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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
KAREN AUVINEN - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen MacDonald's H Is for Hawk, a stunning, inspirational memoir from an award-winning poet who ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life's big questions and finds her way back after losing everything she thought... |
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My Amish Childhood: A True Story of Faith, Family, and the Simple Life
Jerry S. Eicher - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Bestselling fiction author Jerry S. Eicher nearly half a million books sold turns his pen to a moving memoir of his life growing up Amish.Jerrys mother was nineteen years old and nine months married when he was born. She had received Grandfather Stolls permission for the wedding because... |
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
Casey Gerald - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart--a generation searching for a new way to live.Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church... |
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Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
Dorothy Butler Gilliam - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written... |
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC!*An O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2019* *A People Magazine Book of the Week**An Apple Best Books Pick for April**An April IndieNext Pick**A Book of the Month... |
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Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories
Terrence Holt - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A BookPage Best Book of 2014 "[Terrence Holt] is Melville Poe Borges but with a heart far more capacious." - Junot Daz Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors... |
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow... |
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Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
Martin Sixsmith - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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New York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 yearsWhen she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent... |
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Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
Kwame Onwuachi - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoreeBy the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most... |
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Struck By Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Jason Padgett - Mariner Books; First Edition
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind... |
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Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
AMANDA STERN - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola's Blackout, and Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor's edge of panic.The... |
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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Julie Yip-Williams - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more - a powerful exhortation to the living. That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle.... |
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