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  Non-fiction "Real-Life Struggle" Books

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January 2002
Compiled by Julie A. Roberts, of Rolling Meadows Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Armstrong, Lance   It's not about the bike

Baker, Ken   Man made: a memoir of my body

Bauby, Jean Dominique   The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Beck, Martha Nibley   Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

Bragg, Rick   All over but the shoutin' & Ava's Man

Colapinto, John   As Nature Made Him: The Boy who was Raised as a Girl

Crimmins, C.E.   Where is the Mango Princess?

Delany, Sarah L.   On my own at 107

Delany, Sarah L. & A. Elizabeth   Having our Say: the Delany Sisters' First 100 years

Eggers, Dave   A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Ehrenreich, Barbara   Nickel and Dimed

Ellison, Brooke & Jean   Miracles Happen

Gelman, Rita Golden   Tales of a Female Nomad : Living at Large in the World

Grealy, Lucy   Autobiography of a Face

Henderson, Carol   Losing Malcolm

Holtz, Lou   Winning Every Day : The Game Plan for Success

Hope Magazine   Signs of Hope : In Praise of Ordinary Heroes?

Junger, Sebastian   The Perfect Storm

Keller, Helen   The Story of my Life and Books about her

Killilea, Marie   Karen and With Love from Karen

Krakauer, Jon   Into Thin Air

Kusz, Natalie   Road Song

Mandela, Nelson   The Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

McCourt, Frank   Angela's Ashes & 'Tis

McCrum, Robert   My Year off

McDermott, Jeanne   Baby Face

Nielsen, Jerri   Ice Bound : A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

Nissel, Angela   The Broke Diaries

Nolan, Christopher   Under the Eye of the Clock: A Memoir

Pelzer. Dave   A Child Called "It" : One Child's Courage to Survive and Others

Rawicz, Slavomir   The Long Walk

Reeve, Christopher   Still Me

Russell, Robert W   To Catch an Angel: Adventures in the World I Cannot See

Ryan, Terry   The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Shapiro, Dan   Mom's Marijuana

Tynan, Ronan   Halfway Home

Williams, Donna   Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic

Williams, Donna   Somebody Somewhere : Breaking Free from the World of Autism

Woodwell, William H, Jr.   Coming to Term: A Father's Story of Birth, Loss and Survival

And, don't forget all the books by celebrities like Patti LaBelle, Della Reese, Iyanla VanZant, Montel Williams, Oprah Winfrey and others! They came through their struggles!

 
 
      
   
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