10 best-selling nonfiction books like Wednesday's Children: The Memoirs of a Nurse-Turned-Social-Worker in Rural Appalachia by Kathryn Anne Michaels

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Wednesday's Children: The Memoirs of a Nurse-Turned-Social-Worker in Rural Appalachia

By: Kathryn Anne Michaels

4.35

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Delivering welfare babies, warding off voodoo spells, and living in a town that still seems to be f…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Wednesday's Children: The Memoirs of a Nurse-Turned-Social-Worker in Rural Appalachia by Kathryn Anne Michaels , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Shadow Days

By: Melinda Clayton

4.22

Format: 166 pages, ebook

On the anniversary of her husband’s death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unm… read more

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2. Appalachian Daughter

By: Mary Jane Salyers

4.03

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

“Appalachian Daughter grabbed me Friday afternoon, and except for the time for sleeping and necessa… read more

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3. A Redbird Christmas

By: Fannie Flagg

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe comes her latest New York … read more

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4. The Kinfolk

By: Eliza Maxwell

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

Along the banks of the Neches river, surrounded by the dense piney woods of east Texas, where the h… read more

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5. If The Creek Don't Rise

By: Leah Weiss

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in sou… read more

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6. A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church

By: Gregg Olsen

3.62

Format: 176 pages,

New York Timesbestselling author Gregg Olsen investigates the sensational story of a minister who s… read more

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7. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity

By: Lisa Suzanne Nugent

4.17

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

For many, madness is something read about in books or seen on TV—something scary, foreign, and impo… read more

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9. 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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  • nonfiction
"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)

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10. Running From The Mirror

By: Howard Shulman

4.45

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that devoured his nose, l… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far better than anything I could ever have imagined."

-Howard Shulman, Running From The Mirror

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11. Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

By: Teresa Van Woy

4.56

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Abducted by her mentally unstable mother, one girl forages her way to the top. "A gripping account… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Crow Mary

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.33

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more

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13. Charlotte

By: J.S. Anthony

4.39

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

When the least likely person in your life becomes the one who means the most. Charlotte’s father… read more

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14. October in the Earth

By: Olivia Hawker

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powe… read more

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15. Threshing of Straw

By: Kim Catron

4.51

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkabl… read more

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16. Eventide: A Novel of the Southern Appalachians

By: Terri Fabel

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Eventide is a story about the deep and abiding love two sister have for each other as they struggle… read more

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17. Earl, Honey

By: D.S. Getson

4.53

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

EARL HAHN is slow, the last one to catch on to things. Since the day his father hit him in the head… read more

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18. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

By: Gregg Olsen

3.55

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Out of the Dust

By: Joyce E. Patterson

4.24

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more

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20. Quilly

By: Jan Strickland

4.55

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

What was it like to be biracial in the early 1900’s in a small white southern town where the divisi… read more

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21. After All...

By: Maria Trautman

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

She grew up thinking she deserved neglect. Can a young girl escape a loveless home to seize elusive… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. My Name Is Ona Judge

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.27

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

New Hampshire, 1796. “My name is Ona Judge,and I escaped from the household of the President of the… read more

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"If freedom ever knocks on your door same as it did for Mathilda and Noble... open it !"

-Suzette D. Harrison, My Name Is Ona Judge

"Finding Miss Ona's journal and reading her story was a lesson in dignity. She'd been a person owned by other persons. Yet when faced with the reality of being "gifted" to yet another master, she knew…"

-Suzette D. Harrison, My Name Is Ona Judge

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23. The Missing Daughter

By: Emily Gunnis

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Girl in the Letter comes a heartwrenching, twisting n… read more

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24. The Paper Bracelet

By: Rachael English

4.33

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Every baby's bracelet held a mother's secret... Inspired by heartrending real events, the grippi… read more

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25. The River

By: Kevin Weadock

4.31

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The impact of alcoholism on a New York family is described through the eyes of a young boy. The boy… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Home for Erring and Outcast Girls

By: Julie Kibler

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, followin… read more

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27. Hideaway

By: Nicole Lundrigan

3.78

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

What if home is the most dangerous place you can be? For fans of Room and readers of Shari Lapena.… read more

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28. Stolen

By: Rebecca Petty

4.48

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

“Andi’s missing,” said the frantic caller. A call that changed the trajectory of many lives.May 15,… read more

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29. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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30. Will You Help Me?: Ralph’s true story of abuse, secrets and lies

By: Maggie Hartley

4.81

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?'Six-year-old Ralph has only been i… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Wednesday's Children: The Memoirs of a Nurse-Turned-Social-Worker in Rural Appalachia

By: Kathryn Anne Michaels

4.35

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Delivering welfare babies, warding off voodoo spells, and living in a town that still seems to be f… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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3.78

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4.47

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