AN AMERICAN STORY
by Debra J. Dickerson
Journalist Debra Dickerson delivers a compelling,
fiercely honest account of her journey from the black
working class to the ivied halls of Harvard Law School.
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THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS
by Nasdijj
Nasdijj transports readers to the majestic and often harsh landscape
of the Southwest desert, where he led a chaotic, harrowing, and sometimes
comical life with his Native American mother and roughneck cowboy
father.
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BROKEN FEVER: Reflections of Gay Boyhood
by James Morrison
This collection of essays is an "elegantly crafted
exploration of growing up homosexual and Catholic.
His delicate, extended examination of difference ---
in the classroom, on the playground, in his family
and even as a reader --- should make this nuanced
memoir resonate with a wide audience." -Publishers
Weekly
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CHANGE ME INTO ZEUS'S DAUGHTER
by Barbara Robinette Moss
"Elegant and moving.… Nothing short of an Angela's Ashes for
Americans, beautifully written in female voice." —USA Today
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FEVER PITCH
by Nick Hornby
Hornby explores his lifelong obsession with English football (America
soccer) and how it has permeated every aspect of his life from childhood
to adulthood.
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FRENCH LESSONS
by Alice Kaplan
In this passionate memoir, Alice Kaplan, a professor
of French Literature, offers a portrait of her life
through her intricate involvement with the French
language and why it came to mean so much to her.
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MANHATTAN, WHEN I WAS YOUNG
by Mary Cantwell
Through the five different apartments she called home,
Mary Cantwell recalls her progression from single
working girl to mother to divorcee in New York City
in the 1950s and early '60s.
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THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE, OHIO: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by Terry Ryan
Evelyn Ryan kept poverty at bay and her ten children clothed and fed
during the 1950s and '60s by entering contests for rhymed jingles
and advertising slogans of 25 words or less.
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RUNNING IN THE FAMILY
by Michael Ondaatje
In the late 1970s, Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka,
and in RUNNING IN THE FAMILY he interweaves a travel narrative with
the history of his Dutch-Ceylonese family.
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TRAVELING MERCIES: Some Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
"A collection of small pieces that shows how a life
involved even the tiniest bit with prayer can open
up or shift into place.... Anne Lamott doesn't become
another person, just a better one. And that, in its
own way, is plenty." -Boston Globe
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WHERE IS THE MANGO PRINCESS?
by C.E. Crimmins
With humor and honesty, Cathy Crimmins chronicles
her husband's speedboat accident, his consequent TBI
(traumatic brain injury), and how she comes to terms
with the realization that the man who emerged after
the accident is not the same one she knew.
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