CLEAR-EYED, FUNNY, TRENCHANT memoir of a childhood shaped by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, family dysfunction.

A SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHILDHOOD is remembered, reframed in a time of family crisis in eloquent, bittersweet memoir. B PLUS

INSIDE BHUTAN WITH an American who helped the transforming Himalayan nation set up its first FM radio station.

THE FUNNIEST, MOST TOUCHING memoir about love and marriage and parenthood and kidney transplants ever written.

A SISTER’S SHORT LIFE, and her suicide at age 21, are explored by a writer in this poetic, touching memoir.

A COMPULSIVE SHOPPER shares her story in this admirably candid memoir. Vivid, if skimpy on larger insights.

SEARINGLY CANDID MEMOIR of the writer’s years of abuse by a charismatic pedophile and neglect by her parents.

A LIBERIAN BROADCASTER sketches a portrait of her conflict-torn country in her own story, those of listeners.

REINVENTING THE MEMOIR as poem, Maxine Hong Kingston invites us into her luminous and introspective life.

PIONEERING AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOCKEY shares her inspiring story of facing mental illness, addiction, homelessness.