Memoir, Journal, and Autobiography

Al Hussein, Queen Noor. Leap of Faith (reviewed by Mary Welker-Haddock) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships 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 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 Arnett, Marvin V. Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke 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 Avakian, Arlene Voski. Through the Kitchen Window: Women Writers Explore the Intimate Meaning of Food and Cooking (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir Azrael, Judith. Wherever I Wander (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration 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 Betts, Emilie. Shadows in My House of Sunshine (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons Bin Laden, Carmen. Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Bond, Alma H. Old Age is a Terminal Illness (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Memoir; Elders Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. Healing: A Life With Chronic Illness (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Body Language 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) Brandsdorfer, Marsha. The Accidental Secretary (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Bryson, Karen Mueller, Ph.D. Those They Left Behind: Interviews, Stories, Essays and Poems by Survivors of Suicide (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons 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 Caldwell, Gail. A Strong West Wind (reviewed by Karen Ryan) Memoir; Relationships Cameron, Julia. Floor Sample (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Relationships 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 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 Cheney, Terri. Manic (reviewed by Sharon Blumberg) 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 Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons Cohen, Elizabeth. The House On Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting (reviewed by Robin Edgar) Memoir; Relationships; Elders Cole, Susan Letzler. Missing Alice: In Search of a Mother's Voice (reviewed by Karen Ryan) Memoir; Relationships 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 Corrie, Rachel. Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events Crough, Sandra. Memoirs of a Brown-Skin Gyal (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Daniell, Rosemary. Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke 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 Davis, Jodi. The Heart's Gift (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language de Blasi, Marlena. That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story (reviewed by Becky Lane) Memoir; Travel/Adventure Deen, Paula. It Ain't All About the Cookin' (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen 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 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 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 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. Saving Graces (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Memoir; Active Life; Body Language; Relationships; Life Lessons 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 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 Finnamore, Suzanne. Split: A Memoir of Divorce (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Flatau, Susie Kelly. From My Mother's Hands (reviewed by Paula Stallings Yost) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; Relationships Fox, Paula. The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Active Life Frankel, Ellen. Beyond Measure: A Memoir About Short Stature and Inner Growth (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Body Language; Travel/Adventure 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 Galland, China. Longing for Darkness: Tara And the Black Madonna (reviewed by Carolyn Blankenship) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Travel/Adventure 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 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 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 Graham, Katherine. Personal History (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Active Life 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 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 Harrison, Kathryn. The Mother Knot (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships 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, 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 Hegi, Ursula. Tearing the Silence (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; History/Current Events; Anthologies/Collections Herring, Laraine. Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Creative Life 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 Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Hood, Ann. Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Hornbacher, Marya. Madness: A Bipolar Life (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Hudson, Kathleen. Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Creative Life Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Life Lessons 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. The Liars' Club (reviewed by Jazz Jaeschke) Memoir; Relationships Kendall, Elizabeth. Autobiography of a Wardrobe (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Kimmel, Haven. A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Relationships; Nature/Place/Environment Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Kirk, Martha. Green Sands: My Five Years in the Saudi Desert (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus Lander, Lib and Jan Lander. Mirrored Lives (reviewed by Lisa Check) Memoir; Relationships Lauck, Jennifer. Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found (reviewed by Denise McAllister) 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 Lee, Brenda, with Robert K. Oermann and Julie Clay. Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee (reviewed by Peggy Talley) 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 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 Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Creative Life Macdonald, Sarah. Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure (reviewed by Mary Welker-Haddock) Memoir; Travel/Adventure 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 Moore, Honor. The Bishop's Daughter (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; Relationships; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration 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 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 Murdock, Maureen. Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Creative Life Myers, Linda Joy. Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships 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 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 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 Patchett, Ann. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Body Language Phelps, Dee Dee. Vinyl Highway: Singing as "Dick and Dee Dee" (reviewed by Robin Edgar) 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 Raab, Diana M. Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Biography; History/Current Events 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) Reichl, Ruth. Garlic and Sapphires (reviewed by Lisa Check) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Active Life 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 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 Riccardi, Victoria Abbot. Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto (reviewed by Nancy Dasenbrock) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Robinson, Katy. A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure Ross, M. Jane, editor. Kitchen Table Stories (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Anthologies/Collections; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Memoir 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 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, Robyn. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood (reviewed by Janet Grace Riehl) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Travel/Adventure Sentilles, Sarah. A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration 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 Shulman, Alix Kates. Drinking the Rain (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Relationships; Nature/Place/Environment Sonnenfeld, Sandi. This is How I Speak (reviewed by Catherine Cogburn) Memoir; Creative Life; Teen/Girls Stanczak, Sherri A. From the Heart of a Mother (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons Steinbach, Alice. Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure Strasser, Judith. Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Relationships Styne, Marlys Marshall. Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Creative Life Swallow, Wendy. Breaking Apart: A Memoir of Divorce (reviewed by Maggie Knorr) Memoir; Relationships Taylor, Carolyn Anne Taylor, Emily Dial-Driver, Carole Burrage, Sally Emmons-Featherston (editors). Voices from the Heartland (reviewed by Joan Shaddox Isom) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir 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 Thomas, Abigail. Thinking About Memoir: Through the Side Door (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Creative Life Thomas, Abigail. Thinking About Memoir: Through the Side Door (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Creative Life Thomas, Pattie (with Carl Wilkerson). Taking Up Space: How Eating Well & Exercising Regularly Changed My Life (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Active Life Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (reviewed by Juanita Johnson) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Van Gelder, Leslie. Weaving a Way Home: A Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Van Straten, Donna. The Jitterbug Girl (reviewed by PJ Pierce) Van Straten, Donna. The Littlest Big Kid (reviewed by Rebecca Roberts) Wakan, Naomi Beth. Compositions: Notes on the Written Word (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Creative Life Wakan, Naomi Beth. Late Bloomer: On Writing Later in Life (reviewed by Mary Ann MOore) Memoir; Creative Life; Elders Walker, Rebecca. Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Relationships Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships Watson, Irene. The Sitting Swing (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Memoir; Body Language; Cultural/Gender Focus Weimer, Joan. Awestruck: A Skeptic's Pilgrimage (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Travel/Adventure 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 Welty, Eudora. One Writer's Beginnings (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Werris, Wendy. An Alphabetical Life (reviewed by Carol Feder) Whitehouse, E.J. "Samadhi". Circles in the Sand (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language Wicklund, Susan (with Alan Kesselheim). This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language Wildwind, Sharon Grant. Dreams that Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; History/Current Events; Active Life; Travel/Adventure Wisniewski, Linda. Off Kilter: A Woman's Journey to Peace with Scoliosis, Her Mother and Her Polish Heritage (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke 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 Wolf, Naomi. The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from my Father on How to Live, Love and See (reviewed by Grace Forrest-Maestas) Memoir; Biography; Relationships Young, Carrie. Nothing to Do but Stay: My Pioneer Mother (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Teen/Girls 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