Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl
10 best books like Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl (Susan Campbell): Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum, Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, Escape, Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Full Disclosure, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
| Author | Jennifer O'Toole |
| ISBN | 1510732845 |
The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick.
Autism in Heels
, an intimate memoir, reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome,...
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
| Author | Daniel Tammet |
| ISBN | 1416535071 |
One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story - and explain how his incredible mind works.
This unique first-person account offers a window into the mind of a high-functioning, 27-year-old British autistic savant with...
| Author | Carolyn Jessop |
| ISBN | 0767927567 |
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man...
Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby
How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a "Bible nation".
Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded as a Christian nation, based on a "biblical worldview." But the Greens...
A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
| Author | Sheldon Vanauken |
| ISBN | 0060688246 |
A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather than of the lovers” about the author’s marriage and search for faith.
Vanauken chronicles the birth of a powerful pagan love borne out of the relationship he shares with his...
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
| Author | Judith Grisel |
| ISBN | 0385542844 |
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories reveal how addiction happens, show why specific drugs--from opioids to alcohol to coke and...
A Year of Biblical Womanhood
Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment--a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles...
She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.
How did...
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
| Author | Ann Fessler |
| ISBN | 1594200947 |
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrendered children for adoption in the several decades before Roe v. Wade
In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of thousands of young single American women...
| Author | Kathryn Joyce |
| ISBN | 1586489429 |
When Jessie Hawkins’ adopted daughter told her she had another mom back in Ethiopia, Jessie didn’t, at first, know what to think. She’d wanted her adoption to be great story about a child who needed a home and got one, and a family led by God to adopt. Instead, she felt like she’d done something...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022122 |
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
| Author | Linda Kay Klein |
| ISBN | 1501124811 |
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.
In the 1990s, a “purity industry”...
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
| Author | Jennifer Thompson-Cannino |
| ISBN | 0312376537 |
Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence...
Monkey King  tells the story of 28-year-old Sally Wang, a Chinese-American woman whose mental breakdown and sojourn in a hospital set her firmly on the path of memory. Her recovery takes place against a rich tapestry of culture and personality that unfolds before our eyes under the Monkey...
Crazy: Notes On and Off the Couch
An average day in the life of a psychologist is a frenetic one. A lighthearted, 9 a.m. appointment to help a woman manage a husband who won't take out the garbage (even when pants are optional) quickly shifts to an emotionally intense session with a convicted rapist to cope with criminal urges at 10 a.m....
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| ISBN | 1478961260 |
Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare...
