Books like Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
12 books with a reading profile close to Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart by James R. Doty. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist at Harvard University, suffered a massive stroke caused by a hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain.
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Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In January 1988, twelve-year-old Martin Pistorius fell ill with an undiagnosed brain infection that left him in a vegetative state.
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The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, accessible
Thirteen-year-old Naoki Higashida uses a handmade alphabet grid to communicate his internal reality as a non-verbal person with autism.
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The Soul of a Woman
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In this memoir and manifesto, Isabel Allende traces her evolution from a young girl witnessing her mother’s financial dependence to a prominent voice in global feminism.
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Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, accessible
Catherine Gildiner recounts five singular cases from her twenty-five years as a clinical psychologist, focusing on patients who endured extreme childhood neglect and physical abuse.
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We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
by Simu Liu
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In this memoir, Simu Liu recounts his family’s move from Harbin, China, to Ontario, Canada.
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Joni: An Unforgettable Story
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
After a diving accident in the Chesapeake Bay leaves seventeen-year-old Joni Eareckson a quadriplegic, she faces the sudden loss of her physical autonomy.
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Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Maya Angelou addresses this collection of twenty-eight short essays to the symbolic daughter she never had, sharing personal anecdotes from her life in Arkansas, St.
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Coming Clean
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, accessible
Kimberly Rae Miller grew up in a home dictated by her father’s chronic hoarding, a secret she concealed from classmates and friends for decades.
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An Invisible Thread
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy advertising executive in Manhattan, encountered Maurice Mazyck, an eleven-year-old panhandler, on a street corner.
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Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, accessible
Christie Tate arrives at Dr.
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