Category: Memoir/Biography
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THE EDUCATION OF KENDRICK PERKINS, A MEMOIR by KENDRICK PERKINS with SETH ROGOFF
Perkins’ riveting stories about the NBA, his upbringing and social justice will make this book impossible to put down.” — Emmanuel Acho, New York Times bestselling author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man We know Kendrick as an NBA player and ESPN commentator, but the same style he brings to those endeavors is the same blunt, unvarnished…
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MORGENTHAU: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty by Andrew Meier
A monumental portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family–a dynasty of power brokers whose outsized influence helped shaped New York City and the American Century. The Morgenthaus came to the United States in 1866 from Germany. And immediately began to make their fortune. Losing everything they had only to rise to the top once…
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Dispatches from the Gilded Age by Julia Reed
Forward by Roy Blount, Jr. In the middle of the night on March 11, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed’s Georgetown dorm. It was her boss at Newsweek, where she was an intern. He told her to get in her car and drive to her alma mater, the Madeira School. Her former headmistress, Jean Harris, had…
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James Patterson by James Patterson, The Stories of My Life
How did a boy from small-town New York become one of the world’s most successful writers? James Patterson is one of the most prolific writers I have had the pleasure of reading. But that wasn’t always the case. When I finished reading this memoir, I couldn’t help but think of all the people we perceive…
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THE OTHER DR. GILMER by BENJAMIN GILMER
A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system–a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. This is a true-crime as well as a biography. Dr.Benjamin Gilmer…
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Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. I loved that description. It is perfect for this beautifully written memoir. The Chinese word for America, Mei Guo, translates to “beautiful country”. And when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York in 1994, coming with…
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Three Dreamers A Memoir of Family by LORENZO CARCATERRA
“By the time you reach my age,” he writes, “you have witnessed too much loss to not be aware of what lies ahead.” From the author of Sleepers and an incredible body of work, Carcaterra takes us down a totally different road with Three Dreamers. This is the homage to the three women in his…
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What are you reading this week?
We’ve made it to the halfway point! Wednesday. What is on everyone’s NetGalley radar? This week I am reading a good mix of genres. A Farm – to – Fork Novella from Lynn Cahoon. I love her novellas and updates on this series! Some very good Historical Fiction from M.J. Rose Have to toss…
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EDISON by EDMUND MORRIS
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. Edmund Morris is the author of the three Theodore Roosevelt biographies as well as the really good Ronald Reagan one. I am very sad to say he passed away just this past May.…
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SOUTHERN LADY CODE by HELEN ELLIS
The bestselling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady. Oh the life of a Southern Lady. I can tell you it is not easy. And this funny book…
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