How to Write a Book Proposal
10 best books like How to Write a Book Proposal (Michael Larsen): Small Spaces, The House of Impossible Beauties, The Art of Memoir, The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child, Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness, Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature, Adoption Nation How The Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America, Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published, The Mistress's Daughter, Song of the Plains: A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence
New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic
After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman...
The House of Impossible Beauties
| Author | Joseph Cassara |
| ISBN | 0062677004 |
It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside...
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0062223062 |
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning...
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child
| Author | Nancy Verrier |
| ISBN | 0963648004 |
"The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child", by Nancy Verrier, is a challenging and courageous work. A book which adoptees call their "bible," it is a must read for anyone connected with adoption: adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, therapists, educators, and attorneys. In its application...
| Author | Linda Joy Myers |
| ISBN | 1938314026 |
At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas to watch the train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be only an occasional and troubled visitor. Linda Joy Myers's compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story...
| Author | Meredith Maran |
| ISBN | 0142181978 |
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...
| Author | Adam Pertman |
| ISBN | 0465056512 |
I'd read the original version a couple of years ago, and this one is even better--bringing us up to the minute with the use of Facebook and other social media, and the sad story of the "mother" who sent her adopted child back to Russia.
The author's passion for making adoption as good as possible...
| Author | Susan Rabiner |
| ISBN | 0393324613 |
Over 50,000 books are published in America each year, the vast majority nonfiction. Even so, many writers are stymied in getting their books published, never mind gaining significant attention for their ideas—and substantial sales. This is the book editors have been recommending to would-be...
| Author | A.M. Homes |
| ISBN | 0670038385 |
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when,...
Song of the Plains: A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence
| Author | Linda Joy Myers |
| ISBN | 1631522167 |
Ever since she was a child, Linda Joy Myers felt the power of the past. As the third daughter in her family to be abandoned or estranged by a mother, she observed the consequences of that heritage on the women she loved as well as herself. But thanks to the stories told to her by her great-grandmother, Myers...
You Don't Look Adopted: A memoir
Adoption can be tricky. It's a wonderful thing to be chosen, to be brought up by loving parents, but in order for this to happen, there has to be an initial abandonment, and this loss can settle like a seed of unease in the adopted person, quite possibly affecting the entirety of his or her life.
Anne...
The Magic of Memoir: Inspiration for the Writing Journey
| Author | Linda Joy Myers |
| ISBN | 1631521470 |
The Magic of Memoir is a memoirist s companion for when the going gets tough. Editors Linda Joy Myers and Brooke Warner have taught and coached hundreds of memoirists to the completion of their memoirs, and they know that the journey is fraught with belittling messages from both the inner critic and naysayers,...
Held Hostage: The True Story of a Mother and Daughter's Kidnapping
| Author | Michelle Renee |
| ISBN | 0425213013 |
The true-crime shocker no one would believe-if it hadn't really happened.
Kidnapped by intruders, bank vice president Michelle Renee and her young daughter are taped with explosives and given an ultimatum: rob her own bank or she and her daughter will be blown to bits. But when authorities...
Saturday's Child: A Daughter's Memoir
An only child, Deborah Burns grew up in prim 1950s America in the shadow of a her beautiful, unconventional, rule-breaking mother, Dorothy—a red-haired beauty who looked like Rita Hayworth and skirted norms with a style and flare that made her the darling of men and women alike. Married to the son...
Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything
| Author | Iyanla Vanzant |
| ISBN | 1401943616 |
Too many of us feel trapped in stagnant romantic, family, or workplace relationships. Weighed down by toxic thoughts and emotions, we might be quick to judge and slow to pardon, and self-righteous about our feelings as we dwell on memories of what we or others did (or failed to do). In...
Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learned—from the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughter’s...
| Author | Cleo Woefle-Erskine |
| ISBN | 1604692405 |
“A beautifully-written, practical guide to planning and creating your own rain garden.” —
Green Upgrader
You probably spend hundreds of dollars watering your yard, but there is an easy way to save money and resources—by collecting rain to reuse in front and backyards. In Creating...
銀の匙 Silver Spoon 7 [Gin no Saji Silver Spoon 7]
This series breaks through to a new level as it finds the right mix of humor, romance and drama while staying true to its roots to showcase and educate about rural life. The school festival is underway, a date is taken at a local shrine, and a baseball tournament leads to an unexpected cliffhanger. I know...
