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  • Parish the Thought

    An Inspirational Memoir of Growing Up Catholic in

    In a warm and affectionate narrative that "transports readers back to a time before cable television, cell phones, and the Internet" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), John Bernard Ruane paints a marvelous portrait of his Irish-Catholic boyhood on the southwest side of Chicago in the 1960s. Capturing all the details that perfectly evoke those bygone days for Catholics and baby boomers everywhere, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    A Memoir

    by Frank McCourt ...
    Series series The Frank McCourt Memoirs
    A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angela’s Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished Irish immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.Frank McCourt’s glorious childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Faith

    A Novel

    "[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity." —NewYork Times"We have the intriguing possibility that the nextgreat American author is already in print." —Fort Worth Star-TelegramWhen Sheila McGann setsout to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in suburbanBoston, her quest will force her to confront cataclysmic truths about ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine

    America's Funniest Jokes, Stories, and Cartoons

    Series series Laughter Medicine
    This collection of laugh-out-loud jokes, one-liners, and other lighthearted glimpses of life-drawn from Reader's Digest magazine's most popular humor columns-is sure to tickle the funny bone. Packed with more than 1,000 jokes, anecdotes, cartoons, quotes, and stories contributed by professional comedians, joke writers, and readers of the magazine, this side-splitting compilation pokes fun at the ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • The Clancys of Queens

    A Memoir

    by Tara Clancy ...
    A witty memoir that weaves an authentic coming-of-age tale into a bold portrait of New York’s working-class women.Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Beautiful Buttons

    A Memoir of Survival and Triumph

    by Cathrine Ann ...
    Unwanted and neglected as a child, abused by neighborhood perverts beginning at six years old, and then by loser boyfriends during her adolescence and beyond, Cathrine Ann became pregnant at fifteen, was pimped out by her rich uncle at seventeen, was jailed at eighteen, and lived as a prostitute in her thirties.But today she is the founder and president of a multi-million-dollar company. How did ... Read more

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  • Where Miracles Happen

    True Stories of Heavenly Encounters

    To some, "It's a miracle!" is nothing more than a common expression.To others, it's nothing less than a personal experience with the Divine.In an age of ever-advancing science, the idea that miracles real, God-initiated miracles can and do happen is often cast to the side of the rational road and considered nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of desperate people. But to those ... Read more

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  • The Wally Lamb Fiction Collection

    The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, We Are Water, and Wishin' and Hopin'

    by Wally Lamb ...
    From New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb comes a collection of some of his most beloved novels. This eBook bundle includes The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, We Are Water, and Wishin' and Hopin'. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Easter Rising

    A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

    An "alternately funny and heartbreaking" memoir of leaving—and finding—home, by the author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie ( Newsweek).In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he got out.Desperate to avoid the "normal" life of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching the Cat to Sit

    A Memoir

    A compelling memoir of a gay Catholic woman struggling to find balance between being a daughter and a mother raising her son with a loving partner in the face of discrimination.From the time she was born, Michelle Theall knew she was different. Coming of age in the Texas Bible Belt, a place where it was unacceptable to be gay, Theall found herself at odds with her strict Roman Catholic parents, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mermaid

    A Memoir of Resilience

    by Eileen Cronin ...
    "Extraordinarily courageous; [Cronin] chronicles her journey to fit in and thrive with bravery and wit." —O, The Oprah MagazineAt the age of three, Eileen Cronin first realized that only she did not have legs. Her boisterous Catholic family accepted her situation as “God’s will,” treating her no differently than her ten siblings, as she “squiddled” through their 1960s Cincinnati home. But starting ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • In the Walled City

    Stories

    by Stewart O'Nan ...
    An award-winning collection of short fiction from one of “the strongest American writers of his generation” (The Washington Post Book World).Proclaimed “a master” by the New York Times and selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, Stewart O’Nan started his literary career with this outstanding collection of short stories. Selected as the winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus