Bauby was the editor of French Elle Magazine until he suffered a stroke and was hospitalized with Locked-In Syndrome. This memoir was written one letter at a time blinking his left eye to spell out each and every word. The book is short but full of candor and a very different perspective from a man who knows that he isn't alive yet he isn't dead yet either.

Vida Winter has sold more books than any other writer except the Bible but now she's elderly and sick and wants to tell the real story that she's never let interviewers know - who she really is and where she came from. She hires Margaret Lea by mail and tells her the story of her life from beginning to end, without interruption and without questions, so that it can be published. But once Margaret knows the story of the fire and what happened to the twins and gets to know Vida will she want to make the biography public?

Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter is an inside look at the work and life of the first female captain of a New York 4-star restaurant but it's about more than just food. It's about life and love and commitment. Like the chicken and the pig that give us breakfast each morning. Rich, readable voice and wonderful anecdotes and warm happy ending.

Writing of life growing up in Freeville, New York and being raised in an extended family of women raising their families alone, Dickinson later finds herself raising her own daughter alone. This memoir follows her as she finds herself living in her hometown part-time and making a new life that takes her from fill-in jobs in DC to the replacement for the deceased Ann Landers in Chicago and a new life for her family in Freeville.

A chronological conversation of her faith journey with side trips to discuss how she dealt an eating disorder, drugs, alcoholism, death of her father, relationships, death of her best friend, being a single mother and other real life issues. Humor and frank language make this book stand out from most conversations about faith and it is a refreshing change of pace.

Based on true events around the Sarajevo Haggadah, Brooks has woven a tale traced across Europe through six centuries that is fresh, rich, smart, and exciting to read. One story line of the story is told from the first person perspective of the book conservator - Hanna. A woman with mother-issues who is given the opportunity of a lifetime to work on the Sarajevo Haggadah. She is curious about it's history and the people that it has touched in all it's past wanderings. The other story line works backward chronologically through the places where the Haggadah met a crucial turning point and the people and story that followed. You will be stunned, amazed and charmed. I promise. I stayed up all night and couldn't put it down.

A ripped from the headlines look at school shooting, bullying, teenage cliques, how parenting and community does or doesn't affect a group of kids. Both a poignant and difficult read.

The story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, from her beginnings to her end. Learn about her early family life, her siblings, her love of Animals, her desperate attempt to bring about justice and her desire for forgiveness. A treatise on politics, evil and Fate.

Pi is stuck on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, and a tiger in this novel that 'will make you believe in God'.  Martel uses the convention of the memoir to bring the readers along on the tale of Pi's life including the harrowing shipwreck journey with a tiger.