11 Top nonfiction books like When Skies Are Gray: A Grieving Mother's Lullaby by Lindsey M. Henke

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When Skies Are Gray: A Grieving Mother's Lullaby

By: Lindsey M. Henke

4.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Lindsey Henke is freshly married and a newly practicing psychotherapist when she finds out she is p…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in When Skies Are Gray: A Grieving Mother's Lullaby by Lindsey M. Henke , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Secret Keeper

By: Kate Morton

4.15

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicols… read more

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"A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven"

-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

"I was an only child. It was lonely." "I was one of four. It was noisy."

-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

"Make sure you write it all down, now. Everything you see and think and feel. Your voice is your own, it matters."

-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

"It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness."

-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

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2. January (Calendar Girl, #1)

By: Audrey Carlan

3.81

Format: 136 pages, ebook

It’s really simple. I needed money. A lot of money. One million dollars to be exact. The amount did… read more

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"I'm not any kind of girl. I don't need man, but I don't hate romance. I think I'm kinda obsessed with romance, really, which is probably why I'm still single. -Mia"

-Audrey Carlan, January (Calendar Girl, #1)

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3. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Susan Cain

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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4. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

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5. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

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"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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6. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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7. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

By: Nora McInerny

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more

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"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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8. No Two Persons

By: Erica Bauermeister

4.09

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s N… read more

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"All that matters is that we try. pg. 79"

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Guilt is easier to drown in than any sorrow. pg. 245"

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Always start with words. Words last. Tell me a secret from your day."

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Did you know that otters sleep holding hands? All night long, so they don't lose each other."

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

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9. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

By: Jessica Grose

3.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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11. Walk the Blue Line: They Walk the Line between Life and Death

By: James Patterson

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

They risk their lives every day to protect and serve our homes, families and communities. Here are … read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

By: Mitch Albom

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can’t help but fall fo… read more

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"What we carry defines who we are and the effort we make is our legacy."

-Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

"But none of us are assured of tomorrow. It's what we do with today that makes an impact."

-Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

"Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it."

-Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

"Hopelessness can be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it."

-Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

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14. I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement

By: Jessica Zucker

4.53

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Sud… read more

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15. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

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16. Unimaginable: Life After Baby Loss

By: Brooke D. Taylor

4.72

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

"There is no way to begin without telling you the saddest part of the story. It’s a love story, and… read more

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"My grief felt too private, too deep. I quiet literally wanted to die, like I wished it had been me instead of her."

-Brooke D. Taylor, Unimaginable: Life After Baby Loss

"I’d spent seven months of my life obsessively and delightedly planning for a future that included months of caring for an infant. I expected my entire life to revolve around the person who had been c…"

-Brooke D. Taylor, Unimaginable: Life After Baby Loss

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17. Malas

By: Marcela Fuentes

3.96

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more

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18. Courageously Expecting: 30 Days of Encouragement for Pregnancy After Loss.

By: Jenny Albers

4.59

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Using Scripture and personal narrative, Courageously Expecting empathizes with and empowers women t… read more

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19. The Miscarriage Map: What To Expect When You Are No Longer Expecting

By: Sunita Osborn

4.55

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

Miscarriage: It can devastate an individual, a couple, and family to their very core. And yet, this… read more

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Cover of When Skies Are Gray: A Grieving Mother's Lullaby by Lindsey M. Henke

20. When Skies Are Gray: A Grieving Mother's Lullaby

By: Lindsey M. Henke

4.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Lindsey Henke is freshly married and a newly practicing psychotherapist when she finds out she is p… read more

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21. Hiding for My Life: Being Gay in the Navy

By: Karen Solt

4.78

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Karen Solt, an eighteen-year-old nonconformist with an alcohol problem, is working at a gas station… read more

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3.72

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