Posts tagged with ‘Non-Fiction’
September 16, 2011
NEWEST EDITH PIAF biography will delight fans of the French singer with the breadth and depth of its research.
Grade: SOLID B
NO REGRETS: THE LIFE OF EDITH PIAF
Knopf Doubleday
2011
Tags: Biography, France, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Women's Issues
September 15, 2011
HEARTBREAKINGLY DIRECT, BEAUTIFUL and wrenching memoir of a 1970s childhood on a pioneering organic farm.
Grade: B PLUS
THIS LIFE IS IN YOUR HANDS: THE STORY OF MY FAMILY'S DREAM
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
September 4, 2011
DISTINGUISHED BIBLICAL SCHOLAR Bart Ehrman’s evidence-based challenge to the Christian canon’s authenticity.
Grade: B PLUS
FORGED: WRITING IN THE NAME OF GOD--WHY THE BIBLE'S AUTHORS ARE NOT WHO WE THINK THEY ARE
HarperOne
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, Religion
August 17, 2011
A TUDOR SCANDAL RETOLD with a journalistic touch in this well researched examination of the Amy Robsart mystery.
Grade: SOLID B
DEATH AND THE VIRGIN QUEEN: ELIZABETH AND THE DARK SCANDAL THAT ROCKED THE THRONE
St. Martin's Press
2011
Tags: Elizabeth I, History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Tudor Court
August 15, 2011
A BELOVED DOG inspires a man to stop drinking and start living. Touching, candid, and surprisingly wry.
Grade: SOLID B
DRINKING WITH MISS DUTCHIE: A MEMOIR
St. Martin's Press
2011
Tags: Dogs, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
August 14, 2011
GOSSIPY, FUN HISTORY looks at the madams and dance-hall girls who were high rollers in 19th-century Montana.
Grade: SOLID B
WANTON WEST: MADAMS, MONEY, MURDER, AND THE WILD WOMEN OF MONTANA'S FRONTIER
Chicago Review Press
2011
Tags: History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, United States, Women's Issues
August 13, 2011
GORGEOUS, TERRIFYING, HEART-STOPPING memoir of an artist’s life in flight from a schizophrenic mother’s rages.
Grade: B PLUS
THE MEMORY PALACE
Simon and Schuster
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Visual Arts, Women's Issues
August 11, 2011
CLEAR-EYED, FUNNY, TRENCHANT memoir of a childhood shaped by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, family dysfunction.
Grade: B PLUS
NOWHERE NEAR NORMAL: A MEMOIR OF OCD
Simon and Schuster
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction
August 7, 2011
A SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHILDHOOD is remembered, reframed in a time of family crisis in eloquent, bittersweet memoir. B PLUS
Grade: B PLUS
THIS BOY'S FAITH: NOTES FROM A SOUTHERN BAPTIST UPBRINGING
Crown
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Religion
June 23, 2011
INSIDE INDIA’S CHANGING society with an Indian-American expatriate journalist. Fascinating interviews, insights.
Grade: SOLID B
INDIA CALLING: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A NATION'S REMAKING
Henry Holt & Company
2011
Tags: Cultural Studies, India, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews