David MametDavid Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics.In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media...

Etgar Keret "Extraordinary. It is rare three-page piece that can move a reader to tears, but Keret does it without effort, and brings unexpected tears of laughter a moment later....

Robert Drewe Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud,...

Lily Gluck LernerOptimism deserted Lily Gluck thirty-six years ago in Aushwitz. She was then a sixteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, caught up in the horror we know now as the Holocaust.Her childhood...

Nicholas Evansn a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honor, the acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Horse Whisperer gives his millions of readers...

Ruth Wariner A riveting, deeply affecting true story of one girl’s coming-of-age in a polygamist family.RUTH WARINER was the thirty-ninth of her father’s forty-two children. Growing up on a farm...

Aharon Appelfeld   When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been...

MM Kaye The author writes of her childhood in India; her enduring love for the romance, mystery, and culture of that country; and the creative inspiration she continues to draw...

Adam P Frankel Chica go Tribune Notable Book of 2019 A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to...

Shirlee Taylor Haizlip A chronicle of a woman's odyssey through her family's biracial past outlines a search through five generations. January 24, 1994 by Simon & Schuster

Jennifer Klinec A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn’t be,...

Judith Jones From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing—one of the food world’s most admired figures—an evocative and inspiring memoir.Living in Paris after World War II, Judith...