Finding Angela Shelton

8 best books like Finding Angela Shelton (Angela Shelton): A House in the Sky, Heidi, If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't), Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time, A House Without Windows, My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir, Stolen Sisters: An Inquiry into Feminicide in Canada

A House in the Sky

Author	Amanda Lindhout
ISBN	1451651694

The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace.

As...

Heidi

Author	Johanna Spyri
ISBN	0753454947

Heidi, a Swiss book originally published in German in 1881, was one of those books I grew up with: my mother had a simplified, abridged version of it that I read many times and loved as a child. When I realized the GR group "Catching up on the Classics" was doing it as a group read, I jumped in, excited for the...

If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't)

Author	Betty White
ISBN	0399157530

It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between.

Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White's wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging,...

Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir

Author	Neely Tucker
ISBN	1400081602

Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve. Don't...

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

Author	Tanya Lee Stone
ISBN	0553511467

A full-color book inspired by the documentary film Girl Rising about educating girls across the globe.

Worldwide, over 62 million girls are not in school.
But one girl with courage is a revolution.

Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education, created a film that chronicled...

A House Without Windows

Author	Nadia Hashimi
ISBN	0062449680

A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting story of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture, from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low.

For two decades, Zeba...

My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir

Author

Tia Torres

From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life. Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster life...

Stolen Sisters: An Inquiry into Feminicide in Canada

Author	Emmanuelle Walter
ISBN	1443445185

In 2014, the nation was rocked by the brutal violence against young Aboriginal women Loretta Saunders, Tina Fontaine and Rinelle Harper. But tragically, they were not the only Aboriginal women to suffer that year. In fact, an official report revealed that since 1980, 1,200 Canadian Aboriginal women...