Bleeder: A Memoir
8 best books like Bleeder: A Memoir (Shelby Smoak): Chances Are..., A Meaningful Life, Blood Matters: A Journey Along the Genetic Frontier, Someone We Know, Bird in Hand, The Light of the World, Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience, The Man with No Borders
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 1101947748 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
| Author | L.J. Davis |
| ISBN | 1590173007 |
L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate, and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to make...
| Author | Masha Gessen |
| ISBN | 0151013624 |
In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what...
| Author | Shari Lapena |
| ISBN | 0525557652 |
Maybe you don't know your neighbors as well as you thought you did . . .
"This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much. . . My son broke into your home recently while you were out."
In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into...
| Author | Christina Baker Kline |
| ISBN | 0688177247 |
Alison and Charlie, Claire and Ben seem like two picture-perfect couples. Alison and Charlie have a beautiful family and a home in the suburbs, while Claire and Ben's marriage revolves around their careers and city-based lives. Despite their differences, the two couples have remained close friends...
| Author | Elizabeth Alexander |
| ISBN | 1455599875 |
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose, Alexander tells a love story that is, itself, a story of loss. As she reflects on the beauty of her married life,...
Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
| Author | Allison Pataki |
| ISBN | 0399591672 |
A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future
Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly...
A father comes to terms with his mortality and secrets in a heartrending novel of family and forgiveness from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred-Foot Journey.
It is a time of reckoning for José María Álvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living in a Swiss village with...
