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The Source of All Things: A Memoir

10 best books like The Source of All Things: A Memoir (Tracy Ross): Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate, When Rabbit Howls, The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed, Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving, Called Again: Love and Triumph on the Appalachian Trail, The Pale-Faced Lie, The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones, Hiroshima in the Morning, Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
AuthorHelen Prejean
ISBN0679751319
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified...
When Rabbit Howls
AuthorTruddi Chase
ISBN0515103292
Truddi Chase began therapy to discover why she suffered from blackouts. What surfaced was terrifying: she was inhabited by 'the Troops'-92 individual personalities. This groundbreaking true story is made all the more extraordinary in that it was written by the Troops themselves. What they reveal...
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
AuthorJudy Shepard
ISBN1594630577
The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist

Today, the name Matthew Shepard is synonymous with gay rights, but before his grisly murder in 1998, Matthew was simply Judy Shepard's son. For the first...
Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving
AuthorMichelle Stevens
ISBN0399173382
Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks Michelle in...
Called Again: Love and Triumph on the Appalachian Trail
AuthorJennifer Pharr Davis
ISBN0825306930
In 2011, Jennifer Pharr Davis became the overall record holder on the Appalachian Trail. By hiking 2,181 miles in 46 days -- an average of 47 miles per day -- she became the first female to ever set that mark. But this is not a book about records or numbers; this is a book about endurance and faith, and most...
The Pale-Faced Lie
AuthorDavid Crow
ISBN0997487178
Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own...
The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones
AuthorSandra Tsing Loh
ISBN0393088685
In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller coaster through “the change.” This is not your grandmother’s menopause story. Loh chronicles utterly relatable, everyday perils: raising preteen daughters, weathering...
Hiroshima in the Morning
AuthorRahna Reiko Rizzuto
ISBN1558616675
2010 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

In June 2001, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto went to Hiroshima in search of a deeper understanding of her war-torn heritage. She planned to spend six months there, interviewing the few remaining survivors of the atomic bomb. A mother of two young...
Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach
AuthorVincent J. Monastra
ISBN1591471826
Kids with ADHD need to be loved and shown how to become successful adults. Unfortunately, their lack of attention and restlessness often get in the way. Parents of these kids try so hard to stay connected and remain patient in the face of daily frustration. However, it is an incredible challenge to remain...
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
AuthorPam Houston
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Houston’s ranch becomes her sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of parental...
Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
AuthorHeather "Anish" Anderson
ISBN1680512366
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her...
Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds
AuthorKara Richardson Whitely
ISBN1580055591
Kara knew she could reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. She had done it once before. That’s why, when she failed in a second attempt, it brought her so low. Struggling with a food addiction and looking for ways to cope with feelings of failure and shame, Kara ballooned to 360 pounds. Deep in her personal...
Tiger, Tiger
AuthorMargaux Fragoso
ISBN0374277621
This extraordinary memoir is an unprecedented glimpse into the psyche of a young girl in free fall and conveys to readers - including parents and survivors of abuse - just how completely a pedophile enchants his victim and binds her to him.

One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran...
Lost in the Forest
AuthorSue Miller
ISBN0345469593
For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for laying bare the interior lives of her characters. In each of her novels,...
Wild by Nature: One Woman, One Trek, One Thousand Nights
AuthorSarah Marquis
ISBN1250081971
From National Geographic's Explorer of 2014, featured in The New York Times Magazine, Wild By Nature is the harrowing and nearly unbelievable story of Sarah Marquis' solo 10,000-mile hike across the remote Gobi desert from Siberia to Thailand, then transported by boat to complete her hike at her favorite...
Skellig: Experience the Extraordinary
AuthorDes Lavelle
ISBN1788490835
‘Magic that takes you out, far out, of this time and this world.'
George Bernard Shaw, after a visit to Skellig

This is the story of two of the world's most stunning and unspoilt islands, Skellig Michael and Small Skellig, which lie off the coast of Kerry. Lavelle explores the extraordinary,...
Irish Rebellions: 1798-1921
AuthorHelen Litton
The English invasions of Ireland were never accepted. Each generation of Irish rebels resisted and, in doing so, faced certain death. They became martyrs and left behind speeches and watchwords to spark the flames of nationalism and idealism. Using eyewitness accounts, speeches and illustrative...
A Brother's Journey
AuthorRichard B. Pelzer
ISBN0446696331
Mom has no one like David around to beat on anymore. I am more afraid of her than ever...I get in more trouble for anything I do or say. Now I find that I'm always in trouble and I don't know why. Now that David is gone, I'm afraid that she will try to kill me, like she tried to kill him. I'm afraid that she will treat...
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