National Network for Equitable Library Service

Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore. In these compellingly candid essays, Liu reflects on his life as a second-generation Chinese American and reveals the shifting frames of ethnic identity. Finding himself unable to read a Chinese memorial book about his father's life, he looks critically at the cost of his own assimilation.

Coming from a small, rural town in North Carolina, Sawyer grapples with what it means to grow up queer, where the population of queer people was, to the untrained eye, non-existent. Nuanced with the societal constructs of the gender binary, they deconstruct what it means to be queer in an evangelical Southern family. From growing up being a family-proclaimed "tomboy," to joining the Army under Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Sawyer brings you a collection of essays detailing everything from coming out, to family life, to church hurt and everything in between.

"Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom." -Los Angeles Times. From the internationally acclaimed author of the bestselling novels In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes a rich and revealing work of nonfiction capturing the life and mind of an artist as she knits together the dual themes of coming to America and becoming a writer.

Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning memoir. We've all felt uncomfortable in our own skin at some point, and we've all been told that "it's just a part of growing up." But for Arin Andrews, it wasn't a phase that would pass. He had been born in the body of a girl and there seemed to be no relief in sight.

Is suicide hereditary? Does it run in families? When three brothers end their lives, is it an ill-fated coincidence or an underlying symptom? Perhaps it's a curse, an unfortunate chain of events, or a string of bad luck. One thing is for sure—there are endless questions that beg answering. "Brother Broken" is not a tale of woe. It's not a romance novel, a how-to handbook, a travel guide, a pot-boiler, a sci-fi sequel, or a fantasy adventure. It's a Saskatchewan true story—a slice of history that's not dark or depressing.

"A heartfelt celebration of the flying life." -The New York Times. When Clyde Edgerton was four years old, his mother took him to the local airport to see the planes. For Edgerton, it was love at first sight. Eighteen years later, she would take him to the same airport to catch a flight to Texas for Air Force pilot training. In Solo, Edgerton tells the story of his lifelong love affair with flying, from his childlike wonder to his job as a fighter pilot flying reconnaissance over the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Simone de Beauvoir a marqué le XXe siècle, et singulièrement les femmes, par les livres qu'elle a écrits. Depuis l'adolescence, en effet, le désir d'être un grand écrivain a orienté sa vie. Mais elle est au moins aussi exemplaire par le couple qu'elle a formé avec Jean-Paul Sartre : couple amoureux, couple inventant de nouvelles formes familiales, morales et sociales, couple engagé dans l'histoire française et internationale, offrant l'image d'intellectuels impliqués dans les combats de l'époque.

A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist’s clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan’s classic *Is There No Place on Earth for Me?* Seven years after her college graduation, Darcy Lockman abandoned a career in magazine journalism to become a psychologist. After four years in classrooms, she spent her final training year at Kings County Hospital, an aging public institution on the outskirts of Brooklyn.

From the oppressed shores of India to a racially charged Fiji, her mother's death at her birth, early adoption, marital abuse, military takeover, and move to Australia, Shirley had already overcome a life of adversity when she was subjected to a nightmare no mother should endure. On April 22, 2003, three of Shirley's children, Neelma, Kunal, and Sidhi, were found murdered, submerged in the spa bath of their home in an affluent Australian suburb.

"[...] Je n'ai jamais rien su de ses activités qui, officiellement, étaient d'ordre culturel. Je m'étonne aujourd'hui de ne pas lui avoir posé plus de questions. Je ne saurai jamais non plus ce que j'ai été pour lui. Son désir de moi est la seule chose dont je sois assurée. C'était, dans tous les sens du terme, l'amant de l'ombre. [...] J'ai conscience de publier ce journal en raison d'une sorte de prescription intérieure, sans souci de ce que lui, S., éprouvera.