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The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself
Joan Anderson - Voice/Hyperion
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of A Year by the Sea, this memoir is a coming-of-age story for every woman who has asked herself: "Now what?" The Second Journey chronicles Anderson's quest to restore equilibrium to her life after the responsibilities of being a mother, wife, grandmother,... |
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Nowhere Near Normal: A Memoir of OCD
Traci Foust - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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Traci Foust wasn't a "normal" seven-year-old girl. When all the neighborhood kids were playing outdoors, Traci was inside making sure the miniature Catholic saint statues in her windowsill always pointed due north, scratching out bald patches on her scalp, and snapping her fingers... |
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
Norah Vincent - Viking
Format: Print book
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From the author of The New York Times bestseller Self- Made Man, a captivating expose of depression and mental illness in America Revelatory, deeply personal, and utterly relevant, Voluntary Madness is a controversial work that unveils the state of mental healthcare... |
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Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir
Bill Clegg - Little
Format: Hardcover
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Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home,... |
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Jessica Lost: A Story of Birth, Adoption & The Meaning of Motherhood
Bunny Crumpacker - Union Square Press
Format: Print book
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A mother and her child, lost and then found again after four decades: this extraordinary story of love, loss, and reunion is told in alternating voices by the two women, each relating her own powerful experience.For the mother, it's the tale of an unhappy marriage followed by betrayal,... |
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Fiction Ruined My Family
Jeanne Darst - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutante balls and equestrian trophies on the other, Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And as a young girl, the message she internalized... |
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Cakewalk: A Memoir
Kate Moses - Dial Press
Format: Print book
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From the author of the internationally acclaimed Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath comes a funny, touching memoir of a crummy - and crumby - childhood.Growing up in the 1960s and '70s, Kate Moses was surrounded by sugar: Twinkies in the basement freezer, honey on the fried chicken,... |
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
Alexandra Fuller - Moline Public Library
Format: Paperback
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When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity... |
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Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under
Michael Patrick MacDonald - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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A powerfully redemptive story of escape from the Irish American ghetto.Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls: A Family Story from Southie told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Boston's Irish American ghetto. The question "How... |
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If the Creek Don't Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War
Rita Williams - Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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When Rita Williams was four, her mother died in a Denver boarding house. This death delivered Rita into the care of her aunt Daisy, the last surviving African American widow of a Union soldier and a maverick who had spirited her sharecropping family out of the lynching South and reinvented... |
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My Lobotomy
Howard Dully - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter... |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic,... |
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