepared for.

​

Maybe you can relate. Maybe you know all too well the perils of modern dating. But let’s say, eventually, you

meet someone. You think to yourself, “Wow, they’re perfect! Take me off the market, put a ring on it, knock me

up, the whole enchilada, because they are ‘the one.’” Let’s also say that they “feel the same way” about you.

Your life starts to make sense! All the pain, heartbreak, and frustration from past failed relationships was

worth it. Slow clap.

​

That’s how I felt about Milos. He was from Europe, a doctor, wealthy, athletic. He had an accent and a dog.

Milos was textbook marriage material. For him it was “love at first sight”, but for me, it was “anxiety on every

date”. Something was telling me to run - but for two years, the only running I did was straight into his arms.

​

If only I would have listened. This isn’t a love story. It’s my story of survival.

 

​

 

 

I'm Glad My Mother Died 

by Jennette McCurdy

 

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her

only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went

along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She

endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think

Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her

diaries, email, and all her income.

 

In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens

when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame.

Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi

(“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders,

addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead

in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

 

​

Spare

by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex

 

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their

mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions

wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would

play out from that point on.
 

For Harry, this is that story at last.
 

Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky

Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with

loneliness—and, because he blamed the press for his mother’s death, he struggled to accept life in the

spotlight.

At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him

a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to

crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn’t find true love. 

Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple’s cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . .

For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

 

​

​

Donor Girl:

A Story of Living Kidney Donation

by Lilli D Adams

​

In 2006 I volunteered to save a life. My brother in law (sister's husband) went into kidney failure

and was told he needed a kidney transplant within the year. I immediately volunteered to get

tested, only to be shocked that I was a match. For the next 9 months, we went through a series of

ups and downs and tests until on July 11, 2007, I donated my kidney to David. This is my story

of the emotions and feelings that went along with the medical tests.

 

​​​​This is my story of saving a life.

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing:

by Matthew Perry

​

“Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty.”

So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood

ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. Before the

frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old Matthew, who traveled from Montreal to

Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents; fourteen-year-old Matthew, who was a nationally

ranked tennis star in Canada; twenty-four-year-old Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast

member on the talked-about pilot then called Friends Like Us. . . and so much more.

In an extraordinary story that only he could tell—and in the heartfelt, hilarious, and warmly familiar way

only he could tell it—Matthew Perry lays bare the fractured family that raised him (and also left him to his

own devices), the desire for recognition that drove him to fame, and the void inside him that could not be

filled even by his greatest dreams coming true. But he also details the peace he’s found in sobriety and how he feels about the ubiquity of Friends, sharing stories about his castmates and other stars he met along the way. Frank, self-aware, and with his trademark humor, Perry vividly depicts his lifelong battle with addiction and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all.

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening—as well as a hand extended to anyone struggling with sobriety. Unflinchingly honest, moving, and uproariously funny, this is the book fans have been waiting for.

​

​

​

​

 

 

Hillbilly Elegy:

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J.D. Vance

​

​

Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class

Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than

forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about

as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline

feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.

​

The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in

love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful

poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would

graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility.

But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, and, most

of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping

the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing

honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.

​

A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

​

​

​

 

​

​Greenlights

by Matthew McConaughey

 

I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping

diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows,

things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less

stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to

have meaning in life. How to be more me.

 

Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons

I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great

photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living

that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s

challenges—how to get  relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching

greenlights.”

 

So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so

far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths,

and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance

between the raindrops.

 

Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars

without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing

through the tears.

 

It’s a love letter. To life. It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. Good luck.

​

 

Sociopath: A Memoir

by Patric Gagne

 

Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about

her caused people to react in a way she didn’t understand. She suspected it was because she didn’t feel

things the way other people did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she

felt nothing. And she didn’t like the way that “nothing” felt.

In college, Patric finally confirmed what she’d long suspected. She was a sociopath. But even though it

was the very first personality disorder identified—well over 200 years ago—sociopathy had been

neglected by mental health professionals for decades. She was told there was no treatment, no hope for

a normal life. But when Patric reconnects with an old flame, she gets a glimpse of a future beyond her

diagnosis. If she’s capable of love, it must mean that she isn’t a like the madmen and evil villains in pop

culture. With the help of her sweetheart (and some curious characters she meets along the way) she

embarks on a mission to prove that the millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren’t all monsters

either.

This is the inspiring story of Patric’s journey to unlock the true nature of sociopathy and build a life of love

and hope against all odds.

​

​

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing

by Maya Angelou

​

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the

Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of

words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic

beloved worldwide.
 
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya

and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.”

At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her

age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that

love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and

fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
 
Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long

as people read.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just About Coping

by Natalie Cawley

​

At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively

lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie Cawley, is dealing with her own

emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between patient sessions.

In this honest, often poignant and frequently funny memoir about training to be a psychotherapist, we

meet the patients grappling with mental health issues. From OCD and addiction to self-deception and

toxic relationships, Dr Natalie helps them understand and change these attempts to self-soothe.

​

​

​

​

​

 

 

 

The Happiest Man on Earth:

The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

by Eddie Jaku

​

Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS

thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands of other Jews across Germany. Every

day of the next seven years of his life, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and

finally on a forced death march during the Third Reich’s final days. The Nazis took everything from Eddie

—his family, his friends, and his country. But they did not break his spirit.

​

Against unbelievable odds, Eddie found the will to survive. Overwhelming grateful, he made a promise:

he would smile every day in thanks for the precious gift he was given and to honor the six million Jews

murdered by Hitler. Today, at 100 years of age, despite all he suffered, Eddie calls himself the “happiest

man on earth.” In his remarkable memoir, this born storyteller shares his wisdom and reflects on how he

has led his best possible life, talking warmly and openly about the power of gratitude, tolerance, and

kindness. Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. With The Happiest Man on Earth, Eddie shows us

how. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

by Mindy Kaling

​

​

​​​​​Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster

afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and,

finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the

sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?”

 

Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your

prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly

people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame

(so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure

(you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you’ve come to the right book, mostly!

 

With several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls, Is

Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? proves that Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door—not so

much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Woman They Could Not Silence:

One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

(True Story of the Historical Battle for Women's and Mental Health Rights)

by Kate Moore

 

Discover the powerful and untold true story of resilience, advocacy, and the fight for women's rights in

The Woman They Could Not Silence by acclaimed author Kate Moore. This gripping and meticulously

researched narrative shines a light on the remarkable journey of Elizabeth Packard, a pioneering woman

whose indomitable spirit challenged the confines of her time.

 

In the mid-19th century, Elizabeth Packard found herself trapped in an unjust world, silenced by a

society that deemed her opinions and intellect unworthy. Braving the confines of an oppressive mental

asylum, Elizabeth defied all odds as she fought for her freedom and the rights of countless other women

confined against their will. With relentless determination, she became a voice that resonated across the

nation, igniting a movement for change.

 

The Woman They Could Not Silence is a triumphant tale of resilience, challenging the status quo, and

the enduring power of the human spirit. Moore's meticulous research and rich historical detail bring

Elizabeth Packard's story to life, painting a vivid portrait of a woman who defied society's expectations

and paved the way for future generations.

 

 

 

Reasons to Stay Alive

by Matt Haig

 

 

At the age of 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story

of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned

to live again.

 

A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons

to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians:

Their stories are better than the bestsellers (Heroes Among Us, 4)

by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann

 

To be a bookseller or librarian…You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An

advocate. A visionary.

 

A person who creates “book joy” by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying,

“You’ve got to read this. You’re going to love it.”

 

“When the pandemic started, Patterson launched a movement, #SaveIndieBookstores [and] pledged

half a million dollars, and, with the support of the American Booksellers Association and the Book

Industry Charitable Foundation, the campaign ended up raising $1,239,595 from more than eighteen

hundred donors…Somehow, the bookstore outlived the pandemic. Why? The Secret Lives of Booksellers

and Librarians, compiled by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, suggests a few reasons.”

– New Yorker

 

 

 

 

Frida:

A Biography of Frida Kahlo

by Hayden Herrera

 

Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter

Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy

came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution;

a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous

marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and

Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture;

and her dramatic love of spectacle.

 

Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman -- with illustrations as rich and

haunting as her legend.

​

​

​

​

​

 

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old:

Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

by Brooke Shields

 

Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of scrutiny: that of being a “woman of a certain age.”

 

And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in

her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now,

in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she’s changing the narrative about women and aging.

 

This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding into the

shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live―when we get to write our

own stories.

 

With remarkable candor, Brooke bares all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in

the prime of her life, while dismantling the myths that have, for too long, dimmed that perception. Sharing

her own life experiences with humor and humility, and weaving together research and reporting, Brooke

takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias.

 

By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanizing, Brooke’s honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women

everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife.

 

 

 

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered:

The Definitive How-To Guide

by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

 

Sharing never-before-heard stories ranging from their struggles with depression, eating disorders, and addiction, Karen and Georgia irreverently recount their biggest mistakes and deepest fears, reflecting on the formative life events

that shaped them into two of the most followed voices in the nation.

 

In Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered, Karen and Georgia focus on the importance of self-advocating

and valuing personal safety over being ‘nice’ or ‘helpful.’ They delve into their own pasts, true crime

stories, and beyond to discuss meaningful cultural and societal issues with fierce empathy and

unapologetic frankness.

​

(IMO Booklover Here- Calling all true crime fans! If you love podcasts, you have to check out My

Favorite Murder. We can't recommend it enough. Their show is fantastic, and it's been a go-to for

us for years. Seriously, give it a listen!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spilled Milk:

Based On A True Story

by K.L. Randis

 

Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in

her home.

 

When social services jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of

spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit

of safety and justice, Brooke battles a broken court system that pushes to keep her father in the home.

 

Spilled Milk is a novel of shocking narrative, triumph and resiliency.

 

(IMO Booklover Here: It's incredibly inspiring to see how far this author has come! Following her journey over

the years on social media, especially through her battle with a rare blood cancer, has been truly moving. To see

her thriving now in January 2025 fills us with such joy and hope. She's a testament to resilience and the

power of the human spirit.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Order to Live:

A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers

 

 

In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea,

describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people

continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with

bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into

sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they

finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea—and to freedom.

 

Park confronts her past with a startling resilience. In spite of everything, she has never stopped being

proud of where she is from, and never stopped striving for a better life. Indeed, today she is a human

rights activist working determinedly to bring attention to the oppression taking place in her home country.

Park’s testimony is heartbreaking and unimaginable, but never without hope. This is the human spirit at its

most indomitable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't)

by Betty White

 

Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White's wit and wisdom take

center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals,

and the brave new world of celebrity. If You Ask Me mixes her thoughtful observations with humorous

stories from a seven- decade career in Hollywood.

 

Longtime fans and new fans alike will relish Betty's

candid take on everything from her rumored crush on Robert Redford (true) to her beauty regimen ("I have

no idea what color my hair is and I never intend to find out") to the Facebook campaign that helped

persuade her to host Saturday Night Live despite her having declined the hosting job three times already.

Featuring all-new material, with a focus on the past fifteen years of her life, If You Ask Me is funny, sweet,

and to the point-just like Betty White.

 

 

​

 

The Doctors Blackwell:

How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

by Janice P. Nimura

 

Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of

"ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine,

her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In

1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic

achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.

 

Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial

and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children,

the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions

did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights―or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and

Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two

complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself

predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wild:

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

 

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family

scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made

the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would

hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and

Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone.

 

Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and

pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened,

and ultimately healed her.

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

 

Everything I Know About Love

by Dolly Alderton

 

The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up

growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride. When it comes

to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly

Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job,

getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable

man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know

About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough.

 

Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together

personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a

chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your

best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the

struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.

​

​

​

 

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

 

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul

Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the

next he was a patient struggling to live.

 

When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation

from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working

in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father.

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

 

 

 

 

I Am Malala:

How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

by Malala YousafzaiI

 

I Am Malala. This is my story. No one expected her to survive. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years

old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women

weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school.

 

Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for

what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly

lost her life for the cause: She was shot point-blank while riding the bus on her way home from school.

 

Now Malala is an international symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize

winner. In this Young Readers Edition of her bestselling memoir, which has been reimagined specifically

for a younger audience and includes exclusive photos and material, we hear firsthand the remarkable

story of a girl who knew from a young age that she wanted to change the world—and did.Malala's

powerful story will open your eyes to another world and will make you believe in hope, truth, miracles

and the possibility that one person—one young person—can inspire change in her community and

beyond.