Hole in My Heart: Love and Loss in the Fault Lines of Adoption
By: Lorraine Dusky
4.34
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In the days before Roe v. Wade, an ambitious young journalist from the Midwest is abandoned by her …
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1. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
By: Ann Fessler
4.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrend… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- adoption
"Secrets keep families sick. You never keep secrets in families because even if the child doesn't know what the secret is, they will always know there is a secret."-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
"We were not criminals. We're mothers. The difference was I was not an authenticated mother. I was an illegal mother. I was a denied mother. And I had to come home and live my life after being robbed …"-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
2. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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- nonfiction
"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
3. A Hole in My Heart (Forever and Ever, #15)
By: E.L. Todd
4.40
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
Arsen spends more time with Abby and begins to realize the true meaning of being a parent. The only… read more
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4. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
By: Mark Lukach
4.29
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and … read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Bettyville
By: George Hodgman
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself--an unli… read more
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6. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
By: Greg Mortenson , David Oliver Relin
3.67
Format: None pages,
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and ant… read more
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7. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- nonfiction
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8. Prognosis Critical: An Authentic Medical Thriller
By: Gary Birken
4.37
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
Where deadly secrets are the norm, even for those who've sworn to help, how far will one dedicated … read more
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9. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
10. The Girl in the Letter
By: Emily Gunnis
3.99
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls… read more
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"Manai, kad ilgėsiesi tik gerųjų žmogaus savybių, bet iš tiesų pasiilgsti visko."-Emily Gunnis, The Girl in the Letter
"Pavojinga lyginti save su kitais. Visą tiesą galime žinoti tik apie savo pačių gyvenimą."-Emily Gunnis, The Girl in the Letter
11. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
12. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
By: Gabrielle Glaser
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, th… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- adoption
13. A Friend in the Dark
By: Samantha M. Bailey
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A digital romance turns deadly... Eden Miller’s world is crumbling. Her husband blindsided her w… read more
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14. Pawprints On Our Hearts: How A Few Incredible Dogs Changed One Life Forever
By: Kerk Murray
4.36
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
"A powerful and emotional story." — Alyson Sheldrake, Bestselling author of Kat the Dog #1 Inte… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Spartacus’s confidence in himself was slowly restored, along with his capacity to trust, all because we chose to love him relentlessly."-Kerk Murray, Pawprints On Our Hearts: How A Few Incredible Dogs Changed One Life Forever
"Lexi became more than just a dog to me that summer. She was my confidant, a lantern in the darkness, an angel undercover. Whenever I think of her today, I realize just how fortunate I was to have her…"-Kerk Murray, Pawprints On Our Hearts: How A Few Incredible Dogs Changed One Life Forever
15. Where Waters Meet
By: Zhang Ling
3.86
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother’s secret life in an emotional and … read more
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16. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
By: Michelle Horton
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. Someone Else’s Life
By: Lyn Liao Butler
3.44
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
A new life in paradise should have healed her wounds. But for a woman struggling to hold on to her … read more
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18. The Lighthouse Sisters
By: Gill Thompson
4.39
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
1996: An elderly lady looks back at her life, remembering her experiences during the war on Jersey,… read more
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19. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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- nonfiction
- adoption
20. Skinfolk: A Memoir
By: Matthew Pratt Guterl
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Could a picturesque white house with a picket fence save the world? What if it was filled with chil… read more
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21. The Direction of the Wind
By: Mansi Shah
4.09
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
A heartfelt story that spans continents and generations, about a young woman who searches for answe… read more
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22. See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
By: Valarie Kaur
4.54
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valari… read more
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"Wonder is the wellspring for love"-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
"You are a part of me I do not yet know"-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
"I believe laboring in joy is the meaning of life."-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
"Grieving together, we ease each other’s suffering and come to know each other."-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
23. My Stepmother's Secret
By: Emma Robinson
4.23
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s in that moment, I realise – I have nowhere to turn. If my precious daughters and I are going t… read more
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24. Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption
By: Rebecca Christine Wellington
4.76
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. Adoption practices are woven into… read more
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- nonfiction
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25. Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
By: Harrison Mooney
4.35
Format: 304 pages, ebook
A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard--that of the child at the centre of a transracial a… read more
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26. Montpelier Tomorrow: A Novel
By: Marylee MacDonald
4.17
Format: 500 pages, Kindle Edition
A mid-life mom wanting a year of "me" time, Colleen Gallagher would do anything to protect her chil… read more
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27. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
By: Susan Kiyo Ito
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more
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28. Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Love
By: Marylee MacDonald
4.26
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Adopted at birth, Marylee’s parents told her she was a “chosen child.” She tried her hardest to mak… read more
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29. Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America
By: Lauren Rankin
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerfully empathetic and impeccably researched look at abortion clinic escorting Abortion has… read more
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- memoir
30. Hole in My Heart: Love and Loss in the Fault Lines of Adoption
By: Lorraine Dusky
4.34
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In the days before Roe v. Wade, an ambitious young journalist from the Midwest is abandoned by her … read more
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31. When Your Family Says No
By: Laya Martin
4.45
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
When Your Family Says No is an inside look at the Orthodox Jewish Community, told by a girl who fle… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Do it to perfection, or not at all."-Laya Martin, When Your Family Says No
