What We Have: A Family's Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival
10 best books like What We Have: A Family's Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival (Amy Boesky): Becoming Alice: A Memoir, Paradise General: Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq, The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, Northern Farm, Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, Sweetwater Burning
| Author | Alice Rene |
| ISBN | 1605280216 |
Six-year-old IIse watches Nazi soldiers march down her street in Vienna. She does not understand the threat to her Jewish family nor the harrowing escape that follows which will bring her to Riga, Latvia, through Russia and Japan, over the Pacific Ocean, and finally end in Portland, Oregon. Although...
| Author | Dave Hnida |
| ISBN | 1416599576 |
From dust jacket flap: In 2004, at the age of 48, Dr. Dave Hnida, a family physician from Littleton, Colorado, volunteered to be deployed to Iraq and spent a tour of duty as a battalion surgeon with a combat unit. In 2007, he went back, this time as a trauma chief at one of the busiest Combat Support Hospitals...
| Author | Allan J. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1585426156 |
A Harvard-educated neurosurgeon reveals his experiences-in and out of the operating room-with apparitions, angels, exorcism, and after-death survival, and shares the lessons he learned.
A young burn victim remains in a coma until a ghost appears.
A doctor discovers he can predict...
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| Author | Henry Beston |
| ISBN | 0805030921 |
Among the blue-white shadows and graceful curves of freshly fallen snow, the first rains of spring, and the quiet of an early summer morning, Beston brings the reader into an inescapable alliance with the natural world. He translates the philosophy of the Maine farmer into terms as applicable in Manhattan...
| Author | Suzanne Strempek Shea |
| ISBN | 0807072249 |
When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had not been an active member of a church community for some years, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she longed to recapture in her own life. Shea, never one to do things in a conventional manner or by halves, set out on a pilgrimage...
Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir
| Author | Sonya Huber |
| ISBN | 0803226233 |
Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation,...
| Author | Wendy Burden |
| ISBN | 1592405266 |
In the tradition of Sean Wilsey's Oh The Glory of It All and Augusten Burrough's Running With Scissors, the great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir.
For...
| Author | Nicole Walker |
| ISBN | 0978612779 |
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "Part affecting memoir, part lyric meditation on water, part cultural critique, but finally about all that is unquenchable in the human experience, Nicole Walker has created a book that is truly sui generis. By turns wry, elegiac, and always elegant in its precision...
| Author | Heather Sharfeddin |
| ISBN | 0385341288 |
In the small Idaho town of Sweetwater, Chas McPherson tends his blackbelly sheep and keeps his thoughts to himself. Unable to care for his terminally ill father, he must hire a home-care nurse for a job no one in his or her right mind would take. But one woman accepts. Mattie Holden comes to this cramped,...
| Author | Julie Metz |
| ISBN | 1401322557 |
A breathtakingly honest, gloriously written memoir about the complexities of forgiveness when a young widow discovers her husband's secret life after his death. Julie Metz seemed to have the perfect life--an adoring if demanding husband, a happy, spirited daughter, a lovely old house in an idyllic...
| Author | Darcia Helle |
| ISBN | 1453630732 |
My name is Skye Summers. I'm a hairstylist and I can't stop fantasizing about killing my clients. Not all of them, of course. I only want to kill the ones who irritate me, which, if I'm being honest, is most of them. My occasional fantasies have turned into chronic daydreams. They're bloody and vivid, like...
Born in London to a Nigerian princess, Precious Williams saw her life change radically in its first months. Her mother, deciding she couldn't raise a child, placed an ad for foster care in Nursery World. A response soon came from a woman in rural Sussex, and Precious, three months old, was handed off in...
| Author | Patty Dann |
| ISBN | 1611802881 |
Picked this one up randomly at a bookstore. I'm always attracted to books about memoir writing (totally in alignment with my memory keeping endeavors) and this one really filled me up these last few weeks as I was working on some new classroom content. Patty Dann also loves to use one word jumping off points...
| Author | Sally Ryder Brady |
| ISBN | 0312654162 |
In the tradition of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, comes a poignant memoir about a marriage that was as deep and strong as it was mysterious and complex Upton and Sally Brady were a rare breed: cultivated and elegant, they lived a life of literary glamour and high expectations. Sally...
| Author | Dennis Smith |
| ISBN | 0446524476 |
Glad I didn't pay full price for this. It could have been so much more than it was. It could have been like the classic "In America", "West Side Story" or "Angela's Ashes"; well actually any of the McCourt brothers books, or "Angels with Dirty Faces", yep, Mickey Rooney I can see as Dennis. I kept waiting...
| Author | Alexa Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0762441593 |
Author Alexa Stevenson had spent most of her life preparing for the wrong disasters. When her daughter is born 15 weeks early, she is plunged into the strange half-light of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, where she learns the Zen of medical uncertainty and makes the surprising discovery that a worst-case...
| Author | Nan Britton |
| ISBN | 0923891234 |
The President's Daughter is the heart warming story of an innocent young girl who became pregnant and gave birth to a child whose father happened to be the President of the United States. No. This is not a tawdry fable. This is fact. The President was Warren G. Harding who then died suddenly. Some say he...
| Author | Tim O'Mara |
| ISBN | 1250008980 |
Raymond Donne wasn't always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York's Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was until the accident that destroyed his knees. Unable to do the...
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 1416550054 |
Whatever became of Alexander after that famously bad day? And did you know that Judith Viorst is his mother? And what happens to her passion for household neatness and orderliness, her deep devotion to schedules, her compulsive yearning to offer helpful advice when Alexander -- now grown up, married,...
“Insouciant” and “irreverent” are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore’s books—and, invariably, “hilarious.” Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after...
| Author | Grace Paley |
| ISBN | 0374525854 |
This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have from this quintessentially American writer, Just As I Thought gives us a chance to see Paley not only as a writer and "troublemaker" but also as a daughter, sister,...
| Author | Julie Devaney |
| ISBN | 0864926766 |
"Part memoir, part manifesto, Julie Devaney’s profoundly honest new book should be required reading for anyone who may ever have to visit a hospital – which means, in effect, everyone." Quill & Quire
Her weakest moment spawned a crusade for change. Julie Devaney takes us on a journey...
| Author | Tom Grimes |
| ISBN | 0982504896 |
"You don't choose the writer's life, the writer's life chooses you."
When Grimes first meets Frank Conroy (then director of the legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop), he tells him he recently applied to the program. Conroy's response? "Yeah, you and eight hundred others." But Grimes was not only...
The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million—and Bucked the Medical Establishment—in a Quest to Save His Children
| Author | Geeta Anand |
| ISBN | 0060734396 |
“Amazing….Explores human courage under the most trying circumstances.” —New York Post
“An inspirational story about business, medical science, and one father’s refusal to give up hope.” —Boston Globe
The book that inspired the movie,...
