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Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
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4.31 avg rating — 2,629 ratings
score: 393,
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,336,943 ratings
score: 298,
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Pushing up the Sky: A Mother's Story
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Terra Trevor (Goodreads Author)
4.66 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 297,
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Missing Sarah : A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister
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3.95 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Ghost of Sangju
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Soojung Jo (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 90 ratings
score: 286,
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3 people voted
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Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin
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Amber Rose Washington (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 333 ratings
score: 200,
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.35 avg rating — 53,012 ratings
score: 199,
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Hiroshima in the Morning
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Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Goodreads Author)
3.26 avg rating — 348 ratings
score: 191,
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Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life
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3.91 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Torn From the Inside Out
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Sara Niles (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Stay Alive, My Son
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4.38 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
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The River and the Sea: A Story of Forgiveness
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Julia Laughlin (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
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Cynthia A. Sandor (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Making a Difference Memoirs From the Women's Movement in India
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Ritu Menon (Editor)
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score: 100,
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Lamb Of Legacy
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4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 99,
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Memories of a Rolling Stone
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
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3.88 avg rating — 2,937 ratings
score: 98,
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
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4.03 avg rating — 664 ratings
score: 98,
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Stumbling Toward the Buddha: Stories about Tripping over My Principles on the Road to Transformation
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Dawn Downey (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 98,
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Bina Das: A Memoir
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 98,
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Name All the Animals: A Memoir
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3.68 avg rating — 3,289 ratings
score: 97,
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The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
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Jasmin Darznik (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 3,735 ratings
score: 97,
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Lucky
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3.77 avg rating — 101,553 ratings
score: 96,
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Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story
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Ashley Dartnell (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 194 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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With Nothing behind but Sky
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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1 person voted
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
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4.07 avg rating — 554 ratings
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The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses
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4.11 avg rating — 292 ratings
score: 94,
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The Hospital by the River
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4.10 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Unpolished Gem
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Alice Pung (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 2,761 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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The Broken Cord
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3.91 avg rating — 1,513 ratings
score: 92,
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Prisoner of Tehran: The End of Childhood in Iran
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Marina Nemat (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 14,394 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
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4.12 avg rating — 4,314 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Found
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Jennifer Lauck (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 680 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Heart of Fire: One Girl's Extraordinary Journey from Child Soldier to Soul Singer
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3.72 avg rating — 336 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
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Jennifer Lauck (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 9,586 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Jun 06, 2012 12:19AM
Did the creator of this list simply create a list with her book name and description..? There's seem to be no description of what this list was looking for in other books.
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