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The Heavy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Diet—a Memoir

9 best books like The Heavy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Diet—a Memoir (Dara-Lynn Weiss): What Rose Forgot, The Stranger Inside, Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion, Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church, Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America, Lost You, 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life, It Was Me All Along, Point of View: A Fresh Look at Work, Faith, and Freedom

What Rose Forgot
AuthorNevada Barr
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In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in...
The Stranger Inside
AuthorLisa Unger
ISBN0778308723
Even good people are drawn to do evil things ... Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend's house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. Tess never came home, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Their abductor was sent...
Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
AuthorNishta J. Mehra
ISBN1250133564
Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance

Brown, White, Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted son, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her clear-eyed...
Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church
AuthorLauren Drain
ISBN1455512427
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER You've likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year old victim of the recent Tucson...
Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
AuthorAyaz Virji
ISBN0525577203
A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear.

In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage...
Lost You
AuthorHaylen Beck
ISBN1524759589
A provocative and unputdownable psychological suspense about two women locked in a desperate fight over a child each believes is rightfully hers

Libby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing...
703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life
AuthorNancy Makin
ISBN0525951377
A moving, funny, tongue-in-cheek, and deadly serious story about how one woman lost and found herself by going online.

Nancy Makin weighed an astounding 703 pounds in May 2000. She was forty-five years old and suffered from diabetes and other obesity-related maladies. Thanks in equal...
It Was Me All Along
AuthorAndie Mitchell
ISBN0770433243
A young food blogger shares her inspiring story of incredible weight loss--a journey from nearly 300 pounds to losing more than half her size--and establishing a healthy and confident relationship with food.

On her twentieth birthday, Andie Mitchell stepped on the scale and discovered...
Point of View: A Fresh Look at Work, Faith, and Freedom
AuthorElisabeth Hasselbeck
Recognized from her roles on Survivor, The View, and FOX & Friends, celebrity Elisabeth Hasselbeck presents a deeply intimate journey of faith, told through the important moments in her life.

"Point of view," by definition, is a particular attitude or way of considering a matter. Through...
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