6 must-read biography books like Betty: The Story of Betty MacDonald, Author of The Egg and I by Anne Wellman

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Betty: The Story of Betty MacDonald, Author of The Egg and I

By: Anne Wellman

4.03

Format: None pages, None

In 1945 Betty MacDonald published The Egg and I, a lightly fictionalized account of her life as the…

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1. Queen Camilla

By: Sue Townsend

3.45

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

For the past thirteen years, as England became an increasingly unhappy and fearful place, Prince Ch… read more

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2. Anne Belinda

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.60

Format: 316 pages,

Why does Anne Belinda's family refuse to tell anyone where she is? read more

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3. The Irish Inheritance (Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery, #1)

By: M.J. Lee

3.44

Format: 48 pages,

June 8, 1921. Ireland. A British Officer is shot dead on a remote hillside south of Dublin. Novembe… read more

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4. The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)

By: Betty MacDonald

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies

By: J.B. West

3.83

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at life on Pennsylvania Avenue with America's first families, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

6. Anybody Can Do Anything (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #3)

By: Betty MacDonald

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

One would suppose that during the Depression there wasn't much to laugh about in America. But one w… read more

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7. The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #2)

By: Betty MacDonald

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

Tuberculosis. A terrifying word, as terrifying then as cancer is now. It meant entering a sanatoriu… read more

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8. Onions in the Stew (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #4)

By: Betty MacDonald

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

The bestselling author of the American humor classic The Egg and I continues the adventure with thi… read more

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9. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)

By: Agatha Christie

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mysterious woman, a legendary cursed jewel, and a night train to the Mediterranean -- ingredients… read more

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10. The Doctor Wears Three Faces

By: Mary Bard

4.14

Format: None pages,

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11. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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12. South of the Buttonwood Tree

By: Heather Webber

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood… read more

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13. Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)

By: Lisa Wingate

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Librarian Note: This is the updated cover for ISBN 9780451203076 Author Lisa Wingate drew upon h… read more

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"Time passes... but memories do not."

-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)

"...It's hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you're looking into the eyes of a happy baby."

-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)

"...The best times of my life, the times that passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild."

-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)

"Sometimes life moves so fast, the road splits in an instant, and you only have a heartbeat to decide which way to turn."

-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)

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14. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

By: Tina Brown

4.03

Format: 571 pages, Hardcover

The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

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15. Mrs. Winchester's Biographer

By: Deanna Lynn Sletten

4.42

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Was Sarah Winchester a woman of mystery or simply a strong woman who lived her life on her own term… read more

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16. A Different Kind of Gone

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.19

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

The truth behind a teenage girl’s disappearance becomes something to conceal in a gripping novel ab… read more

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17. Life, Loss, and Puffins

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.42

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

An exhilarating and emotional novel about grief, hope, friendship, and taking life one beautiful an… read more

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18. A Piece of Heaven

By: Barbara O'Neal

4.38

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Against the sunbaked hills of New Mexico, two broken hearts come together in a poignant novel about… read more

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19. Just a Regular Boy

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.46

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

An orphaned boy raised by a survivalist wends his way into the real world in an emotional novel abo… read more

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20. I Choose Darkness

By: Jenny Lawson

3.97

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

From cheap costumes to creepy dolls to questionable candy, number one New York Times bestselling au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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21. The Last of the Moon Girls

By: Barbara Davis

4.20

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of… read more

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22. About Time (The Time Police, #4)

By: Jodi Taylor

4.58

Format: 470 pages, Kindle Edition

Patience is not a virtue known to the Time Police. And Commander Hay is facing the longest day of h… read more

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23. Beyond That, the Sea

By: Laura Spence-Ash

4.24

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of t… read more

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24. Sold on a Monday

By: Kristina McMorris

3.97

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The scrawled sign, peddling young siblings on a farmhouse porch, captures th… read more

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25. The Art of Inheriting Secrets

By: Barbara O'Neal

4.26

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

When Olivia Shaw’s mother dies, the sophisticated food editor is astonished to learn she’s inherite… read more

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"I, however, am as trustworthy as a Boy Scout, as loyal as a dove."

-Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets

"You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear."

-Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets

"Like everything else we'd eaten tonight, it took the ordinary to an extraordinary place- I tasted a thousand fluttering roses and a rain of sugar and the soft, spongy texture of the dumpling itself."

-Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets

"Instead of Coriander, I chose a French-style bistro, quiet and easy, where the server talked me into the braised rabbit, which arrived exquisitely tender in a gravy of such textured depth that I took…"

-Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets

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26. When Never Comes

By: Barbara Davis

4.18

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair—an… read more

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27. The Missing Father (Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery #7)

By: M.J. Lee

4.54

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Alice Taylor was adopted in 1942 when she was three years old. Her adoptive parents never told her … read more

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28. The Day They Fell From The Sky: 10 Lone Survivors and Their Harrowing and Incredible True Stories of Plane-Crash Survival

By: Oliver Martin Cass

3.93

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

Resilience is humanity’s greatest strength against the harsh realities of the world. these tales ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Merchant's Daughter (Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery #6) by M.J. Lee

29. The Merchant's Daughter (Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery #6)

By: M.J. Lee

4.46

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

From acclaimed author M J Lee comes a thrilling new genealogical mystery.When Rachel Marlowe, an ac… read more

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30. Three Years in a Walmart Parking Lot

By: Sharon Waters

4.24

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

Restless sixty-nine year old Sharon Waters buys an RV, leaves everything behind except her devoted … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Betty: The Story of Betty MacDonald, Author of The Egg and I by Anne Wellman

31. Betty: The Story of Betty MacDonald, Author of The Egg and I

By: Anne Wellman

4.03

Format: None pages, None

In 1945 Betty MacDonald published The Egg and I, a lightly fictionalized account of her life as the… read more

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4.00

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3.83

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Lucy Worsley

4.20

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4.03

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Sarah Addison Allen

3.97

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Sarah Addison Allen

3.31

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Susan Bishop Crispell

4.20

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