How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon’s Guide to Rebuilding After Religion
By: Alyssa Grenfell
4.57
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Where will you go? After more than 20 years of devotion to the Mormon church, Alyssa Grenfell decid…
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1. Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
By: Martha N. Beck
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
As "Mormon royalty" within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised … read more
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- mormonism
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2. The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, #1-8)
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Favorites for nearly 100 years, these classic novels follow the adventures of the spirited redhead … read more
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3. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
3.76
Format: 6 pages, ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grac… read more
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- religion
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- memoir
4. Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
3.97
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
Foul-mouthed and heavily tattooed, former standup comic-turned-Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber wea… read more
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5. Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult
By: None
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs,… read more
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6. Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
By: Steven Hassan , Margaret Thaler Singer
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
A former cult member, now a counselor helping those affected by destructive cults, Hassan exposes t… read more
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7. The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide
By: Jenna Fischer
3.21
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hom… read more
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8. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)
By: Emma R. Alban
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from havin… read more
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9. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By: Douglas Brunt
4.23
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more
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- nonfiction
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
10. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Uncultured: A Memoir
By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
4.08
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more
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- memoir
"Daniella,"-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"The body keeps the score."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
12. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
13. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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- nonfiction
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
14. Women and Children First
By: Alina Grabowski
3.38
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more
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15. This Telling
By: Cheryl Strayed
3.95
Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition
Audible narration by Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) A genealogy test sparks a woman’s reflection on … read more
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16. Empress of All Seasons
By: Emiko Jean
3.56
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In a palace of illusions, nothing is what it seems. Each generation, a competition is held to fi… read more
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"Every weapon has a destiny."-Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons
"Silence is the cousin of invisibility."-Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons
"Do not let your fear decide your fate."-Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons
"Our bodies are not ornaments, they are instruments."-Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons
17. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
4.21
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more
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- nonfiction
"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
18. Chasing A Flawed Sun
By: Daniel McGhee
4.32
Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition
★"Riveting" ★ ★"I Couldn't put it down!"★ ★"Not just another addiction memoir" ★ ★"… read more
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19. Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
By: Matilda Bickers
4.41
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives … read more
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- memoir
"It cannot be forgotten that the downgrading of fiction from meaningful mythos to commodified entertainment is the extended work of colonial culture."-Matilda Bickers, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
"The question regularly resurfaces in leftist circles: "Will sex work exist after the revolution?" Maybe, and maybe not. Regardless of the answer to that question, two things remain true: people who t…"-Matilda Bickers, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
"While anti-sex work feminists see trading sex as the ultimate concession to patriarchy, I see it as a refusal. A refusal to accept the terms we've been given, to accept the violence of poverty, exhau…"-Matilda Bickers, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
"It is on us to imagine, plan, build, and re-create; and let us do so with joy. Write, draw, chat, dance, and sing yourself into a new future. Ask yourself what you really want, weave your community c…"-Matilda Bickers, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
20. Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
By: Rose Hackman
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ An urgent look at emotional labor ....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possibl… read more
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21. How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon’s Guide to Rebuilding After Religion
By: Alyssa Grenfell
4.57
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Where will you go? After more than 20 years of devotion to the Mormon church, Alyssa Grenfell decid… read more
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- cults
- mormonism
- religion
- nonfiction
