Author's writing desk with a stack of books, rocks from Petoskey, MI and shells from Vero Beach.

Memoir Inspiration

It Begins With You

Jillian Turecki

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Ikigai

Yukari Mitsuhashi

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Calling in the One

Katherine Woodward Thomas

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Manifest

Roxie Nafousi

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Like Streams to the Ocean

Jedidiah Jenkins

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To Shake the Sleeping Self

Jedidiah Jenkins

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Fear Gone Wild

Kayla Stoecklein

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Dog Songs

Mary Oliver

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Mother, Nature

Jedidiah Jenkins

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Handwash Cold

Karen Miller

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Taste

Stanley Tucci

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Strong Girl Brave Girl

Kelsey Baldwin

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We Are the Luckiest

Laura McKowen

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Paradise in Plain Sight

Karen Miller

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The Outrun

Amy Liptrot

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My Life in France

Julia Child

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Wintering

Katherine May

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The Boy and the Mountain

Torbjørn Ekelund

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In Praise of Paths

Torbjørn Ekelund

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First, We Make the Beast Beautiful

Sarah Wilson

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Lands of Lost Borders

Kate Harris

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Know My Name

Chanel Miller

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Nowhere for Very Long

Brianna Madia

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Between Two Kingdoms

Suleika Jaouad

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Maggie Smith

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

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The Power of Writing It Down

Allison Fallon

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The Year of Living Danishly

Helen Russell

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The Women I Think About at Night

Mia Kankimäki

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