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A Memoir

by Karr, Mary

Book - 2005

A brutally honest — and wryly funny — account of the writer’s coming of age in Texas. Karr's even-handed retelling of her youth is utterly without sentimentality, but strangely charming — if cringe-worthy at times. [Also available as an eBook] A brutally honest — and wryly funny — account of the writer’s coming of age in Texas. Karr's even-handed retelling of her youth is utterly without sentimentality, but strangely charming — if cringe-worthy at times. [Also available as an eBook] Show less

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Wasted

A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

by Hornbacher, Marya

Book - 2014

In this seminal book, American writer Marya Hornbacher describes her struggle with dysfunctional eating and body loathing with unflinching honesty. I pick...Show more In this seminal book, American writer Marya Hornbacher describes her struggle with dysfunctional eating and body loathing with unflinching honesty. I picked up Wasted in the early 2000s in an effort to understand my own eating disorder, but I re-read it years later because of its literary merit. This book will break your heart, but it’s written so beautifully that you won't mind one bit. Show less

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In the Dream House

A Memoir

by Machado, Carmen Maria

eBook - 2019

This memoir of abuse is told in compelling fragments that mirror the way trauma distorts memory. It also flips the script on society’s understanding of do...Show more This memoir of abuse is told in compelling fragments that mirror the way trauma distorts memory. It also flips the script on society’s understanding of domestic violence as a heterosexual phenomenon defined by physical violence. Machado is a queer, cis-woman who survived primarily psychological abuse from a same-sex partner — a dark and confusing reality for too many folks in the LGBTQ community. [Also available as a book and eAudiobook] Show less

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Between Two Kingdoms

A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

by Jaouad, Suleika

Downloadable Audiobook - 2021

When cancer found her, Suleika Jaouad was in her early 20s and living in Paris with a new boyfriend. What began as an insatiable itch turned out to be a r...Show more When cancer found her, Suleika Jaouad was in her early 20s and living in Paris with a new boyfriend. What began as an insatiable itch turned out to be a rare form of Leukemia requiring a barrage of chemotherapy and radiation treatments — and even a bone marrow transplant — over the course of several years. To Jaouad’s surprise, the treatments are ultimately successful, but, in many ways, life as a survivor proves to be harder than life with cancer. [Also available as a book and eBook] Show less

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Toil & Trouble

by Burroughs, Augusten

Book - 2019

You may remember Augusten Burroughs as the author of the popular memoir Running With Scissors, about growing up in the home of his mother’s eccentric psyc...Show more You may remember Augusten Burroughs as the author of the popular memoir Running With Scissors, about growing up in the home of his mother’s eccentric psychiatrist (it was made into a 2006 film starring Annette Bening). You may not know that Burroughs has written several other memoirs since and remains unselfconscious in disclosing even the most private and embarrassing details of his life. But he levels up in his 2019 memoir Toil and Trouble, in which he writes about his coming of age as a witch during adulthood. [Also available as large print, eAudiobook, and audiobook CD] Show less

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