Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope
By: Xavier Francisco Amador , Amanda LaPera , Xavier Amador
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Silver award recipient of IBPA's prestigious Benjamin Franklin book award in the category of psycho…
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1. Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand (Women Writers in Translation)
By: George Sand , Thelma Jurgrau , Walter D. Gray
3.94
Format: 1184 pages, Paperback
This book is more than the autobiography of an extraordinary woman. It is also the story of a centu… read more
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"Nada está bien, nada está mal para él; ahoga el débil grito de su conciencia, se burla de las creencias del género humano. Es casi más fuerte en su perversidad que Carlos en su extravío. Asesina a su…"-George Sand, Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand (Women Writers in Translation)
"[On Chopin's Preludes :] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual exte…"-George Sand, Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand (Women Writers in Translation)
2. Maria
By: Maria Augusta von Trapp
3.84
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The author records her experiences training to become a nun and answering God's call by caring for … read more
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3. Dancing on My Grave
By: Greg Lawrence , Gelsey Kirkland
3.86
Format: 363 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The shattering story of a dream which became a heartbreaking nightmare for one of America's most fa… read more
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4. Amelia's Story: A Childhood Lost (Amelia #1)
By: D.G. Torrens
3.66
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
A life of pain and rejection. This is a powerful true story of one young girls struggle to surviv… read more
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5. An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
By: Janet Frame
4.20
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
This autobiography traces Janet Frame's childhood in a poor but intellectually intense family, life… read more
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"...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death."-Janet Frame, An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
"All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever the…"-Janet Frame, An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
6. Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope
By: Xavier Francisco Amador , Amanda LaPera , Xavier Amador
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Silver award recipient of IBPA's prestigious Benjamin Franklin book award in the category of psycho… read more
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- mental illness
- nonfiction
7. A Three Dog Life
By: Abigail Thomas
3.68
Format: 346 pages,
When Abigail Thomas's husband was hit by a car, it destroyed his short-term memory and consigned hi… read more
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8. I Have Lived a Thousand Years
By: None
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old- Elli Friedmann, just… read more
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9. Will Love For Crumbs
By: Jonna Ivin
3.62
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Raised by an alcoholic mother and without a father, Jonna learned at a young age to put her needs o… read more
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"There is absolutely no reason to be a dick, just because you have one."-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs
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"I didn’t make choices based on what I liked or didn’t like. I simply accepted what they chose for me. My role had always been to react and adapt to what was decided by other people, by outside circum…"-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs
10. Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America
By: Lily Burana
3.38
Format: None pages,
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11. The Seamstress
By: Sara Tuvel Bernstein , Louise Loots Thornton , Marlene Bernstein Samuels
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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12. Chosen by a Horse
By: None
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn't be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead L… read more
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13. The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
By: Jasmin Darznik
3.80
Format: 8 pages, Hardcover
We were a world of two, my mother and I, until I started turning into an American girl. That's when… read more
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14. Ghost No More
By: CeeCee James
4.03
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
How do you keep fighting for hope, when everything around you is tearing hope down? Five year old C… read more
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15. Slings & Arrows
By: Julie Elizabeth Powell
3.96
Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition
Nobody expects to lose a child but when it happens what can we do? In the sea of grief that seizes… read more
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16. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Clueless
By: Susan Jane Gilman
4.40
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
From the author of "Kiss My Tiara" comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about wome… read more
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17. Paper Daughter: A Memoir
By: None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
When she was five years old, M. Elaine Mar and her mother emigrated from Hong Kong to Denver to joi… read more
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18. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind
By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon
4.29
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more
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19. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
By: Anne Michaud
4.29
Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more
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"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
20. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov
4.30
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more
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21. Dreaming Me: An African-American Woman's Buddhist Journey
By: Janice Dean Willis
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An American Buddhist scholar recalls her incredible journey from an impoverished, segregated mining… read more
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