Marcia Freedman | Exile in the Promised Land: a Memoir | Lively first-person account of fourteen years in Israel by former Knesset member, feminist movement founder, early peace activist.
Makhosazana Xaba; Crystal Biruk | Proudly Malawian | This groundbreaking collection brings together the life stories of eleven lesbian, bisexual ad gender nonconforming Malawians. Told in the contributo
Evelyn C. White | Alice Walker | The first full-length biography of the author of The Color Purple–an American icon praised and pilloried for her art and activism. Born to a share
Nicole J. Georges | Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home | Nicole Georges’ second book is, like her first book Calling Doctor Laura, a graphic novel and memoir. But it’s also a love story, dedicated not to ano
Barrie Jean Borich | Apocalypse, Darling | Barrie Jean Borich’s Apocalypse, Darling is a lyrical memoir that reads like a long-form narrative poem, wrought with long, sweeping sentences and dre
Mary Cappello | Called Back | “Mary Cappello’s Called Back shimmers on the page. Ezra Pound said a writer has to make it new’ and Cappello has done that rare feat. Cancer books ha
June Rose | The Perfect Gentleman | The life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, born about 1799, who, disguised as a man, served in the British army for forty- six years until retirement at the
William Patrick Patterson | Ladies Of The Rope | This is the first book to examine the Rope, the special ladies-only group of spiritual seekers that G. I. Gurdjieff formed on Paris’ Left Bank. All le
Joseph Leach | Bright Particular Star | I thought at first that Mr. Leach had adopted too fictional a tone for this long biography. Facts are communicated as they might have impinged on thos
Claire Robson | Love in Good Time | This memoir is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly poignant. It is a coming-out story that tackles the trade-offs some gay people make a
