12 Best biography books like Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury by Cathy Crimmins

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Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury

By: Cathy Crimmins

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

Humorist Cathy Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of th…

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1. Pretty in Plaid

By: Jen Lancaster

3.89

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

The hardcover debut from the New York Times bestselling author- the prequel to Bitter is the New Bl… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Amelia's Story: A Childhood Lost (Amelia #1) by D.G. Torrens

2. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

3. The Glass Eye: A Memoir

By: Jeannie Vanasco

3.95

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

The night before her father dies, eighteen-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • disability
Cover of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan

4. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

By: Terry Ryan

3.23

Format: 403 pages,

Evelyn Ryan, wife of an alcoholic husband and mother of ten children, lived in a small town in a ti… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Goodbye, Walter by RuthAnn Hogue, C. Stratton Hill

5. Goodbye, Walter

By: RuthAnn Hogue , C. Stratton Hill

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In February of 1997, Walter Schifter was dying of cancer. During the final three weeks of his life,… read more

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6. Forever Liesl

By: Charmian Carr , Jean A.S. Strauss , Jean A. S. Strauss

4.00

Format: None pages,

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury

By: Cathy Crimmins

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

Humorist Cathy Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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8. The Memory Palace

By: Mira Bartok

3.24

Format: 0 pages,

The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond by William Stadiem, Essie Mae Washington-Williams

9. Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond

By: William Stadiem , Essie Mae Washington-Williams

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

Breaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. Wired for God: Adventures of a Jewish Yogi

By: Dani Antman

3.98

Format: 278 pages, ebook

When the Judaism of her childhood doesn't satisfy Dani Antman's yearning for spiritual awakening, s… read more

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11. Becoming Alice: A Memoir

By: Alice Rene

3.80

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Six-year-old IIse watches Nazi soldiers march down her street in Vienna. She does not understand th… read more

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12. The Ugly Daughter

By: Julia Legian , Dawn Burke

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The Ugly Daughter is a thrilling memoir, the gripping true story of a young girl who witnessed horr… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

13. Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22

By: MariNaomi

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine… read more

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14. Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

By: Neil Patrick Harris , None , None

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron's frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her fami… read more

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15. My Several Worlds

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.14

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

Autobiography of Pearl S Buck. A memoir of the life of the first female Nobel Laureate for Literat… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance."

-Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds

"in any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until someday inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle."

-Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds

"I can only say that in old Asia where the soldier was given no honor and war was without glory, there arose a culture which emphasized learning and wisdom and which produced no great and soul-racking…"

-Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds

"I will not dwell on that sad time, for the bones of those young men and women are already dust. But I learned then that the same cruelties can be committed by any man who has the will to crush those …"

-Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds

16. My Story

By: Ingrid Bergman

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

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17. Welfare Brat

By: None

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

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Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

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

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Cathy Crimmins's Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"#metooasachild"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

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21. The Triumph of Rosemary

By: Marylin E. Atkins

3.98

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted fro… read more

Similar categories in Marylin E. Atkins's The Triumph of Rosemary book and Cathy Crimmins's Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

14 must-read nonfiction books like Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury by Cathy Crimmins

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Jen Lancaster

3.89

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D.G. Torrens

3.66

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Jeannie Vanasco

3.95

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

Terry Ryan

3.23

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Mary Chesnut's Civil War

C. Vann Woodward , Mary Boykin Chesnut

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Keith, A: Three Came Home

Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

Terry Ryan

3.23

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The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910

L.M. Montgomery , Mary Henley Rubio , Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

4.11

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