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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1. The Million Dollar Mermaid
By: Esther Williams , Digby Diehl
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
During Hollywood's heyday, big studios battled over the next box-office attraction. While Gene Kell… read more
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2. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
By: Mary McCarthy
3.72
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood t… read more
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"I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into some…"-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
"I have sometimes thought that Catholicism is a religion not suited to the laity, or not suited, at any rate, to the American laity, in whom it seems to bring out some of the worst traits in human nat…"-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
"I felt caught in a dilemma that was new to me then but which since has become horribly familiar: the trap of adult life, in which you are held, wriggling, powerless to act because you can see both si…"-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
"I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a…"-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
3. Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
By: Martha N. Beck
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
As "Mormon royalty" within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised … read more
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- nonfiction
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5. 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
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"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
6. Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think
By: Cybill Shepherd , Aimee Lee Ball
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
From Model to Moonlighting, from Elvis to Bruce Willis to motherhood to a behind-the-scenes inside … read more
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7. Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir
By: Lillian Faderman
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman was the only child of an uneducated and unmarried immigrant Jewish w… read more
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8. 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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9. My Hero, My Ding
By: Lisa A. Tortorello
4.05
Format: 128 pages, Perfect Paperback
'I awoke in the darkness listening to the sound of a jack hammer. After a few moments, I realized i… read more
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"It’s often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong."-Lisa A. Tortorello, My Hero, My Ding
10. Ghost No More
By: CeeCee James
4.03
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
How do you keep fighting for hope, when everything around you is tearing hope down? Five year old C… read more
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11. Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
By: Debra Ginsberg
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A veteran waitress dishes up a spicy and robust account of life as it really exists behind kitchen … read more
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12. Out on a Limb
By: Shirley MacLaine
4.39
Format: None pages,
U ovoj dojmljivoj i dirljivoj prici Shirley Maclaine poziva nas da je slijedimo na jedinstvenom put… read more
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13. A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
By: Lisa Frazier Page , Carlotta Walls LaNier
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on Se… read more
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14. Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper
By: Gypsy Rose Lee , None
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical,… read more
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15. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s
By: Emily Kimbrough , Cornelia Otis Skinner
4.20
Format: None pages,
Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough offer a lighthearted, hilarious memoir… read more
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16. The Three Witches and The Master
By: Max Nowaz
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more
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"Where’s my uncle?"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
17. 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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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
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- 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
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
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"#metooasachild"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
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"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
20. The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory Unbound
By: Shirley Abbott
3.86
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
This deeply felt memoir is a journey through family history, feminist insight, and southern mytholo… read more
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21. The Places Left Unfilled
By: M.C. Cauley
4.09
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
My dressed up corpse and this secret; those were the two things I knew for certain I'd take to my g… read more
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