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Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America
Ranya Tabari Idliby - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Book
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For many Americans, the words 'American' and 'Muslim' simply do not marry well; for many the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of one American Muslim family -- the story of how, through their lives, their schools, their... |
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Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen
Arin Andrews - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Paperback
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Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning first-of-its-kind memoir. Now with a reading group guide and an all-new afterword from the author! In this revolutionary first-of-its-kind... |
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My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation
Molly Haskell - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book
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A feminist film critic's thoughtful, outspoken memoir about transgender and familyOn a visit to New York, the brother of well-known film critic Molly Haskell dropped a bombshell: Nearing age sixty, and married, he had decided to become a woman. In the vein of Jan Morris's classic Conundrum... |
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Lifesaving Lessons: Notes from an Accidental Mother
Linda Greenlaw - Viking
Format: Print book
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Famed swordfish boat captain Linda Greenlaw faces her greatest battle with nature - a newly adopted teenage daughterLinda Greenlaw isn't a woman who shies away from a challenge - a nationally renowned swordfish boat captain made famous in the film The Perfect Storm, Greenlaw is also... |
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Good Riddance: An Illustrated Memoir of Divorce
Cynthia Copeland - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Paperback
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When you think you live in a Norman Rockwell painting - married 18 years, three kids, beautiful old house in the country, successful career as a writer - you don't expect there's another side to the canvas. Until you read a lovesick e-mail to your husband . . . that didn't come from you!Good... |
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The Man Who Quit Money
Mark Sundeen - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Green Book Festival Mark Sundeen's new book, The Unsettlers, is coming in January 2017 from Riverhead BooksIn 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollars of it-in a phone booth. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of freedom... |
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Everybody's Got Something
Robin Roberts - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's... |
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The Girl's Guide to Homelessness: A Memoir
Brianna Karp - Harlequin
Format: Paperback
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Brianna Karp entered the workforce at age ten, supporting her mother and sister throughout her teen years in Southern California. Although her young life was scarred by violence and abuse, Karp stayed focused on her dream of a steady job and a home of her own. By age twenty-two her dream... |
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir
Roz Chast - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTIn her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents,... |
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Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
Amanda Berry - Viking
Format: Print book
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerA bestselling book that is inspiring the nation: "We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know: we survived, we are free, we love life."Two women kidnapped... |
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The Rules of the Tunnel: A Brief Period of Madness
Ned Zeman - Gotham Books
Format: Book
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A journalist faces his toughest assignment yet: profiling himself. Zeman recounts his struggle with clinical depression in this high- octane, brutally funny memoir about mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy and the quest to get back to normal. Thirty-five million Americans... |
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Lucy Knisley - First Second
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time... |
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Bon Appetempt: A Coming-of-Age Story
Amelia Morris - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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When Amelia Morris saw a towering, beautiful chocolate cake in Bon Appetit and took the recipe home to recreate it for a Christmas day brunch she was hosting, it resulted in a terrible (but tasty) mess that had to be served in an oversize bowl. It was also a revelation. Both delicious... |
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My Mother Was Nuts
Penny Marshall - New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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Most people know Penny Marshall as the director of Big and A League of Their Own. What they don't know is her trailblazing career was a happy accident. In this funny and intimate memoir, Penny takes us from the stage of The Jackie Gleason Show in 1955 to Hollywood's... |
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Cary Elwes - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews... |
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Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee
James Gavin - Atria Books
Format: Book
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From the author of the "definitive" (Vanity Fair) biography of Lena Horne, Stormy Weather, comes a brilliantly written portrait of recording artist and musical legend Peggy Lee."She made you think that she knew who you were, that she was singing only to you..."... |
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Still Foolin Em: Where Ive Been, Where Im Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys
Billy Crystal - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Nominated for a 2014 Grammy in the Spoken Word category!Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of Americas favorite comedians, now that hes 65, and a look back at a remarkable career. Billy Crystal is 65, and hes not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines... |
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Yes Please
Amy Poehler - Dey Street
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They... |
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What I talk about when I talk about running : a memoir
Haruki Murakami - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, hed completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects... |
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Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir
Lynn C. Miller - University of Wisconsin Press
Format: Paperback
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Every person has a story to tell, but few beginners know how to uncover their story's narrative potential. And despite a growing interest among students and creative writers, few guides to the genre of memoirs and creative nonfiction highlight compelling storytelling strategies. Addressing... |
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The Quitter
Harvey Pekar - DC Comics
Format: Hardcover
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Written by Harvey Pekar Art and cover by Dean Haspiel In this virtuoso graphic novel, Harvey Pekar - whose American Book Award-winning series American Splendor was the basis for the celebrated film of the same name - tells the story of his troubled teen years for the first time, when he would... |
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What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir
Abigail Thomas - Scribner
Format: Print book
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In her bestselling and beloved memoir A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas wrote about the tragic loss of her husband. In What Comes Next and How to Like It, she writes about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life. And it is exhilarating.What... |
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love." - Vogue. "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric . . . [Wintersons] life with her adoptive parents was often appalling,... |
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Guy Delisle - Drawn & Quarterly
Format: Paperback
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Guy Delisle was born in Quebec City in 1966 and has spent the last decade living and working in the South of France with his wife and son. Delisle has spent ten years, mostly in Europe, working in animation, an experience that taught him about movement and drawing. He is now currently focusing... |
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller - RB Large Print
Format: Book
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When the ship veered into the Cape of Good Hope, Mum caught the spicy, heady scent of Africa on the changing wind. She smelled the people: raw onions and salt, the smell of people who are not afraid to eat meat, and who smoke fish over open fires on the beach and who pound maize into meal... |
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The Distance Between Us: A Memoir
Reyna Grande - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning novelist and sought-after public speaker, an eye-opening memoir about life before and after illegally emigrating from Mexico to the United States.Mago pointed to a spot on the dirt floor and reminded me that my umbilical cord was buried there. "That... |
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