Adoption Nation How The Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America
10 best books like Adoption Nation How The Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America (Adam Pertman): Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, Home, The Art of Memoir, The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child, Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness, Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature, How to Write a Book Proposal, The Mistress's Daughter, Song of the Plains: A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence, You Don't Look Adopted: A memoir
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
| Author | Jenny Lawson |
| ISBN | 0399159010 |
For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.
Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0307594165 |
America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing...
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0062223062 |
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning...
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child
| Author | Nancy Verrier |
| ISBN | 0963648004 |
"The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child", by Nancy Verrier, is a challenging and courageous work. A book which adoptees call their "bible," it is a must read for anyone connected with adoption: adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, therapists, educators, and attorneys. In its application...
| Author | Linda Joy Myers |
| ISBN | 1938314026 |
At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas to watch the train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be only an occasional and troubled visitor. Linda Joy Myers's compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story...
| Author | Meredith Maran |
| ISBN | 0142181978 |
Everything an aspiring memoirist needs to know, in one readable volume, a follow-up to the acclaimed writers’ handbook Why We Write
For the many amateurs and professionals who write about themselves—bloggers, journal-keepers, aspiring essayists, and memoirists—this book...
| Author | Michael Larsen |
| ISBN | 1582972516 |
Either this book was written by someone who knows nothing about writing a book proposal or he is writing about completely different proposals than what I am looking for and therefore should make it more clear what types he's writing about. I say this because pretty much EVERYTHING that I read in this book...
| Author | A.M. Homes |
| ISBN | 0670038385 |
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when,...
Song of the Plains: A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence
| Author | Linda Joy Myers |
| ISBN | 1631522167 |
Ever since she was a child, Linda Joy Myers felt the power of the past. As the third daughter in her family to be abandoned or estranged by a mother, she observed the consequences of that heritage on the women she loved as well as herself. But thanks to the stories told to her by her great-grandmother, Myers...
You Don't Look Adopted: A memoir
Adoption can be tricky. It's a wonderful thing to be chosen, to be brought up by loving parents, but in order for this to happen, there has to be an initial abandonment, and this loss can settle like a seed of unease in the adopted person, quite possibly affecting the entirety of his or her life.
Anne...
The Magic of Memoir: Inspiration for the Writing Journey
| Author | Linda Joy Myers |
| ISBN | 1631521470 |
The Magic of Memoir is a memoirist s companion for when the going gets tough. Editors Linda Joy Myers and Brooke Warner have taught and coached hundreds of memoirists to the completion of their memoirs, and they know that the journey is fraught with belittling messages from both the inner critic and naysayers,...
Held Hostage: The True Story of a Mother and Daughter's Kidnapping
| Author | Michelle Renee |
| ISBN | 0425213013 |
The true-crime shocker no one would believe-if it hadn't really happened.
Kidnapped by intruders, bank vice president Michelle Renee and her young daughter are taped with explosives and given an ultimatum: rob her own bank or she and her daughter will be blown to bits. But when authorities...
Saturday's Child: A Daughter's Memoir
An only child, Deborah Burns grew up in prim 1950s America in the shadow of a her beautiful, unconventional, rule-breaking mother, Dorothy—a red-haired beauty who looked like Rita Hayworth and skirted norms with a style and flare that made her the darling of men and women alike. Married to the son...
Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything
| Author | Iyanla Vanzant |
| ISBN | 1401943616 |
Too many of us feel trapped in stagnant romantic, family, or workplace relationships. Weighed down by toxic thoughts and emotions, we might be quick to judge and slow to pardon, and self-righteous about our feelings as we dwell on memories of what we or others did (or failed to do). In...
Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learned—from the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughter’s...
