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10 best books like What I Thought I Knew (Alice Eve Cohen): Still Lives, She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana, Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones, The Rabbi's Cat, The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship, The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo, Here If You Need Me, The Long Goodbye, Making Toast, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

Still Lives
AuthorMaria Hummel
ISBN1619021110
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women—the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others—and...
She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
AuthorHaven Kimmel
In this sequel to the top-selling A Girl Named Zippy, the woman rising heroically from the couch is Zippy's mother, Delonda. After years of languorous existence, this oversized couch potato emerged from the den to pursue a higher education. Delonda was well read but in other ways seemed ill suited for...
Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones
AuthorJason Lutes
ISBN1896597297
Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events...
The Rabbi's Cat
AuthorJoann Sfar
ISBN0375422811
The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comic artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat — a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.

In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging...
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
AuthorJeffrey Zaslow
ISBN1592404456
From the coauthor of "The Last Lecture" comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring true story of eleven girls and the ten women they became.

Karla, Kelly, Marilyn, Jane, Jenny. Karen, Cathy, Angela, Sally, Diana. Sheila. Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends...
The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo
AuthorJoe Sacco
ISBN1896597602
When bombs are falling and western journalism is the only game left in town "fixers" are the people who sell war correspondents the human tragedy and moral outrage that makes news editors happy.

It's dangerous, a little amoral and a lot desperate.

Award-winning comix-journalist...
Here If You Need Me
AuthorKate Braestrup
ISBN0316066303
When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister, and eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which...
The Long Goodbye
AuthorMeghan O'Rourke
ISBN1594487987
What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record...
Making Toast
AuthorRoger Rosenblatt
When his daughter, Amy-a gifted doctor, mother, and wife-collapsed and died from an asymptomatic heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, left their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren, six-year-old Jessica,...
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
AuthorElizabeth McCracken
ISBN0316027677
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married,...
The Middle Place
AuthorKelly Corrigan
ISBN1401303366
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Corrigan opens her memoir with these words: "The thing you need to know about me is that I am George Corrigan's daughter, his only daughter."
She continues with an unabashed tribute to the first man in her life.
George Corrigan emerges as an...
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
AuthorAyelet Waldman
ISBN0385527934
In the tradition of recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Perfect Madness comes a hilarious and controversial book that every woman will have an opinion about, written by America’s most outrageous writer.

In our mothers’ day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers, and occasionally...
Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
AuthorHeather Harpham
A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.

Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian,...
About Alice
AuthorCalvin Trillin
ISBN1400066158
In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county would come and take the child.”...
Shelter Me
AuthorJuliette Fay
ISBN0061673390
In the tradition of Marisa de los Santos and Anne Tyler comes a moving debut about a young mother's year of heartbreak, loss, and forgiveness...and help that arrives from unexpected sources

Four months after her husband's death, Janie LaMarche remains undone by grief and anger. Her mourning...
Half a Life
AuthorDarin Strauss
ISBN1934781703
Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.

"Half my life ago, I killed a girl."

So begins Darin Strauss' Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate...
Without a Map
AuthorMeredith Hall
ISBN0807072737
Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether....
Kafka
AuthorDavid Zane Mairowitz
ISBN1596878126
Part illustrated biography, part comics adaptation, R. Crumb's Kafka is a vibrant biography that examines this Czech writer and his works in a way that a bland texbook never could! R. Crumb's Kafka goes far beyond being explication or popularization or survey. It's a work of art in its own right, a very...
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