Cynthia Moore
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Dancing on Coals: A Memoir of an Overperformer
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Spencer's Pond
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2011
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3 editions
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| The Reluctant Womb is the story of three friends coming of age in the 1960’s, an era ripe with the advent of birth control, sexual liberation and the Civil Rights Movement. Blair walks us through the conflicts and joys of that era with practiced ease ...more | |
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| In Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town—A Memoir, Ana Hebra Flaster brilliantly describes the trauma of leaving her home in Cuba at age six, resettling in the most opposite climate conceivable (New Hampshire), ...more | |
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| This is a truly wonderful book about an amazing woman. Not only does Fernandez take us on a wild ride through the end of the eighteenth century with a woman who bucks societal norms to fulfil her dream of placing Van Gogh’s unknown paintings into the ...more | |
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Reaching for Beautiful: A Memoir of Loving and Losing a Wild Child
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| Sally McQuillen’s REACHING FOR BEAUTIFUL is an exquisite story of love and loss. It is a love story for her eldest son, tragically lost far too young. In language that is both lyrical and heart-wrenching, prosaic and searingly honest, she bares her a ...more | |
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Barely Visible: Mothering a Son Through His Misunderstood Autism
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| In her searing memoir, Barely Visible, Kathleen Somers bravely exposes her inner journey as the mother of a child with Asperger’s Syndrome. Her frank, wrenching revelations of her own struggle with this painful process are illuminating for all of us ...more | |
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| Charlotte Whitney’s A TINY PIECE OF BLUE had me hooked from the first chapter. Her tale of children abandoned during the depression and aided by the kindness of strangers has all the elements of a really good story: pathos, suspense, redemption, and ...more | |
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| Jessica Levine’s THREE COUSINS invites us into a family of mothers and daughters and shows us the inner workings. It is a beautifully rendered story, the language is precise and true, and the dialogue is so organic that we feel we are sitting around ...more | |
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| In Girl, Groomed, Odell describes in spare, beautiful prose the legacy of trauma passed down through families and the insidious power dynamic of abuse, both sexual and emotional. She paints both the heart-breaking personal experience of abuse and the ...more | |
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| Diane Wheaton’s memoir, Finding Loretta, is both heart-breaking and a tribute to love. Abandoned in more ways that seem humanly possible, Wheaton writes about her unswerving loyalty to her adoptive parents even though their narcissistic demands were ...more | |














