Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.
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Tag: memoir
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The Last Lecture
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.
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Spare
Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023 memoir of grief, love…
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Running with Scissors
A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.
2,036-word summary · 9 min read
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir.
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Bourdain on rough kitchens, past drug use, Les Halles years, and why you should never order fish on Monday.
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Greenlights
McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.
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Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.
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Between the World and Me
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
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Untamed
Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire.
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The Woman in Me
Britney Spears tells her own story from teen stardom to a thirteen year conservatorship, and how she fought to reclaim her voice and freedom.
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Marley & Me
A young couple learns marriage, parenthood, and goodbye through thirteen years with Marley, their wild and loving Labrador.
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Mindy Kaling recalls Boston childhood, Dartmouth comedy, New York hustle, and The Office writers room.
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Hillbilly Elegy
Vance traces Mamaw and Papaw from Kentucky to Middletown through addiction, Marines, and Yale Law.
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Crying in H Mart
Japanese Breakfast singer Michelle Zauner remembers her Korean mother through food, grief, and growing up in Oregon.
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bryson and friend Katz attempt the Appalachian Trail with blisters, bears, and laughs.
2,660-word summary · 12 min read
A Child Called It
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.
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Yes Please
Amy Poehler moves from Boston childhood through UCB and SNL to Parks and Recreation in this 2014 memoir. Funny essays on work, motherhood, divorce, and saying…
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou recalls Stamps, St Louis and San Francisco, from childhood silence after trauma to voice through books and work.
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
At 26 Cheryl Strayed hikes the Pacific Crest Trail alone to grieve and reset.
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When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon facing terminal cancer asks what makes life meaningful when time runs out.
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