Biography and Memoir
January 2024
Recent Releases
Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive...
by Jedidiah Jenkins

Decades after his parents, Peter and Barbara, famously walked across America (which they chronicled in their 1981 book The Walk West), Jedidiah Jenkins traveled the same route by car, with Barbara along for the ride. Throughout the journey, the two reckoned with their fraught relationship, their conflicting political views, and Barbara's rejection of Jedidiah's sexuality. 
The Race to Be Myself
by Caster Semenya

Runner and two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya's moving debut chronicles the aftermath of her win at the 2009 world championships, when she was unknowingly subjected to sex verification tests and intense media scrutiny about her gender -- which continues to this day. Further reading: Sporting Gender: The History, Science, and Stories of Transgender and Intersex Athletes by Joanna Harper.
The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
by Sam Wasson

Entertainment writer Sam Wesson's episodic and nonlinear biography of Francis Ford Coppola offers an inventive peek into the legendary film director's creative process and the evolution of his production company, American Zoetrope. For fans of: Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone.
Where the World Was
by Rosemary Sullivan

Incomparable writer, activist, and world traveller Rosemary Sullivan has at long last written a book about herself, about her life quest to "meet the world, to celebrate its richness, to face its darkness." And what a fascinating book it is! Comprised of 21 essays spanning 5 decades and multiple continents, Where the World Was offers a vivid portrait of a writer who is instinctively drawn to other cultures and places. 
Still, I Cannot Save You : A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
by Kelly S. Thompson

With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship with her older sister, Meghan. Tested by addiction, abuse, and illness, the sisters' relationship crumbles, only to be rebuilt into an everlasting bond. While they were mostly temperamental opposites, growing up in a military family forged their connection--Kelly, an anxious child, looked to her big sister for protection, and Meghan, who was being treated for kidney cancer, adored her younger sister. But when, as a teenager, Meghan becomes addicted to cocaine and opioids, putting the family under new strain, Kelly is forced to reevaluate her family role as her relationship with Meghan is torn apart. At once funny, inspiring, and heartbreaking, Still, I Cannot Save You is a story about addiction, abuse, tragedy, and illness, but above all, it is a powerful portrait of an enduring love between two sisters.
 
Goodbye to clocks ticking : how we live while dying : a memoir
by Joseph Monninger

After thirty-two years of teaching, Joe Monninger, an avid outdoorsman in robust health, was looking forward to a long retirement with the love of his life in a cabin beside a New England estuary. Three days after his last class, however, he's diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, even though he has not smoked for more than 30 years. It was May, and he might be dead by early fall. Soon Joe learned, however, that he was a genetic match for treatment with a drug that could not cure his cancer, but could prolong his life. With this temporary reprieve, he sets out to live life to the fullest and to write about the year of grace that follows, from his cancer treatments to his innermost thoughts
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