So Many Books, So Little Time
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Memoir, Non-FictionAuthor: Rowan McCandlessGenres: Biographies, Counseling, Domestic Violence, Memoirs, NonfictionPublisher: DundurnPublished: 10/12/2021After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing. She was never to lie to him. She Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Memoir, Non-FictionAuthor: Qian Julie WangGenres: Biographies, Chinese, Dreamers, Immigrants, Memoirs, Multicultural Interest, NonfictionPublisher: DoubledayAn incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Memoir, Non-FictionAuthor: Anne SebbaGenres: Biographies, Espionage, History, Memoirs, NonfictionPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 6/8/2021New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba’s moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Memoir, Non-FictionAuthor: David PatersonGenres: Biographies, Memoirs, New York, Nonfiction (Adult), PoliticsPublisher: SkyhorsePublished: 9/29/2020″I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn’t think I could do.”–David Paterson A Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Memoir, Non-FictionAuthors: Charles Person, Richard RookerGenres: Biographies, Black History, Civil Rights, Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)Publisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 4/27/2021A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward–written by one of the Civil Rights Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Category: Non-FictionAuthor: Austin Channing BrownGenres: African American & Black Biographies, Christian, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Social Activist, To-readPublisher: Convergent BooksPublished: 5/15/2018From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America. Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Category: Non-FictionAuthor: Peter S. FischerGenres: Biography, MemoirsPublisher: Grove Point PressPublished: 9/15/2013I admit I loved watching Murder, She Wrote and still watch it on late night television. This book is written by the co-creator and writer for the series. Peter describes Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Category: Non-FictionAuthor: Helen MacdonaldGenres: Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult), Outdoors and NatureTo-readPublisher: Grove PressPublished: 8/25/2020Animals don’t exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Category: Non-FictionAuthor: Shirley MelisGenres: Death and Dying, Grief, MemoirsPublisher: Terra Nova BooksPublished: 3/08/2017Banged-Up Heart by Shirley Melis is an intimate and clear-eyed account of finding love late and losing it early–and of the strength it takes to fall madly in Read more