History and Current Events

Ackerman, Diane. The Zookeeper's Wife (reviewed by Allison Stadd) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Albright, Madeleine. Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Astyk, Sharon. Making Home: Adapting Our Homes and Our Lives to Settle in Place (reviewed by Khadijah A.) History/Current Events; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment Atwood, Margaret. Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Bannister, Nonna, with Carolyn Tomlin and Denise George. The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister (reviewed by Marion Mitchell) Memoir; History/Current Events Barker, Evelyn. A Texas Journey: The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith (reviewed by Sallie Moffitt) Biography; History/Current Events Bartlett, Allison Hoover. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Biography; History/Current Events Bazelon, Emily. Sticks and Stones (reviewed by Penny Leisch) History/Current Events; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Berkin, Carol. Civil War Wives (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Berr, Hélène. The Journal of Hélène Berr (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; History/Current Events Bin Laden, Carmen. Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Blum, Deborah. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (reviewed by Judy King) Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. The Invisible Wounds of War: Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan (reviewed by Leila Levinson) History/Current Events; Active Life Braid, Kate. Journeywoman (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Brown, Monica. Side by Side/Lado a Lado (reviewed by Judy Miller) Younger Readers; Cultural/Gender Focus; History/Current Events Butler, Matilda and Kendra Bonnett. Rosie's Daughters (reviewed by Karen Ryan) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) History/Current Events; Creative Life; Relationships Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (reviewed by Olga Livshin) History/Current Events; Creative Life; Relationships Cameron, June. 26 Feet to the Charlottes: Exploring the Land of the Haida (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; History/Current Events; Travel/Adventure Carpenter, Liz. Start With A Laugh: An Insider's Guide to Roasts, Toasts, Eulogies and Other Speeches (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Active Life; History/Current Events Carter, Abigail. The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation (reviewed by Diana Nolan) Memoir; History/Current Events Child, Brenda J. Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (reviewed by Shawn LaTorre) History/Current Events; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; History/Current Events Clark, Marilyn Snethen, Barbara Snethen Leonard, Carol Snethen Reed. Outside the Fence: Stories of an Army Officer's Kids and WWII POW Camps (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Teen/Girls; Memoir; History/Current Events Cleere, Jan. Levi's and Lace: Arizona Women who Made History (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Biography; History/Current Events Coleman, Melissa. This Life is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; History/Current Events; Life Lessons Cooper, Helene. The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Cooper, Helene. The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Cordery, Simon. Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Biography; History/Current Events; Active Life Cornwall, Claudia. At The World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver 1937-1998 (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Biography; History/Current Events Corrie, Rachel. Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events Culberson, Sarah and Tracy Trivas. A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Danneberg, Julie. Women Icons of the West: Five Women Who Forged the American Frontier (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Teen/Girls; History/Current Events Davis, Belva. Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Memoir; History/Current Events Davis, Judith March. Pagoda Dreamer (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Biography; History/Current Events Drago, Margarita. Memory Tracks: Fragments from Prison (1975-1980) (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events Durack, Katherine. Urban Dwellings: A Cincinnati Love Song (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Dychtwald, Maddy & Christine Larson. Influence: How Women's Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better (reviewed by Trilla Pando) History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Eckhardt, Nadine. Duchess of Palms (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; History/Current Events Edgar, Robin. Personal Legacies: Surviving the Great Depression (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; History/Current Events Empie, Arlene Sundquist. The Legacy of Ida Lillbroända (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Fassihi, Farnaz. Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events Ferguson, Kelly Kathleen. My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; History/Current Events; Life Lessons Fisher, Linda A. and Carrie Bowers. Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; History/Current Events; Travel/Adventure Fishkoff, Sue. Kosher Nation (reviewed by Judith Helburn) History/Current Events; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Foote, Donna. Relentless Pursuit: A Year In The Trenches With Teach For America (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; History/Current Events Forman-Brunell, Miriam. Babysitter: An American History (reviewed by Diana Nolan) History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Fuller, Alexandra. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Biography; History/Current Events Ganor, Helena. Four Letters to the Witnesses of My Childhood (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; History/Current Events Gellhorn, Martha. Travels with Myself and Another (reviewed by Karen Ballinger) Memoir; History/Current Events; Travel/Adventure Gertler, Pocahontas. While I Run This Race: A Memoir of Challenge, Hope and Transcendence (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; History/Current Events; Life Lessons Goldman, Paula, editor. Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women (reviewed by Duffie Bart) History/Current Events; Anthologies/Collections Goold, Madeline. Mr. Langshaw's Square Piano: The Story of the First Pianos and How They Caused a Cultural Revolution (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Green, Valerie. Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper-Class Victoria 1843-1918 (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Gregory, Philippa, David Baldwin, & Michael Jones. The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Gross, Anne K. The Polio Journals: Lessons from My Mother (reviewed by Judy King) Memoir; History/Current Events; Body Language Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda. Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps (reviewed by Sherry Wachter) Memoir; History/Current Events; Life Lessons Hamilton, Alissa. Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Harman, Patricia. Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's Journey (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; History/Current Events Hayes, Shannon. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity From a Consumer Culture (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Hayes, Shannon. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity From a Consumer Culture (reviewed by Bobbi Chukran) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Hegi, Ursula. Tearing the Silence (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; History/Current Events; Anthologies/Collections Heikkila, Kim. Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam (reviewed by Sharon Wildwind) Hensley, Marcia Meredith. Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Hoff, Agatha. Burning Horses (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; History/Current Events Israel, Betsy. Bachelor Girl (reviewed by Jan Epton Seale) Jack, Belinda. The Woman Reader (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) History/Current Events; Creative Life; Cultural/Gender Focus Jette, Eleanor. Inside Box 1663 (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; History/Current Events Jocelyn, Marthe. Scribbling Women (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Johnson, Marilyn. This Book is Overdue! (reviewed by Judith Helburn) History/Current Events; Creative Life Kassem, Fatma. Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Kennedy, Miranda. Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India (reviewed by Barbara Heming) Memoir; History/Current Events; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus Keuning-Tichelaar, An and Lynn Kaplanian-Buller. Passing on the Comfort: The War, the Quilts, and the Women Who Made a Difference (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) History/Current Events; Arts/Crafts Kirkby, Mary-Ann. I am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Kunin, Madeleine M. The New Feminist Agenda (reviewed by Penny Leisch) History/Current Events; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Lambright, Jeanie Sutton. They Also Served: Women's Stories from the World War II Era (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) History/Current Events; Anthologies/Collections Lane, Maggie. Jane Austen's World (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Biography; History/Current Events Lanier, Carlotta Walls & Lisa Frazier Page. A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Lee, Jid. To Kill a Tiger: A Memoir of Korea (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Levinson, Leila. Gated Grief (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Relationships; History/Current Events; Life Lessons Levinson, Leila. Gated Grief (reviewed by Shawn LaTorre) Memoir; Relationships; History/Current Events; Life Lessons Loar, Julie. Goddesses for Every Day: Exploring the Wisdom and Power of the Divine Feminine Around the World (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) History/Current Events; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Lynch-Brennan, Margaret. The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930 (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Marriott, Barbara. In Our Own Words: The Lives of Arizona Pioneer Women (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Martin, Kathleen. Kamakwie: Finding Peace, Love, and Injustice in Sierra Leone (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; History/Current Events; Life Lessons McArthur, Judith N. and Harold L. Smith. Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth Century Experience (reviewed by Trilla Pando) McCash, June Hall. A Titanic Love Story (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Biography; History/Current Events McClure, Wendy. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) History/Current Events; Travel/Adventure; Memoir Meehan, Norma Lu and Mei Campbell. Victorian Wedding Dress in the United States: A History Through Paper Dolls (reviewed by Diana Nolan) History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Midkiff, Mary Lou. Lillie Davenport: Pioneer Mother (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Biography; History/Current Events; Relationships Miles, Rosalind. Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World (reviewed by Carolyn Blankenship) Miller, Susan Cummins, editor. A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; History/Current Events Morgan, Susan. Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; History/Current Events; Travel/Adventure Morin, Karen M. Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Mundy, Liza. Michelle: A Biography (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Biography; History/Current Events Nafisi, Azar. Things I've Been Silent About: Memories (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Nicoll, Belinda. Out of Sync: A Memoir (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; History/Current Events; Relationships Olson, Colonel Kim. Iraq and Back (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Memoir; History/Current Events Omar, Manal M. Barefoot in Baghdad (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Orlean, Susan. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Biography; History/Current Events; Animal Companions Paglia, Camille. Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars (reviewed by Penny Leisch) History/Current Events; Creative Life; Arts/Crafts Pandya, Nandini, editor. Abroad at Home: First Generation Perspectives, First Person Voices (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events; Relationships Pascoe, Pat. Helen Ring Robinson: Colorado Senator and Suffragist (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Peavy, Linda and Ursula Smith. Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School: Basketball Champions of the World (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Raab, Diana M. Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Biography; History/Current Events Rees, Sian. The Floating Brothel (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Reich, Deb. No More Enemies (reviewed by Khadijah A.) History/Current Events; Active Life; Cultural/Gender Focus Remmert, Donna Van Straten. Head Over Heels: Stories about the 1950s (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Memoir; History/Current Events; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Reti, Irene & Sarah Rabkin, editors. Cultivating A Movement: An Oral History of Organic Farming & Sustainable Agriculture on California's Central Coast (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) History/Current Events; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Richardson, Kim Michele. The Unbreakable Child (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Memoir; History/Current Events; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Rymer, Ruth. Susannah, A Lawyer: From Tragedy to Triumph (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) History/Current Events; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Sasson, Jean. Love in a Torn Land: Joanna of Kurdistan: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter's Escape from Iraqi Vengeance (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Biography; History/Current Events; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Schaller, Mary W. Deliver Us from Evil: A Southern Belle in Europe at the Outbreak of World War I (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Biography; History/Current Events; Travel/Adventure Schultz, Connie. ...And His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Memoir; History/Current Events; Relationships Seethaler, Sherry. Lies, Damned Lies, and Science (reviewed by Judy King) Segal, Maria. Maria's Story: Childhood Memories of the Holocaust (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; History/Current Events Shell, Ellen Ruppel. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Shepard, Judy. The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Snyder, Laura J. The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World (reviewed by Judy King) History/Current Events; Science Spikes, Nellie Witt, ed. Geoff Cunfer. As a Farm Woman Thinks: Life and Land on the Llano Estacado, 1890-1960 (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; History/Current Events Stewart, Amy. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Food/Cooking/Kitchen; History/Current Events Sutton, Maria. The Night Sky (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; History/Current Events; Life Lessons Swiss, Deborah J. The Tin Ticket (reviewed by Judy Miller) History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Tate, Linda. Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Thorpe, Helen. Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Trethewey, Natasha. Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Tucker, Holly. Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution (reviewed by Judy King) History/Current Events; Science Vileisis, Ann. Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get it Back (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Walders, Davi. Women Against Tyranny (reviewed by Shawn LaTorre) Walters, Barbara. Audition (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Memoir; History/Current Events 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 Ware, Susan. Game, Set, Match (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Waterston, Ellen. Where the Crooked River Rises: A High Desert Home (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Weber, Lauren. In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Weldon, Yaeko Sugama and Linda E. Austin. Cherry Blossoms in Twilight: Memories of a Japanese Girl (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Teen/Girls; Memoir; History/Current Events Weston, Julie Whitesel. The Good Times Are All Gone Now (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Wickenden, Dorothy. Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Biography; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Wildwind, Sharon. Dreams that Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; History/Current Events; Active Life; Travel/Adventure Williams, Terry Tempest. Finding Beauty in a Broken World (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Wilson, Bee. Consider the Fork (reviewed by Olga Livshin) History/Current Events; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Wix, Linney. Through a Narrow Window (reviewed by Barbara L. Heller) Biography; History/Current Events; Creative Life