Why I Jumped: My True Story of Postpartum Depression, Dramatic Rescue & Return to Hope
10 best books like Why I Jumped: My True Story of Postpartum Depression, Dramatic Rescue & Return to Hope (Tina Zahn): Find Me, The Time Travelers: Volume One, Three Weddings and a Giggle, The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing, Love Works Like This: Moving from One Kind of Life to Another, The Beast: A Journey Through Depression, Saving Levi: Left to Die, Destined to Live, Still Woman Enough: A Memoir, One Light Still Shines: My Life Beyond the Shadow of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting, The Unusual Suspect: My Calling to the New Hardcore Movement of Faith
| Author | Rosie O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0446690309 |
I have always found Rosie O'Donnell entertaining, but I had no idea how much I would like her book! She is a terrific writer, and I believe she wrote this book and not a ghostwriter because the voice and the thought process is so authentic that I have to believe it is really her. The story is interesting --...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0553494805 |
Imagine changing centuries - and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.
Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries.
Imagine discovering that, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must abandon someone you love.
Meet...
| Author | Liz Curtis Higgs |
| ISBN | 1601420072 |
Warning: Laughter ahead! Liz Curtis Higgs delivers again with Fine Print, where a businessman and the speech coach he's hired have no idea there are matchmakers at work on their behalf! Her novella is part of a delightful triple-header in Three Weddings and a Giggle. The giggle comes from Carolyn Zane,...
| Author | Danell Jones |
| ISBN | 0553806505 |
In this brilliantly imagined book, author Danell Jones mines the diaries, essays, correspondence, and fiction of a literary legend to create an unforgettable master class in the art of writing. Using Virginia Woolf’s own words, this inspiring, instructive, and entertaining guide will...
| Author | Lauren Slater |
| ISBN | 0375503765 |
“Is even the most clenched heart capable of it?” Lauren Slater asks about love, in this original, eloquent, and illuminating book about how we discover what love truly is. Slater, career-oriented and willfully autonomous, charts her own personal journey and decision-making process, starting...
The Beast: A Journey Through Depression
| Author | Tracy Thompson |
| ISBN | 0452276950 |
To others, Tracy Thompson was an attractive woman and an outstanding journalist, with a rewarding career and a wealth of friends. But beyond that facade was a woman who struggled wit episodes of bleak depression. The Beast, as she later cam to call it, began stalking her during a girlhood spent in the...
| Author | Lisa Misraje Bentley |
| ISBN | 1589974492 |
Lisa and John Bentley went to China to build an orphanage in a village near Beijing. Soon after their arrival, a 6-week-old baby boy, with burns on over 70% of his body, was found in a field and brought to them. This is just the beginning of Levi's story. Saving Levi brings together the stories of believers...
Loretta Lynn's first memoir, Coal Miner's Daughter, was a #1 national bestseller that sparked an Oscar-winning movie and left fans hungry for more. Now Loretta finishes that story, and the second half of her life is every bit as remarkable and inspiring as the first.
In a friendly, down-home...
| Author | Marie Monville |
| ISBN | 0310336759 |
'My story is not about my past, but about your future.' In the startling tragedy of the Amish schoolhouse shooting at Nickel Mines, one story has never been told. Marie Roberts Monville, the wife of the man who created such horror, tells her story for the very first time. It is a story of sorrow, of madness...
| Author | Stephen Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0446579750 |
Although Stephen Baldwin refers to himself in the 3rd person, he is doing great work to bring our young people to the LORD through extreme sports. There is no better way to connect to this generation than to get out there and get involved in what they are interested in AND making it a positive experience....
| Author | Leslie Haskin |
| ISBN | 0764202863 |
Loving books as I do, I'm always fascinated to read the variations in styles when an author is telling his personal story. Some authors write in a forceful, in-your-face style; other authors write in a way that will cause you to empathize with their plight; and then, there are the authors who write with...
| Author | Terri Blackstock |
| ISBN | 0849943418 |
Three friends whose lives needed a jolt...An earthquake that struck without warning...A supernatural gifting of mysterious powers...
The Gifted is one of Terri Blackstock's most intriguing novels. A massive natural disaster leads to an even more earth-shaking supernatural transformation...
| Author | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon |
| ISBN | 1595479260 |
Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually despondent and plagued by ignorance. Regardless of these tormenting conditions, she rose to the inimitability...
| Author | Hannah Friedman |
| ISBN | 0757307752 |
When everything sucks,
change everything . . . And that's exactly what Hannah Friedman set out to do in an ambitious attempt to bust out of a life of obscurity and absurdity and into an alternate world of glamour, wealth, and popularity.
Being dubbed 'That Monkey Girl' by middle school bullies...
| Author | David Crosby |
| ISBN | 0399153810 |
David Crosby, the outspoken founding member of CSNY and The Byrds, turns his wry and unstinting eye to a fascinating, prickly subject: himself.
Known to millions as the trickster poster boy for folkrock utopia and the inspiration for Dennis Hopper's wild-eyed antihero in the film Easy Rider,...
Verbal Abuse: Survivors Speak Out on Relationship and Recovery
| Author | Patricia Evans |
| ISBN | 1558503048 |
If your partner: seems irritated or angry at you several times a week, denies being angry when he clearly is, does not work with you to resolve important issues, rarely or never seems to share thoughts or plans with you, or tells you that he has no idea what you’re talking about when you try to discuss important...
| Author | Simon Ivascu |
| ISBN | 0978201205 |
This non-fiction story encompasses the human spirit and the will to survive more than any story I have ever read.
The book caught my attention during an episode of Dragon's Den, where they pitched their book for publication. To tell you how this book had an impact on the Dragons, even hard-ass...
| Author | Dayna Curry |
| ISBN | 0385507836 |
When Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer arrived in Afghanistan, they had come to help bring a better life and a little hope to some of the poorest and most oppressed people in the world. Within a few months, their lives were thrown into chaos as they became pawns in historic international events. They were...
Bryson City Seasons: More Tales of a Doctor’s Practice in the Smoky Mountains
| Author | Walt Larimore |
| ISBN | 0310256720 |
Welcome to Bryson City, a small town tucked away in a fold of North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains. The scenery is breathtaking, the home cooking can’t be beat, the Maroon Devils football team is the pride of the town, and you won’t find better steelhead fishing anywhere. But the best part is the people...
| Author | Steven Kellogg |
| ISBN | 0142300098 |
Pinkerton seems lonely. So his young owner goes to the pet show to find him a friend. She returns with a kitten named Rose, who could be the ideal playmate for Pinkerton. But Rose has ideas of her own. She wants to be a Great Dane, and suddenly Pinkerton decides to start acting like a kitten. So Pinkerton,...
| Author | Priscilla Cogan |
| ISBN | 0385490488 |
To the surprise of her family, Winona Pathfinder, an elderly Lakota Sioux medicine woman, announces she intends to die in two months. For counseling, Winona is referred to psychologist Dr. Meggie O'Connor--Caucasian, middle-aged, and divorced. A reluctant client, the feisty Winona decides to...
| Author | Ralph L. Wahlstrom |
| ISBN | 1593374046 |
The creative process doesn't have to be torturous--with The Tao of Writing, it can be glorious! Invoking the principles of the Tao allows you to do your best work ever. By tapping into the true flow of your creativity, you can discover and develop your true talents and abilities. Author Ralph Wahlstrom...
| Author | Albert Cutié |
| ISBN | 0451232011 |
He was a Roman Catholic priest whose love affair became headline news. Now, he shares his explosive story-in his own words... In this deeply personal and controversial memoir, Father Albert Cutié tells about the devastating struggle between upholding his sacred promises as a priest and falling...
This Crazy Vegan Life: A Prescription for an Endangered Species
| Author | Christina Pirello |
| ISBN | 1557885389 |
Read Christina Pirello's posts on the Penguin Blog.
A manifesto on being vegan and living healthfully from the award-winning host of public television's Christina Cooks, Naturally!
Being vegan is not only about a plant- based diet. It means taking a whole new look at health, fitness,...
Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets
| Author | Jon Gosselin |
| ISBN | 0310289025 |
Eight children in three years? Impossible! Kate and Jon Gosselin have learned that, through God, all things are possible--though sometimes slightly improbable. Just three years after giving birth to twin daughters, Kate and Jon learned they were pregnant again--with sextuplets. In Multiple Blessings,...
