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Recently Received Titles (includes some New Memoirs)
General
Allison, Jane. The Sisters Antipodes: A Memoir. Mariner, 2010.
Batuman, Elif. The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2010.
Blodgett, Bonnie. Remembering Smell:A Memoir of Losing Discovering- the Primal Sense. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Butturini, Paula. Keeping the Feast: One Couples Story Love, Food and Healing in Italy. Riverhead Books, 2010.
Gillies, Isabel. Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story. 2009.
Jones, Malcolm, Little Boy Blues. Pantheon, 2010. A Newsweek reporter's difficult Southern childhood with his mostly single mom.
Feiffer, Jules. Backing Into Forward:A Memoir. Nan A. Talese, 2010.
Hastings, Michael. I Lost My Love in Baghdad:A Modern War Story. Scribner, 2010.
Kerman, Piper.Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. Spiegel and Grau, 2010.
Koterba, Geoffrey. Inklings: A Memoir. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Lauren, Jillian. Some Girls: My Life in A Harem. 2010.
Sattamini, Lina Penna. A Mother Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
Steiner, Leslie Morgan. Crazy Love. 200. Author was a victim and survivor of domestic abuse.
Vitale, Joe. Backstage Pass. 2008. The drummer for CSN, Dan Fogelberg, Joe Walsh, etc. on the studio and the road.
Careers/Armed Forces
Harris, Jayme. Dare, Dream, Discover: From the US Air Force to the Middle East and Beyond . Emerald Book Co., 2008.
Travers, Susan and Holden, Wendy. Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion . Touchstone, 2007.
Dance/Literature/Etc.
Greene, Bob. Late Edition: A Love Story . St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Hall, Donald. Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008.
Family
Al-Shaykh, Hanan. The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story. Pantheon, 2009. Coming to terms with abandonment by her mother.
Garis, Leslie. House of Happy Endings . Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Grogan, John. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog . William Morrow, 2005. About a badly behaved but loveable Labrador retriever.
Grogan, John. The Longest Trip Home . William Morrow, 2008. Follow up to his popular memoir, Marley and Me.
Metz, Julie. Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal. Voice, 2009. Woman discovers her husband’s other life of affairs after his death.
Myron, Vicki and Witter, Brett. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World . Grand Central Publishing, 2008.
Waugh, Alexander. Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family . Nan A. Talese, 2007. Son, grandson, and great-grandson of prominent British writers examines his literary heritage by telling his family’s story through the relationships each had with his father.
Religion
DeMuth, Mary E. Thin Places: A Memoir . Zondervan, 2009. On spirituality.
Sports & Entertainment
Byrne, David. Bicycle Diaries. Viking Adult, 2009. Since his band Talking Heads split in 1991, the author has been travelling with his bike.
Writing MemoirsSilverman, Sue William. Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir . University of Georgia Press, 2009.
Thomas, Abigail. Thinking about Memoir . Sterling, 2008.
Other
Carter, Alden R. The Sea Eagle: The Civil War Memoir of LCdr. William B. Cushing, U.S.N. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009. One of the navy’s great heroes, William Barker Cushing’s memoir.
Jacobs, A. J. The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment . Simon and Schuster, 2009. Attempts at everything from online dating to outsourcing his life to a company in India.
U.S./Coming of Age
Rothschild, Matt. Dumbfounded: Big Hair. Big Problems. Or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies . Three Rivers Press, 2008.
Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day . Little, Brown and Co., 2000.
Sedaris, David. When You are Engulfed in Flames . Little, Brown and Co., 2008. By the humorist.
U.S./Immigration
Su, Lac. I Love Yous Are for White People . Harper Perennial, 2009.
We hope you enjoy these New Memoirs!
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