Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
By: Liz Murray
4.21
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age …
Want to Read $ 9.99"But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not."-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
"But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not."-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
"... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was."-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
"... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was."-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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3. Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
By: Liz Murray
4.21
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
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"But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not."-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
"... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was."-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
"Out of nowhere, for whatever reason, a different feeling snuck up in its place, and hope. If life could change for the worst, I thought, then maybe life could change for the better."-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
"The more needy I kept myself, the more it would always be up to other people what happened to me, I decided I would make my life so full of things that empowered me, people like this woman would shri…"-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
4. Not a Perfect Fit: Stories from Jane's World
By: Jane A. Schmidt
3.93
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Not a Perfect Fit is a collection of stories that are laugh-out-loud funny one minute and thought-p… read more
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5. Looking To Be Seen
By: Lori Osterman
3.98
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
A beautiful book of poetry written with warmth, heart and love about life's challenges, heartache, … read more
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6. Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir
By: Lillian Faderman
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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By: Fiona Gold Kroll
3.91
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
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8. Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
By: None , P.D. James
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"It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters."-None, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
"The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality."-None, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
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4.00
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10. Clouse's Houses - A story of challenge, creativity, and the heart of an architect
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3.97
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11. Cutted Chicken in Shanghai
By: Sharon Winters
4.01
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
An American woman takes a cultural fling into China and finds humorous and engaging adventures as h… read more
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12. Starving for Attention
By: Cherry Boone O'Neill
3.89
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4.18
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14. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind
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4.29
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15. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
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4.29
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4.30
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4.02
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
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4.08
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