Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
By: Yang Erche Namu , Christine Mathieu
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This widely acclaimed memoir transports us to the remote reaches of the Himalayas, to a place the C…
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1. Let Me Go
By: Helga Schneider
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Unforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a haunting memoir of World War II that "won’t let … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Hoy te vuelvo a ver, madre, después de veintisiete años, y me pregunto si durante todo este tiempo has sido consciente de cuánto daño has hecho a tus hijos. (…) Es difícil decirlo: no siento nada. Al…"-Helga Schneider, Let Me Go
"Durante una pausa en las intervenciones, se me acercó una mujer, superviviente de Birkenau. Me miró fijamente a los ojos y luego explotó a quemarropa: —¡La odio! Por un instante me quedé sin habla. —…"-Helga Schneider, Let Me Go
2. Mary Chesnut's Civil War
By: C. Vann Woodward , Mary Boykin Chesnut
3.83
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An authorized account of the Civil War, for which editor C. Vann Woodward won the 1982 Pulitzer Pri… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
3. I, Tina
By: None , Kurt Loder , Tina Turner
4.13
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
The popular recording star recounts her modest beginnings, her rise to fame with Ike Turner, the he… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
4. Unbowed
By: Wangari Maathai
4.06
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, t… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"You don't need a diploma to plant a tree."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"What people see as fearlessness is really persistence."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded..."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finchè potete."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
5. Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story
By: Tim Jones , Libby Riddles
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Libby Riddles wanted an adventure. At the age of 16 she left home for the snowy frontiers of Alaska… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
6. Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
By: John Bidwell , Kris Holloway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
7. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
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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
8. Voluntary Nomads: A Mother's Memories of Foreign Service Family Life
By: Nancy Pogue LaTurner
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nancy LaTurner's engaging memoir begins in 1974 as her young family struggles without a livelihood … read more
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9. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
10. Raising Demons
By: Shirley Jackson
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Life Among the Savages charmed thousands with its insightful wit and contrasting warmth. In this se… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
11. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
By: Jean Rhys , Diana Athill
4.06
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
Jean Rhys' unfinished posthumous autobiography. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time i… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
12. Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
By: Yang Erche Namu , Christine Mathieu
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This widely acclaimed memoir transports us to the remote reaches of the Himalayas, to a place the C… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- china
13. Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business
By: Dolly Parton
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
In concerts, movies and on TV, Dolly Parton's singing and honest-to-God personality has charmed mil… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
14. Stet: An Editor's Life
By: Diana Athill
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a gui… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
15. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
By: Sara Pascoe
4.30
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more
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"What’s “ague?"-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
16. Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
By: Paula Fox
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
17. So Far Away: A Daughter's Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love
By: Christine W. Hartmann
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Christine Hartmann's mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her comman… read more
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18. Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
By: Jen Lancaster
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
This is the story of how a haughty former sorority girl went from having a household income of almo… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack."-Jen Lancaster, Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
"No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning..."-Jen Lancaster, Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
"You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce."-Jen Lancaster, Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
"I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will give me enough money not only to live a comfortable existence, but also to buy many, man…"-Jen Lancaster, Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
19. In the Shadow of Man
By: Jane Goodall , Hugo van Lawick , None
4.36
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
This best-selling classic tells the story of one of world's greatest scientific adventuresses. Jane… read more
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- biography
- memoir
"At that moment there was no need of any scientific knowledge to understand his communication of reassurance. The soft pressure of his fingers spoke to me not through my intellect but through a more p…"-Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man
20. 2005 - Thanks for the Vodka
By: Karl Wiggins , Harpie
3.91
Format: 525 pages, Kindle Edition
If you only read one book this year, make it this one You won’t find another book like this anywhe… read more
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21. Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
By: Geraldine Brooks
3.66
Format: 352 pages,
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22. Cutted Chicken in Shanghai
By: Sharon Winters
4.01
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
An American woman takes a cultural fling into China and finds humorous and engaging adventures as h… read more
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- china
- nonfiction
23. The Cost of Hope: A Memoir
By: Amanda Bennett
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memo… read more
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24. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
By: None
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than… read more
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25. Beautiful Affliction
By: Lene Fogelberg
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lene Fogelberg is dying--she is sure of it--but no doctor in Sweden, her home country, believes her… read more
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26. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
By: Yvonne Korshak
4.29
Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition
STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more
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"Temples are for the gods,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
27. 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
28. 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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- 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
29. 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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- nonfiction
- 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
30. French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley (Book 1)
By: Linda Kovic-Skow
3.83
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
A futile lie. She does not speak French. She knows it was wrong to accept the nanny position. Yo… read more
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31. The Daughter Of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
By: Widad Akreyi
4.20
Format: None pages, ebook
WINNER of the PACEM IN TERRIS PEACE AND FREEDOM AWARD The Kurdish activist who became a global i… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- asia
- nonfiction
"It is only with the setting of the sun that one can judge how well the day had gone. Looking back through the vista of time, I can analyse and assess why I fought hard for my right to say no to joini…"-Widad Akreyi, The Daughter Of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
