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LARA LOVE HARDIN is a literary agent, author, prison reform advocate, and president of True Literary. Her memoir, The Many Lives of Mama Love is a 2024 Oprah Book Club pick and a New York Times bestseller. She has an MFA in creative writing and apart from her own book, is also a five-time New York Times bestselling collaborative writer, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life, and 2018 Oprah Book Club pick, The Sun Does Shine, which she coauthored with Anthony Ray Hinton about his 30 years as an innocent man on Alabama’s death row. In 2019, she won a Christopher Award for her work “affirming the highest values of the human spirit,” nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and short-listed for the Dayton Literary Peace Priz ...more

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	The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing 4.42 avg rating — 153,007 ratings — published 2023 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin (Goodreads Author), Bryan Stevenson (Foreword) 4.65 avg rating — 88,606 ratings — published 2018 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin (Goodreads Author), Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 4.56 avg rating — 818 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As muitas vidas de Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin (Goodreads Author), Petê Rissati (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AS MUITAS VIDAS DE MAMA LOVE by Lara Love Hardin (Goodreads Author), Petê Rissatti (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Real power is about using your power to shine a light on other people so they can find their own power.”
― Lara Love Hardin, The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

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“I know I have a lot more inner work to do. I thought I had to convince the whole world that I am more than the worst thing I have done, the worst person I have been, but really I just have to convince myself.”
― Lara Love Hardin, The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

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“The worst thing I’ve ever done is build an identity out of the worst thing I’ve ever done.”
― Lara Love Hardin, The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

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Polls

February BoTM Nominations ~ Biography or Memoir ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Move Onto final poll

Finding Me

by Viola Davis

5 votes, 19.2%

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

5 votes, 19.2%

I'm Glad My Mom Died

by Jennette McCurdy

4 votes, 15.4%

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

by Lara Love Hardin

4 votes, 15.4%

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

by Dani Shapiro

2 votes, 7.7%

Taste: My Life Through Food

by Stanley Tucci

2 votes, 7.7%

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

by Allie Brosh

2 votes, 7.7%

Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail

by Debbie Clarke Moderow

1 vote, 3.8%

A House in the Sky

by Amanda Lindhout

1 vote, 3.8%

Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

by Kwame Alexander

0 votes, 0.0%

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