10 must-read nonfiction books like Mrs. Morhard and the Boys: One mother's vision. The first boys' baseball league. A nation inspired. by Ruth Hanford Morhard

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Mrs. Morhard and the Boys: One mother's vision. The first boys' baseball league. A nation inspired.

By: Ruth Hanford Morhard

4.10

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

As the Great Depression brought America to the brink of disaster, a devoted single mother in Clevel…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Mrs. Morhard and the Boys: One mother's vision. The first boys' baseball league. A nation inspired. by Ruth Hanford Morhard , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Sing You Home

By: Jodi Picoult

3.82

Format: 466 pages, Hardcover

After Zoe Baxter loses her baby, the only way she can find of coping is to try again. But her husb… read more

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"Better safe than sorry!"

-Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

"Music is the language of memory"

-Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

"We Pisces, we're a special breed."

-Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

"We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less."

-Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

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2. Thanksgiving

By: Janet Evanovich

3.64

Format: 228 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Prepare to devour this delectable listen from a #1 New York Times bestselling author! Historical re… read more

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3. Harvest

By: Tess Gerritsen

3.56

Format: 336 pages,

Medical resident Dr. Abby Matteo is elated when the elite cardiac transplant team at Boston's Baysi… read more

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4. Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder

By: Jerry Bledsoe

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Barbara Stager appeared to be a devoted mother, loving wife, and dedicated church leader in her Nor… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

By: Hazel Gaynor , Heather Webb

4.29

Format: 128 pages, ebook

New York Timesbestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgett… read more

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6. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

By: Cea Sunrise Person

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castleand Wild,Cea Sunrise Person's compel… read more

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7. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea

By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more

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8. The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

By: Kelli Estes

4.10

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

A historical novel inspired by true events, Kelli Estes's brilliant and atmospheric debut is a poig… read more

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9. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks by Emily Pennington

10. Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks

By: Emily Pennington

3.18

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

A bracing memoir about self-discovery, liberating escape, and moving forward across an adventurous … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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11. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

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12. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

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13. The President’s Wife

By: Tracey Enerson Wood

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of the First Lady who clandestinely assumed the presidency, from the USA Today… read more

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14. The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

By: Beth Morrey

4.06

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The world has changed around Missy Carmichael. At seventy-nine, she's estranged from her daughter; … read more

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"Love was just love, that was all. Flawed, uneven, complicated, overlapping, but still essential"

-Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

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15. The Little Italian Hotel

By: Phaedra Patrick

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When a relationship expert’s own marriage falls apart, she invites four strangers to Italy for a va… read more

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"She now knew that heartache could be loud or quiet. Sometimes it needed to make itself known to the world, and other varieties needed space and time to settle down on their own."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Little Italian Hotel

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16. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

By: Tim Brady

4.01

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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18. Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper's Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II

By: Henry Langrehr

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person a… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
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19. All You Have to Do Is Call

By: Kerri Maher

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women w… read more

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"I wish you could understand what it's like to have to stop doing something you love, something important , just because your body is made to carry children. No one else can do this for me...."

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"No matter what you want to call it," Veronica said, steering clear of words like cells and fetus that might further inflame Patty, "it resides inside a fully grown woman with a life to lead. Jane hel…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"[She] hadn't given a lot of thought to the many reasons why women needed abortions, but there was such a wide range: maternal health, money, rape and incest, shocking cluelessness about how pregnancy…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

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20. Les Sœurs du Titanic

By: Patricia Falvey

3.83

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Delia, jeune Irlandaise, vient de perdre sa sœur Nora dans le naufrage du Titanic. Sur un coup de … read more

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"Guilt, once it's imprinted deeply on your soul, is almost impossible to get rid of. It becomes as much a part of you as your heart or your reason, and you realize if you let go of it, you will lose a…"

-Patricia Falvey, Les Sœurs du Titanic

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21. The Consequence of Anna

By: Kate Birkin

4.16

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

The Instant #1 BESTSELLER, reminiscent of The Thorn Birds, The Light Between Oceans, and Lady Chatt… read more

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"The whole world is a hungry stomach with teeth."

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

"A face with no freckles is like a flower with no bloom."

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

"What is a moment in a day but a grain of sand . . . until that moment means everything in the world?"

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

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22. The Tiffany Girls

By: Shelley Noble

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble wows with a gripping historical novel about the rea… read more

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23. A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden

By: Gill Paul

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this stunning new novel, bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic ti… read more

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24. On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller Th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone."

-Susan Orlean, On Animals

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25. The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

By: Rick Bragg

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but t… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Does he bite?"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"Goodnight, buddy,"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"I am beginning to think that the word “no,"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"But I don't think any dog knows home better than one thrown anway once already."

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

Cover of The Girl from Portofino (Girls from the Italian Resistance #2) by Siobhan Daiko

26. The Girl from Portofino (Girls from the Italian Resistance #2)

By: Siobhan Daiko

4.26

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning author Siobhan Daiko, comes a hauntingly epic read that will sweep you away to t… read more

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27. The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets

By: Sarah Miller

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When they were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expecte… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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28. The Letters We Keep

By: Nisha Sharma

3.90

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

It doesn’t take long for ambitious freshman and aspiring engineer Jessie Ahuja to learn about two u… read more

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29. The Child Who Lived

By: Ellie Midwood

4.41

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Austria, 1942: In Mauthausen concentration camp, two prisoners dare to fall in love. When a baby is… read more

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30. Child Last Seen: The Search for Patty Desmond

By: Maureen Boyle

3.84

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

HER CASE HAD BEEN CLOSED—BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, … read more

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Cover of Mrs. Morhard and the Boys: One mother's vision. The first boys' baseball league. A nation inspired. by Ruth Hanford Morhard

31. Mrs. Morhard and the Boys: One mother's vision. The first boys' baseball league. A nation inspired.

By: Ruth Hanford Morhard

4.10

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

As the Great Depression brought America to the brink of disaster, a devoted single mother in Clevel… read more

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  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports

7 must-read history books like Mrs. Morhard and the Boys: One mother's vision. The first boys' baseball league. A nation inspired. by Ruth Hanford Morhard

Transform Your Habits

Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder

Jerry Bledsoe

3.54

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

Tim Brady

4.01

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28 best-selling fiction books like Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I by Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb

Transform Your Habits

Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories

L.M. Montgomery , Rea Wilmshurst

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

Hazel Gaynor , Heather Webb

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

A Place to Hang the Moon

Kate Albus

4.57

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