Memoir, Journal, and Autobiography

Al Hussein, Queen Noor. Leap of Faith (reviewed by Mary Welker-Haddock) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Al-Baz, Rania. Disfigured: A Saudi Woman's Story of Triumph over Violence (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Albanese, Mary. Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon: Mapping the Wild Heart of Alaska (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Albert, Susan Wittig. Together Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place (reviewed by Edith O'Nuallain) Albert, Susan Wittig & Dayna Finet, editors. With Courage and Common Sense: Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles (reviewed by PJ Pierce) Anthologies/Collections; Elders; Memoir Albert, Susan Wittig, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, Paula Stallings Yost, editors. What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Albert, Susan Wittig, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, Paula Stallings Yost, editors. What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Allen, K. Eileen. I Like Being Old (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Life Lessons Allison, Destiny. Shaping Destiny: A Quest for Meaning in Art and Life (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Creative Life; Arts/Crafts Allman, Victoria. SEAsoned: A Chef's Journey with Her Captain (reviewed by Barbara Heming) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Alter, Judy. Cooking My Way through Life with Kids and Books (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Anderson, Joan. A Walk On The Beach (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships Anderson, Joan. A Year by the Sea (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships Anderson, Joan. An Unfinished Marriage (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships Anderson, Joan. Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons Appelt, Kathi. My Father's Summers (reviewed by Melanie Alberts) Memoir; Relationships; Teen/Girls Archer, Cheryl & Jennifer Keefe. The Turkey Farm: Behind the Smile (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Arnett, Marvin V. Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Ashcraft, Tami Oldham with Susea McGearhart. Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival at Sea (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Nature/Place/Environment Askins, Renee. Shadow Mountain (reviewed by Gloria Cordova) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Active Life Athill, Diana. Somewhere Towards the End (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Elders; Creative Life Auchard, Betty. Dancing in My Nightgown: The Rhythms of Widowhood (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Auchard, Betty. The Home for the Friendless: Finding Hope, Love and Family (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Auker, Amy Hale. Rightful Place (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Avakian, Arlene Voski. Through the Kitchen Window: Women Writers Explore the Intimate Meaning of Food and Cooking (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir Azrael, Judith. Wherever I Wander (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Baggett, Jennifer, Holly C. Corbett, Amanda Pressner. The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Active Life; Travel/Adventure Bailey, Elisabeth Tova. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Memoir; Life Lessons 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, Adele. Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka (reviewed by Sheridan Ward) Barnett, Bonnie. Bobo's Daughter: One Woman's Journey to Find Hope, Healing, and the Father behind the Face Paint (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Barrett, Pamela. Tales of the Titmouse: One Woman's Journey Out Of Darkness (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Bash, Barbara. True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Bash, Barbara. True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Baszile, Jennifer. The Black Girl Next Door (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Relationships 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 Belmont, Barbara. Dangling Without A Rope: A Life Discovered (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Life Lessons; Travel/Adventure Bender, Sheila. A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Memoir; Poetry Benincasa, Sara. Agorafabulous! Dispatches from My Bedroom (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; Body Language Bennett, Anne Marie. Bright Side of the Road: A Spiritual Journey Through Breast Cancer (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Berr, Hélène. The Journal of Hélène Berr (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; History/Current Events Betts, Emilie. Shadows in My House of Sunshine (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons Bhatnagar, Supriya. and then there were three... (reviewed by Carol Smallwood) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Bin Laden, Carmen. Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Bingham, June. Braided Lives: A 20th Century Pursuit of Happiness (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Bivona, Ginnie Siena. Notes From A Chameleon (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Blew, Mary Clearman. This is Not the Ivy League (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Memoir; Relationships Boesky, Amy. What We Have (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Body Language Bond, Alma H. Old Age is a Terminal Illness (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Memoir; Elders Borel, Kathryn. Corked (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. Healing: A Life With Chronic Illness (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Body Language Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. Mothers in All But Name: Grandmothers, Aunts, Sisters, Friends, Strangers, Nannies (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Boylan, Jennifer Finney. I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Braestrup, Kate. Here If You Need Me: a True Story (reviewed by Judy Fettman) Braid, Kate. Journeywoman (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Brandsdorfer, Marsha. The Accidental Secretary (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Briccetti, Katherine A. Blood Strangers (reviewed by Judy Miller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships 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 Brill, Leigh. A Dog Named Slugger: A True Story of the Service Dog That Changed My Life (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Teen/Girls; Memoir; Life Lessons; Animal Companions Brodie, Laura. Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter's Uncommon Year (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; Life Lessons Brown, Rita Mae. Animal Magnetism (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Browning, Dominique. Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas & Found Happiness (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life Brunke, Dawn Baumann. Shapeshifting with Our Animal Companions (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment; Animal Companions Bryson, Karen Mueller, Ph.D. Those They Left Behind: Interviews, Stories, Essays and Poems by Survivors of Suicide (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons Burke, Pattie C. S. Women and Pedagogy: Education Through Autobiographical Narrative (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Burstyn, Ellen. Lessons in Becoming Myself (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Butler, Matilda and Kendra Bonnett. Rosie's Daughters (reviewed by Karen Ryan) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Buyer, Laurie Wagner. Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Buyer, Laurie Wagner. When I Came West (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Caldwell, Gail. A Strong West Wind (reviewed by Karen Ryan) Memoir; Relationships Caldwell, Gail. Let's Take the Long Way Home (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Cameron, Julia. Floor Sample (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Relationships Cameron, Julia. The Creative Life: True Tales of Inspiration (reviewed by Becky Lane) Creative Life; Memoir Cameron, June. 26 Feet to the Charlottes: Exploring the Land of the Haida (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; History/Current Events; Travel/Adventure Cantwell, Mary. Manhattan Memoir (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships Cariou, Heather Summerhayes. Sixtyfive Roses (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Carl, Glenys. Hold My Hand: A Mother's Journey (reviewed by Melanie Alberts) Memoir; Relationships Carney, Alice Winston. A Cowgirl in Search of a Horse (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Carpenter, Liz. Getting Better All the Time (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Elders; Active Life Carpenter, Liz. Ruffles and Flourishes: The Warm and Tender Story of a Simple Girl Who Found Adventure in the White House (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Active Life Carpenter, Liz. Unplanned Parenthood: The Confessions of a Seventy-Something Surrogate Mother (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Elders; Relationships Carr, Pat. One Page at a Time (On a Writing Life) (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Creative Life Carter, Abigail. The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation (reviewed by Diana Nolan) Memoir; History/Current Events Carvajal, Doreen. The Forgetting River (reviewed by Sharon Wildwind) Memoir; Life Lessons; Travel/Adventure Chapman, Patricia Luce. Survivor's Guide to Grief: Be Like a Starfish and Grow New Legs (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Charleson, Susannah. Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search and Rescue Dog (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Cheney, Terri. Manic (reviewed by Sharon Blumberg) Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; History/Current Events Christman, Jill. Darkroom: A Family Exposure (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Claire, Maggie. As if it Didn't Happen (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Claire, Maggie. As if it Didn't Happen (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) 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 Clift, Eleanor. Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons Cohagan, Cindie. Finding Compassion in China: A Bicycle Journey into the Countryside (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Travel/Adventure Cohen, Elizabeth. The House On Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting (reviewed by Robin Edgar) Memoir; Relationships; Elders Cole, Joni B. Another Bad-Dog Book (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Cole, Susan Letzler. Missing Alice: In Search of a Mother's Voice (reviewed by Karen Ryan) Memoir; Relationships 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 Collier, Gaydell. Just Beyond Harmony (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Colvin, Ruth J. Off the Beaten Path (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Conley, Susan. The Foremost Good Fortune (reviewed by Judy Miller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Connolly, Sally A. Never Better: All Things Considered (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Conway, Kathlyn. Ordinary Life: A Memoir of Illness (reviewed by Karen Bensing) Memoir; Body Language; Relationships 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 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 Corrigan, Kelly. Lift (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Counihan, Carole M. A Tortilla is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Crews, Kambri. Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Life Lessons Crough, Sandra. Memoirs of a Brown-Skin Gyal (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Crumpacker, Bunny & J.S. Picariello. Jessica Lost: A Story of Birth, Adoption & The Meaning of Motherhood (reviewed by Linda Hoye) 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 Daly-Lipe, Patricia. All Alone: Washington to Rome, A 60's Memoir (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Daniell, Rosemary. Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Creative Life Daniell, Rosemary. The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Creative Life Daniels, Lucy. with a woman's voice: a writer's struggle for emotional freedom (reviewed by Gloria Cordova) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language Daum, Meghan. Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Davis, Belva. Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Memoir; History/Current Events Davis, Jodi. The Heart's Gift (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Day, Sonia. Middle-Aged Spread: Moving to the Country at 50 (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Memoir; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment de Blasi, Marlena. That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story (reviewed by Becky Lane) Memoir; Travel/Adventure de los Santos, Lita. La Familia de los Santos (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Relationships Deen, Paula. It Ain't All About the Cookin' (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Dennington, Becky. Me and the Ugly C (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Devin, Jane. Elephant Girl: A Human Story (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Dickison, Stephanie. The 30-Second Commute: A Non-Fiction Comedy about Writing and Working from Home (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Creative Life Didion, Joan. Blue Nights (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Relationships; Life Lessons Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships; Life Lessons Digh, Patti. Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life Dinnerstein, Pesi. A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys (reviewed by Martha Meacham) DiSesa, Nina. Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Donnell, Ernestine Sisk. Grandmother Said: A Memoir (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Elders Drago, Margarita. Memory Tracks: Fragments from Prison (1975-1980) (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events Drake, Barbara. Peace at Heart: An Oregon Country Life (reviewed by Lina Tanner) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Drouin, Wil and Jennifer Thomas. Butterfly Tears: Stories of Entrapment to Empowerment (reviewed by Shawn LaTorre) Life Lessons; Memoir; Anthologies/Collections Drummond, Ree. The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Dugard, Jaycee. A Stolen Life (reviewed by Sallie Moffitt) DuLong, Jessica. My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson (reviewed by Sharon Wildwind) Memoir; Creative Life; Active Life Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Dumas, Pie. Pieces of Pie (reviewed by Lisa Check) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Duncombe, Kristin Louise. Trailing: A Memoir (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Life Lessons Durack, Katherine. Unmentionables: A Woman's Journey, Body to Soul (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language Eckhardt, Nadine. Duchess of Palms (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; History/Current Events Edelman, Hope. The Possibility of Everything (reviewed by Judy Miller) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Eder, Michele Longo. Salt in Our Blood (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Edgar, Robin. In My Mother's Kitchen (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Relationships; Life Lessons Edgar, Robin. Personal Legacies: Surviving the Great Depression (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; History/Current Events Edwards, Elizabeth. Resilience (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Memoir; Relationships Edwards, Elizabeth. Saving Graces (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Memoir; Active Life; Body Language; Relationships; Life Lessons Ehman, Amy Jo. Prairie Feast: A Writer's Journey Home For Dinner (reviewed by Becky Lane) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On [Not] Getting By in America (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Active Life Ehrlich, Elizabeth. Miriam's Kitchen (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Ehrlich, Gretel. A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Eicher, Lovina with Kevin Williams. The Amish Cook's Anniversary Book (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Ellerby, Janet Mason. Following the Tambourine Man: A Birthmother's Memoir (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Ephron, Nora. I Feel Bad About My Neck (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Elders Erlbaum, Janice. Have You Found Her (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships 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 Farmanfarmaian, Monir Shahroudy and Zara Houshmand. A Mirror Garden: A Memoir (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Creative Life; Cultural/Gender Focus Farrell, Kate, editor. Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter's Memories of Mother (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Memoir; Life Lessons 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 Fertig, Mona. The Life and Art of George Fertig (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Biography; Creative Life Fey, Tina. Bossypants (reviewed by Olga Livshin) Finley, Amy. How to Eat a Small Country: A Family's Pursuit of Happiness, One Meal at a Time (reviewed by Juliet Porton) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Finnamore, Suzanne. Split: A Memoir of Divorce (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Fishler, Jan. Searching for Jane, Finding Myself (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Flatau, Susie Kelly. From My Mother's Hands (reviewed by Paula Stallings Yost) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; Relationships Flathouse, Pat. Growing Up in the Texas Panhandle (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships Foote, Donna. Relentless Pursuit: A Year In The Trenches With Teach For America (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; History/Current Events Fox, Judy Zionts and Mia Roldan. Voices of Strength: Sons and Daughters of Suicide Speak Out (reviewed by Carol Waid) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Fox, Paula. The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Active Life Fragoso, Margaux. Tiger, Tiger (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Frankel, Ellen. Beyond Measure: A Memoir About Short Stature and Inner Growth (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Body Language; Travel/Adventure Freeman, Cathy Sherman. A Disney Childhood: Comic Books to Sailing Ships (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) 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 Fugazi, Sally & Debbie Harwell. Candles in the Darkness: A True Story of Faith, Hope & Friendship (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships Fulda, Jennette. Half-Assed: A Weight Loss Memoir (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Fuller, Alexandra. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Biography; History/Current Events Funderburg, Lise. Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Galland, China. Longing for Darkness: Tara And the Black Madonna (reviewed by Carolyn Blankenship) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Travel/Adventure Ganahl, Jane. Single Women of a Certain Age: Romantic Escapades, Shifting Shapers, and Serene Independence (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Ganor, Helena. Four Letters to the Witnesses of My Childhood (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; History/Current Events Gates, Barbara. Already Home: A Topography of Spirit and Place (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment 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 Gideon, Melanie. The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Relationships Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (reviewed by Stephanie Barko) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Gildiner, Catherine. Too Close To The Falls (reviewed by Melanie Alberts) Memoir; Relationships Gill, Rupinder. On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Gillespie, Spike. Pissed Off: On Women and Anger (reviewed by Stephanie Barko) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Gillespie, Spike. Quilty as Charged (reviewed by Tracie Nichols) Memoir; Life Lessons; Arts/Crafts Goldman, Judy. Losing My Sister: A Memoir (reviewed by Diana Nolan) Graham, Katherine. Personal History (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Active Life Grande, Reyna. The Distance Between Us (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Grant, Amy. Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Body Language Greenlaw, Linda. Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Memoir; Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment Grenager, Suzanne Selby. Bare Naked at the Reality Dance: Journal One (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Grose, Peggy S. Celebration! A Woman's Story of Courage, Endurance, and Transcendence (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Grose, Polly. A London Scrapbook (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Gross, Anne K. The Polio Journals: Lessons from My Mother (reviewed by Judy King) Memoir; History/Current Events; Body Language Gross, Jane. A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents—and Ourselves (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Elders; Relationships 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 Gubar, Susan. True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School (reviewed by Judy Alter) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Life Lessons Gussow, Joan Dye. Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Elders; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment Gutman, Plynn. The Work of Her Hands (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Memoir; Biography; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Haag, Christina. Come to the Edge (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Relationships Hall, Meredith. Without A Map (reviewed by Edith O'Nuallain) Hamilton, Gabrielle. Blood, Bones & Butter (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Lesbian/Bisexual/Transexual; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Hamlin, Judy Joseph. From Riches to Happiness (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Hampl, Patricia. I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory (reviewed by Leslea Smith) Memoir; Creative Life Hampl, Patricia. The Florist's Daughter (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Memoir; Relationships Hampl, Patricia. Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life (reviewed by Dianne Lodge-Peters) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Travel/Adventure Hanff, Helene. 84, Charing Cross Road (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Hanner, Eloise. Letters from Afghanistan (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus Harman, Patricia. Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's Journey (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; History/Current Events Harman, Patricia. The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Body Language Harrison, Kathryn. The Mother Knot (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships Hart, Melissa. Gringa (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Hartman, Erin Q. Hope For Carsonville (reviewed by Sharon Blumberg) Hasselstrom, Linda M. Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Hasselstrom, Linda M. No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Hasselstrom, Linda M., Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis. Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; Nature/Place/Environment Haupt, Lyanda Lynn. Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Nature/Place/Environment; Memoir 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 Heart, Mikaya. My Sweet Wild Dance (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle. Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (reviewed by Sallie Moffitt) Memoir; Biography Hegi, Ursula. Tearing the Silence (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; History/Current Events; Anthologies/Collections Henley, Marian. The Shiniest Jewel: A Family Love Story (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Herring, Laraine. Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Creative Life Hiatt, Juanima. The Invisible Storm (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Relationships Hoff, Agatha. Burning Horses (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; History/Current Events Hofmann, Regan. I Have Something to Tell You (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language Hoglund, Patricia. Have I Got a Story for You: A Collection of Life's Lessons (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life Hollingsworth, Rosalie. Destruction of Innocence (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Holmes, Kenneth L., editor. Best of Covered Wagon Women (reviewed by Stephanie Barko) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Travel/Adventure Holstein, Dr. Barbara Becker. Delight (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Hood, Ann. Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Hopper, Kate. Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers (reviewed by Carol Smallwood) Memoir; Creative Life Hornbacher, Marya. Madness: A Bipolar Life (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Houghton, Maisie. Pitch Uncertain (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Hoye, Linda. Two Hearts: An Adoptee's Journey through Grief to Gratitude (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Hudson, Kathleen. Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Creative Life Huggan, Isabel. Belonging (reviewed by Edith O'Nuallain) Memoir; Travel/Adventure Hughes, Holly J. Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose About Alzheimer's Disease (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Memoir; Relationships Husak, G. G. Passeggiata: Strolling Through Italy (reviewed by Penny Appleby) Memoir; Travel/Adventure Irish, Mary. A Place All Our Own: Lives Entwined in a Desert Garden (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Isay, Dave, editor. Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Relationships Ivin, Jonna. Will Love For Crumbs (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Relationships Jackson, Tracey. Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Why Fifty is Not the New Thirty (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons James, Eloisa. Paris in Love (reviewed by Olga Livshin) Memoir; Travel/Adventure James, Franke. Bothered by My Green Conscience (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; Life Lessons Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Life Lessons Jamison, Kay Redfield. Nothing Was the Same (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Janzen, Rhoda. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Relationships Jenkins, Amy Lou. Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships Jette, Eleanor. Inside Box 1663 (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; History/Current Events Johnson, Donna. Holy Ghost Girl (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Joseph, Diana. I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Relationships 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 Karr, Mary. Lit (reviewed by Linda Joy Myers) Karr, Mary. Lit (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Karr, Mary. The Liars' Club (reviewed by Jazz Jaeschke) Memoir; Relationships Kassem, Fatma. Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Kavin, Kim. Little Boy Blue (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; Animal Companions Keith, Lierre. The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Kendall, Elizabeth. Autobiography of a Wardrobe (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Kenison, Katrina. Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Kennedy, Miranda. Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India (reviewed by Barbara Heming) Memoir; History/Current Events; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus Kidd, Sue Monk and Ann Kidd Taylor. Traveling with Pomegranates (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Creative Life Kimmel, Haven. A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Relationships; Nature/Place/Environment King, Sorrel. Josie's Story (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Memoir; Life Lessons Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Kinney, Kathy and Cindy Ratzlaff. Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-up Woman's Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life you Deserve (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Life Lessons Kinney, Kathy and Cindy Ratzlaff. Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-up Woman's Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life you Deserve (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; Life Lessons Kirk, Martha. Green Sands: My Five Years in the Saudi Desert (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus 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 Kouris, Diana Allen. Riding the Edge of an Era: Growing Up Cowboy on the Outlaw Trail (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Kozel, Maggie, M.D. The Color of Atmosphere (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; Life Lessons Krieger, Susan. Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Memoir; Animal Companions Lancaster, Jen. Pretty in Plaid: A Memoir (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Lander, Lib and Jan Lander. Mirrored Lives (reviewed by Lisa Check) Memoir; Relationships Lane, Shelley D. A Stirling Diary: An Intercultural Story of Communication, Connection, and Coming-of-Age (reviewed by Martha Meacham) 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 Laszlo-Gopadze, Terry, editor. The Spirit of a Woman: Stories to Empower and Inspire (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration LaTurner, Nancy Pogue. Voluntary Nomads: A Mother's Memories of Foreign Service Family Life (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Active Life; Travel/Adventure Lauck, Jennifer. Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found (reviewed by Denise McAllister) Memoir; Relationships Lauck, Jennifer. Found: A Memoir (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Memoir; Relationships Lauck, Jennifer. Still Waters (reviewed by Denise McAllister) Memoir; Relationships Lauren, Sonja. The Covered Smile (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Memoir; Body Language Leaming, Linda. Married to Bhutan (reviewed by Penny Appleby) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Travel/Adventure Lee, Brenda, with Robert K. Oermann and Julie Clay. Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Lee, Jid. To Kill a Tiger: A Memoir of Korea (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Lee, Sandra. Made From Scratch (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Legler, Gretchen. On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Leleux, Robert. The Living End: A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Relationships Leonard, Carol. Lady's Hands, Lion's Heart: A Midwife's Saga (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; Body Language Lester, Tanya. Confessions of a Tea Leaf Reader (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Life Lessons 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 Levy, Naomi. Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Levy, Robyn Michelle. Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown (reviewed by Olga Livshin) Lindbergh, Reeve. Forward from Here: Leaving Middle Age—and Other Unexpected Adventures (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life Linnea, Ann. Deep Water Passage: A Spiritual Journey at Midlife (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Travel/Adventure Lippincott, Sharon M. The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Creative Life Lopez, Rhonda Lashley. Don't Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment Macdonald, Sarah. Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure (reviewed by Mary Welker-Haddock) Memoir; Travel/Adventure Macy, Dayna. Ravenous: A Food Lover's Journey from Obsession to Freedom (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Life Lessons; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Mairs, Nancy. A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration 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 Marchant, Deborah DeWit. Traveling Light: A Photographer's Journey (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Creative Life Marcus, Hanna Perlstein. Sidonia's Thread (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; Biography; Life Lessons Margolis, Elaine. A Picturebook on the Wall: Memoir (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Markova, Dawna. I Will Not Die an Unlived Life (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Marriott, Barbara. In Our Own Words: The Lives of Arizona Pioneer Women (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Marsh, Sonia. Freeways to Flip-Flops: A Family's Year of Gutsy Living on a Tropical Island (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships Martin, Kathleen. Kamakwie: Finding Peace, Love, and Injustice in Sierra Leone (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; History/Current Events; Life Lessons Matloff, Judith. Home Girl: Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Mayer, Lo Anne. Celestial Conversations: Healing Relationships After Death (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration 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 McCorkindale, Susan. 500 Acres and No Place to Hide: More Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Life Lessons McCracken, Elizabeth. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (reviewed by Janet Caplan) McEwen, Christian. World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Creative Life Merrill, C.S. Weekends with O'Keeffe (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Elders Miller, Amie Klempnauer. She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Miller, Barbara. You Lost Your Marriage Not Your Life (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Relationships Miller, Lorraine. The Tapestry of Grace: Crafted by the Divine Weaver (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration 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 Miller, Teresa. Means of Transit: A Slightly Embellished Memoir (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Monosson, Emily, editor. Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Anthologies/Collections; Cultural/Gender Focus; Memoir Monroe, Debra. On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Monroe, Debra. On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Moore, Honor. The Bishop's Daughter (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; Relationships; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Moore, Kathleen Dean. Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Moore, Susanna. Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i (reviewed by Becky Lane) Morano, Michele. Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain (reviewed by Sharon Blumberg) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure Morris, Mary. Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone (reviewed by Lisa Check) Memoir; Travel/Adventure Morrisroe, Patricia. Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Moss, Barbara R. Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Moss, Barbara R. Fierce (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships Mukpo, Diana J. with Carolyn Rose Gimian. Dragon Thunder: My Life with Chogyam Trungpa (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Munson, Laura. This Is Not The Story You Think It Is...A Season of Unlikely Happiness (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Murdock, Maureen. Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Creative Life Murray, Anne, Michael Posner. All of Me (reviewed by Penny Appleby) Murray, Liz. Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Memoir; Life Lessons Myers, Linda Joy. Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Myron, Vicki with Bret Witter. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Nafisi, Azar. Things I've Been Silent About: Memories (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; 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 Napoli, Lisa. Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth (reviewed by Juliet Porton) Memoir; Travel/Adventure Newton, Judith. Tasting Home (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Newton, Judith. Tasting Home (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Nicholas, Theresa. Buryin' Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Elders; Relationships Nicoll, Belinda. Out of Sync: A Memoir (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; History/Current Events; Relationships Niesslein, Jennifer. Practically Perfect (In Every Way): My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help—and Back (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Nomani, Asra Q. Standing Alone in Mecca (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Norton, Lisa Dale. Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Norton, Lisa Dale. Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills (reviewed by Edith O'Nuallain) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Norton, Lisa Dale. Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Creative Life O'Connell, Caitlin. The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Nature/Place/Environment; Memoir; Travel/Adventure Ofri, Danielle. Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus 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 Orloff, Judith, M.D. Second Sight (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Creative Life Orsborn, Carol. Fierce with Age: Chasing God and Squirrels in Brooklyn (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Elders Orsborn, Carol. The Year I Saved My (downsized) Soul (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Life Lessons Otowa, Rebecca. At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman's Journey of Discovery (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Overton, Margaret. Good in a Crisis (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Ozma, Alice. The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books we Shared (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Padgett, Fran. Breast Cancer: No One Chose This Journey (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language Page, Kathy and Lynne Van Luven, editors. In the Flesh: Twenty Writers Explore the Body (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Body Language Pandya, Nandini, editor. Abroad at Home: First Generation Perspectives, First Person Voices (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events; Relationships Pardey, Lin. Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and other Wildlife (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Life Lessons; Travel/Adventure Paretsky, Sara. Writing in an Age of Silence (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Paretsky, Sara. Writing in an Age of Silence (reviewed by Mary Tinkler) Parkhurst, Bodie. Past Lives: A Journey (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Patchett, Ann. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Patterson, Jamie. Lost Edens (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Pell, Eve. We Used to Own the Bronx: Memoirs of a Former Debutante (reviewed by Diana Nolan) Peterson, Brenda. I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here On Earth (reviewed by Sherry Wachter) Phelps, Dee Dee. Vinyl Highway: Singing as "Dick and Dee Dee" (reviewed by Robin Edgar) Phillips, Zara H. Mother Me (reviewed by Judy Miller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Pitts, Yvonne K. Only On Loan: Notes From a Journal Edged in Black (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Powell, Julie. Julie & Julia (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Prince-Hughes, Dawn. Songs of the Gorilla Nation (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Body Language; Nature/Place/Environment Prisant, Carol. Dog House: A Love Story (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Life Lessons; Animal Companions Quindlen, Anna. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; Life Lessons; Elders Raab, Diana M. Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Biography; History/Current Events Rabkin, Sarah Juniper. What I Learned at Bug Camp: Essays on Finding Home in the World (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Raday, Sophia. Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Relationships Radziwill, Carole. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships Ralston, Jeannie. The Unlikely Lavender Queen: A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming (reviewed by Becky Lane) Rancour, Patrice. Tales From the Pager Chronicles (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Rancour, Patrice. The Pager Chronicles, Volume Two (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration 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 Reichl, Ruth. For You Mom, Finally (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Elders; Relationships Reichl, Ruth. Garlic and Sapphires (reviewed by Lisa Check) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Active Life Reichl, Ruth. Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Reichl, Ruth. Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way (reviewed by Barbara L. Heller) Reichl, Ruth. Tender at the Bone (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Relationships Remen, Rachel Naomi, M.D. My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Remmert, Donna Van Straten. Head Over Heels: Stories about the 1950s (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Memoir; History/Current Events; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Remmert, Donna Van Straten. The Jitterbug Girl (reviewed by PJ Pierce) Remmert, Donna Van Straten. The Littlest Big Kid (reviewed by Rebecca Roberts) 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 Rhyne, Teresa J. The Dog Lived (and So Will I) (reviewed by Donna B. Russell) Memoir; Life Lessons; Animal Companions Riccardi, Victoria Abbot. Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto (reviewed by Nancy Dasenbrock) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Rice, Anne. Called Out Of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Rice, Anne. Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Richardson, Kim Michele. The Unbreakable Child (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Memoir; History/Current Events; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Richardson, Kim Michele. The Unbreakable Child (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Riehl, Janet Grace. Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music (reviewed by Edith O'Nuallain) Poetry; Memoir Rienstra, Debra. Great With Child: On Becoming a Mother (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; Body Language Robertson, Adele Crockett. The Orchard: A Memoir (reviewed by Diana Nolan) Robinson, Katy. A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure Roessle, Denise. Second-Chance Mother (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Memoir; Relationships Roessle, Denise. Second-Chance Mother (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Relationships Rogers, Mary. Dancing Naked: Memorable Encounters with Unforgettable Texans (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Biography Rogers, Susan Fox, editor. Solo: On Her Own Adventure (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment Roiphe, Anne. Epilogue (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Life Lessons Rosner, Jennifer. If a Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and be Heard (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Ross, M. Jane, editor. Kitchen Table Stories (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Anthologies/Collections; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Memoir Rowntree, Lenore and Andrew Boden, editors. Hidden Lives: Coming Out on Mental Illness (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Rubin, Gretchen. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun (reviewed by Barbara L. Heller) Memoir; Life Lessons Russell, Sharman Apt. Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist (reviewed by Susan Hanson) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Ryan, Trish. A Maze of Grace (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Rycraft, R.A. and Leslie What, editors. Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Elders Rycraft, R.A. and Leslie What, editors. Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging (reviewed by Ann McCauley) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Elders Saltzman, Nancy. Radical Survivor: One Woman's Path Through Life, Love, and Uncharted Tragedy (reviewed by Donna B. Russell) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Sanders, Debra. A Matter of Panache: A Career in Public Education. A Traumatic Brain Injury. A Memoir of Surviving Both (reviewed by Martha Meacham) 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 Sartor, Margaret. Miss American Pie (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Savage, Carolyn and Sean. Inconceivable (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Scarborough, Carolyn A. Backyard Pearls: Cultivating Wisdom and Joy in Everyday Life (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life 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 Schultz, Connie. ...And His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Memoir; History/Current Events; Relationships Scofield, Sandra. Occasions of Sin (reviewed by Carolyn Blankenship) Memoir; Relationships Scot, Barbara J. Prairie Reunion (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships Scott, Bar. The Present Giver: A Memoir (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Scott, Robyn. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood (reviewed by Janet Grace Riehl) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Travel/Adventure Seeley, Tracy. My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Segal, Maria. Maria's Story: Childhood Memories of the Holocaust (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; History/Current Events Senna, Danzy. Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History (reviewed by Judy Miller) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Sentilles, Sarah. A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Shannon, Lisa. A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to be a Woman (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Shapiro, Dani. Devotion (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Shapiro, Dani. Devotion (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Shapton, Leanne. Swimming Studies (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Active Life Sharples, Madeline. Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother's Memoir of Living with Her Son's Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Shea, Suzanne Strempek. Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama and Other Page-Turning Adventures From a Year in a Bookstore (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Creative Life Sheehy, Gail. Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language 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 Shetterly, Susan Hand. Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Shiffrin, Nancy. The Vast Unknowing (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Poetry; Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Shulman, Alix Kates. Drinking the Rain (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Relationships; Nature/Place/Environment Silverman, Sue William. Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Creative Life Smallwood, Carol and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent. Contemporary American Women (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir Smallwood, Carol and Suzann Holland. Women Writing on Family: Tips On Writing, Teaching, and Publishing (reviewed by Judy Whelley) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir Sojourner, Mary. She Bets Her Life: A True Story of Gambling Addiction (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Sonnenfeld, Sandi. This is How I Speak (reviewed by Catherine Cogburn) Memoir; Creative Life; Teen/Girls Spelman, Cornelia Maude. Missing (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; Biography; Life Lessons 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 Staal, Stephanie. Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Stahura, Barbara. What I Thought I Knew (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Memoir; Relationships Stanczak, Sherri A. From the Heart of a Mother (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons Stange, Mary Zeiss. Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Starfire, Amber Lea. Week by Week: A Year's Worth of Journaling Prompts & Meditations (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life Starfire, Amber Lea. Week by Week: A Year's Worth of Journaling Prompts & Meditations (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life Steinbach, Alice. Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure Steingraber, Sandra. Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Stern, Jessica. Denial: A Memoir of Terror (reviewed by Natalie Purcell) Memoir; Body Language Stettinius, Martha. Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter's Memoir (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Elders Stocke, Joy E. & Angie Brenner. Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses and Saints (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Relationships; Travel/Adventure Stonich, Sarah. Shelter (reviewed by Diana Nolan) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Stout, Janis P. This Last House: A Retirement Memoir (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Stover, Sara Avant. The Way of the Happy Woman: Living the Best Year of Your Life (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Strasser, Judith. Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Relationships Straub, Gail. Returning to My Mother's House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Straub, Gail. Returning to My Mother's House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Strayed, Cheryl. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (reviewed by Jill Day) Memoir; Travel/Adventure Strong, Jena. Don't Miss This (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Poetry; Memoir; Life Lessons Stuckey, Priscilla. Kissed by a Fox (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Stuever, Mary. 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Voices from the Heartland (reviewed by Joan Shaddox Isom) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir Taylor, Kristin Clark. The Forever Box (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons Terrell, Cieridwen. Part Wild: One Woman's Journey with a Creature Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dog (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment 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 Theroux, Jessica. Cooking with Italian Grandmothers: Recipes and Stories from Tuscany to Sicily (reviewed by Becky Lane) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Theroux, Phyllis. The Journal Keeper: A Memoir (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life Thomas, Abigail. Thinking About Memoir: Through the Side Door (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Creative Life Thomas, Abigail. 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Dreams that Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; History/Current Events; Active Life; Travel/Adventure Williams, Lorraine O'Donnell. Memories of the Beach: Reflections on a Toronto Childhood (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment Williams, Terry Tempest. Finding Beauty in a Broken World (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Winterson, Jeanette. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (reviewed by Jill Day) 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 Wizenberg, Molly. A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Woginrich, Jenna. Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment Wolf, Naomi. The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from my Father on How to Live, Love and See (reviewed by Grace Forrest-Maestas) Memoir; Biography; Relationships Wolf, Sharyn. Love Shrinks (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Memoir; Relationships Wong, Andrea, Rosario Dawson. Secrets of Powerful Women: Leading Change for a New Generation (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Wood, Monica. When We Were the Kennedys (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Worth, Jennifer. The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy and Hard Times (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Wright, Clarissa Dickson. Spilling the Beans (reviewed by Judy Alter) Wyman, Anne Cabot. Kipling's Cat: A Memoir of my Father (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Yost, Paula Stallings and Pat McNees, editors. My Words are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir Young, Carrie. Nothing to Do but Stay: My Pioneer Mother (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Teen/Girls Young, Joan. Wish by Spirit (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; Body Language Zacharias, Karen Spears. Hero Mama: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam—and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together (reviewed by Robin Edgar) 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 Zailckas, Koren. Fury (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Zickafoose, Julie. The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment