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1	Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia more books like this by Elizabeth Gilbert A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. see all copies from $4.18! new only from $7.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Glass Castle: A Memoir more books like this by Jeannette Walls Jeannette Walls's memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, was his abettor. As the two of them dragged the family around the country on the run from creditors and from one bad idea ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $4.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Year of Magical Thinking more books like this by Joan Didion In THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Joan Didion writes an account of her life since the 2003 death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion's grief was profound and debilitating; she and Dunne had been married for nearly 40 years, during which they were hardly ever apart. But in the course of her mourning period, she also gained crucial insights ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books more books like this by Azar Nafisi Azar Nafasi formed a book club in Tehran comprised of seven young women who got together to discuss such books as THE GREAT GATSBY, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, DAISY MILLER, and, of course, LOLITA--books forbidden by the Islamic government. In this memoir, Nafasi, who was expelled from the country for refusing to wear the veil, writes about those women, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Diary of a Young Girl more books like this by Anne Frank One of the most valuable and informative artifacts of the holocaust, THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL is the actual diary of Anne Frank, a German-Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during World War II. The Diary begins on June 14, 1942, shortly after Anne's 13th birthday. While initial entries focus on Anne's life at school and her relationships with her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Escape more books like this by Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer Choosing freedom from polygamy over fear, Carolyn Jessop flees her life within the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and now tells her harrowing story. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the ... see all copies from $5.46! new only from $13.51! \| SVS
7	Lucky more books like this by Alice Sebold Raped and beaten as an 18-year-old Syracuse University student, Alice Sebold recounts the story of her rape, the trial and conviction of her rapist, and her recovery. Her book also tells the story of its own coming into being. Immediately after the rape, Sebold vowed to write about it, and worked it out in various forms before sculpting it into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China more books like this by Jung Chang An international bestseller with over three million copies in print, this is the story of three generations, mostly of women, in a Chinese family. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	An Unquiet Mind more books like this by Kay Redfield Jamison, PH.D. With this memoir, Jamison, a psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of mood research, revealed her own struggle with manic-depressive, or bipolar, illness. Interspersing humorous descriptions of the strange logic that permeated her manic episodes with haunting recollections of the depressions that would follow, she chronicles her professional ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	West with the Night more books like this by Beryl Markham In this moving autobiography, Beryl Markham describes growing up in East Africa with her horse-breeder father, who taught her to care for and train the animals for racing. In her 20s, Markham discovered flying, and worked as an airborne deliverer of supplies and mail. In 1936, she became the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith more books like this by Anne Lamott Lamott collects her heartfelt columns from the online magazine Salon, which deal mainly with her religious faith, her recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, and her son, Sam. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Six Wives of Henry VIII more books like this by B Alison Weir, Alison Weir This history of the reign of King Henry VIII of England is told through the lives of his wives--Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Katherine Parr. see all copies from $6.35! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Liars' Club: A Memoir more books like this by Mary Karr Mary Karr's astonishingly candid--and controversial--account of her childhood and the abuses she sustained as the daughter of an alcoholic mother with a 'nervous' condition. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilation into American culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall more books like this by Misty Bernall, Madeleine L'Engle (Foreword by) The mother of Cassie Bernall relates the inspiring story of her daughter, who, after a troubled period in her youth, went straight--only to fall victim to the horror at Columbine High. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana more books like this by Haven Kimmel Kimmel, aka "Zippy" because of her propensity as a toddler to race around like a monkey, shares the details of her quirky childhood in the Midwest, where the cast of family characters includes her beauty-queen sister, deeply religious brother, wise mother, and gambling father. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine more books like this by Sue Monk Kidd With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, the acclaimed author of "The Secret Life of Bees" tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that women have lost within patriarchal faith traditions. Print features. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood more books like this by Koren Zailckas A 23-year-old looks back on the horrifying details of her drinking problem, which began when she was 14 and didn't end until a blackout seven years later, when she was out of college and working in Manhattan, jolted her out of it. Koren Zailckas intends her book to be not only a record of her own torments, but a cautionary tale for other teenagers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood more books like this by Marjane Satrapi The critics made the inevitable comparisons to MAUS when reviewing this graphic novel-style memoir. But this deeply personal child's-eye view of Iran during the fall of the Shah deserves to be considered in its own right. Marjane Satrapi is related both to the old Persian royal family and to Communist rebels. Therefore, it's not surprising that ... see all copies from $5.66! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation more books like this by Cokie Roberts Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of the fascinating women--such as Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinckney, and Deborah Read Franklin--who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men. see all copies from $2.97! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith more books like this by Anne Lamott In "Grace (Eventually)," the bestselling author of "Traveling Mercies" and "Plan B" delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as she comes to discover what it means to be fully alive. see all copies from $3.33! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman more books like this by Joan Anderson In this memoir, a woman records her appreciation of nature and her own personal growth after she leaves her marriage and takes a cottage on Cape Cod. After her period of reflection, she returns to her marriage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Drinking: A Love Story more books like this by Caroline Knapp In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir of her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, Caroline Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. "Presents just enough science and provides a wrenching inner look at what this disease and the recovery from it feels like".- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year more books like this by Anne Lamott A journal that covers Lamott's pregnancy at 35 and the birth of her son, Sam, as well as the diagnosis and death of her best friend, Pammy, from cancer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia more books like this by Marya Hornbacher This memoir details the author's struggles to overcome her eating disorders. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.72! \| first editions \| SVS

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