Qais Akbar OmarThe surprising, stunning book that took the publishing world by storm: a coming-of-age memoir of unimaginable perils and unexpected joys, steeped in the rhythms of folk tales and...

Nuala Gardner Determined that her autistic son, Dale, should live a fulfilling life, Nuala Gardner describes her despair after being repeatedly let down by the authorities. But their lives were...

Joan W Blos A Gathering of Days is Joan W. Blos' novel that serves as a fictional version of a New England girl's journal.The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the...

Haven Kimmel When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the...

Ya'acov (Jack) Handeli A Greek Jew from Salonica Remembers First published June 1, 1993

Otto Rosenberg A unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child's survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaustOtto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his...

James ComeyIn his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government,...

Molly Wizenberg March 23, 2010 by Simon & Schuster

Shlomo Adler"If I can get out of here alive, I will never deny my Judaism, whatsoever."Over three years, Shlomo Adler lost his parents, his sister and many members of his...

Tony Blair In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He remains the only...

Author: Deborah Weisgall In A Joyful Noise, Deborah Weisgall tells a moving story of her turbulent coming-of-age in the shadow of two remarkable men who lived life as if they...

Oliver SacksDr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in...