Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
10 best books like Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal (Julie Metz): Olive, Again, Sugar Land, Year of the Monkey, Your One & Only, Inside Out, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle, The Blessing, Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story, Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home, Crazy Love
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| ISBN | 0812996542 |
The iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but also the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses...
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| ISBN | 0525657681 |
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| Author | Adrianne Finlay |
| ISBN | 0544991478 |
Jack is a walking fossil. The only human among a sea of clones. It’s been hundreds of years since humanity died off in the slow plague, leaving the clones behind to carry on human existence. Over time they’ve perfected their genes, moving further away from the imperfections of humanity. But if they...
| Author | Demi Moore |
| ISBN | 0062049534 |
Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.
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We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
Why couldn't the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can't shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes.
What does a Southern woman consider grounds for divorce? When daddy takes the kids out in public dressed in their pajama tops and...
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| ISBN | 0786705213 |
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Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story
| Author | Isabel Gillies |
| ISBN | 1439110077 |
Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two...
Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home
| Author | Jessica Berger Gross |
| ISBN | 1501101609 |
A powerful, haunting memoir about one woman’s childhood of abuse and her harrowing decision to leave it all behind that redefines our understanding of estrangement and the ability to triumph over adversity.
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| Author | Leslie Morgan Steiner |
| ISBN | 0312377452 |
At 22, Leslie Morgan Steiner seemed to have it all: a Harvard diploma, a glamorous job at Seventeen magazine, a downtown New York City apartment. Plus a handsome, funny, street-smart boyfriend who adored her. But behind her façade of success, this golden girl hid a dark secret. She’d made a mistake...
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| Author | Leslie Gould |
| ISBN | 1400071534 |
Elise didn’t want to be in the town at all–and certainly not in the scrapbooking shop…
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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House
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| ISBN | 0345544218 |
The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution—from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns
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| Author | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt |
| ISBN | 2253116041 |
Première partie : Dans le jardin des oliviers, un homme attend que les soldats viennent l'arrêter pour le conduire au supplice. Quelle puissance surnaturelle a fait de lui, fils de menuisier, un agitateur, un faiseur de miracles prêchant l'amour et le pardon ? Deuxième partie: Trois jours plus...
| Author | Beverly Lewis |
| ISBN | 0764232835 |
With her Amish parents' twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller stumbles across a surprise--the old brass tinderbox her clockmaker father keeps in his Lancaster County shop has been left unlocked. Against her better judgment, Sylvia opens the cherished heirloom,...
| Author | Alex Lake |
| ISBN | 0008295123 |
THE TWISTY NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF AFTER ANNA, KILLING KATE AND COPYCAT
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| Author | Joel Neto |
| ISBN | 9898886196 |
Em 1939, o mundo entrou em guerra. Foi o conflito mais mortífero da história da humanidade. Mas, na pequena ilha açoriana do Faial, ingleses e alemães conviveram em paz durante mais três anos. Eram os loucos dos cabos telegráficos. Do mar em frente emergiam os periscópios de Hitler. Dezenas...
Michigan One-Room Schoolhouses
| Author | Mary Keithan |
| ISBN | 0472032186 |
Nostalgic reminders of a time now past, one-room schoolhouses are deeply embedded in our heritage. Decades after their original purpose and inhabitants have vanished, they dot the rural landscape in all conditions, from neglected and near collapse to handsomely renovated places repurposed into...
