My Dead Parents: A Memoir
By: Anya Yurchyshyn
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“In this beautifully written, poignant, honest, and unflinching work, the author takes readers with…
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1. The Art of Hiding
By: Amanda Prowse
4.14
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
What would you do if you learned that the life you lived was a lie? Nina McCarrick lives the perfe… read more
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2. Replay
By: Ken Grimwood
4.15
Format: 311 pages, Paperback
Jeff Winston was 43 and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when … read more
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"Sometimes isolation can be shared."-Ken Grimwood, Replay
"He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well."-Ken Grimwood, Replay
"Someone—Plato, I think—once said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' " "True. But a life too closely scrutinized will lead to madness, if not suicide."-Ken Grimwood, Replay
"Until I die again, perhaps. Until the next replay. Then it all vanishes." Jeff shook his head, his arm tightly around her shoulders. "Only the products of your work will disappear. The struggle, the …"-Ken Grimwood, Replay
3. Not My Father's Son
By: Alan Cumming
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Dark, painful memories can be put away to be forgotten. Until one day they all flood back in horrib… read more
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4. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
By: Keri Blakinger
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more
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5. Out of the Corner
By: Jennifer Grey
3.81
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the ic… read more
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6. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- history
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7. Between Two Trailers
By: J. Dana Trent
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more
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8. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
9. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
10. The Other Mother
By: Rachel M. Harper
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning generational saga about a young man's search for a parent he never knew, and a movi… read more
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11. The Last Queen
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR! … read more
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"Adoration is a powerful intoxicant."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
"Fame: it’s a drug more potent than opium"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
"People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
12. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
13. Libertie
By: Kaitlyn Greenidge
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns w… read more
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"Being a mother means being someone's God, if only briefly."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"If I burn her words, I will be free of whatever she wants of me. Instead I stuffed the papers back in my drawer."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"And I decided when you were born that I would hide my heart from you, because I worried I would love you into nervous oblivion."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
14. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
By: Clemantine Wamariya
4.19
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of the imagination to save us Clemantine … read more
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"Now it felt like I did nothing. I had everything and I did nothing."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
"When you don't belong to a country, the world decides that you don't deserve a thing."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
"But clean, in that dress, holding Marietta and Freddy’s hands, I felt like somebody’s somebody."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
"She wanted to tell a true story, a complete story. No ending ever felt right. History made it hard."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
15. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
By: Laila Lalami
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize… read more
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"Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"White" is seen as the default, the absence of race. ...Whiteness, then, is shrouded in silence. To speak about it openly is to break a taboo."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
16. Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
By: Anna Qu
3.85
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerf… read more
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17. 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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18. Resurrection
By: Danielle Steel
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Darcy Gray is a successful influencer with her blog, The Gray Zone, trusted by more than a million … read more
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19. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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20. My Dead Parents: A Memoir
By: Anya Yurchyshyn
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“In this beautifully written, poignant, honest, and unflinching work, the author takes readers with… read more
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21. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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