The Bridesmaid's Daughter: From Grace Kelly's Wedding to a Women's Shelter - Searching for the Truth About My Mother
By: Nyna Giles
3.89
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
A daughter’s moving search to understand her mother, Carolyn Scott—once a bridesmaid to Princess Gr…
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1. The Midwife of Hope River (Hope River #1)
By: Patricia Harman
4.03
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
A remarkable new voice in American fiction, creates an uplifting novel that celebrates the miracle … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
2. Lucia, Lucia
By: Adriana Trigiani
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City. Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-ol… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow."-Adriana Trigiani, Lucia, Lucia
"When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful."-Adriana Trigiani, Lucia, Lucia
"You'll always be my girl. You were from the first moment I saw you. You were sitting in church with your brothers. You were eight years old, and I was twelve, and I thought, I hope she waits for me. …"-Adriana Trigiani, Lucia, Lucia
3. When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
“They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace – Christopher Robin went down with Alice.” Curl up wit… read more
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- audiobook
"She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead."-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
"If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on the water as blue as air. And you'd see me here in the fields and say: "Doesn't the sky look green today?"-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
"If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: "That's where I wanted to go today!"-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
"Daffodowndilly She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered t…"-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
4. My Name is Mary Sutter
By: Robin Oliveira
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An enthralling historical novel about a young woman's struggle to become a doctor during the Civil … read more
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- adult
5. Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
By: Alysia Abbott
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and '80s San Francisco with an ope… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
6. These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie
By: Christopher Andersen
4.15
Format: 333 pages, ebook
#1 New York Timesbestselling biographer "Christopher Andersen has a real track record when it comes… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. After I'm Gone
By: Laura Lippman
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Timesbestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I'd Know You Anywhere, … read more
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- audiobook
8. The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
By: Anderson Cooper , Gloria Vanderbilt
3.33
Format: 161 pages, ebook
A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, o… read more
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9. The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, #1)
By: Pam Jenoff
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her nativ… read more
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10. The Liars' Club
By: Mary Karr
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. I… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,"-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
11. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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- adult
- family
- audiobook
12. Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon
By: Kate Andersen Brower
4.16
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever auth… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
14. Diva
By: Daisy Goodwin
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
15. The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
By: Paulina Bren
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous resid… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"[Negli anni '30] Molti ritenevano anche, sebbene il Women's Bureau del governo avesse ripetutamente contraddetto tale convinzione, che le donne lavoravano per comprarsi il superfluo, rubando i posti …"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
"Nel 1932, ventisei Stati avevano decretato che fosse illegale per le donne sposate avere un lavoro, e negli Stati in cui non era obbligatorio lasciare il lavoro al momento delle nozze era comunque ne…"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
"[Negli anni ‘50] Le regole erano chiare, e le attese elevatissime: le donne dovevano essere vergini ma non bacchettone; dovevano fare l'università, dedicarsi a un certo tipo di carriera e poi rinunci…"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
16. By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
By: Piper Huguley
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The incredible untold story of Ann Lowe, Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress designer, a Black woman who… read more
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- biography memoir
- adult
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"It took one person. One lady with a good heart to see who I was and what I could do in this world."-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
"It has been many years since I let a man kiss me... When our lips met, parts of me that I had forgotten existed, thawed out from neglect and rose back to life like when Jesus was resurrected."-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
"The way she had seen me and treated me, was the way we should all see and treat one another. For to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in t…"-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
"For all of my life, ever since I was a little girl, I thought what I wanted was to be at one of these lovely dinner dances. Well. Now that I'm here, It's been marvelous, but I know that the main thin…"-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
17. Surviving Savannah
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection fo… read more
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"Grief had been coiled quietly inside me since Papa's death 10 years ago-an absence that was as much a presence as any ghost."-Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah
"I'd discovered that Savannah couldn't be fully explained to those who hadn't visited it. Photos, no matter how glorious, and movies, no matter how accurate, couldn't convey the way Savannah felt - se…"-Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah
18. We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
By: Charles Wheelan
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family dec… read more
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- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
19. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
By: Barbara McQuade
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more
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- history
- audiobook
20. The Burning (Kate Burkholder, #16)
By: Linda Castillo
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter … read more
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21. The Bridesmaid's Daughter: From Grace Kelly's Wedding to a Women's Shelter - Searching for the Truth About My Mother
By: Nyna Giles
3.89
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
A daughter’s moving search to understand her mother, Carolyn Scott—once a bridesmaid to Princess Gr… read more
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