History and Current Events

Bin Laden, Carmen. Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Butler, Matilda and Kendra Bonnett. Rosie's Daughters (reviewed by Karen Ryan) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus 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 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 Corrie, Rachel. Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events Drago, Margarita. Memory Tracks: Fragments from Prison (1975-1980) (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events Edgar, Robin. Personal Legacies: Surviving the Great Depression (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; History/Current Events Ganor, Helena. Four Letters to the Witnesses of My Childhood (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; History/Current Events Goldman, Paula, editor. Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women (reviewed by Duffie Bart) History/Current Events; Anthologies/Collections Hegi, Ursula. Tearing the Silence (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; History/Current Events; Anthologies/Collections Israel, Betsy. Bachelor Girl (reviewed by Jan Epton Seale) 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 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 Miles, Rosalind. Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World (reviewed by Carolyn Blankenship) Olson, Colonel Kim. Iraq and Back (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Memoir; History/Current Events Paretsky, Sara. Writing in an Age of Silence (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; History/Current Events; Creative Life 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) 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 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 Wildwind, Sharon Grant. Dreams that Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; History/Current Events; Active Life; Travel/Adventure