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A mother recounts her interactions with the US government as she struggled to bring home her abducted daughters from Saudi Arabia.

An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. In the opening pages of *Passing for Thin*, Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up by her brother, Jim.

Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice.

“Much will be made—and rightly so—of the eloquent commentary [Lam’s] essays provide on Vietnam and the Vietnamese . . .

Twelve essays by a Japanese-American writer about being caught between past and present, old country and new.

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet-petty thief, prostitute, modernist master-spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan.

In this collaborative memoir, a parent and a transgender son recount wrestling with their differences as Donald Collins undertook medical-treatment options to better align his body with his gender

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard discovered that her whole life was a lie.

In her unique, generous, and affecting voice, nineteen-year-old Katie Rain Hill shares her personal journey of undergoing gender reassignment. Now with a reading group guide!

One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-cent

Though Ross Youngs has been enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1972, few have given his remarkable career its due.

Voici une biographie littéraire où la voix de l’autrice, sa musique, son style comptent autant que le personnage auquel elle s’attache.

Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time.

The puppy was dying when James Mahoney found her. Molly was not the first dying animal the research veterinarian had seen.

In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking.