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A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic

10 best books like A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic (Caseen Gaines): The Princess Diarist, Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction, Scottish Girls About Town, Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness, Hiroshima in the Morning, Have You Found Her, In the Shadow of Freedom: A Heroic Journey to Liberation, Manhood, and America, Just as I Am

The Princess Diarist
AuthorCarrie Fisher
ISBN0399173595
The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie.

When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first...
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
AuthorJennifer Traig
DEVIL IN THE DETAILS announces Jennifer Traig as one of the most hilarious writers to emerge in recent years and one of the strangest! Recalling the agony of growing up obsessive compulsive and a religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behavior like tirelessly scrubbing her...
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
AuthorDeborah Feldman
ISBN1439187010
The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.

As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism,...
More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
AuthorElizabeth Wurtzel
ISBN0743223314
Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respecteverything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness.
For all of her professional success, Wurtzel...
Scottish Girls About Town
AuthorJenny Colgan
ISBN0743482530

Meet the Clanswomen...
International bestselling authors Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, and Muriel Gray lead off this dazzling collection of stories by popular and rising Scottish women authors. A sometimes wild, sometimes poignant romp through the lives of Scotswomen, Scottish Girls...
Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness
AuthorGreg Bottoms
ISBN0226067645
A taut, powerful memoir of madness, Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into schizophrenia. Beginning with Michael's first psychotic break—seeing God in his suburban bedroom window while high on LSD—Greg Bottoms recounts, in gripping,...
Hiroshima in the Morning
AuthorRahna Reiko Rizzuto
ISBN1558616675
2010 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

In June 2001, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto went to Hiroshima in search of a deeper understanding of her war-torn heritage. She planned to spend six months there, interviewing the few remaining survivors of the atomic bomb. A mother of two young...
Have You Found Her
AuthorJanice Erlbaum
ISBN0812974573
And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you?

Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful...
In the Shadow of Freedom: A Heroic Journey to Liberation, Manhood, and America
AuthorTchicaya Missamou
ISBN1439116296
From poverty to wealth, from Africa to America and from child soldier to US Marine. Born into the Congolese wilderness, Tchicaya Missamou became a child soldier at age 11. As a horrific civil war loomed across his country, Tchicaya began using his militia connections to ferry jewels, cash, computers,...
Just as I Am
AuthorBilly Graham
ISBN0060633921
Hailed as "the world's preacher," Billy Graham has enjoyed a career that has spanned six decades and his ministry of faith has touched the hearts and souls of millions.



In Just As I Am Graham reveals his life story in what the Chicago Tribune calls "a disarmingly honest autobiography."...
House Rules
AuthorRachel Sontag
ISBN0385664745
A compelling, at times horrifying work that is impossible to put down, House Rules will stand beside Running With Scissors and The Glass Castle as a memoir that cracks open the shell of a desperately dysfunctional family with impressive grace and humour.

Rachel Sontag grew up the daughter...
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