Lucette Lagnado The author of the award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit returns with an extraordinary follow-up memoir filled with amazing details of life in Cairo and as a young Jewish girl in Brooklyn. “A paragon of memoir writing…” – The New York Times. Read More… |
Josh Kilmer-Purcell Josh Kilmer-Purcell, New York Times bestselling author and the star of the television docu-series The Fabulous Beekman Boys uses his irrepressible sense of humor to narrate his unlikely journey from New York City ad man (and retired drag queen) to weekend farmer. Read More… |
Loung Ung Loung Ung’s bestselling memoir about her childhood in Cambodia and her struggle for survival when the Khmer Rouge invaded her city. Chosen widely for school and community reads and selected by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians’ Association for “Excellence in Adult Non-fiction Literature.” Read More… |
Gretchen Rubin Spending over a year on the New York Times bestseller list, The Happiness Project describes Gretchen Rubin’s year-long attempt to discover what leads to true contentment. Drawing on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world applicability, this is an engaging chronicle of transformation. Read More… |
Patti Smith Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction, Patti Smith’s first book of prose offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City in the late sixties and seventies. Read More… |
Mary Karr Mary Karr’s bestselling sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry—and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year—follows her descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness—and her astonishing resurrection. Read More… |
Conor Grennan After volunteering at the Little Princes Children’s Home (an orphanage in Nepal), Conor Grennan launched Next Generation Nepal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reconnecting trafficked children with their families. Grennan’s gripping and inspirational memoir was an international bestseller. Read More… |
Stephen Rodrick In this powerful, beautifully written and very candid book, journalist Stephen Rodrick explores the life and death of his father, the man who indelibly shaped his life. A penetrating, thoughtful blend of memoir and reportage. Read More… |
Edith H. Beer A riveting new chapter in the history of the Holocaust – the memoir of an Austrian Jewish woman who forged her identity and married a Nazi in order to survive the war years in plain sight in Nazi Germany. Read More… |
Irmgard A. Hunt Born in 1934, Irmgard Hunt grew up near Hitler’s Alpine retreat. In this candid and fascinating memoir she offers an intimate first-person perspective on this tumultuous era in modern history – witnessed through the eyes of a child. Read More… |
Ruth Kassinger A witty and absorbing memoir about one woman’s unlikely desire to build, stock, and tend a small conservatory in her suburban Maryland home. This book will delight readers of Eat, Pray, Love and I Feel Bad About My Neck. Read More… |
Tori Murden McClure The true story of the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. McClure’s memoir is more than a woman-against-the-elements adventure tale; it is a beautiful, moving, and inspiring story of an explorer who maps her world with rare emotional honesty. Read More… |
Madeleine Albright Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright delivers a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War. Read More… |
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett From the New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto, comes a collection of autobiographical essays going back across Ann Patchett’s entire life, covering school, early writing and friendships, travel, marriage, and opening a bookstore. Read More… |
Susan Spencer-Wendel In the vein of The Last Lecture and Tuesdays with Morrie comes an inspirational reflection on life from one woman making the most of her final days. It’s a celebration of life and a look at the effort we must make to show the people that we love and care about how much they mean to us. Read More… |
Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates’s critically acclaimed, nationally bestselling memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of 46 years and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. Told with blazing honesty and raw emotion, this is the perfect memoir to generate impassioned dialogue. Read More… |