Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
By: Jessica Alexander
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
An eye-opening and intimate memoir about life as an international humanitarian aid worker in the fi…
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1. Letters and Journals
By: Katherine Mansfield , C.K. Stead
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
'Now - now I want to write recollections of my own country. Yes, I want to write about my own count… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humil…"-Katherine Mansfield, Letters and Journals
2. A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
By: Molly Wizenberg
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Molly Wizenberg's father died of cancer, everyone told her to go easy on herself, to hold off … read more
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- nonfiction
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"Even the Thanksgiving when her parents had just divorced, Hoosier Pie made the cut. ...They also, incidentally, made a pumpkin pie, but it fell on the floor, a classic example of survival of the fitt…"-Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
3. Amelia's Story: A Childhood Lost (Amelia #1)
By: D.G. Torrens
3.66
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
A life of pain and rejection. This is a powerful true story of one young girls struggle to surviv… read more
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4. 2003 - Thanks for the Vodka
By: Karl Wiggins , Harpie
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Kindle Edition
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5. Forever Liesl
By: Charmian Carr , Jean A.S. Strauss , Jean A. S. Strauss
4.00
Format: None pages,
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- nonfiction
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- memoir
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7. Not a Perfect Fit: Stories from Jane's World
By: Jane A. Schmidt
3.93
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Not a Perfect Fit is a collection of stories that are laugh-out-loud funny one minute and thought-p… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
By: Jessica Alexander
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
An eye-opening and intimate memoir about life as an international humanitarian aid worker in the fi… read more
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- africa
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- politics
- nonfiction
9. The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
By: Gioconda Belli , Kristina Cordero
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
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10. In Search Of My Sexy Old Self: Re-discovering sex after sixty and beyond
By: Cathy Thomas
4.10
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Why has sex just stopped? That's the question Cathy asks herself when sexual intimacy dwindles and … read more
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11. From This Moment On
By: Shania Twain
3.50
Format: 270 pages,
The world may know Shania Twain as many things: a music legend, a mother, and recently, a fixture i… read more
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12. An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
By: Lillian Hellman , Wendy Wasserstein
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the … read more
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"[France] may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant."-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
"As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain."-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
"I found that Dottie's middle age, old age, made rock of much that had been fluid, and eccentricities once charming became too strange for safety or comfort."-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
"Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good."-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
13. Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
By: None , P.D. James
3.91
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
On the day she turned seventy-seven, internationally acclaimed mystery writer P. D. James embarked … read more
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- biography
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"It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters."-None, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
"The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality."-None, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
"Even as a child, I had a sense that I was two people; the one who experienced the trauma, the pain, the happiness, and the other who stood aside and watched with a disinterested ironic eye."-None, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
"There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their …"-None, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
14. Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
By: Damien Brown
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A powerful, surprisingly funny, and ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical front line,… read more
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15. The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
By: Jasmin Darznik
3.80
Format: 8 pages, Hardcover
We were a world of two, my mother and I, until I started turning into an American girl. That's when… read more
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16. Find Me
By: Rosie O'Donnell
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
Part memoir, part mystery, a compelling tale that will break readers' hearts even as it heals them. read more
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17. An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
By: James Orbinski
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Hardcover
As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor's role is as a witness-to witness authentically the reality of hu… read more
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18. Let Me Get This Off My Chest: A Breast Cancer Survivor Over-Shares
By: Margaret Lesh
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Tamoxifen hot flashes, mastectomy, reconstruction, breast cancer etiquette, Frankenboobs, bras with… read more
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19. Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
By: Andrew Thomson , None , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the early 1990s three young people attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN… read more
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20. My Several Worlds
By: Pearl S. Buck
4.14
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Autobiography of Pearl S Buck. A memoir of the life of the first female Nobel Laureate for Literat… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance."-Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds
"in any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until someday inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle."-Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds
"I can only say that in old Asia where the soldier was given no honor and war was without glory, there arose a culture which emphasized learning and wisdom and which produced no great and soul-racking…"-Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds
"I will not dwell on that sad time, for the bones of those young men and women are already dust. But I learned then that the same cruelties can be committed by any man who has the will to crush those …"-Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds
21. Education Of A Princess A Memoir By Marie, Grand Duchess Of Russia
By: None
3.87
Format: None pages,
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22. Knee Deep in Paradise
By: None
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
The star of the popular ABC-TV series Grace Under Fire recounts her childhood in the South as the d… read more
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23. Faithfull
By: David Dalton , Marianne Faithfull
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This is a memoir by Marianne Faithfull, recounting her days in the swinging '60s. She recalls her l… read more
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24. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind
By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon
4.29
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
By: Anne Michaud
4.29
Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more
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"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
26. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov
4.30
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more
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- biography
"#metooasachild"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
"We can be beacons of light"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
"Unconditional Love conquers all!"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
27. #uncensored: inside the animal liberation movement
By: Camille Marino
4.13
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
In her best-selling memoir, Camille Marino's astonishing odyssey rapidly unravels in raw and compel… read more
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28. The Thirty-Ninth Victim
By: Arleen Williams
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The Green River murders were headline news throughout the 1980s. By the time the perpetrator was se… read more
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29. Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir
By: Angie Cavallari
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Trailer Trash tells the story of Angie Cavallari, your typical girl growing up in the 1980s who fin… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Most days Florence would proudly sport a halter top sans a brassiere and briskly march across her yard in crudely trimmed cut-off-jeans —her cheap flip flops flailing off her feet and her sagging bre…"-Angie Cavallari, Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir
30. Unwifeable: A Memoir
By: Mandy Stadtmiller
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Provocative, fearless, and dizzyingly uncensored, Mandy spills every secret she knows about dating,… read more
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31. The Triumph of Rosemary
By: Marylin E. Atkins
3.98
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted fro… read more
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