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10 best books like First Comes Love (Marion Winik): Shiksa Goddess, Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer: A Memoir, Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader, Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommentaries, And Vulgar Excesses, Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House, The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty, My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness, Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers, Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days, Composing a Life

Shiksa Goddess
AuthorWendy Wasserstein
ISBN0375726039
Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York’s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays–all written when she...
Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer: A Memoir
AuthorClaire Lewis
ISBN0312381891
Once upon a time, Claire Lewis dreamed she would take her camera to war zones to document political upheavals and expose grave injustices. Fate led her elsewhere. And while she might not be on assignment for The New York Times, her current job carries its own dangers: Claire is a wedding photographer....
Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader
AuthorElinore Pruitt Stewart
ISBN0803291124
A continuation of Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Letters on an Elk Hunt is set in the same corner of southwestern Wyoming, the time is the fall of 1914, and (despite the title) Mrs. Stewart is far less concerned with elk hunting than with people—old friends and new acquaintances—and with the land...
Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommentaries, And Vulgar Excesses
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0201570009
This is a pleasant collection of short essays, many of which were previously read by the author on NPR. Pinkwater waxes eloquently on his boyhood, his weight, writing and art, teaching writing and art, and owning befriending dogs.

No surprise here, but my favorite essays involved food and...
Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House
AuthorHelen Thomas
ISBN0743202260
In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal chronicle of the American presidency. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau chief for UPI, Helen Thomas has covered an astounding...
The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
AuthorCarolyn G. Heilbrun
When she was a young woman, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun made a solemn resolution not to live past "three score years and ten." Taking her own life at the age of seventy, she reasoned, would give closure to a life well lived. But on the advent of her seventieth birthday she realized...
My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
AuthorPatricia Raybon
ISBN0140244360
I picked this book up on the spur of the moment - the title caught my eye. Once I got started reading, I was very glad I gave into the impulse, although I didn't really need another book.

I found Patricia Raybon to be amazingly honest in her examination of race relations. She looks at her family, her...
Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers
AuthorAriel Gore
ISBN1580050514
In this ground-breaking anthology, Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender ask real moms — from Web site designers to tattoo-clad waitresses — to laugh, cry, scream, and shout about motherhood. Allison Crews fights to have a voice and be recognized as a teen mother. Angela Morrill eschews both doctors and...
Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days
AuthorNancy Bevilaqua
ISBN1480164518
When they met, David was a 41-year-old heroin addict, homeless and dying of AIDS. The author was a 27-year-old, self-absorbed, bar-hopping would-be poet--and his caseworker. In 1989, in New York City, there was nothing "manageable" about AIDS, and David would have only eight more months to live....
Composing a Life
AuthorMary Catherine Bateson
ISBN0802138047
Wow. I am really surprised by this book. I suppose the kindest thing to say is that it was written by a woman of a certain generation, and I feel that a lot of the compromises she accepts as "progress" are (happily) outdated thinking today. Her suggestions seem to point toward submission, I found. The women...
Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Memoir
AuthorStacy Horn
ISBN0312287445
When Stacy Horn--single, deeply addicted to television, and hopelessly attached to two diabetic cats--turned forty, she free-falled into a mid-life crisis. Waiting for My Cats to Die is a passionately and profoundly honest look at what happens the moment you realize--beyond a shadow of a doubt--that...
Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
AuthorRita Mae Brown
ISBN0553378260
When Rita Mae Brown writes, people often end up laughing out loud.  So naturally, when the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle, Venus Envy, and the Mrs. Murphy mystery series writes about her own life, it's a hoot, a rollicking ride with an independent, opinionated woman who changed literary...
The Good Times
AuthorRussell Baker
ISBN0517126117
In this sequel to GROWING UP, Russell Baker relates the striving of his early career and contrasts it to the country's sunny years under Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Baker rose steadily, from newsboy to college paper, from police reporter to rewrite man, from White House correspondent to Washington...
Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
AuthorSusan Gubar
ISBN0393073254
Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2008, Susan Gubar underwent radical debulking surgery, an attempt to excise the cancer by removing part or all of many organs in the lower abdomen. Her memoir mines the deepest levels of anguish and devotion as she struggles to come to terms with her body’s betrayal...
Living Out Loud
AuthorAnna Quindlen
ISBN0449456773
"A panopticon of life in this decade, sure to be valuable to future social historians She touches on life, love, home, family, work, men, women, children and issues large and small."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The voice is Anna Quindlen's. But we know the hopes, dreams, fears, and wonder expressed in...
A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story
AuthorAnthony Godby Johnson
ISBN0451181859
I bought this from a library sale, knowing it for what it was (a fake) before I handed over my dollar, due to things I'd read about it online. I bought it as a curiosity.

For the most part, it's what you'd expect from a fraud exposed as an adult pretending to be a child - overly verbose, almost sagely...
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
AuthorNatalie Dykstra
ISBN0618873856
The hidden story of one of the most fascinating women of the Gilded Age

Clover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married at twenty-eight the soon-to-be-eminent American historian Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate of power brokers in Gilded Age Washington, where...
In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court
AuthorBrittney Griner
ISBN0062309331
Hailed by ESPN as the world's most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner has been shattering stereotypes and breaking boundaries ever since she burst onto the national scene as a dunking high school phenom. Now, she shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how she found the strength...
Summer Reading: Closing the Rich/Poor Reading Achievement Gap
AuthorRichard L. Allington
ISBN0807753742
Summer reading loss accounts for roughly 80 percent of the rich/poor reading achievement gap. Yet far too little attention is given to this pressing problem. This timely volume now offers not only a comprehensive review of what is known about summer reading loss but also provides reliable interventions...
East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons
AuthorLiza Dalby
ISBN0520250532
Writing in luminous prose, Liza Dalby, acclaimed author of Geisha and The Tale of Murasaki, brings us this elegant and unique year’s journal— a brilliant mosaic that is at once a candid memoir, a gardener’s diary, and an enlightening excursion through cultures east and west. Structured according...
Keeping Secrets
AuthorSuzanne Somers
ISBN0446351806
This is the story of the Suzanne Somers the world never knew...the shy, frightened child trembling at her father's drunken rages, the troubled teenager who became a pregnant bride, the young model struggling to support her son, the rising star still haunted and controlled by her past. It's the story...
The Complete Fiction: The Bean Trees / Homeland / Animal Dreams / Pigs in Heaven
AuthorBarbara Kingsolver
ISBN0060926597
OK, I've only read The Bean Trees, but it was the most pointless and emotionless book I've ever read. The text is plain and simple, no colorful descriptions. We don't get inside the characters' thoughts either. It's a pretty straight-forward simple story. I honestly don't know how it can be classified...
Breathing for a Living: A Memoir
AuthorLaura Rothenberg
ISBN0786888695
Now in paperback comes the moving account by an extraordinary young woman who mounted a daily struggle with cystic fibrosis in an effort to lead an ordinary life.

Twenty-one-year-old Laura Rothenberg had always tried to live a normal life--even with lungs that betrayed her and a constant...
Knee Deep in Paradise
AuthorBrett Butler
ISBN0786861363
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. She didn't say much about being part of Grace Under Fire but I guess that it doesn't really pertain to the story she was telling about her life. I only somewhat knew what her life was like before she became famous. She's come a long way and worked really hard to be who she is now.



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Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries
AuthorMarianne C. Bohr
ISBN1631528203
For every reader with wanderlust, and Baby Boomers longing to hit the road, "Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries" is a pleasure to read.

"Gap Year Girl" is Marianne Bohr’s travel journal and memoir telling how she and her husband, Joe, retraced their the travels abroad...
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