Quick view Funni in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranina in America by Firoozeh Dumas In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed,... View Details
Quick view Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir by John McCain Congressman John McCain explains how he learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy. View Details
Quick view Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal This collection of entries muses on the stuff of daily life, both trivial and essential. Readers get a full and rich sense of one woman's life--ordinary, perhaps, but extraordinary in the sense that her observations are so dead-on and universal. View Details
Quick view Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas Still relevant today, Piri Thomas's classic memoir of the "barrio" of Spanish Harlem celebrates its 30th anniversary of publication with a new Introduction by the author. As Thomas recounts his transformation from gang member, junkie, and stick-up man... View Details
Quick view DonÂ’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life by Sandra Beasley Sandra Beasley has had severe allergies to certain foods her entire life. When butter is deadly and eggs can make your throat swell shut, cupcakes and other joys of childhood are out of the question-and so Sandra's mother used to warn guests against a... View Details
Quick view Black Ice by Lorene Cary  In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious teenager from Philadelphia, went as a scholarship student to a formerly all-white, all-male (and still unapologetically elite) school in New Hampshire. She was determined to suceed--without selling out. This... View Details
Quick view Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life by Bret Lott The novelist, teacher, and "Southern Review" editor offers thoughts on the craft of writing, the writer's life, and what he's learned from the trajectory of his own career. View Details
Quick view Ava's Man by Rick Bragg The national bestseller, now in paperback, continues Rick Bragg's personal history of the Deep South in this masterly family chronicle so vivid one can smell the cornbread and whiskey. "As toothsome as a catfish supper. Bragg is every bit the equal of ... View Details
Quick view A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers The literary bestseller that redefines both family and narrative for the 21st century, this moving memoir is the story of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This... View Details
Quick view Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton... View Details
Quick view Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffrey Canada Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children," and First Lady Michelle Obama called him "one of my heroes," Geoffrey Canada was a... View Details
Quick view Che: A Graphic Biography by Spain Rodriguez This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into Ernesto Che Guevaras story, portraying his struggle through the medium of the underground political comic--one of the most prominent countercultural art forms since the 1960s. View Details
