
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

MEMWA AK MALADI
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

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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

EKRIVAN SOU EKRIVAN: 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

SOU DEFIANS KI GEN POUVOIR
Sou Defiant Dreams: Vwayaj yon tifi Afgan ki te riske tout bagay pou edikasyon, aktivis dwa moun Endyen Ameriken MALAINA KAPOOR ak matematisyen Afgan SOLA

GADE DEYÒ, WÈ ANNDAN: TWA MEMWA
Tout sa mwen aprann, mwen aprann nan yon restoran Chinwa: Yon memwa se lèt lanmou CURTIS S. CHIN pou Chung's Cantonese Cuisine nan Detroit, kote nenpòt moun –

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,