Cultural and Gender Focus

Al Hussein, Queen Noor. Leap of Faith (reviewed by Mary Welker-Haddock) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Arnett, Marvin V. Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Beath, Mary. Hiking Alone: Trails Out, Trails Home (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Bell-Scott, Patricia, editor. Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives (reviewed by Jazz Jaeschke) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Anthologies/Collections Bin Laden, Carmen. Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Boylan, Jennifer Finney. I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Butler, Matilda and Kendra Bonnett. Rosie's Daughters (reviewed by Karen Ryan) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Crough, Sandra. Memoirs of a Brown-Skin Gyal (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Daniels, Lucy. with a woman's voice: a writer's struggle for emotional freedom (reviewed by Gloria Cordova) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language Dollah-Said, Sarah. Focus (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Poetry; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Ehrlich, Elizabeth. Miriam's Kitchen (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Farmanfarmaian, Monir Shahroudy and Zara Houshmand. A Mirror Garden: A Memoir (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Creative Life; Cultural/Gender Focus 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 Gillespie, Spike. Pissed Off: On Women and Anger (reviewed by Stephanie Barko) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Hanner, Eloise. Letters from Afghanistan (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus Jaeschke, S. Jazz. Significance: Life Drawn From a Naturalized Poet (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Poetry; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus 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 Kirk, Martha. Green Sands: My Five Years in the Saudi Desert (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus Mann, Reva. The Rabbi's Daughter (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Mann, Reva. The Rabbi's Daughter (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Morano, Michele. Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain (reviewed by Sharon Blumberg) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure Moss, Barbara R. Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus 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 Ray, Sondra. Rock Your World with the Divine Mother: Bringing the Sacred Power of the Divine Mother into Our Lives (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Reed, Julia. Queen of the Turtle Derby (reviewed by Duffie Bart) 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 (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 Schenone, Laura. The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Steinbach, Alice. Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure 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 Watson, Irene. The Sitting Swing (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Memoir; Body Language; Cultural/Gender Focus Wicklund, Susan (with Alan Kesselheim). This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language Yen Mah, Adeline. Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus