TO LIVE WITH PURPOSE
After growing up in a tough Washington, D.C., neighborhood, CHRIS WILSON killed a man in self-defense and was sentenced to life in prison. The Master
BREAKING FREE: NOT JUST SURVIVING, BUT THRIVING
In Sink: A Memoir, JOSEPH EARL THOMAS revisits his volatile coming-of-age, laying bare his loneliness and illuminating the reprieve he found in geek culture. In
MEMOIRS & MALADIES
Somber, funny but above all provocative, Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own is ELIZABETH BENEDICT’s unconventional memoir about her cancer journey. In JOHN HENDRICKSON’s
POETIC PROSE
KELLE GROOM answers the question of How to Live: A Memoir-in-Essays by traveling from the East Coast to the West, to places she’s never been,
HISTORICAL FICTION: WOMEN’S STORIES
In Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, MERYL FRANK explores the life and
CHANGING THE NARRATIVE, EMPOWERING YOUTH
Labeled: Ward of the State: A Memoir is KENISHA E. ANTHONY’s powerful story of an abandoned child of drug-addicted parents and Florida’s broken child welfare
WRITERS ON WRITERS: DIDION, SONTAG & STEINER
The World According to Joan Didion by EVELYN MCDONNELL is an illustrated journey through Didion’s life, tracing the path she carved from California to New
ON EMPOWERED DEFIANCE
On Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education, Indian American human rights activist MALAINA KAPOOR and Afghani mathematician SOLA
LOOKING OUTWARD, SEEING WITHIN: THREE MEMOIRS
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir is CURTIS S. CHIN’s love letter to Detroit’s Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone –
AN EVENING WITH JADA PINKETT SMITH IN CONVERSATION WITH LENA WAITHE
JADA PINKETT SMITH revisits lessons learned in the course of a difficult but riveting life journey in Worthy, a bracingly honest memoir that takes readers
AN AFTERNOON WITH KERRY WASHINGTON IN CONVERSATION WITH EVA LONGORIA
In Thicker than Water: A Memoir, KERRY WASHINGTON provides an intimate view into her public and private worlds – as an artist, advocate, entrepreneur, mother,