Browsing: Memoirs

“Beautiful and tender, profound… This is a book friends will tell friends they have to read for years to come” (Cheryl Strayed): A yoga teacher shares her journey through hopelessness and fear in this “gritty and passionate memoir” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

In this “gripping, fast-paced account” (Publishers Weekly starred review), attorney Sharon Muse shares the harrowing story of how Larry Morrison, her former client, kidnapped and nearly murdered her — and recounts her dogged fight for her life and for justice in a broken system.

This “humorous and heartfelt” memoir (Booklist) recounts the Arab American author’s Midwestern upbringing — from navigating Western dating mores to discovering the simple joy of an Egg McMuffin. “Fast-paced, funny… Great for a plane, the beach, or a free afternoon” (Publishers Weekly).

Jan Risher took the long way to get from Mississippi to Louisiana with stops in between in Slovakia, Mexico, China,…

On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite’s El Capitan–to scale the wall without…

Harbour Ways is the sequel to Watery Ways, Valerie Poore’s first memoir about living on a barge in Rotterdam’s Oude…

This is the story of a young woman’s first encounters with rural South Africa. Coming from the all-mod-cons society of…

Forbidden Love is the true story of Father William C. Grau, a Black Catholic Priest and Sister Sophie Legocki, a…

In Growing up Greenpoint, Tommy Carbone captures what it was like to be a kid during the 1970s and 80s…

D.G. Kaye is back, and as she reflects on some of her more memorable vacations and travel snags, she finds…