Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets, and Second Chances
By: Carlyn MontesDeOca
4.53
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Carlyn Montes De Oca grew up surrounded by secrets. She never knew her dad was a Marine during Worl…
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1. Even This I Get to Experience
By: Norman Lear
4.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written... An absolute treasure." --Book… read more
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2. Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
By: Rachel Dratch
4.25
Format: None pages,
In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Livestar recounts the hilarious adventures… read more
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3. A Fine Romance
By: Candice Bergen
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the follow-up to Knock Wood--her bestselling "engaging, intelligent, and wittily self-deprecatin… read more
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4. Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir
By: None
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"I invited the child I was once to have her say in these pages. I am the one who came out on the ot… read more
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5. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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6. Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)
By: Tom J. Bross
4.25
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in a… read more
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"One of my nipples is noticeably larger than the other two."-Tom J. Bross, Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)
7. Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #2)
By: Tom J. Bross
4.52
Format: 311 pages, ebook
Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in a… read more
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8. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
9. The Wives: A Memoir
By: Simone Gorrindo
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army … read more
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10. Worthy
By: Jada Pinkett Smith
3.64
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator… read more
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11. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
By: Geena Davis
4.04
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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12. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir
By: Farah Naz Rishi
4.23
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more
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13. Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
By: Julie Ryan McGue
4.25
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack bo… read more
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14. 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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15. Monkeys on the Road: One family's vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life
By: Mary Hollendoner
4.60
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A family road trip adventure from California to Argentina, finishing up just a few months ago in mi… read more
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16. 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
17. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
By: Owen Elliot-Kugell
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more
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18. Everywhere I Look: A Memoir
By: Ona Gritz
4.47
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
In 1982, twenty-five-year-old Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered, a… read more
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19. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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20. Three Years A Traveler: One woman, One dog, Seven Rvs, and the path less traveled to heal the heart
By: Leslie White
4.31
Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition
Leslie White knew she wanted more out of life- She found it in an unlikely place.Devastated from th… read more
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21. The Ugly Cry
By: Danielle Henderson
4.26
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who wanted to start a new family with her drug-addicted, abu… read more
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"Grandma had been encouraging me to castrate men since I was old enough to know what dicks even were."-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
"Danielle Elizabeth Henderson! Get your ass over here!' she shouted. Grandma always used my full name when she was angry. None of the shoppers around her turned a head or lifted a finger to help; in t…"-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
"My grandparents got creative to make space for three kids in their two-bedroom home. They took one of the bedrooms, my mom and aunt shared the other, and my uncle Bobby slept on the screened-in porch…"-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
22. Your Secret My Story
By: Kate Kendall
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
As an adoptee, do you have mixed feelings about your adoption? Kate Kendall is an adoptee, and in t… read more
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23. Buried Secrets: Looking for Frank and Ida
By: Anne Hanson
4.36
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
WHEN ANNE HANSON’S DAD FIRST ASKED her to investigate the secret past of his parents, little did sh… read more
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24. Finding Karen Black: Roots Become Wings
By: Diane Bay
4.32
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
A heartwarming and bittersweet true mother-daughter story. Finding Karen Black begins with the d… read more
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25. Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #3)
By: Tom J. Bross
4.62
Format: 387 pages, ebook
Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in a… read more
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26. Storked!: Adoption Secrecy and the Search for Identity
By: K.C. Sanford
4.08
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
From nothing, she had to craft something, and that something happened to be all of her. Baby Gir… read more
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27. Evergreen Lodge: A Memoir
By: Tom J. Bross
4.48
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
From the #1 Bestselling Author of Don't Call Me Jupiter comes Evergreen A Memoir, a hilarious and … read more
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28. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth
By: Minu Cash
4.53
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more
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"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth
29. Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets, and Second Chances
By: Carlyn MontesDeOca
4.53
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Carlyn Montes De Oca grew up surrounded by secrets. She never knew her dad was a Marine during Worl… read more
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30. Birthmother: The True Story of a 40-Year Search
By: Barbara Raye
4.03
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
Every mother who gives up a baby for adoption probably wonders about the child for the rest of her … read more
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31. A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
By: Mark Steven Porro
4.69
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
2024 NYC Big Book Award Winner 2024 Paris Book Festival Winner 2024 Readers' Favorite Internation… read more
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"Neither of my parents swore. When Mom got mad, she’d say, “Nincompoop, I’m fed up,"-Mark Steven Porro, A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
"Somehow the conversation drifted to G-string bathing suits (or as I call them, “anal floss"-Mark Steven Porro, A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
"To cheer up my Irish mother I did the Riverdance, which my Mom laugh but made my shins cry."-Mark Steven Porro, A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
"Little did I know when I embarked on this journey that Mom would be the least of my troubles."-Mark Steven Porro, A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
