Without a Map: A Memoir
by Meredith Hall Beacon Press (April 1, 2008) This is a memoir of a woman living in NH who gets pregnant at the age of sixteen, by a boy she really did not know. She is sent off to have the baby and...
View ArticleThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson Broadway (September 25, 2007) After reading another patron’s review of this book I thought I would give it a read. I had read “A Walk in the Woods” and loved that book. This book had...
View ArticleA Stolen Life: A Memoir
Written by Jaycee Lee Dugard I read this book because it was it was on the bestseller list and a few library patrons had inquired about it. This is a very challenging book to read. Jaycee goes into...
View ArticleIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Written by Mindy Kaling Published November 1, 2011 Before Mindy Kaling starred in the FOX television program “The Mindy Project” she was a writer and actress on “The Office”. This book is a collection...
View ArticleYou Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Written by Augusten Burroughs Published on October 27, 2009 This memoir is a collection of Christmas memories from Burroughs’ childhood through recent years. Readers that have read any of Burroughs’...
View ArticleAn Idiot Girl’s Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List
Written by Laurie Notaro Published on November 1, 2005 In this collection of essays Notaro shares Christmas memories filled with dysfunction and humor. The stories are crude and a bit rough, but get...
View ArticleTender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
written by Ruth Reichl published March 1998 In this memoir Ruth Reichl gives great detail into her life through the food she grew up on and encountered throughout her life. Reichl is a restaurant...
View ArticleFat Girl: A True Story
Written by: Judith Moore Published in 2005 This bleak and grim memoir is about the author’s childhood and how her relationship with food impacted it (or vice versa). She explores her past through her...
View ArticleUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Written by Laura Hillenbrand Published in 2010 This book published in 2010 continues to appear week after week on bestseller lists and has been on my “to read” list for almost as long. The book...
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