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Include books by the same authorBad Blood: A Memoir
Lorna Sage · 288 pages
"Lorna Sage's adventure in autobiography is an anatomy of three marriages that brings to life her girlhood in postwar provincial Britain. Her early childhood was dominated by her brilliant, bitter grandfather, a drinker, a womanizer, a vicar, exiled to a remote village on the Welsh border. His wife loathed him, lived on memories, and shook her fist at any parishioner bold enough to call at the hou
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson · 240 pages
Memories of the author about her difficult childhood as the adopted daughter of an English mother with strong religious convictions, and her subsequent search for her biological mother.
Mommie Dearest
Christina Crawford · 294 pages
Mommie Dearest (1981) Based on the book about Joan Crawford, one of the great Hollywood actresses of our time, written by her adopted daughter Christina Crawford. Joan decides to adopt children of her own to fill a void in her life. Yet, her problems with alcohol, men, and the pressures of show business get in the way of her personal life, turning her into a mentally abusive wreck seen through
Daddy's Little Secret: Pregnant at 14 and There's Only One Man Who Can Be the Father
Tina Davis · 336 pages
Bulletproof
Maci Bookout · 189 pages
"Maci Bookout was just a normal, slightly overachieving high school girl in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But then she got pregnant, and everything turned upside down. Even as she rose to fame on MTV's hit series Teen Mom, Maci was struggling to balance life as a single teen mom with her own hopes and dreams...all while honoring her own sense of independence. This is the true story of how she took charg
Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far
Bristol Palin, Nancy French · 256 pages
The daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin shares details about her life, describing her Alaska childhood during her mother's political rise, her highly publicized teen pregnancy, and the religious faith that gives her strength.
In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood
Collin Gosselin · 283 pages
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
Tracy Engelbrecht · 222 pages
"A sharp, occasionally shocking, memoir that will change how you look at teenage mothers, The girl who couldn't say no is told with frank South African humor and refreshingly mature insight. Tracy Engelbrecht tells the story of how she came to find herself pregnant at 15, and how she coped with pregnancy, birth and homework. An eye-opener for teens and their parents alike, as well as a message of
Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir
Jillian Lauren · 254 pages
"'A punk rock Scheherazade' (Margaret Cho) shares the zigzagging path that took her from harem member to PTA member. In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLS. In her thirties, Jillian's most radical act was learning the steadying
Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by war, saved by ballet: an extraordinary true story
Michaela DePrince, Elaine DePrince · 272 pages
Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey
Jackie Kay · 288 pages
From the moment when, as a little girl, she realises that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents - her Highland mother and Nigerian father - the journey that Jackie Kay undertakes in Red Dust Road is full of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions.
Found
Jennifer Lauck · 268 pages
Relates the author's investigation into her own troubled past centered around the search for her birth mother.
Three Little Words: A Memoir
Ashley Rhodes-Courter · 320 pages
Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair · 240 pages
In this powerful story of discovery, a black woman learns by chance the truth about her family's secret Nazi past. Jennifer Teege is 38, married, a mother of two, and ten years into a career in advertising when by chance she pulls a book from the library shelf. The book is about her own family, and its contents will profoundly change her life and lead her down a painful path of self-discovery. Jen
In The Shadow Of Eight
Collin Gosselin with Allie Kingsley Baker
A dark tell-all by one of the sextuplets from the reality TV series “Jon & Kate Plus 8.”
Jesus Land: A Memoir
Julia Scheeres · 384 pages
"Sibling bond is at the core of Jesus Land, Scheeres’s gritty, heart-wrenching memoir...A lesser writer would have buckled under the weight of this story...A page turner...Heart-stopping and enraging...There is much praise, these days, for the detached, quietly elegant narrative. But there is little mention of the power a well-tended rage can bring to a good story...Focused, justified and without
Bastards
Mary Anna King · 248 pages
"'A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost...an impressive debut'-Peter Balakian; Born into poverty in southern New Jersey and raised in a commune of single mothers, Mary Anna King watched her mother give away one of her newborn sisters every year to another family. All told, there were seven children: Mary, her older brother, and five phantom sisters. Th
Yes, Chef
Marcus Samuelsson · 327 pages
"It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother's house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations. Mar
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance
Simone Biles · 250 pages
In Courage to Soar, the official autobiography from US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, Simone presents the story of how she overcame early childhood challenges to become the most decorated US female gymnast and the only female gymnast to ever win three consecutive World Championship titles.
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
Michael Oher · 261 pages
250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm1130L Lexile
Instant Mom
Nia Vardalos · 282 pages
Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine stood in her way. So she made a choice that shocked friends, family, and even herself: with only fourteen hours' notice, she adopted a preschooler. This is Vardalos's hilarious and poignant true chronicle of trying to become a mother while fielding nosy "fre
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
Richard Hill · 259 pages
Finding Family : My Search for Roots is Richard Hill's true and intensely personal story of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records.
Choosing to SEE
Mary Beth Chapman · 292 pages
From the beginning, Mary Beth Chapman's life was not how she planned. All she wanted was a calm, peaceful life of stability and control. Instead, God gave her an award-winning singer/songwriter husband, crazy schedules, and a houseful of creatively rambunctious children. And then, she experienced the tragedy she never could have imagined. In Choosing to See, Mary Beth unveils her struggle to allow
Gal: A True Life
Ruthie Bolton · 288 pages