My First Thirty Years
By: Gertrude Beasley
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Shortly after its 1925 publication, Gertrude Beasley's ferociously eloquent feminist memoir was ban…
Want to Read $ 6.65"Think, only think, what this war will mean to women’s progress,"-Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years
"Think, only think, what this war will mean to women’s progress,"-Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years
"Mrs. Sanger was a woman who would have understood my mother, I was sure."-Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years
"Mrs. Sanger was a woman who would have understood my mother, I was sure."-Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years
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1. The Family that Couldn't Sleep
By: D.T. Max
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some la…"-D.T. Max, The Family that Couldn't Sleep
2. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
3. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
By: Dorothy Allison
4.12
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy… read more
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- biography
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"Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time."-Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
"I ran because if I had not, I would have died. No one told me that you take your world with you, that running becomes a habit."-Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
"Women. Lord God, I used to follow these girls. THey would come at me, those girls who were not really girls anymore. Grown up, wounded, hurt and terrible. Pained and desperate. Mean and angry. Hungry…"-Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
4. The Last Picture Show
By: Larry McMurtry
4.00
Format: 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is one of McMurtry's most memorable novels - the basis for the film of the same name. Set in a… read more
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"Hurry up and get changed, and don't call my daughter a bitch again.' 'No promises,' Lois said. 'You know what she's doing as well as I do, Gene. She doesn't give a damn about Sonny, she just wants to…"-Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
"You have to remember that I've been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you've been lonely long enough you don't realize you're cold, but you are... I don't know, maybe at the cente…"-Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
"Is growin' up always miserable?" Sonny asked. "Nobody seems to enjoy it much." "Oh, it ain't necessarily misearble," Sam replied. "About eighty percent of the time, I guess." They were silent again, …"-Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
5. America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great
By: Ben Carson
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the thin… read more
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6. City
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more
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7. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
By: Julie Gregory
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet ano… read more
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8. Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
By: Eva Mozes Kor , Lisa Rojany Buccieri
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older siste… read more
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9. Not Without Laughter
By: Langston Hughes , Maya Angelou
4.19
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes prove… read more
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10. Sold
By: Patricia McCormick
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Although Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when t… read more
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11. At the Edge of the Orchard
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on th… read more
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12. Bastard Out of Carolina
By: Dorothy Allison
3.99
Format: 32 pages,
Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, … read more
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13. Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
By: Gregg Olsen
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the fore… read more
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14. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
By: Melissa Bond
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more
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15. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
16. The Birth House
By: Ami McKay
4.03
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Spanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Sco… read more
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"No matter what you do, someone always knew you would."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"Each day brings another handful of opportunities. It's up to you to make the best of what you're given."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too…"-Ami McKay, The Birth House
17. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
By: Debora Harding
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more
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18. Just Us: An American Conversation
By: Claudia Rankine
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into itAs everyday whit… read more
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"To converse is to risk the unraveling of the said and the unsaid."-Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation
19. Kin
By: Shawna Kay Rodenberg
3.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrep… read more
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20. My First Thirty Years
By: Gertrude Beasley
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Shortly after its 1925 publication, Gertrude Beasley's ferociously eloquent feminist memoir was ban… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- historical
- feminism
- gender
- banned books
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Think, only think, what this war will mean to women’s progress,"-Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years
"Mrs. Sanger was a woman who would have understood my mother, I was sure."-Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years
"The person who called me "Lyncher" at first was surprised to find that I was "almost brilliant."-Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years
"Clothes were wonderful things; one ought always to wear a hat as saucy and pretty as mine before going to see an editor."-Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years
21. Madwoman
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more
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