6 best-selling nonfiction books like Hope in the Hard Places: How to Survive When Your World Feels Out of Control by Sarah Beckman

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Hope in the Hard Places: How to Survive When Your World Feels Out of Control

By: Sarah Beckman

4.74

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Hope in the Hard Places is a practical, encouraging guidebook for the weary soul looking for hope i…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Hope in the Hard Places: How to Survive When Your World Feels Out of Control by Sarah Beckman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Happiness for Beginners

By: Katherine Center

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger br… read more

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2. How to Walk Away

By: Katherine Center

4.08

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the pro… read more

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"It's the trying that heals you. That's all you have to do. Just try."

-Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

"Needing to find reasons to live had forced me to build a life worth living."

-Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

"When you don't know what to do for yourself, do something for somebody else."

-Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

"You can't fix everything. Not even close. But you can look for reasons to be grateful. More than that, you can work to create them."

-Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

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3. I Am: A 60-Day Journey to Knowing Who You Are Because of Who He Is

By: Michele Cushatt

4.13

Format: 260 pages,

From the moment a woman wakes until she falls, exhausted, on her pillow, one question plagues her a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

By: Lysa TerKeurst

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Relationships are wonderful . . . until they're not. Join #1 New York Times bestselling author L… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Love can be unconditional but relational access never should be"

-Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

"Trauma isn't just something that happens to you. It happens in you"

-Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

"Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be"

-Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

"If we want recovery and healing we would be wise to take a break or possibly make a clean break from the one wounding us>"

-Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

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5. These Precious Days: Essays

By: Ann Patchett

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more

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  • nonfiction
"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

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6. Don’t Forget to Write

By: Sara Goodman Confino

4.50

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and … read more

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7. Things You Save in a Fire

By: Katherine Center

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

9 hours, 36 minutes Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefigh… read more

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"It's amazing how brave you can be when you feel safe."

-Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

"That's just the human condition, sweetheart. We're always doomed to waste our time."

-Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

"Because when everyone else is panicking, when the entire whole world is freaking out -- that's when I get calm."

-Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

"The best revenge is marrying a kind hearted guy with a washboard stomach who brings you coffee in bed every morning."

-Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

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8. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Amy Bloom

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

By: Jay Wellons

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. What You Wish For

By: Katherine Center

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passio… read more

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"If you never let yourself want anything,"

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"We made a choice to do joy on purpose. Not in spite of life’s sorrows. But because of them."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"...courage makes everything easier next time. And I'm not going to let you live your life in fear."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

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11. The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

By: Laura Imai Messina

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of sur… read more

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"We're still parents, even when our children are no longer here."

-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

"It isn't just the best things that come to an end, but also the worst."

-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

"It was the right moment. It always is when something beautiful happens."

-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

"We need to possess joy in abundance before we can bestow it on somebody else."

-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

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12. We All Want Impossible Things

By: Catherine Newman

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more

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"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."

-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

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13. Hope in the Hard Places: How to Survive When Your World Feels Out of Control

By: Sarah Beckman

4.74

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Hope in the Hard Places is a practical, encouraging guidebook for the weary soul looking for hope i… read more

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  • nonfiction

21 best-selling audiobook books like In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom

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4.03

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3.99

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4.28

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3.91

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