The Liars' Club
By: Mary Karr
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. I…
Want to Read $ 13.99"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
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1. 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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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"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
2. The Zookeeper's Daughter
By: Lori Space Day
3.95
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
The Zookeeperas Daughter is the journal of Lori Space Day, a third generation zoologist. Growing up… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
3. Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy
By: Dorothy Allred Solomon
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
"Probably the best book ever written about polygamy. Neither an apologia nor an exposé."― Salt Lake… read more
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4. Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America
By: Lily Burana
3.38
Format: None pages,
There's no business like the sex business -- or is there? In this poignant, bittersweet, sometimes … read more
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5. Running With Scissors
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more
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- biography
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
6. A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
By: Jane Juska
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
“Round-heeled” is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous—someone who nowadays might … read more
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- nonfiction
- womens
7. 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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8. The Sunset Strip Diaries
By: Amy Asbury
4.50
Format: None pages,
There comes a time in every girl's life, where she has to choose good or choose bad. Amy Asbury cho… read more
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9. Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22
By: MariNaomi
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine… read more
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10. The Kiss
By: Kathryn Harrison
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
We meet at airports. We meet in cities where we've never been before. We meet where no one will rec… read more
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11. The Liars' Club
By: Mary Karr
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. I… read more
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- coming of age
- autobiography
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- nonfiction
- womens
- adult
- book club
"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,"-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
12. This Boy's Life
By: Tobias Wolff
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff… read more
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13. So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village
By: Jill Kandel
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
In 1981, Jill Kandel traveled to the remote Zambian village of Kalabo. She was a bride of six weeks… read more
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14. Paper Daughter: A Memoir
By: None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
When she was five years old, M. Elaine Mar and her mother emigrated from Hong Kong to Denver to joi… read more
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15. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
By: Steven Lomazow
4.33
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more
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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
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
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- nonfiction
17. 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
18. 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
- adult
- 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
19. Sasha and Olga
By: Eva Maria Chapman
3.98
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
As the British Historian, Norman Davies siad, 'No nation lost more people in the 20th century than … read more
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20. An American Childhood
By: Annie Dillard
3.91
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having… read more
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- adult
"I myself was both observer and observable, and so a possible object of my own humming awareness."-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
"Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit."-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
"Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dy…"-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
21. Píseň L.
By: Veronika Opatřilová
4.42
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Šlechtický sirotek na anglickém středověkém hrabství má život předem nalinkovaný: Odejde do klášter… read more
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