14 must-read nonfiction books like The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing by Adam P. Frankel

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The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing

By: Adam P. Frankel

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama spee…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing by Adam P. Frankel , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

By: Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

"A gripping tale of secrets and self-discovery." --People The Foundlingtells the incredible and ins… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

2. Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

By: Eric Manheimer

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakeningsand the TV series House,Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENT… read more

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3. Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau

By: Jack Sacco

3.74

Format: 168 pages,

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4. Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir

By: None

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"I invited the child I was once to have her say in these pages. I am the one who came out on the ot… read more

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5. Running From The Mirror

By: Howard Shulman

4.45

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that devoured his nose, l… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far better than anything I could ever have imagined."

-Howard Shulman, Running From The Mirror

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6. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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7. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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8. The Meaning of Malice: On the Trail of the Black Widow of Highland Park

By: John Leake

3.99

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

Sandra Bridewell was a beautiful socialite in the affluent Dallas suburb of Highland Park in 1978-8… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. I Will Ruin You: The Twisted Truth Behind The Kit Martin Murder Trial

By: Emilio Corsetti III

4.30

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

Lb>Did the State of Kentucky convict an innocent man? Moments before boarding a passenger flight… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Acceptance: A Memoir

By: Emi Nietfeld

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

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11. The Ghost Tattoo

By: Tony Bernard

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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12. The Hidden Storyteller

By: Mandy Robotham

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in war-torn Germa… read more

Similar categories in Mandy Robotham's The Hidden Storyteller book and Adam P. Frankel's The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing

  • world war ii
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13. American Daughter

By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Thornton Plymale's American Daughter book and Adam P. Frankel's The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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14. Your Secret My Story

By: Kate Kendall

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

As an adoptee, do you have mixed feelings about your adoption? Kate Kendall is an adoptee, and in t… read more

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15. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

By: Chantha Nguon

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

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16. The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

By: Thomas Geve

4.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring true story of hope and survival, this is the testimony of a boy who was imprisoned in … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Geve's The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival book and Adam P. Frankel's The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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17. The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing

By: Adam P. Frankel

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama spee… read more

Similar categories in Adam P. Frankel's The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing book and Adam P. Frankel's The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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18. An Impossible Choice: Utterly gripping and heart-wrenching family life fiction

By: Alison Ragsdale

4.30

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Mothers talk about impossible choices. But, as I look at my daughter in a hospital bed, her red hai… read more

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19. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

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20. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

By: Alan Townsend

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

8 Top audiobook books like The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing by Adam P. Frankel

Transform Your Habits

The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Transform Your Habits

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Acceptance: A Memoir

Emi Nietfeld

4.21

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5 Best audiobook books like Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Susan J. Eischeid

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

Robert K. Wittman , David Kinney

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

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