Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature
By: Jennifer Lang
4.64
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
★★★★★ “For anyone who has ever loved deeply and been willing to take risks for the sake of love.” R…
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1. The Wife
By: Meg Wolitzer
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-five thousand feet… read more
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2. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
3. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
By: Henry Winkler
4.14
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more
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"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
4. Kantika
By: Elizabeth Graver
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more
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"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
5. How to Love Your Daughter
By: Hila Blum
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling… read more
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6. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
7. Once We Were Home
By: Jennifer Rosner
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings , com… read more
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8. The Goddess of Warsaw
By: Lisa Barr
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more
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9. Everywhere I Look: A Memoir
By: Ona Gritz
4.47
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
In 1982, twenty-five-year-old Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered, a… read more
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10. Everything/Nothing/Someone
By: Alice Carrière
4.02
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more
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11. Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature
By: Jennifer Lang
4.64
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
★★★★★ “For anyone who has ever loved deeply and been willing to take risks for the sake of love.” R… read more
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12. Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss
By: Eileen Vorbach Collins
4.96
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bere… read more
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13. Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived
By: Karen DeBonis
4.74
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
Can a woman who never learned to stand up for herself find the courage to speak up for her son? … read more
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14. When She Comes Back : A Memoir
By: Ronit Plank
4.40
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
Ronit was six years old when her mother left her and her four-year-old sister for India to follow a… read more
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15. The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared
By: Casey Mulligan Walsh
4.98
Format: 323 pages, ebook
Casey needs a family: the joys and sorrows, people who love her, and a place she belongs—what Zorba… read more
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16. Tap Dancing on Everest
By: Mimi Zieman
4.61
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
The plan was outrageous: A small team of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face o… read more
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17. The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect
By: Catherine Shields
4.75
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
★★★★★ “Brave and heartbreaking... will resonate with all parents.” Jen Pastiloff, author of On Bein… read more
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18. Home is a Made-Up Place
By: Ronit Plank
4.57
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Home is a Made-Up Place invites readers into the lives of people grappling with emotional injuries … read more
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19. The Secret Practice: Eighteen Years on the Dark Side of Yoga
By: Joelle Tamraz
4.33
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
His yoga focused on control and manipulation. Until she broke the sequence. For fans of Netflix’… read more
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20. Girl Woman Wife Mother
By: Talya Jankovits
4.89
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
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21. Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams, and Broken Genes
By: Jessica Fein
4.84
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
"A master class in how to be a person." --Joanna Rakoff, bestselling author of My Salinger Year "A… read more
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