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Memories from a Decade Gone Mad
by Virginia Holman
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You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know
by Heather Sellers
Published Oct 2011
Read ReviewsAn unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness.
by Sarah Hannah
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsSarah Hannah follows her critically acclaimed first volume of poetry, Longing Distance, with Inflorescence, a compelling memoir-in-verse for her mother, Boston Expressionist painter Renee Rothbein, and their intense relationship in which they struggle with Rothbeins mental illness and eventual death from cancer.
by Robert B. Oxnam
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsThe harrowing, insightful, and courageous account of a prominent man's struggle with multiple personalities.
by Jeannette Walls
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave the author the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
by Lucy Grealy
Published Mar 2003
Read Reviews'Despite its unblinking stare at an excruciatingly painful subject, this is not a dour book. Autobiography of a Face is a book about image, about the tyranny of the image of a beautiful - or even pleasingly average - face. In the end, this tyranny is not so much overthrown as shrugged off.'
by Jennifer Lauck
Published Sep 2001
Read ReviewsAn incandescent memoir of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away.
by Wally Lamb
Published Apr 1999
Read ReviewsA heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness.
by Dave Pelzer
Published Aug 1997
Read ReviewsThe sequel to A Child Called "It" in which Pelzer answers questions and reveals new adventures through the compelling story of his life as an adolescent.
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