Who Do You Think You Are?
10 best books like Who Do You Think You Are? (Alyse Myers): The Inheritance of Loss, Me: Stories of My Life, To Sir, With Love, Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing, Driving with Dead People, Sick Girl, Open House, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age, Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling
| Author | Kiran Desai |
| ISBN | 0802142818 |
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju,...
| Author | Katharine Hepburn |
| ISBN | 0345410092 |
Like listening to your grandma (your crazy, crazy grandma) tell you stories. Except that your grandma is Katharine Hepburn. Except that the stories are replete with digressions about that candy shop she used to visit as a child(of course, it's been torn down now), and that time she went to Italy with...
| Author | E.R. Braithwaite |
| ISBN | 0515105198 |
The all-time Classic schoolroom drama - as relevant as today's headlines ...
He shamed them, wrestled with them, enlightened them, and - ultimately - learned to love them. Mr. Braithwaite, the new teacher, had first to fight the class bully. Then he taught defiant, hard-bitten delinquents...
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
"I'm reading this book right now and loving it!"--Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild
How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy?
"A wry and moving meditation on aging and the different...
| Author | Monica Holloway |
| ISBN | 1416940022 |
Small wonder that, at nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. With a father who drives his Ford pickup with a Kodak movie camera sitting shotgun just in case he sees an accident, and whose home movies feature more footage of disasters than of his children, Monica...
| Author | Amy Silverstein |
| ISBN | 0802118542 |
At twenty-four, Amy was a typical type-A law student: smart, driven, and highly competitive until her heart began to fail. Amy chronicles her harrowing medical journey from the first misdiagnosis to her astonishing recovery after her heart transplant, which is made all the more dramatic by the romantic...
| Author | Elizabeth Berg |
| ISBN | 0345435168 |
In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart.
Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down...
| Author | Daniel Mark Epstein |
| ISBN | 0805071814 |
This is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child but her talent for words, music, and drama, and an inexorable desire to be loved. When she was twenty, her poetry would make her famous; at thirty she would be loved...
| Author | Philip N. Meyer |
| ISBN | 0826215688 |
For more than thirty years the newspaper industry has been losing readers at a slow but steady rate. News professionals are inclined to blame themselves, but the real culprit is technology and its competing demands on the public's time. The Internet is just the latest in a long series of new information...
Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling
| Author | Martha Frankel |
| ISBN | 1585425583 |
A gloriously written memoir of growing up in a family of hard- core gamblers-Martha Frankel thought the gambling gene had passed her by, until she found herself addicted to online poker and knee-deep in debt.
Most weekends when Martha Frankel was a kid, her mother had a mah-jongg game going...
| Author | Janice Erlbaum |
| ISBN | 0812974573 |
And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you?
Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful...
| Author | Rachel Resnick |
| ISBN | 1596914947 |
Rachel Resnick hits her forties single, broke, depressed, childless—a train wreck. After an ex-boyfriend breaks into her home and vandalizes it, Resnick takes the time to look back over her romantic and sexual history to ask the question: What is wrong with me? Her addiction to sex and love has...
| Author | Rachel Sontag |
| ISBN | 0385664745 |
A compelling, at times horrifying work that is impossible to put down, House Rules will stand beside Running With Scissors and The Glass Castle as a memoir that cracks open the shell of a desperately dysfunctional family with impressive grace and humour.
Rachel Sontag grew up the daughter...
Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust
| Author | Michael Korenblit |
| ISBN | 0964712407 |
1942. A small town in Poland. Two Jewish families flee to hiding places, hoping to evade deportation by the Nazis. At the last moment, 17-year old Manya makes the heart wrenching decision to leave her family and join her sweetheart, Meyer, also 17, with his family. For three long years, Manya and Meyer...
Trooper: The Bobcat Who Came in from the Wild
| Author | Forrest Bryant Johnson |
| ISBN | 1510728228 |
Whenever middle-aged desert tour guide Forrest Bryant Johnson went out on his daily walks into the Mojave, all was usually peaceful and serene. But one beautiful summer day in 1987, Forrest heard a cry of distress. Following the cries, he came upon a small bobcat kitten, injured, orphaned, and desperately...
Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
| Author | Lilly Ledbetter |
| ISBN | 0307887928 |
The courageous story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act--her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation.
Lilly Ledbetter was born in a house with...
My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family
| Author | Zach Wahls |
| ISBN | 1592407137 |
I want to make it clear: I think Zach Wahls is a great guy. He’s smart, articulate, brave, and endearing. He’s got a great sense of humor and a nice, hard jawline. He would undoubtedly wipe the floor with me in any kind of serious debate, so I’m hoping I never find myself in one with him. That said, I have...
I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted
| Author | Jennifer Finney Boylan |
| ISBN | 0767921747 |
From the bestselling author of She's Not There comes another buoyant, unforgettable memoir—I'm Looking Through You is about growing up in a haunted house...and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in our hearts.
For Jennifer Boylan, creaking stairs, fleeting images in the mirror,...
