Were You Close?: A Sister's Quest to Know the Brother She Lost
By: Anne Pinkerton
4.63
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
★★★★★ “ A masterful guide to loving and losing the extraordinary among us .” Mary E. Plouffe Ph.D.,…
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1. Forget Me Not
By: Ellie Terry
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A girl with Tourette syndrome starts a new school and tries to hide her quirks in this debut middle… read more
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2. 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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- memoir
3. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- memoir
4. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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5. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
6. The Celebrants
By: Steven Rowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more
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"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
7. The Invisible Hour
By: Alice Hoffman
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The latest New York Times bestseller from beloved author Alice Hoffman celebrates the enduring magi… read more
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"A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read."-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
"Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again."-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
8. I Must Be Dreaming
By: Roz Chast
3.65
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more
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- memoir
9. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
10. Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me
By: Erin Khar
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.” — New York Times… read more
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- memoir
11. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Natasha Trethewey
4.25
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot… read more
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"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
12. 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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13. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
By: Kristine S. Ervin
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more
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- memoir
14. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
By: Elizabeth Crane
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more
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- memoir
15. Body Friend
By: Katherine Brabon
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more
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16. The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays
By: Athena Dixon
3.55
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
I am overwhelmingly lonely. And I cannot believe that doesn’t matter and I will not believe there a… read more
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17. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- memoir
18. Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide
By: Mae Bunseng Taing
4.49
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A courageous and poignant memoir of one young man’s daring escape from Cambodia’s genocidal regime … read more
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19. 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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20. Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature
By: Jennifer Lang
4.64
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
★★★★★ “For anyone who has ever loved deeply and been willing to take risks for the sake of love.” R… read more
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21. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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22. Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss
By: Eileen Vorbach Collins
4.96
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bere… read more
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23. Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences
By: Gila Pfeffer
4.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How far would you go to save your own life? In this funny and heartfelt memoir, Gila Pfeffer recoun… read more
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24. Were You Close?: A Sister's Quest to Know the Brother She Lost
By: Anne Pinkerton
4.63
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
★★★★★ “ A masterful guide to loving and losing the extraordinary among us .” Mary E. Plouffe Ph.D.,… read more
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25. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide
By: Rachel Zimmerman
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more
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26. The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared
By: Casey Mulligan Walsh
4.98
Format: 323 pages, ebook
Casey needs a family: the joys and sorrows, people who love her, and a place she belongs—what Zorba… read more
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27. The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide
By: Gayle Brandeis
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis's wrenching memoir of her complicated family history… read more
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28. Home is a Made-Up Place
By: Ronit Plank
4.57
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Home is a Made-Up Place invites readers into the lives of people grappling with emotional injuries … read more
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29. Always a Sibling: The Forgotten Mourner's Guide to Grief
By: Annie Sklaver Orenstein
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A practical, compassionate guide to sibling loss, with research, stories, and strategies for “forgo… read more
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30. Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir
By: Paul Rousseau
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One month before his college graduation, Paul Rousseau is accidentally shot in the head by his room… read more
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31. Bold Kindness: A Caring, More Compassionate Way to Lead
By: Cathy Thorpe
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
How to Create an Engaged, Empowered, Self-Led Team Imagine a workplace where people can be thems… read more
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