Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver
By: Gretchen Staebler
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“. . . makes you feel as though a kindred soul is speaking to you.” — Readers’ Favorite At the age…
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1. Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
By: Stacey O'Brien
4.10
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
When biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing,… read more
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- memoir
"To that which you tame, you owe your life."-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
"Refusing to do your bidding is not the same as stupid."-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
"It was a lot like working at Hogwarts, except that, instead of receiving letters from our owls, we would find coughed-up owl pellets in our coffee mugs."-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
"Wesley was always outraged when he woke himself up with a screech in his sleep, and he blamed me. He would whip around to face me with an intense librarian’s stare as if I had broken a cardinal rule."-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
2. Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
By: Mim Eichler Rivas , Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
3.63
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads c… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. The Diary of Mattie Spenser: A Novel
By: Sandra Dallas
4.00
Format: 100 pages,
No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch … read more
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4. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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5. Stash: My Life in Hiding
By: Laura Cathcart Robbins
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
6. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
7. Lily's Secret Inheritance (Dune Island, #4)
By: Kristin Harper
4.20
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Turning off the winding coastal road and seeing the old farmhouse surrounded by cranberry vines ahe… read more
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8. The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
By: Claire Swinarski
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious yo… read more
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"All these kids today thought you needed so much time. Time, time, time! As if another year would show you the kind of father a person could be, or how the nightmares about battlefields in Vietnam wou…"-Claire Swinarski, The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
9. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
By: Ariana Neumann
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czecho… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"If you want to be truly just in this life, when you see people who are weak, you must stand with them. Because you are strong, and it is the weak who need you more, not the strong."-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"Memories, like misfiled documents, are not always where you expect to find them...I learned that detailed questions often did little to trigger specific memories. People returned to distant facts in …"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"Perhaps all remembrance is a process of compilation and creation. Every day we absorb what is around us and assemble observations of a specific time: sounds, smells, textures, words, images, and feel…"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"…it was during a period he had so much time on his hands that he felt that time had stopped. How could time have stopped? ‘Because,’ he said, ‘and you will understand this when you are older, sometim…"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
10. Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
By: Erin French
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I always knew food held this kind of power, this something so simple as a piece of flaky halibut served with a silky puree of parsnips, lightly dressed leaves of arugula, a squeeze of lemon and a spi…"-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
"For me, food wasn't a competition about who could make the best dish. It's greatest power was to make taste and turn it into a long lasting memory. As a girl, I had learned from my father that good f…"-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
11. Westering Women
By: Sandra Dallas
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the peri… read more
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12. Write for Your Life
By: Anna Quindlen
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from "one of our most astute chroniclers of… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Solitude can lead to a tunnel within ourselves at the end of which is a room we didn't even know was there."-Anna Quindlen, Write for Your Life
13. What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love
By: Laurel Braitman
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A true story about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become. “What Looks L… read more
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- memoir
14. Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Paul Scheer
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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- memoir
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
15. 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
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- memoir
16. Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
By: Mary Pipher
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Working on my book about refugees, I learned a great deal about trauma and recover, and with the help of the people I spoke with developed what I called "a healing package of treatments." These treat…"-Mary Pipher, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
17. High Tea and the Low Down: An American's Unfiltered Life in the UK
By: Claire Craig Evans
3.94
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
A Transatlantic Adventure Fueled by Tea and Hedgerow FruitWhen American Claire Craig Evans married … read more
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- memoir
18. Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver
By: Gretchen Staebler
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“. . . makes you feel as though a kindred soul is speaking to you.” — Readers’ Favorite At the age… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
19. Unsexed: Memoirs of a Prostitute's Daughter
By: Marina DelVecchio
4.56
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Unsexed examines the role that sex plays in the life of one woman with two mothers who introduce he… read more
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- memoir
20. Sky Ranch: Reared in the High Country
By: Linda M. Lockwood
5.00
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
For fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Ivan Doig’s This House of Sky comes a memoir about a girl’… read more
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21. The Garden of Second Chances
By: Mona Alvarado Frazier
3.98
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
She didn’t run because she killed him, she ran because she didn’t. But no one believes Juana, an un… read more
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