703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life
10 best books like 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life (Nancy Makin): The Downstairs Girl, The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America, What Rose Forgot, The Stranger Inside, Now, Discover Your Strengths, Dragonfly, Please Don't Kill the Freshman, Lost You, All My Life: A Memoir, The Heavy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Diet—a Memoir
By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she...
The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
| Author | Tommy Tomlinson |
| ISBN | 1501111612 |
The government definition of obesity is a body mass index of 30 or more. My BMI is 60.7. My shirts are size XXXXXXL, which the big-and-tall stores shorten to 6X. I’m 6-foot-1, or 73 inches tall. My waist is 60 inches around. I’m nearly a sphere.
Those are the numbers. This is how it feels…
So...
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In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in...
| Author | Lisa Unger |
| ISBN | 0778308723 |
Even good people are drawn to do evil things ... Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend's house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. Tess never came home, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Their abductor was sent...
Now, Discover Your Strengths
| Author | Marcus Buckingham |
| ISBN | 0743201140 |
The 20th anniversary edition of Now, Discover Your Strengths comes with an access code to the Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment. This updated assessment includes reports and resources that go far beyond the standardized reports of the older assessment by providing you with personalized...
| Author | Leila Meacham |
| ISBN | 1538733986 |
At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds--a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman,...
| Author | Zoe Trope |
| ISBN | 0060529369 |
I wrote a story about you. Well, sort of, see, it's mostly about me. Well, entirely about me, but here's the catch: I'm you. No, really, I mean it. Not like that transcendentalism stuff we're learning in English class, but really, truly, I'm you. I know what it feels like when your heart beats so hard against...
| Author | Haylen Beck |
| ISBN | 1524759589 |
A provocative and unputdownable psychological suspense about two women locked in a desperate fight over a child each believes is rightfully hers
Libby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing...
| Author | Susan Lucci |
| ISBN | 0062061860 |
"See that moon up there?
You can reach that high.
Never be afraid because you can be anything you want to be."
Susan Lucci was only five years old when her father shared these encouraging words with her. They inspired the highly imaginative child who loved make-believe to craft one of...
| Author | Dara-Lynn Weiss |
| ISBN | 0345541340 |
For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother...
Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0062004727 |
“Written in words so intimate, calm, kind, and immediate, this extraordinary book feels like a message from our very own heart….Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most important voices of our time, and we have never needed to listen to him more than now.”
—Sogyal Rinpoche
Fear is destructive,...
3 Seconds: The Power of Thinking Twice
| Author | Les Parrott III |
| ISBN | 0310272491 |
Just three seconds. The time it takes to make a decision. That's all that lies between settling for "Whatever" ... or insisting on "Whatever it takes." 3 Seconds shows how to unleash the inner resources that can move you to a whole new level of success. It comes down to six predictable impulses that most...
| Author | Julie Anne Peters |
| ISBN | 0316734896 |
I was in the mood for something teenage and angsty, and this fit the bill. The story itself is more morality play than a realistic plot, but the characters are relatable and deep and introspective. They have dark secrets and insecurities and ways of rebelling that don't involve sex/drugs/cutting or...
American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
| Author | Nancy Rubin Stuart |
| ISBN | 0595301460 |
American Empress is a sweeping history of the dramatic life of heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, daughter of breakfast-cereal magnate C. W. Post. As a young girl growing up in the Midwest, Marjorie Post helped glue cereal boxes in her father's barn, later became a board member of his company, wed...
Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams
| Author | Gabrielle Bernstein |
| ISBN | 1401957161 |
Ready to take the next step toward living in alignment with the Universe? The #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back shows you how.
In Super Attractor, Gabrielle Bernstein lays out the essential steps for living in alignment with the Universe--more fully than you've...
| Author | Ha Jin |
| ISBN | 0307911624 |
From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.
New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at...
| Author | Debbie Macomber |
| ISBN | 0778326020 |
Jason Manning is content with his life as a bachelor, a slob and a sports fan. Then a precocious girl named Carrie Weston decides to play matchmaker, introducing him to her mother, Charlotte. To his relief, Charlotte is as averse to marriage as he is. But Jason's feelings start to change once he gets to...
Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting
| Author | Jennifer Traig |
| ISBN | 0062469827 |
From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and often contradictory history of Western parenting
Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be perfectly socially...
