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A Memoir
by Mira Bartok
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by Tara Westover
Published Feb 2022
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2018 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
by Deborah Heiligman
Published Oct 2019
Read ReviewsFrom the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love.
by Meghan Flaherty
Published Jun 2018
Read ReviewsFrom a dazzling new literary voice, a debut memoir about a young woman learning to dance tango, becoming comfortable in her own skin and in the arms of others.
by Patricia Lockwood
Published May 2018
Read ReviewsFrom Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father.
by Joseph Jebelli
Published Oct 2017
Read ReviewsFor readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases - Alzheimer's - from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure.
by Zadie Smith
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsAn ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North-West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty.
by Joy Harjo
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsWitty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
by Kim Noble
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsTaking the reader through an extraordinary world where the very nature of reality is different, this personal narrative tells the story of one woman's terrifying battle to understand her own mind.
by E.L. Doctorow
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsFrom Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, Worlds Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.
by Lisa Genova
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsStill Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
by Robert B. Oxnam
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsThe harrowing, insightful, and courageous account of a prominent man's struggle with multiple personalities.
by Kim Edwards
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsA brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you?
by Sylvia Nasar
Published Dec 2001
Read Reviews'A brilliant book -- at once a powerful and moving biography of a great mathematical genius and an important contribution to American intellectual history.'
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