Memoir, Journal, and Autobiography

Al Hussein, Queen Noor. Leap of Faith (reviewed by Mary Welker-Haddock) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Albert, Susan Wittig, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, Paula Stallings Yost, editors. What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Albert, Susan Wittig, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, Paula Stallings Yost, editors. What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Albert, Susan Wittig & Dayna Finet, editors. With Courage and Common Sense: Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles (reviewed by PJ Pierce) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Elders Anderson, Joan. An Unfinished Marriage (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships Anderson, Joan. A Walk On The Beach (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships Anderson, Joan. A Year by the Sea (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships Appelt, Kathi. My Father's Summers (reviewed by Melanie Alberts) Memoir; Relationships; Teen/Girls Arnett, Marvin V. Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt (reviewed by Patricia Pando) Memoir; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Ashcraft, Tami Oldham with Susea McGearhart. Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival at Sea (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Nature/Place/Environment Askins, Renee. Shadow Mountain (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Gloria Cordova) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Active Life Avakian, Arlene Voski. Through the Kitchen Window: Women Writers Explore the Intimate Meaning of Food and Cooking (reviewed by Patricia Pando) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections Azrael, Judith. Wherever I Wander (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Bell-Scott, Patricia (editor). Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Jazz Jaeschke) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Anthologies/Collections Bond, Alma H. Old Age is a Terminal Illness (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Memoir; Elders Braestrup, Kate. Here If You Need Me: a True Story (reviewed by Judy Fettman) Bryson, Karen Mueller, Ph.D. Those They Left Behind: Interviews, Stories, Essays and Poems by Survivors of Suicide (reviewed by Patricia Pando) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons Caldwell, Gail. A Strong West Wind (reviewed by Karen Ryan) Memoir; Relationships Cameron, Julia. Floor Sample (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Relationships Cantwell, Mary Manhattan Memoir (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships Carl, Glenys. Hold My Hand: A Mother's Journey (reviewed by Melanie Alberts) Memoir; Relationships Carpenter, Liz. Getting Better All the Time (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Elders; Active Life Carpenter, Liz. Ruffles and Flourishes: The Warm and Tender Story of a Simple Girl Who Found Adventure in the White House (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Active Life Carpenter, Liz. Unplanned Parenthood: The Confessions of a Seventy-Something Surrogate Mother (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Relationships; Elders Clark, Marilyn Snethen, Barbara Snethen Leonard, Carol Snethen Reed. Outside the Fence: Stories of an Army Officer's Kids and WWII POW Camps (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Teen/Girls; Memoir; History Cohen, Elizabeth. The House On Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Robin Edgar) Memoir; Relationships; Elders Conway, Kathlyn. Ordinary Life: A Memoir of Illness (reviewed by Karen Bensing) Memoir; Body Language; Relationships Crough, Sandra. Memoirs of a Brown-Skin Gyal (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Daniell, Rosemary. Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives (reviewed by Patricia Pando) Memoir; Creative Life Daniell, Rosemary. The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Creative Life Daniels, Lucy. with a woman's voice: a writer's struggle for emotional freedom (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Gloria Cordova) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language Davis, Jodi. The Heart's Gift (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Deen, Paula. It Ain't All About the Cookin' (reviewed by Patricia Pando) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships; Life Lessons Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Relationships; Life Lessons Donnell, Ernestine Sisk. Grandmother Said: A Memoir (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Elders Drake, Barbara. Peace at Heart: An Oregon Country Life (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Lina Tanner) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Dumas, Pie. Pieces of Pie (reviewed by Lisa Check) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Edgar, Robin. In My Mother's Kitchen (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Relationships; Life Lessons Edgar, Robin. Personal Legacies: Surviving the Great Depression (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; History Edwards, Elizabeth. Saving Graces (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Memoir; Active Life; Body Language; Relationships; Life Lessons Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On [Not] Getting By in America (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Active Life Ehrlich, Elizabeth. Miriam's Kitchen (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Ehrlich, Gretel. A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Ephron, Nora. I Feel Bad About My Neck (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Elders Estess, Jenifer, as told to Valerie Estess. Tales From the Bed: On Living, Dying, and Having it All (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Body Language; Active Life Flatau, Susie Kelly. From My Mother's Hands (reviewed by Paula Stallings Yost) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; Relationships Fox, Paula. The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Active Life Frankel, Ellen. Beyond Measure: A Memoir About Short Stature and Inner Growth (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Body Language; Travel/Adventure Fuentes, Sonia Pressman. Eat First—You Don't Know What They'll Give You (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Active Life; Relationships Fugazi, Sally & Debbie Harwell. Candles in the Darkness: A True Story of Faith, Hope & Friendship (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships Galland, China. Longing for Darkness: Tara And the Black Madonna (reviewed by Carolyn Blankenship) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Travel/Adventure Gates, Barbara. Already Home: A Topography of Spirit and Place (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Gildiner, Catherine. Too Close To The Falls (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Melanie Alberts) Memoir; Relationships Gillespie, Spike. Pissed Off: On Women and Anger (reviewed by Stephanie Barko) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Graham, Katherine. Personal History (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Active Life Hampl, Patricia. I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory (reviewed by Leslea Smith) Memoir; Creative Life Hampl, Patricia. Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life (reviewed by Dianne Lodge-Peters) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Travel/Adventure Hanff, Helene. 84, Charing Cross Road (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Hanner, Eloise. Letters from Afghanistan (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus Harrison, Kathryn. The Mother Knot (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships Hasselstrom, Linda, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis. Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; Nature/Place/Environment Hegi, Ursula. Tearing the Silence (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; History; Anthologies/Collections Holstein, Dr. Barbara Becker. Delight (reviewed by Patricia Pando) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Life Lessons Joseph, Sharon Simpson. And How My Spirit Soars: Learning to Pack for an Extraordinary Journey (reviewed by Paulette Rees-Denis) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Kai, Irene. Golden Mountain (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Karr, Mary. The Liars' Club (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Jazz Jaeschke) Memoir; Relationships Kimmel, Haven. A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Relationships; Nature/Place/Environment Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (reviewed by Patricia Pando) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Lander, Lib and Jan Lander. Mirrored Lives (reviewed by Lisa Check) Memoir; Relationships Lauck, Jennifer. Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found (reviewed by Denise McAllister) Memoir; Relationships Lauck, Jennifer. Still Waters (reviewed by Denise McAllister) Memoir; Relationships Lauren, Sonja. The Covered Smile (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Memoir; Body Language Lee, Brenda, with Robert K. Oermann and Julie Clay. Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Legler, Gretchen. On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Linnea Ann. Deep Water Passage: A Spiritual Journey at Midlife (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Travel/Adventure Lippincott, Sharon M. The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing (reviewed by Patricia Pando) Memoir; Creative Life Macdonald, Sarah. Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure (reviewed by Mary Welker-Haddock) Memoir; Travel/Adventure Mairs, Nancy. A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Marchant, Deborah DeWit. Traveling Light: A Photographer's Journey (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Creative Life Morris, Mary. Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Lisa Check) Memoir; Travel/Adventure Moss, Barbara R. Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Moss, Barbara R. Fierce (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships Murdock, Maureen. Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Creative Life Namu, Yang Erche & Christine Mathieu. Leaving Mother Lake: a Girlhood at the Edge of the World (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Nomani, Asra Q. Standing Alone in Mecca (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Patchett, Ann. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Phelps, Dee Dee. Vinyl Highway: Singing as "Dick and Dee Dee" (reviewed by Robin Edgar) Pitts, Yvonne K. Only On Loan: Notes From a Journal Edged in Black (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Powell, Julie. Julie & Julia (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Prince-Hughes, Dawn. Songs of the Gorilla Nation (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Body Language; Nature/Place/Environment Radziwill, Carole. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships Reichl, Ruth. Garlic and Sapphires (reviewed by Lisa Check) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Active Life Reichl, Ruth. Tender at the Bone (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Relationships Remen, Rachel Naomi, M.D. My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Reynolds, Margaret C. Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren (reviewed by Laurie Park) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Robinson, Katy. A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure Santana, Deborah. Space Between The Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Santiago, Esmeralda. Almost a Woman (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Teen/Girls; Cultural/Gender Focus Santiago, Esmeralda. When I was Puerto Rican (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Teen/Girls; Cultural/Gender Focus Scofield, Sandra. Occasions of Sin (reviewed by Carolyn Blankenship) Memoir; Relationships Scot, Barbara J. Prairie Reunion (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Relationships; Nature/Place/Environment Shulman, Alix Kates. Drinking the Rain (includes book discussion questions) (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Relationships; Nature/Place/Environment Sonnenfeld, Sandi. This is How I Speak (reviewed by Catherine Cogburn) Memoir; Creative Life; Teen/Girls Styne, Marlys Marshall. Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor (reviewed by Patricia Pando) Memoir; Creative Life Swallow, Wendy. Breaking Apart: A Memoir of Divorce (reviewed by Maggie Knorr) Memoir; Relationships Terzian, Mary. The Immigrants' Daughter: A Private Battle to Earn the Right to Self-Actualization (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (reviewed by Juanita Johnson) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Van Straten, Donna. The Jitterbug Girl (reviewed by PJ Pierce) Van Straten, Donna. The Littlest Big Kid (reviewed by Rebecca Roberts) Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships Watson, Irene. The Sitting Swing (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Memoir; Body Language; Cultural/Gender Focus Weimer, Joan. Awestruck: A Skeptic's Pilgrimage (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Travel/Adventure Welty, Eudora. One Writer's Beginnings (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Werris, Wendy. An Alphabetical Life (reviewed by Carol Feder) Whitehouse, E.J. "Samadhi". Circles in the Sand (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language Wildwind, Sharon Grant. Dreams that Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; History; Active Life; Travel/Adventure Wolf, Naomi. The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from my Father on How to Live, Love and See (reviewed by Grace forrest-Maestas) Memoir; Biography; Relationships Young, Carrie. Nothing to Do but Stay: My Pioneer Mother (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Teen/Girl Zacharias, Karen Spears. Hero Mama: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam—and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together (reviewed by Robin Edgar)