8 Top biography books like Secret Child by Gordon Lewis

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Secret Child

By: Gordon Lewis

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home…

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1. Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

By: Regina Calcaterra

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I've just stepped into the kitchen when Rosie's glass fall and shatters on the living room floor, inches from Cookie's ear. (page 54)"

-Regina Calcaterra, Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

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2. The Persian Pickle Club

By: Sandra Dallas

4.26

Format: 331 pages,

It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and t… read more

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3. Prince of Fire (Gabriel Allon, #5)

By: Daniel Silva

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Few recent thriller writers have excited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has, with hi… read more

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4. The Perfect Girl

By: Gilly Macmillan

3.66

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was invol… read more

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5. My Secret Mother

By: None

3.69

Format: 88 pages,

Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secret When Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

6. She's Not There

By: Joy Fielding

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A novel of psychological suspense about a woman whose life takes a shocking turn when a young girl … read more

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7. Freedom: My Book of Firsts

By: Jaycee Dugard

3.50

Format: 36 pages, ebook

In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her … read more

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8. Twelve Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

3.58

Format: None pages, ebook

A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starrin… read more

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9. A House in the Sky

By: Sara Corbett , Amanda Lindhout

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most beautiful… read more

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10. The Lost Book of Bonn

By: Brianna Labuskes

3.95

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from… read more

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11. Until I Find You

By: Rea Frey

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"In Until I Find You, celebrated author Rea Frey brings you her most explosive, emotional, taut dom… read more

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12. The Girl They Left Behind

By: Roxanne Veletzos

4.09

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping family saga and love story that offers a vivid and unique portrayal of life in war-torn … read more

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"To love is much easier than to despair, even when all of your hope has been burned to ashes."

-Roxanne Veletzos, The Girl They Left Behind

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13. The London Bookshop Affair

By: Louise Fein

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A new historical drama from Daughter of the Reich bestselling author Louise Fein, about a London bo… read more

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14. The Girl from Guernica

By: Karen Robards

4.36

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Picasso’s great masterpiece, Guernica, New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards … read more

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15. The Mothers

By: Genevieve Gannon

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

What if you gave birth to someone else’s child? An emotional family drama about two couples, one ba… read more

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16. The Asylum

By: Carol Minto

4.46

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

For 46 years, Carol Minto has quietly gone about her life, carrying with her the most extraordin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Silent Sisters

By: Joanne Lee

4.13

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the rema… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. The Woman Outside My Door

By: Rachel Ryan

3.69

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

All children have imaginary friends, Georgina tells herself. It’s perfectly normal, and they all gr… read more

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19. Little Disasters

By: Sarah Vaughan

3.61

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A new thought-provoking novel exploring the complexity of motherhood and all that connects and disc… read more

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20. The Turtle House

By: Amanda Churchill

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire … read more

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21. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

By: Jesse Thistle

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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22. Little Girl Lost

By: Casey Watson

4.59

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson Six-year-old Amel… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. The Spoon Stealer

By: Lesley Crewe

4.40

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Born into a basket of clean sheets—ruining a perfectly good load of laundry—Emmeline never quite fi… read more

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"So much of our lives depend on just one move, one way or the other. If I'd turned left instead of right that day..."

-Lesley Crewe, The Spoon Stealer

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24. The Inheritance

By: Joanna Goodman

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compu… read more

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25. The Pieces We Keep

By: Kristina McMorris

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

In this richly emotional novel, Kristina McMorris evokes the depth of a mother's bond with her chil… read more

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"War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil."

-Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep

"Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched."

-Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep

"Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence."

-Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep

" Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on gra…"

-Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep

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26. Too Good to Be True

By: Carola Lovering

3.85

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH. Skye Starling is overjoyed when her … read more

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"I make my home in the women I love and remain lost inside my own self."

-Carola Lovering, Too Good to Be True

"He knows all too well that love, regardless of the way it presents itself, is a miracle."

-Carola Lovering, Too Good to Be True

"Love isn't enough. I never used to understand that expression, but I do now. You can love someone completely and it still isn't enough to make it work."

-Carola Lovering, Too Good to Be True

"You never really know. You hope for the best, but when you commit to a marriage, it's always a risk. You can never truly predict what is going to happen when you take two people and tie them together…"

-Carola Lovering, Too Good to Be True

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27. The Prisoner's Wife

By: Maggie Brookes

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the true story of a daring deception that plunges a courageous young woman deep into th… read more

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28. Is It My Fault, Mummy?

By: Maggie Hartley

4.59

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to receiving placements at short notice, but the arrival of sev… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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29. My Mother, a Serial Killer

By: Hazel Baron

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Unknown Binding

A gripping and shocking story of a serial killer mother, and the brave daughter who brought her to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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30. Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary

By: Catherine Fogarty

4.15

Format: None pages, ebook

"You have taken our civil rights--we want our human rights." On April 14, 1971, a handful of pri… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Secret Child

By: Gordon Lewis

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Lewis's Secret Child book and Gordon Lewis's Secret Child

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

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Regina Calcaterra

4.31

My Secret Mother

None

3.69

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Carol Minto

4.46

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Silent Sisters

Joanne Lee

4.13

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Mary Kubica

3.81

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Lisa Jewell

4.12

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Shari Lapena

3.80

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Ashley Elston

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