Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass

10 best books like Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass (Melanie Neale): Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields, Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal, At Least You're in Tuscany: A Somewhat Disastrous Quest for the Sweet Life, Laura Ingalls Wilder: Young Pioneer (Childhood of Famous Americans), After Cleo, Keowee Valley, Positive: One Doctor's Personal Encounters with Death, Life, and the US Healthcare System, História, História: Two Years in the Cape Verde Islands, North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters, Gaining Daylight: Life on Two Islands

Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
AuthorDana Hui Lim
ISBN1922200107
In 1969 the small Asian nation of Cambodia was under attack: first by US bombers as the Vietnam war spilled over the border, and then by the Khmer Rouge as they began their brutal reign of terror. Under the rule of Pol Pot, ordinary city folk were driven from their homes and banished to labour camps that eventually...
Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
AuthorLinda Tucker
ISBN1583946055
In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.
 
Her story begins...
At Least You're in Tuscany: A Somewhat Disastrous Quest for the Sweet Life
AuthorJennifer Criswell
At Least You’re in Tuscany: A Somewhat Diastrous Quest for the Sweet Life is Jennifer Criswell’s memoir about her first year in Montepulciano during which her dream of expat life meets the reality of everyday challenges and results in sometimes funny, often frustrating, always lesson-filled...
AuthorBeatrice Gormley
ISBN0689839243
This biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder gives a solid overview of the writer's life, but sometimes resembles her own novels a bit too much. The language is simple and easy to read, much like the Little House books, and there are details in the biography that did not appear in the heavily revised stories...
After Cleo
AuthorHelen Brown
ISBN1742695574
The story of how a cat called Cleo healed a family in mourning was one of my favorite novels of last year. I was quite excited when i discovered author Helen Brown was bringing out a new book featuring another feline Jonah and i can now say the excitment was justified as After Cleo is another great read. Set...
Keowee Valley
AuthorKatherine Scott Crawford
ISBN1611941725
Spring, 1768. The Southern frontier is a treacherous wilderness inhabited by the powerful Cherokee people. In Charlestown, 25 year-old Quincy MacFadden receives news from beyond the grave: her cousin, a man she’d believed long dead, is alive—held captive by the Shawnee Indians. Unmarried,...
Positive: One Doctor's Personal Encounters with Death, Life, and the US Healthcare System
AuthorMichael Saag
ISBN1626340641
Positive traces the life of Michael S. Saag, MD, an internationally known expert on the virus that causes AIDS, but the book is more than a memoir: through his story, Dr. Saag also shines a light on the dysfunctional US healthcare system, proposing optimistic yet realistic remedies drawn from his distinguished...
AuthorEleanor Stanford
Twenty-two and newly married, Eleanor Stanford and her husband join the Peace Corps and find themselves on the West African islands of Cape Verde. In this beautifully alien place, as she teaches her students and struggles to come to terms with the island's fascinating yet frustrating culture, Eleanor...
AuthorSig Hansen
ISBN0312591144
I think I like Sig Hansen even more after reading this book. This was chalked full of history of his family and the history of the Norwegians. It also gave back round on how crab fishing works.

Even though it wasn't as quirky or entertaining as the Time Bandit book this book held it's own story. I...
AuthorSara Loewen
ISBN1602231982
For many the idea of living off the land is a romantic notion left to stories of olden days or wistful dreams at the office. But for Sara Loewen it becomes her way of life each summer as her family settles into their remote cabin on Uyak Bay for the height of salmon season. With this connection to thousands...
A Soul's Calling
AuthorScott Bishop
ISBN0615695358
A Soul’s Calling is a memoir about a man who listened to his heart instead of reason.

Scott, a forty-something attorney, is average in every way except one. He has a connection to the Other Side. He speaks to Spirit and Spirit speaks to him. He sees, hears, and interacts with an invisible realm...
Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips
AuthorEli Hastings
ISBN1770410775
A memoir about loving someone you cannot save

Serala drank frat boys under the table. She wore saris and ate delicately from plates of curry at family events; elsewhere she wore a lip ring, designer shades, and a cowboy hat and ordered bloody steaks. She wrote volumes of poetry, made amateur...
The Ringtone and the Drum: Travels in the World's Poorest Countries
AuthorMark Weston
ISBN1780995865
Laced with danger, packed with novel insights and told with a humane voice, The Ringtone and the Drum relates the fascinating tale of Mark Weston’s travels in West Africa. His journey through Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso touches a dizzying array of subjects, including the consequences...
Hidden Cities: My Journey into the Secret World of Urban Exploration
AuthorMoses Gates
ISBN1585429341
In this fascinating glimpse into the world of urban exploration, Moses Gates describes his trespasses in some of the most illustrious cities in the world from Paris to Cairo to Moscow. Gates is a new breed of adventurer for the 21st century. He thrives on the thrill of seeing what others do not see, let...
Shooting Stars: My Unexpected Life Photographing Hollywood's Most Famous
AuthorJennifer Buhl
ISBN1402297009
Get the inside scoop on what life is really like for Hollywood's biggest stars in this hilarious, addictive memoir!

As a young woman struggling to make ends meet in LA photographer Jennifer Buhl bumped into the paparazzi and soon found herself chasing down celebrities in her station wagon,...
The Inner City
AuthorKaren Heuler
ISBN1927469333
Heuler's stories dart out at what the world is doing and center on how the individual copes with it. Anything is possible: people breed dogs with humans to create a servant class; beneath one great city lies another city, running it surreptitiously; an employee finds that her hair has been stolen by someone...
Karma Gone Bad: How I Learned to Love Mangos, Bollywood and Water Buffalo
AuthorJenny Feldon
ISBN1402284225
Made in America. Outsourced to India. At Home with Herself?

A charming yet honest memoir of one Upper West side housewife who finds herself saying good-bye to Starbucks and all her notions of "home" when she and her husband are outsourced to Hyderabad. Jenny Feldon imagined life in India as...
I Will Never Forget: A Daughter's Story of Her Mother's Arduous and Humorous Journey Through Dementia
AuthorElaine C. Pereira
ISBN1936840766
It is extremely difficult to watch a loved one decline as dementia ravages his or her mind, robbing him or her of memory, thinking abilities, and judgment. In her touching memoir, I Will Never Forget, Elaine C. Pereira shares the sometimes heartbreaking and occasionally humorous story of her mother's...
Unrepentant: The Strange and (Sometimes) Terrible Life of Lorne Campbell, Satan's Choice and Hells Angels Biker
AuthorPeter Edwards
ISBN0307362566
In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've only imagined it.

A kid raised by his father's fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell...
a beautiful mess
AuthorAli Berlinski
ISBN0988602806
Biracial and bicoastal, Berlinski spent her childhood flying between the families of her divorced parents, without ever feeling like she fit in anywhere. Fortunately, she never lost her sense of humor, which is apparent on every page of her first book, a riotous and revealing look at the consequences...
Vagabond Dreams
AuthorRyan Murdock
ISBN0957370202
How much of your life is true, and how much do you accept only because it's easy? What if you could leave that old life behind? Just burn it down, drop off the map and live among strangers who know nothing about the person you're supposed to be? Do you have any idea what you'd discover? Vagabond Dreams is a true...
A Fool Rides the Wheel of Fortune
AuthorSteven M. Fernand
ISBN0985807067
May Day, 1970... Annabelle, nineteen and disheartened with her coal-town prospects, meets Walt, who runs a game in a traveling carnival and wins a date with her after the show closes. Wandering McCain's Magic Midway, she enters a sideshow, where a three-armed man reads her Tarot cards. Their mysterious...
May This Be the Best Year of Your Life: A Memoir
AuthorSandra Bornstein
ISBN1478198052
After stepping out of her comfort zone of American suburbia, Sandra Bornstein found herself in a life altering experience that made her question the meaning of marital bliss. Living alone in a three-hundred-square-foot dorm room, she taught fifth grade at a renowned international boarding school...
Sleetmute
AuthorStan Resnicoff
ISBN0615687717
New York City. 1968. I was 24. I had just graduated from college. I applied to VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) as a possible deferment from the Army and Vietnam. I was young and I thought I knew everything. I figured if they had VISTA in any state they had to have VISTA in every state. I requested an...
Married at Fourteen: A True Story
AuthorLucille Lang Day
ISBN1597141984
A candid and startling memoir

“I started seriously looking for a husband when I was twelve. I’d had enough of being a child, enough of being told what to do. I was unhappy at school; I resented homework; I didn’t get along with my mother. Having seen movies like South Pacific, Sayonara,...
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