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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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In Everyman's Library for the first time - one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947.The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl... |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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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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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know... |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi - Random House
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We all have dreams - things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning... |
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * From one of Americas iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage - and a life, in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone... |
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Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives of the beauty of the Ngong... |
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The Liars' Club: A Memoir
Mary Karr - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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"Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear." -Oprah.com The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.The Liars'... |
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Just Kids Illustrated Edition
Smith, Patti
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Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir, now richly illustrated with new material and never-before-seen photographs Patti's Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New Yo |
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's... |
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang - Touchstone
Format: Paperback
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The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history - a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An... |
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
Malala Yousafzai - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling memoir by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls... |
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Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave... |
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Vicki Myron - Grand Central
Format: Hardcover
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How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear... |
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Orange Is The New Black
Piper Kerman - Thorndike Press
Format: Large Print
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Traces the author's 15-month incarceration at an infamous women's correctional facility for drug trafficking, an imprisonment during which she gained a unique perspective on the criminal justice system and met a varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances, in a book... |
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