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4.8 / 5.0
Jennifer Huston Schaeffer's memoir MOMMY'S BOY: How My Doggie Soulmate's Love Rescued Me is a poignant exploration of the transformative power of human-animal bonds. It...
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June 4, 2025
BEING BROKEN: Tales and Essays of Survival and Death from Narcissistic Parental Abuse
By Geoffrey R. JonasRating:
4.3 / 5.0
Though at times a difficult read, Geoffrey R. Jonas's BEING BROKEN: Tales and Essays of Survival and Death from Narcissistic Parental Abuse offers profound and...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
Gilles Chagnon’s MY MOTHER, MY LOVE, MY CHILD is a lyrical, closely observed, and relentlessly paced reflection on the lives and deaths of human beings.
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Rating:
4.2 / 5.0
Warm, witty, and refreshingly self-deprecating, Jane Howatt's JIGSAW & JANE: Thirteen Years of Murder and Mayhem with Badge Number One is a true-crime memoir that...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
A deeply personal memoir of struggle, Ryan McDermott’s DOWNRIVER: Memoir of a Warrior Poet is a valuable addition to the corpus of veterans’ voices in...
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3.0 / 5.0
Although the target audience for James Marshon’s THE LOST JOURNAL is somewhat unclear, it still boasts a stock of amusing anecdotes and a loquacious, energetic...
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Rating:
4.2 / 5.0
Nathan Kitchen's THE BOUGHS OF LOVE is an incisive, moving, and rather saddening attempt to find common ground between Mormonism and LGBTQ people.
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Rating:
4.9 / 5.0
Joanna Kadish's FLIRTING WITH EXTINCTION is a remarkable, heartfelt memoir that details the author's varied life, loves, and losses with exceptional poise.
IR Approved
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
Though it would benefit from editing in places, A FAR CRY FROM YESTERDAY: Finding Tomorrow in Distant Lands is an engaging account of Manon Rinsma's...
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Rating:
4.2 / 5.0
Though there are some wrinkles in the presentation, Richard Lowy's KALMAN AND LEOPOLD: Surviving Mengele's Auschwitz contains a story about Auschwitz's horrors that ought to...
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Rating:
4.6 / 5.0
From the intimate details of his wife’s battle with stage IV lung cancer to his own path through grief, Tony Stewart’s CARRYING THE TIGER: Living...
Rating:
3.9 / 5.0
Though it occasionally tacks close to some brands of pseudoscience, Lisa Peachey’s EVERYTHING IS NOT PEACHEY is a thoughtful, affecting, deeply personal account of chronic...