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10 best books like Turn Your Pain Into Art (Ariel Bloomer): Would You Rather? A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out, Bipolar Battle Plan: Fighting the War Against Bipolar Disorder, Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, I : Six Nonlectures, Be Faithful Unto Death, Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers, Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone, A Book of Light: When a Loved One Has a Different Mind, Princess Jellyfish, Vol. 8

Would You Rather? A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out
AuthorKatie Heaney
A collection of poignant, relatable essays from the author of Never Have I Ever about coming out in her late twenties, entering into her first relationship, and figuring out what it means to be an adult.

When Katie Heaney published her first book of essays chronicling her singledom up to age...
Bipolar Battle Plan: Fighting the War Against Bipolar Disorder
AuthorTroy Gillem
ISBN1475998678
"Bipolar Battle Plan by Troy Gillem is a no-holds-barred view of bipolar disorder. Gillem offers riveting first-hand descriptions of his own episodes and those of people he interviewed. Gillem provides an aggressive action plan to manage one's symptoms and life in general, covering everything...
Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution
AuthorJulia Alekseyeva
ISBN1621069699
Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Kiev, Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, a horrifying civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read, and supported her extended family working as a secretary for the notorious NKVD (which became the KGB) and later...
Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad
AuthorChristina Henry De Tessan
ISBN1580050700
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
I : Six Nonlectures
AuthorE.E. Cummings
ISBN0674440102
The author begins his "nonlectures" with the warning "I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer." Then, at intervals, he proceeds to deliver the following:

1. i & my parents
2. i & their son
3. i & selfdiscovery
4. i & you & is
5. i & now...
Be Faithful Unto Death
AuthorZsigmond Móricz
ISBN1858660602
Written by Hungary's greatest modern novelist, Be Faithful Unto Death is the moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary. Misi, a dreamer and would-be writer, is falsely accused of stealing a winning lottery...
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
AuthorJane Robinson
ISBN0192802011
Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This new collection of women's travel dispels that myth, with amusing and thrilling extracts which prove that there are few corners of the world not visited by lady travelers. Isabella Bird, Karen Blixen, Christina Dodwell, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy,...
Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone
AuthorTeresa Rodriguez Williamson
ISBN0399533109
There's a whole big world out there. Here's how every woman can get out and conquer it-solo.

This is an inspiring guide for women who want to "fly solo"-yet stay safe, sane, and solvent during their travels. With candid advice and insider's secrets about some of the most exciting places on earth,...
A Book of Light: When a Loved One Has a Different Mind
AuthorJerry Pinto
In fiction and in cinema, we see people retreat into the family when they are hurt. There they are surrounded by love and warmth and they can lick their wounds in peace. But what if it is your mother who is wounding you and then soothing you by turns? What if it is your father who seems distant or desolate, living...
Princess Jellyfish, Vol. 8
AuthorAkiko Higashimura
ISBN2756033634
(This review is for the first eight volumes of this series:)

I really enjoyed the anime of this series and was pretty sad when I heard they weren’t making more than just one season. The manga goes further into the characters that are introduced in the anime.

Tsukimi, 18, is our nerdy...
Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present
AuthorNeil Miller
ISBN1555838707
A unique and hugely absorbing narrative history of gay life—from Oscar Wilde to the first gay marriage performed in San Francisco in 2004—by the award-winning journalist and distinguished author of Out in the World and Sex- Crime Panic. Miller accompanies his narrative with essays and excerpts...
Byron in Love
AuthorEdna O'Brien
ISBN0297855530
byron is just not that into you. it doesnt matter what you do - hes just not that into you. he might put his baby in you, but he will leave you as soon as you start going into labor and return later only to shoot bottles in your living room while you strain and bleed to produce a creature he will hardly look at. because...
Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
AuthorDouglas Murray
ISBN0340767707
There is a vogue these days for biographies of minor, peripheral characters who lived on the margins of literary greatness: Tennyson's wife, for instance, or Dickens' mistress.

This new biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquess of Queensbury and, most scandalously, the lover...
What Would Your Character Do?
AuthorEric Maisel
ISBN1582973725
Get Inside Your Character's HeadJust how well do you know your characters?

Test yourself–and your characters–with 30 interactive pop quizzes designed to help you discover exactly what makes your characters tick.

Noted author Eric Maisel draws on his technical knowledge...
Delaying the Real World
AuthorColleen Kinder
ISBN0762421894
Alright, it's been three years since this puppy showed up in my life : what results?

--Done the Ironman
--Bought the map to bike across the USA, and the bike and the bike trailer, didnt yet do the bike
--Joined Peace Corps 2x


Still left to do:
--WWOOFing in Italy/Switzerland/Germany...
My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind - And Doubt Freed My Soul
AuthorAmir Ahmad Nasr
ISBN1250016797
Amir Ahmad Nasr is a young Muslim man with something explosive in his hands: a computer connected to the Internet. And it has the power to help ignite a revolution and blow apart the structures of ignorance and politicized indoctrination that too often still imprison the Muslim mind.

Part memoir,...
Rick Steves' Germany 2013
AuthorRick Steves
ISBN1612383939
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Germany.

This guidebook takes you from fairy-tale castles, alpine forests, and quaint villages to the energetic Germany of today. Get the details on cruising the romantic Rhine or summiting the Zugspitze....
What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
AuthorPeter Ginna
Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while shepherding...
Sailor Moon the Novels: Mercury Rising
AuthorLianne Sentar
ISBN1892213184
Sailor Moon is an international phenomenon that has generated billions in revenue and introduced entire generations to the world of Japanese entertainment. When a whimsical schoolgirl discovers that she is, in fact, the Princess Serenity, a tale of galactic adventures and mysterious romance begins....
Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life
AuthorSamantha Ellis
ISBN1784740217
Anne Brontë is the forgotten Brontë sister, overshadowed by her older siblings -- virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. The less talented Brontë, the other Brontë.

Or that's what Samantha Ellis,...
How To Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own
AuthorBarry Farber
ISBN0806512717
Barry Farber has been a true adventurer in languages for forty-six years and can speak in twenty-five tongues. The techniques he presents in "How to Learn Any Language" will have you speaking, reading, writing and enjoying any foreign language you want to learn - or have to learn - in a surprisingly short...
Thanks, But This Isn't for Us: The Compassionate Guide to Understanding What's Wrong with Your Writing and Leaving the Rejection Pile for Good
AuthorJessica Page Morrell
ISBN1585427217
A fun, practical guide that reveals the essentials of good fiction and memoir writing by exposing the most common mistakes literary writers make.

All great works of fiction and memoir are unique-but most bad novels, stories, and memoirs have a lot in common. From clunky dialogue to poorly...
The Wild Woman's Guide to Traveling the World
AuthorKristin Rockaway
ISBN1455597538
Fans of Sophie Kinsella and The Devil Wears Prada will love this smart, sexy debut novel of wanderlust.

Objectively, Sophie is a success: she's got a coveted job at a top consulting firm, a Manhattan apartment, and a passport full of stamps. It isn't quite what she dreamed of when she was a teenager...
Adulthood for Beginners: All the Life Secrets Nobody Bothered to Tell You
AuthorAndy Boyle
"A hilarious guide to help young workers not be idiots....The book is, truly, a guide to being an adult in the modern age." --Chicago Tribune

The life-survival guide you didn't know you needed. But you do.

As any current or former twentysomething knows, adulthood can be kind of awkward...
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