Biographies & Memoirs

"Inspiring, heartfelt, and brutally honest at times, this is a book that will give women and those who care about them the strength and motivation to persevere . . ."—Seattle Book Review What was it like to survive an illegal abortion, come out as a lesbian, and train to become a doctor in the...

Lucky Jim is Jim Hart's memoir, the story of how he survived a violent childhood home, found incredible words inside him, created a love that was both so right and so wrong, and finally found the strength to be his true self. Jim is a master at building relationships. Charming, funny, and a...

His Fight for Others’ Human Rights Led to a Struggle for his Own"Russian Silhouette" is the memoir of Daniel M. Jaffe, a Jewish Princeton student who spends two summers in the oppressive, antisemitic USSR of the late 1970s. While there, he befriends Soviet Jews, refuseniks (Soviet Jews denied...

From award-winning chef, author, and television personality Melissa King comes an intimate, captivating memoir about family, food, and finding her voice as a queer Chinese American chef “Melissa’s story is a powerful reminder that success comes not from fitting into someone else’s...

After three decades building a successful career in the music industry, Michael Rucker stepped away at sixty and began walking the Camino de Santiago.Under a Canopy of Grapes follows two pilgrimages across Spain and Portugal — and a longer journey through identity, recovery, grief, ambition...