13 must-read nonfiction books like The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta von Trapp

Cover of The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta von Trapp

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

By: Maria Augusta von Trapp

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta von Trapp , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of And So It Goes: Adventures in Television by Linda Ellerbee

1. And So It Goes: Adventures in Television

By: Linda Ellerbee

3.74

Format: 306 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Examines the internal operations of television news and answers many basic journalistic questions b… read more

Similar categories in Linda Ellerbee's And So It Goes: Adventures in Television book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Keith, A: Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith

2. Keith, A: Three Came Home

By: Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old… read more

Similar categories in Agnes Newton Keith's Keith, A: Three Came Home book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you."

-Agnes Newton Keith, Keith, A: Three Came Home

Cover of Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig

3. Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

By: Jennifer Traig

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

DEVIL IN THE DETAILS announces Jennifer Traig as one of the most hilarious writers to emerge in rec… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Traig's Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness by Tom   Davis

4. A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness

By: Tom Davis

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

The story of a loving family coming to grips with its own fragilities, A Legacy of Madnessrelays th… read more

Similar categories in Tom Davis's A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. The Scent of God: A Memoir

By: Beryl Singleton Bissell

4.20

Format: 32 pages,

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Similar categories in Beryl Singleton Bissell's The Scent of God: A Memoir book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. The Year of Yes

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.20

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

"Why not go out on a date with everyone who asks you? Plenty of reasons. They might be crazy. They … read more

Similar categories in Maria Dahvana Headley's The Year of Yes book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been good in both bed and brain. No. A slew of the so-so."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

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7. My Prison Without Bars: The Journey of a Damaged Woman to Someplace Normal

By: Taylor Evan Fulks

5.00

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

2014 GLOBAL eBOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2014 eLIT EXCELLENCE AWARD GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2013 INDIE … read more

Similar categories in Taylor Evan Fulks's My Prison Without Bars: The Journey of a Damaged Woman to Someplace Normal book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. The Possibility of Everything

By: Hope Edelman

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman's sea… read more

Similar categories in Hope Edelman's The Possibility of Everything book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta von Trapp

9. The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

By: Maria Augusta von Trapp

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and … read more

Similar categories in Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • music
  • classics
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

10. Agathe Von Trapp: Memories Before and After the Sound of Music

By: None

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this compelling autobiography, Agathe von Trapp shares the true story behind the film legend, Th… read more

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11. Go West, Young Woman!: From Military Wife to Country Life

By: None

3.72

Format: 224 pages,

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12. Love, Janis

By: None

5.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A revealing and intimate biography about Janis Joplin, the Queen of Classic Rock, written by her yo… read more

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13. The Girl with the White Flag: A Spellbinding Account of Love and Courage in Wartime Okinawa

By: Tomiko Higa , Dorothy Britton

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New York Newsdaycalled this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan "one of the saddest and yet most… read more

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14. 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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15. On the Couch

By: Lorraine Bracco

4.24

Format: 185 pages,

The star of "The Sopranos" opens up about her career, her marriages, her determination to be a good… read more

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Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

16. 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

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • nonfiction
Cover of Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too by Cindy Rollins

17. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

Similar categories in Cindy Rollins's Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • nonfiction
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

18. 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

Similar categories in Anne Michaud's Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

19. 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

Similar categories in Aimee Cabo Nikolov's Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love book and Maria Augusta von Trapp's The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

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-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

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-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

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-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

Cover of The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare by Melanie Lutz

20. The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare

By: Melanie Lutz

3.97

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

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"The soul knows where it belongs, not some of the time, all of the time. When you strip everything away and get bare that fact sings."

-Melanie Lutz, The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare

"Home was within.
 Home was without.
 Home was here and now. 
Home was everything that already was and always is. There were so many chases and trips, and directions and events and places and experime…"

-Melanie Lutz, The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare

Cover of 走得越远,离自己越近 The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me by Hong  Mei

21. 走得越远,离自己越近 The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me

By: Hong Mei

3.64

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hong Mei's (洪梅) debut travelogue, The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me (走得越远,离自己越近), takes re… read more

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And So It Goes: Adventures in Television

Linda Ellerbee

3.74

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Keith, A: Three Came Home

Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

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Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

Jennifer Traig

3.87

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Tom Davis

3.50

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Jennifer Niven

3.16

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Lori Space Day

3.95

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Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope

Xavier Francisco Amador , Amanda LaPera , Xavier Amador

4.82

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Johanna Garton

3.72

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