Back Biographies & Memoirs | December Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Biographies & Memoirs  
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year

Matt McCarthy · Broadway Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor - the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could reach unreachable patients. But when a new admission to the critical care unit almost died his first night on call, he found himself scrambling. Visions of mastery...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Walk Through the Dark: How My Husband's 90 Minutes in Heaven Deepened My Faith for a Lifetime

Eva Piper · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

One day Eva Piper was an elementary school teacher, the mother of three, the beloved wife of a strong, protective husband. The next day she stood at the bedside of a broken man who could do nothing but moan in agony and turn his head away from her. Later she would learn that he had died...
Read More check catalog
 
 
I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star

Judy Greer · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

You know Judy Greer, right? Maybe from The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30, Carrie, Arrested Development, or The Descendants. Yes, you totally recognize her. And, odds are, you already feel like she’s your friend.  In her first book of essays, I Don’t Know What You Know...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Whitney I Knew

Bebe Winans · Worthy Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A virtual album of BeBe Winans' treasured memories of his friend and "sister," Whitney Houston. In the years between the first time BeBe Winans and Whitney Houston met in 1985, to the day he delivered the tribute that touched a watching nation at Houston's funeral, a deep...
Read More check catalog
 
 
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

Michael Hainey · Scribner; Reprint edition
Format: Kindle Edition

"Family? Secrets? Sometimes I think they are the same thing." So writes Michael Hainey in this unforgettable story of a son's search to discover the decades-old truth about his father's mysterious death. Hainey was a boy of six when his father, a bright and shining star in the glamorous,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Out of Orange: A Memoir

Cleary Wolters · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time—a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade...
Read More check catalog