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Nonfiction by, for, and About Women
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Body Language:
Health/Healing, Wellness, Addiction, Abuse, Weight Issues
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- Armstrong, Karen. The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
(reviewed by Duffie Bart)
Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language
- Baar, Karen. For My Next Act: Women Scripting Life After Fifty
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Body Language; Elders
- Blachman, Linda. Another Morning: Voices of Truth and Hope from Mothers with Cancer
(reviewed by Paula Stallings Yost)
Body Language; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Anthologies/Collections
- Boesky, Amy. What We Have
(reviewed by Janet Caplan)
Memoir; Body Language
- Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. Healing: A Life With Chronic Illness
(reviewed by Duffie Bart)
Memoir; Body Language
- Bray, Sharon, Ed.D. A Healing Journey: Writing Together Through Breast Cancer
(reviewed by Denise McAllister)
Body Language; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Creative Life
- Brill, Alida and Michael D. Lockshin, M.D. Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and her Doctor Negotiate Life with Chronic Illness
(reviewed by Kathy Waller)
Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language
- Cariou, Heather Summerhayes. Sixtyfive Roses
(reviewed by Linda Wisniewski)
Memoir; Relationships; Body Language
- Conway, Kathlyn. Ordinary Life: A Memoir of Illness
(reviewed by Karen Bensing)
Memoir; Body Language; Relationships
- Daniels, Lucy. with a woman's voice: a writer's struggle for emotional freedom
(reviewed by Gloria Cordova)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language
- Davis, Jodi. The Heart's Gift
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Memoir; Relationships; Body Language
- DeSalvo, Louise. Vertigo
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Body Language; Creative Life
- DeSalvo, Louise. Writing as a Way of Healing
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Body Language; Creative Life
- Drenth, Atherton. Following Body Wisdom: How Energy Medicine Can Help Heal
(reviewed by Mary Ann Moore)
Biography; Life Lessons; Body Language
- Dumas, Pie. Pieces of Pie
(reviewed by Lisa Check)
Memoir; Relationships; Body Language
- Durack, Katherine. Unmentionables: A Woman's Journey, Body to Soul
(reviewed by Susan J. Tweit)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language
- Edwards, Elizabeth. Saving Graces
(reviewed by Susan Ideus)
Memoir; Active Life; Body Language; Relationships; Life Lessons
- Ehrenclou, Martine. Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide to Get Your Loved One Out Alive
(reviewed by Barbara L. Heller)
Life Lessons; Body Language
- 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
- Frankel, Ellen. Beyond Measure: A Memoir About Short Stature and Inner Growth
(reviewed by Linda Wisniewski)
Memoir; Body Language; Travel/Adventure
- Garrison, Gene. Widowhood Happens
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Body Language; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration
- Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face
(reviewed by Janet Caplan)
Memoir; Body Language
- Gross, Anne K. The Polio Journals: Lessons from My Mother
(reviewed by Judy King)
Memoir; History/Current Events; Body Language
- Hansen, Evie & Cindy Snyder, MPH, RD. Seafood Twice a Week
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Body Language; Food/Cooking/Kitchen
- Harman, Patricia. The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Memoir; Body Language
- Heaney, Mary Brust. Beloved Stranger: Reflections on Mental Illness
(reviewed by Duffie Bart)
- Hofmann, Regan. I Have Something to Tell You
(reviewed by Susan Schoch)
Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language
- Kirshenbaum, Sheril. The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us
(reviewed by Judy King)
Relationships; Body Language
- Krishnan, Shobha S., M.D. The HPV Vaccine Controversy: Sex, Cancer, God, and Politics
(reviewed by Susan M. Andrus)
Body Language; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships
- Lauren, Sonja. The Covered Smile
(reviewed by Mary Jo Doig)
Memoir; Body Language
- Leonard, Carol. Lady's Hands, Lion's Heart: A Midwife's Saga
(reviewed by Jennifer Melville)
Memoir; Body Language
- Lerner, Harriet Goldhor. The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
(reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner)
Body Language; Life Lessons
- Lucas, Geralyn. Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
- Maria, Sarah. Love Your Body, Love Your Life
(reviewed by Penny Leisch)
- Myers, Linda Joy. Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story
(reviewed by Judy Fettman)
Body Language; Creative Life
- Padgett, Fran. Breast Cancer: No One Chose This Journey
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language
- Patchett, Ann. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Memoir; Relationships; Body Language
- Pert, Candace B., Ph.D. Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d
(reviewed by Mary Ann Moore)
Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language; Life Lessons
- Phillips, Jan. Divining the Body: Reclaim the Holiness of Your Physical Self
(reviewed by Mary Ann Moore)
Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language; Life Lessons
- Pitts, Yvonne K. Only On Loan: Notes From a Journal Edged in Black
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Memoir; Relationships; Body Language
- Prince-Hughes, Dawn. Songs of the Gorilla Nation
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Memoir; Body Language; Nature/Place/Environment
- Raurell, Lydia. A Year of Dancing Dangerously: One Woman's Journey from Beginner to Winner
(reviewed by Susan M. Andrus)
Memoir; Active Life; Body Language
- Remen, Rachel Naomi, M.D. Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
(reviewed by Duffie Bart)
Body Language; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration
- Rienstra, Debra. Great With Child: On Becoming a Mother
(reviewed by Jennifer Melville)
Memoir; Body Language
- Rosner, Jennifer. If a Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and be Heard
(reviewed by Jennifer Melville)
Memoir; Relationships; Body Language
- Roth, Gabrielle. Maps to Ecstasy: Teachings of an Urban Shaman
(reviewed by Paulette Rees-Denis)
Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language; Life Lessons
- Roth, Gabrielle. Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Passage
(reviewed by Paulette Rees-Denis)
Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language; Life Lessons
- Sheehy, Gail. Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence
(reviewed by Susan J. Tweit)
Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language
- Singer, Thea. Stress Less: The New Science That Shows Women How to Rejuvenate the Body and the Mind
(reviewed by Susan M. Andrus)
Elders; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language
- Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
(reviewed by Judy King)
Biography; Body Language
- Stern, Jessica. Denial: A Memoir of Terror
(reviewed by Natalie Purcell)
Memoir; Body Language
- Sternberg, Esther M., M.D. Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being
(reviewed by Susan J. Tweit)
Nature/Place/Environment; Body Language
- Tirabassi, Becky. Keep the Change: Breaking Through to Permanent Transformation
(reviewed by Linda Wisniewski)
Life Lessons; Body Language
- Wang, Dora Calott, M.D. The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World
(reviewed by Penny Leisch)
Memoir; History/Current Events; Body Language
- Waterhouse, Debra, M.P.H., R.D. Outsmarting the Female Fat Cell—After Pregnancy
(reviewed by Melanie Alberts)
- Watson, Irene. The Sitting Swing
(reviewed by Peggy Talley)
Memoir; Body Language; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Watson, Irene. The Sitting Swing: Finding Wisdom to Know the Difference
(reviewed by Janet Grace Riehl)
Memoir; Body Language; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Weiss, Marisa C., M.D. and Isabel R. Friedman. Taking Care of Your "Girls": A Breast Health Guide for Girls, Teens, and In-Betweens
(reviewed by Susan M. Andrus)
Teen/Girls; Body Language
- Whitehouse, E.J. "Samadhi". Circles in the Sand
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language
- Wicklund, Susan (with Alan Kesselheim). This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language
- Wisniewski, Linda. Off Kilter: A Woman's Journey to Peace with Scoliosis, Her Mother, and Her Polish Heritage
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Memoir; Relationships; Body Language
- Wisniewski, Linda. Off Kilter: A Woman's Journey to Peace with Scoliosis, Her Mother, and Her Polish Heritage
(reviewed by Duffie Bart)
Memoir; Relationships; Body Language
- Woods, Corrie. The Woman's Field Guide to Exceptional Living: Practical Steps to living a Big, Bold, Beautiful Life
(reviewed by Sharon Blumberg)
Body Language; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration
- Young, Joan. Wish by Spirit
(reviewed by Penny Leisch)
Memoir; Body Language
- Zackheim, Victoria, editor. For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language
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