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3.5 / 5.0
Although afflicted with both a surfeit and a lack of detail in different ways, Kristina Ahlnäs’s KRISTINA'S CACHE: A Memoir of Adventure and Survival in...
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5.0 / 5.0
Through its innovative structure and unflinching self-examination, Joshua Gidding’s OLD WHITE MAN WRITING offers a new approach to the biographical template—resulting in a challenging, highly...
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3.9 / 5.0
Amanda LaPera’s FINDING DAD, PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA: An End to the Search is a challenging read, but it’s hard not to be struck by its immense...
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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
Told with the thoughtful reflectiveness of a practiced yogi but with persistent emotional immediacy, Michael Shandler’s KARMA & KISMET is an excellent memoir of both...
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Rating:
4.7 / 5.0
TOKYO TEMPOS is an enlightening and entertaining collection of essays, thanks to Micheal Pronko’s careful prose beautifully conjuring a sense of place and the occasional...
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4.0 / 5.0
Challenging but rewarding, Cindy Lee Neighbors’s TOO MUCH is an incisive memoir of the soul-crushing dysfunction of both medical and military culture in the US.
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October 25, 2024
OBJECT: A Memoir of Childhood Abuse and a Shocking Cover-Up at the Highest Ranks of Government
By Kristin Louise DuncombeRating:
4.5 / 5.0
OBJECT: A Memoir of Childhood Abuse and a Shocking Cover-Up at the Highest Ranks of Government is a powerful memoir of childhood abuse and its...
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Rating:
4.7 / 5.0
Raw, compassionate, and perceptive, Michael Swerdloff's memoir RAISED BY WOLVES, POSSIBLY MONSTERS is a vital excavation of toxic masculinity's rot—and an urgent call for individual...
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3.7 / 5.0
BLINDSIGHTED: A Journey of Identity, Faith, and Healing is a carefully constructed family history that pivots on a shock DNA revelation. Author Rich Christiansen skillfully...
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3.8 / 5.0
Jimmy Mulzet's FACING THE CHALLENGE, BEATING THE ODDS is an honest and inspirational account of one man's struggle to overcome debilitating illness.
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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
WATER LUST by Gerhard Pohle is a lively and engaging autobiography that includes humor, tragedy, loneliness, love, catastrophe, and triumph. It is a rich reminiscence...