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Devotion: A Memoir

10 best books like Devotion: A Memoir (Dani Shapiro): Small Fry, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, The Dutch House, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After, Outer Order, Inner Calm, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age

Small Fry
AuthorLisa Brennan-Jobs
ISBN0802128238
Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
AuthorLori Gottlieb
ISBN1328662055
From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb...
The Dutch House
AuthorAnn Patchett
ISBN0062963678
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant...
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
AuthorRuth Reichl
ISBN1400069998
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during which she...
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
AuthorMary Laura Philpott
ISBN1982102802
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“I've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors—Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one...Good news: I have finally found their successor.” —Elisabeth Egan, The...
On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
AuthorJennifer Pastiloff
ISBN1524743569
An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff’s years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how deafness taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness.

Centered around...
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years
AuthorCathy Guisewite
ISBN0735218420
From the creator of the iconic "Cathy" comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls "the panini generation."

As the creator of "Cathy," Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers more...
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
AuthorJulie Yip-Williams
ISBN0525511350
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more--a powerful exhortation to the living.

That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle....
Outer Order, Inner Calm
AuthorGretchen Rubin
Bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. In a new book packed with more than one hundred concrete ideas, she helps us create the order and organization...
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
AuthorMary Pipher
ISBN1632869608
A New York Times Bestseller

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.

Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy...
The Jew in the Lotus
AuthorRodger Kamenetz
ISBN0060645741
While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues...
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
AuthorElissa Altman
"I'm reading this book right now and loving it!"--Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild

How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy?

"A wry and moving meditation on aging and the different...
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature
AuthorMeredith Maran
ISBN0142181978
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...
All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir
AuthorErin Lee Carr
ISBN0399179712
An acclaimed documentary filmmaker comes to terms with her larger-than-life father, the late New York Times journalist David Carr, in this fierce memoir of love, addiction, and family.

Dad: What will set you apart is not talent, but will and a certain kind of humility. A willingness...
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
AuthorAnne Lamott
ISBN0525537449
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives

"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott...
The Beautiful No: And Other Tales of Trial, Transcendence, and Transformation
AuthorSheri Salata
“Thursday morning.

One hundred pounds overweight, no man in sight, and rounding the bend to 57 years old—a full-blown catastrophe.”

What happens when you realize you’ve had the career of your dreams, but you don’t have the life of your dreams? This was the stark reality...
Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
AuthorKelly Corrigan
It’s a crazy idea: trying to name the phrases that make love and connection possible. But that’s just what Kelly Corrigan has set out to do here. In her New York Times bestselling memoirs, Corrigan distilled our core relationships to their essences, showcasing a warm, easy storytelling style. Now,...
My Beef with Meat: The Healthiest Argument for Eating a Plant-Strong Diet - Plus 140 New Engine 2 Recipes
AuthorRip Esselstyn
ISBN1455509361
For the millions who are following a plant-based diet, as well as those meat-eaters who are considering it, MY BEEF WITH MEAT is the definitive guide to convincing all that it's truly the best way to eat! New York Times Bestelling author of The Engine 2 Diet and nutrition lecturer Rip Esselstyn, is back...
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