Bibliography: Memoirs & Personal NarrativesSorted by Call Number / Author.305.235 BLA Blanco, Jodee, 1964-. Please stop laughing at me-- : one

woman's inspirational story. Avon, MA : Adams Media, c2010.The author, a victim of bullying, provides an account of her miserable school career, telling how her experiences as an outcast affected her life, and sharing her perspective on the events as an adult.

305.48 DAR Darznik, Jasmin, 1973-. The good daughter : a memoir of my mother's hidden life. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2011.A memoir in which the author, raised in the United States since the age of three, and chided by her mother with tales of "the good daughter," discusses her discovery that her mother was married at the age of thirteen in Iran and was forced to leave her firstborn daughter behind when she fled the abusive relationship.

305.48801 AND Andalibian, Rahimeh. The Rose Hotel : a memoir of secrets, loss, and love from Iran to America. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2015]."In this ... memoir, Iran-born author Rahimeh Andalibian tells the story of her family: their struggle to survive the 1979 revolution, their move to California, and their attempts to acculturate in the face of teenage rebellion, murder, addiction, and new traditions. Andalibian struggles to make sense of two brutal crimes: a rape, avenged by her father, and a murder, of which her beloved oldest brother stands accused ... "--Provided by publisher.

306.3 HUR Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" 1st ed. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018].Based on a series of interviews, the author relates the slave narrative of Cudjo Lewis.

306.8743 ROD Rodriguez, Gaby. The pregnancy project : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2012.Gaby Rodriguez, whose mother and older sister both became pregnant as teenagers, explains what she learned from faking a pregnancy as a high school senior in order to find out how people would treat her.

306.875 SCH Bernstein, Paula, 1968-. Identical strangers : a memoir of twins separated and reunited. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007.In alternating voices, Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein

recount what it was like to learn in their mid-thirties that they were twins separated at six months of age, and share their journey to become sisters instead of strangers.

306.875 WEL Welch, Diana. The kids are all right : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : Harmony Books, c2009.Spring 1982-summer 1983 -- Fall 1983-winter 1985 -- Winter 1985-winter 1991. The poignant, harrowing story of four siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana Welch--who despite their wrenching loss and subsequent separation, retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up and being together again.

362.88 PRO Prout, Chessy. I have the right to : a high school survivor's story of sexual assault, justice, and hope. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2018]."The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story of one of those girls . . . This memoir is more than an account of a horrific event. It takes a magnifying glass to the institutions that turn a blind eye to such behavior and a society that blames victims rather than perpetrators"--Dust jacket.

365.4509 BAU Bauer, Shane. A sliver of light : three Americans imprisoned in Iran. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.Three young Americans captured by Iranian forces in 2009 and held in captivity for two years tell their story.

370.92 SOK Sokolove, Michael Y. Drama high : the incredible true story of a brilliant teacher, a struggling town, and the magic of theater. New York : Riverhead Books, c2013."Friday Night Lights meets Glee-the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. Michael Sokolove… follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage. This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater. "--.

395.071 COL Collinsworth, Eden. I stand corrected : how teaching Western manners in China became its own unforgettable lesson. First edition. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014.Businesswoman Eden Collinsworth describes the year she spent writing a Western etiquette guide for Chinese

businessmen.613.28332 SCH Schaub, Eve O, author. Year of no sugar : a

memoir. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, 2014.Schaub recounts her experiences as her and her family challenge themselves to eat no added sugar for an entire year.

791 HIG Higa, Ryan, 1990-. Ryan Higa's how to write good. 1st ed.: May 2017. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2017."[Presents, in graphic novel format, the memoirs of] Ryan Higa, one of the top creators on YouTube ... This is the story of how ... [he] went from being a relatively happy kid to being depressed and angry and filled with dark thoughts ... [thinking that he] had only one way out of this cruel world. This is the story of how ... [he] found a better way"--Provided by publisher.

792.7 ROB Robinson, Phoebe, author. You can't touch my hair : and other things I still have to explain. New York : Plume, 2016.A memoir by comedian Phoebe Robinson that explores her experiences as a black woman in America, discussing issues of race, gender, and pop culture.

818.609 KEE Keegan, Marina, 1989-2012. The opposite of loneliness : essays and stories. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2014.Presents a collection of essays and short stories by Marina Keegan, who graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012, and died five days after her graduation in a car crash.

940.5315 ROS Rosenberg, Otto, 1927-. A gypsy in Auschwitz. London : London House, 1999.A haunting account of life as a Sinti Gypsy during the Third Reich, Otto Rosenberg is the first gypsy to survive the horrors of Auschwitz and live to tell his story. As the Nazi's flex their muscles, Otto's life is shattered as his family is separated and he is subjected to abuse and cruelty.

940.541343 RAU Rauch, Georg, 1924-2006. Unlikely warrior : a Jewish soldier in Hitler's army. Rev. ed., 2015. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015."A memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"--Provided by publisher.

949.703 COR Corwin, Phillip. Dubious Mandate : a memoir of the UN in Bosnia, summer 1995. Durham, NC : Duke University

Press, [1999].A first-person, insider account of the events that led to the United Nations's forces in Bosnia becoming an active combatant under NATO leadership during the summer of 1995.

951.9305 JAN Jang, Jin-sung. Dear Leader : poet, spy, escapee--a look inside North Korea. 1st 37 Ink/Atria Bks. hardcover ed. New York : 37 Ink/Atria, 2014."In this ... insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his ... escape to freedom"--Provided by publisher.

955.0542 BAH Bahari, Maziar. Then they came for me : a family's story of love, captivity, and survival. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2011.Former "Newsweek" correspondent and human-rights activist Maziar Bahari examines the political history of Iran during the twentieth century and the country's future into the twenty-first century through the description of his experiences as a prisoner in Evin Prison, during which time he was tortured and relied on thoughts about and memories of his family and courage to survive.

973.922092 HIL Hill, Clint. Mrs. Kennedy and me. First Gallery Books hardcover edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2012.A memoir of former Secret Service agent Clint Hill, discussing his time serving as bodyguard to Jacqueline Kennedy from 1960 to 1964.

973.932 CUN Cunnane, Pat. West Winging it : an un-presidential memoir. 1st Gallery Bks. hardcover ed. New York : Gallery Books, 2018."[This book] is the personal story of Pat Cunnane and his journey from outsider to insider, from his . . . job at a warehouse to his . . . job at the White House. Pat . . . tells the story of the . . . West Wing with . . . portraits of the people who populate the place, from the President to the press corps. Pat takes you into the Oval Office, providing a . . . glimpse of what it's really like--from the minutiae to the momentous--to work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"--Amazon.

979.4 OLL Ollestad, Norman. Crazy for the storm : a memoir of survival. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2009.A memoir discussing the author's upbringing as a young sportsman and tragic experience in a plane crash with his father, father's girlfriend, and pilot at the age of eleven, covering his lone survival of the crash and harsh conditions.

B ABBOTT Abbott, Jim, 1967-. Imperfect : an improbable life. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2012.The autobiography of major-league baseball player Jim Abbott, the disabled Michigan native who pitched for the Los Angeles Angels and the New York Yankees as well as other teams before retiring from the game in 1999.

B ABEEL Abeel, Samantha, 1977-. My thirteenth winter : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2003.A memoir in which Samantha Abeel discusses her life before and after being diagnosed with the math-related learning disability discalculia in seventh grade.

B ACCAWI Accawi, Anwar F. The boy from the Tower of the Moon. Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c1999.A memoir in which the author recalls his childhood in the insulated village of Magdaluna in southern Lebanon, and compares his loss of innocence to the loss of simple village ways that disappeared with the encroachment of Western technology.

B AGOSIN Agosín, Marjorie. A cross and a star : memoirs of a Jewish girl in Chile. 1st ed. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1995.Family alliances -- Images of my youth -- Osorno -- Carmencita and the kingdom of adobe -- The Viennese lady -- My husband.

B AHMEDI Ahmedi, Farah. The story of my life : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky. 1st ed. New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, [2006], c2005.Farah Ahmedi, the victim of a land mine when she was just twelve years old, tells about her childhood in Afghanistan, a country trapped in war her entire life, and discusses the challenges she has faced as a result of losing her leg, and in trying to adapt to living in the United States.

B AHR Ahrens, Frank, 1963-, [author]. Seoul man : a memoir of cars, culture, crisis, and unexpected hilarity inside a Korean corporate titan. First Edition."Heartbreaking and hilarious, Seoul Man is Frank Ahrens' story of the three years he spent in Korea as the highest ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai, shedding light on a business culture very few Western journalists have been able to experience"--.

B ALI Ali, Nujood. I am Nujood, age 10 and divorced. 1st American ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, [2010].Ali Nujood, the first child bride in Yemen to win a divorce, tells the story of her experiences after her father arranged for her to be married in 2008 at the age

of ten to a man three times her age, describes what happened when she sought out a judge in order to get a divorce, and discusses the impact of her actions on traditional Yemen culture and society.

B ALSAMARI Alsamari, Lewis. Escape from Saddam : the incredible true story of one man's journey to freedom. 1st American ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2007.Relates the author's story of being conscripted into Saddam Hussein's army, offered a post in Iraqi military intelligence, and escaping across the desert to Jordan and eventually England, then eventually arranging for his family's release and smuggling them out of Iraq to safety.

B ANT Anthony, Michael, 1986-. Civilianized : a young veteran's memoir. San Francisco, CA : Pulp, [2016]."After twelve months of military service in Iraq, Michael Anthony stepped off a plane, seemingly happy to be home--or at least back on US soil. He was twenty-one years old, a bit of a nerd, and carrying a pack of cigarettes that he thought would be his last. Two weeks later, Michael was stoned on Vicodin, drinking way too much, and picking a fight with a very large Hell's Angel. At his wit's end, he came to an agreement with himself: If things didn't improve in three months, he was going to kill himself. Civilianized is a memoir chronicling Michael's search for meaning in a suddenly destabilized world"--Amazon.com.

B BAC Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952-. A place to stand : the making of a poet. New York : Grove Press, [2001].Jimmy Santiago Baca chronicles the experiences he had while growing up on a small farm in New Mexico, in detention centers and orphanages, and during the years he spent as a drug dealer in San Diego and Arizona.

B BAL Balakian, Peter, 1951-. Black dog of fate : a memoir. 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books, 1998.The author describes his life as the child of Armenian immigrants in America and discusses his family's struggles, and the struggles of other Armenians, during 1915 when the Ottoman Turkish government put over one million Armenians to death.

B BARTELS Bartels, Peggielene, 1953-. King Peggy : an American secretary, her royal destiny, and the inspiring story of how she changed an African village. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2012.Chronicles the adventures of King Peggy, Peggielene Bartels, a Washington, D.C. secretary who suddenly

found that she was king of a town of seven thousand in Ghana, and once there found many challenges to be faced and difficulties to be overcome.

B BAS Bashir, Halima, 1979-. Tears of the desert : a memoir of survival in Darfur. 1st ed. New York : One World Ballantine Books, c2008.Recounts the author's experiences and observations of the genocide in Darfur, and her role as a physician treating girls who had been raped and mutilated, after tensions between Sudan's Islamist dictatorship and communities such as the Zaghawa tribe exploded.

B BEA Beah, Ishmael, 1980-. A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Sara Crichton, 2008.Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

B BER Berkovich, Gary, 1935-. Watching communism fail : a memoir of life in the Soviet Union. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2009].The author describes his life growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union, his exile to Siberia, and emigration to the United States.

B BIBI Bibi, Asia, author. Blasphemy : a memoir : sentenced to death over a cup of water. Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2013.Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi shares her struggle for justice after she was put in prison and sentenced to death in 2009 after being accused of blasphemy when she drank from a well that another woman claimed belonged only to Muslim women.

B BOR Bornstein, Michael, 1940-. Survivors club : the true story of a very young prisoner of Auschwitz. 1st ed., 2017. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017."The incredible true story of Michael Bornstein--who at age 4 was one of the youngest children to be liberated from Auschwitz--and of his family"--Provided by publisher.

B BRYSON Bryson, Bill. The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, [2006].The author describes his childhood growing up in Iowa during the 1950s, recalling country fairs, playing hockey, paper routes, church suppers, and other nostalgic memories.

B BUERGENT HAL

Buergenthal, Thomas. A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy. 1st American ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009. Thomas Buergenthanl, a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, shares his memories of what it was like to be a child in the Holocaust and to survive the concentration camps, and discusses his experiences after being liberated from Sachsenhausen, his miraculous reunion with his mother after three years apart, and his emigration to the U.S. in 1951.

B CAL Calcines, Eduardo F. Leaving Glorytown : one boy's struggle under Castro. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.The author reflects on his childhood growing up in 1960s Cuba, discussing how his family was treated for applying for an exit visa to the United States, his fears of being drafted into the Army, the conditions of his poor neighborhood, and more.

B CHE Chesler, Phyllis. An American bride in Kabul : a memoir. First Edition. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Phyllis Chesler discusses her life as an Jewish American woman trapped in Afghanistan by marriage to an Afghani man and her eventual escape.

B CHOI Choi, Annie, 1976-. Happy birthday, or, Whatever : track suits, Kim Chee, and other family disasters. 1st ed. New York : Harper, [2007].Annie Choi recounts how she discovered the importance of family while coping with her infuriating, demanding, and supportive Korean family.

B CLARK Clark, Mary Higgins. Kitchen privileges : a memoir. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002.Popular novelist Mary Higgins Clark recalls her life, discussing her childhood in the Bronx, her school years, early work as a switchboard operator and a flight attendant, and her marriage to long-time crush Warren Clark, and describes the experiences that inspired her to become a writer.

B CLEARY Cleary, Beverly. My own two feet : a memoir. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1995.Follows the popular children's author through college years during the Depression; jobs including that of librarian; marriage; and writing and publication of her first book, "Henry Huggins.".

B CON Conlon-McIvor, Maura. FBI girl : how I learned to crack my father's code. New York : Warner Books, c2004.Presents a memoir in which the author recalls her

childhood and youth in suburban Los Angeles and her fascination with her father, an FBI agent who was so uncommunicative she came to believe everything he did was in code.

B CONNOLLY Connolly, Kevin Michael, 1985-. Double take : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : HarperStudio, c2009.A memoir in which photographer, skier, and skateboarder Kevin Connolly tells what it was like to grow up without legs, discussing his loving parents, his dad's continuing efforts to invent devices to make his life easier, his participation in sports, and his habit of taking pictures of people who stare at him--a project that became a traveling exhibit.

B COOPER Cooper, Helene. The house at Sugar Beach : in search of a lost African childhood. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.New York Times special correspondent presents a full-length memoir based on her acclaimed "African Odyssey" cover story for The Wall Street Journal, in a personal account that traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.

B COX Cox, Lynne, 1957-. Swimming to Antarctica : tales of a long-distance swimmer. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Knopf :, 2004.Distance swimmer Lynne Cox describes her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the mythical act of swimming itself, and chronicles some of her more memorable swims.

B CULLEY Culley, Travis Hugh. A comedy & a tragedy : a memoir of learning how to read and write. First Edition. New York : Ballantine Books, 2015.This is the story of one young man's effort to teach himself to read. This book is also a manifesto about the acquisition of intellectual independence, a plea for better understanding of the impact of dysfunctional family dynamics in education, and a passionate indictment of a broken school system that lets so-called problem kids slip through the cracks.

B DELMAN Delman, Carmit. Burnt bread and chutney : growing up between cultures --a memoir of an Indian Jewish girl. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : One World/Ballantine Books, 2003.The author, daughter of a Jewish Indian mother and a Jewish American father of Eastern European descent, describes what it was like to grow up in contrasting cultures--Midwestern America and an Israeli kibbutz--

with a complex racial heritage.B DEPRINCE DePrince, Michaela. Taking flight : from war orphan to star

ballerina. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014."The memoir of Michaela DePrince, who lived the first few years of her live in war-torn Sierra Leone until being adopted by an American Family. Now seventeen, she is one of the premiere ballerinas in the United States"--.

B DOM Dominick, Andie. Needles : a memoir of growing up with diabetes. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000.Andie Dominick discusses how her life changed after she was diagnosed with diabetes.

B DULLY Dully, Howard, 1948-. My lobotomy : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2007.June -- Lou -- 762 Edgewood -- Trouble -- Dr. Freeman -- Dully, Howard (F: Rodney L.) -- My lobotomy -- Big enough and ugly enough -- Asylym -- Rancho Linda -- Agnews. Again -- Homeless -- Barbara -- Journey -- Archives -- Broadcast -- One Last word. Howard Dully recounts how the lobotomy he had at age twelve impacted every aspect of his life, leaving him struggling to get through each day, until, decades after the surgery, he was able to pull himself together and uncover the truth about why his parents made him have the operation.

B DUMAS Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America. 1st ed. New York : Villard, c2003.Firoozeh Dumas recounts the experiences she had after her family moved from Iran to Southern California, discussing how her family adapted to life in America.

B EAR Earl, Esther, 1994-2010. This star won't go out : the life and words of Esther Grace Earl. New York, N.Y. : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC, [2014]."A memoir told through the journals, letters, and stories of young cancer patient Esther Earl"--Provided by publisher.

B EICHENGR EEN

Eichengreen, Lucille, 1925-. From ashes to life : my memories of the Holocaust. San Francisco : Mercury House, c1994.Eichengreen recounts her experiences of the Holocaust relating her journey as a young Jewish girl through Nazi Germany and Poland.

B EIRE Eire, Carlos M. N. Learning to die in Miami : confessions of a refugee boy. 1st Free Press hardcover ed. New York : Free Press, 2010.

Carlos Eire describes how he adjusted to life in Miami after moving to the United States with his brother during the Cuban Revolution, discussing his experiences living in a foster home, struggle to learn the English language, cultural assimilation, and other related topics.

B EIRE Eire, Carlos M. N. Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy. 1st Free Press pbk. ed. New York : Free Press, 2004.The author describes his privileged life in Havana before he was sent at the age of eleven to the U.S. in 1962, in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.

B ENGLE Engle, Charlie, author. Running man : a memoir. First Scribner hardcover edition.A compulsively readable, remarkably candid memoir from world class ultra-marathon runner Charlie Engle chronicling his globe-spanning races, his record-breaking run across the Sahara Desert, and how running helped him overcome drug addiction and a stint in federal prison.

B ENGLE Engle, Margarita. Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings: a memoir."In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War."--Amazon.

B FAB Faber, David. Because of Romek : a Holocaust survivor's memoir. Granite Hills Pr, 1997, c1993.A riveting story of a 13 year old boy's survival in the web of Nazi barbarity, and the experiences of his brother, Romek, in the underground.

B FARIVAR Farivar, Masood. Confessions of a mullah warrior. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2009.An account of the author's transition from being an Afghan refugee to becoming a devout Muslim and resistance fighter struggling against the Soviet occupation in the late 1980s and eventually a Harvard University student as he found a path away from extremism.

B FURLONG Furlong, Saloma Miller. Why I left the Amish : a memoir. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2011.The memoir of Saloma Miller Furlong in which she shares her experience growing up in an Amish community.

B GADARYAN Çetin, Fethiye. My grandmother : a memoir. London : Verso, 2008.

Fethiye Cetin recounts the story of her grandmother's early life, when she was sent on a death march from her small Armenian village after the men were slaughtered and eventually saved by a Turkish gendarme captain who adopted her.

B GEORGE George, Nelson. City kid : a writer's memoir of ghetto life and post-soul success. New York : Viking, 2009.Nelson George chronicles his childhood in the Brooklyn housing projects during the 1960s and 1970s and his introduction to the African-American music scene in the 1980s, and shares how his involvement in the music scene helped him come to terms with his own family.

B GOO Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Wait till next year : a memoir. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997.The author explores her childhood in Rockville Centre, Long Island and how baseball, especially the New York Dodgers, was important in her relationships with family, friends, and neighbors.

B GOROKHOV Gorokhova, Elena. A mountain of crumbs : a memoir. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010, c2009.Elena Gorokhova describes her childhood in the Soviet Union during the 1960s, and also discusses her passion for the English language, the Bolshevik Revolution, and more.

B GRANDE Grande, Reyna. The distance between us : a memoir. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2012.Reyna Grande chronicles her life as an undocumented immigrant, from her border crossing at age nine, discussing her difficult relationship with her father, and other complications with her family during childhood.

B GREALY Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a face. 1st Perennial ed. New York : Perennial, 2003.A memoir in which award-winning poet Lucy Grealy recalls her experiences with a potentially terminal cancer that required she have a third of her jaw removed when she was nine years old, and discusses the suffering she endured as she was growing up from classmates, strangers, and other people because of her looks.

B GUE Guerrero, Diane, 1986-. In the country we love : my family divided. 1st ed. 2016. New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt and Co., 2016.Diane Guerrero, television actress from the hits "Orange is the New Black" and "Jane the Virgin," recalls the day her parents were detained and deported when she was

14, and how she was able to remain in the country, finish her education, and build a successful acting career.

B GUNTHER Gunther, John, 1901-1970. Death be not proud : a memoir. 1st Perennial Classics ed. New York : Perennial Classics, 1998, c1949.A biography of the author's son, who died at seventeen after a fourteen-month illness caused by a brain tumor.

B HAK Ḥakkākiyān, Ruʾyā. Journey from the land of no : a girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, [2006].The author shares the story of her experiences coming of age in Iran during the revolution of 1979, discussing her situation as a member of the small Jewish population in the country at a time when Islamic fundamentalists gained control.

B HAYSLIP Hayslip, Le Ly. When heaven and earth changed places : a Vietnamese woman's journey from war to peace. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Plume, [1990].A memoir of Le Ly Hayslip in which she recalls her experiences during the Vietnam War as a young spy for the Viet Cong, and tells of her return to her country and family twenty years after escaping to America.

B HELWIG Helwig, Terry, 1949-. Moonlight on linoleum : a daughter's memoir. 1st Howard Books hardcover ed. New York : Howard Books, 2011."Forced by her mother's instability to care for her five siblings, Helwig crafts a moving story of a mother she loved and struggled to understand"--Provided by publisher.

B HENRY Henry, Tyler, author. Between two worlds : lessons from the other side. First Gallery Books hardcover edition.Tyler Henry discovered his gift for communicating with the departed when he was ten, and now, at age twenty, is a renowned, practicing medium.

B HENSLEY Hensley, William L. Iġġiaġruk. Fifty miles from tomorrow : a memoir of Alaska and the real people. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.The author provides a detailed memoir of his Alaskan heritage, life on the tundra, and years of fighting the U.S. government over Native Alaskan land rights.

B HIM Him, Chanrithy, 1965-. When broken glass floats : growing up under the Khmer Rouge : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2000.A memoir in which the author discusses her experiences

as a child living in Cambodia under the brutal Khmer Rouge, and tells of the hardships her family experienced until being brought to the United States by an uncle who was living in Oregon.

B HOF Hofstetter, Steve, 1979-. Ginger kid : mostly true tales from a former nerd. New York : Amulet Books, 2018."Comedian Steve Hofstetter grapples with life after seventh grade... when his world fell apart. Formatted as a series of personal essays, Steve walks his readers through awkward early dating, family turbulence, and the revenge of the bullied nerds"--OCLC.

B HOOKS Hooks, Bell. Bone Black : memories of girlhood. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 1996.An memoir of the author's childhood as a young African-American female on her way to becoming a writer.

B HOOSE Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-. Perfect, once removed : when baseball was all the world to me. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Walker ;, 2006.The author recalls how, at age nine and having just moved to Speedway, Indiana, his life took on a new meaning when he discovered that his second cousin was Don Larsen, pitcher for the New York Yankees.

B HORNBACH Hornbacher, Marya, 1974-. Wasted : a memoir of anorexia and bulimia. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial, c1998.The author reflects on her fourteen-year battle with bulimia and anorexia, discussing how the eating disorders have affected her life from childhood through the present day.

B IRWIN Irwin, John P., 1926-. Another river, another town : a teenage tank gunner comes of age in combat--1945. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2002.Presents a combat memoir in which John P. Irwin, a teenage tank gunner during World War II, discusses how his idealistic dreams of heroism were altered by the gritty realities of war.

B ISFANDIY ARI Isfandiyārī, Hālāh. My prison, my home : one woman's story of captivity in Iran. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2009.On December 31, 2006, Isfandiyārī's life changed. It was believed she was part of an American conspiracy for "regime change" in Iran. After weeks of interrogation, she was detained at the notorious Evin Prison, where she spent 105 days in solitary confinement.

B JAC Jacobs, Benjamin, 1919-2004. The dentist of Auschwitz : a memoir. Pbk. ed. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of

Kentucky, 2001.The story of Jacobs, a Jewish dental student from Poland, who was interned in concentration camps and forced to labor as well as give dental care to inmates and to SS officers.

B JACKSON Jackson, Livia Bitton. I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 1999.A memoir of Elli Friedmann in which she tells about her experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp where she was taken at the age of thirteen in 1944 when the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.

B JAIN Jain, Anita, 1972-. Marrying Anita : a quest for love in the new India. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.The author describes how she decided to return to her native India in order to find a husband.

B JAL Jal, Emmanuel. War child : a child soldier's story. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.A memoir of Emmanuel Jal's upbringing during the civil war in Sudan in the 1980s and conscription into the Christian Sudanese Liberation army as a child soldier, and covers his rescue and adoption by a British aid worker and success as a hip-hop recording artist and documentary film subject.

B JIA Jiang, Ji-li. Red scarf girl : a memoir of the Cultural Revolution. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, [1997].The author tells about the happy life she led in China up until she was twelve-years-old when her family became a target of the Cultural Revolution, and discusses the choice she had to make between denouncing her father and breaking with her family, or refusing to speak against him and losing her future in the Communist Party.

B JIMENEZ Jiménez, Francisco, 1943-. Reaching out. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2008.The author describes his experiences as a young immigrant pursuing his education during the 1950s and 1960s.

B JIMENEZ Jiménez, Francisco, 1943-, author. Taking hold : from migrant childhood to Columbia University. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.Traces the author's education at Columbia University, where he struggled with cultural differences and a changing sense of identity.

B JUL Julien, Maude, 1957-. The only girl in the world : a

memoir. 1st North American ed., December 2017. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2017.A memoir in which Maude Julien recounts her abusive childhood in France, enduring life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment, and how an outsider helped her to escape her abusive parents.

B KAMARA Kamara, Mariatu. The bite of the mango. Buffalo, NY : Annick Press, [2008].Describes the life of Mariatu Kamara, focusing on her experiences as a child during the civil war in Sierra Leone where she was raped, tortured, and had her hands cut off by juvenile rebel soldiers; and discusses her experiences after the war.

B KAN Kang, Chʿŏr-hwan, 1968-. The aquariums of Pyongyang : ten years in the North Korean gulag. New York : Basic Books, 2005.Kang Chol-hwan chronicles the experiences he had after he was imprisoned at a concentration camp in North Korea for a crime of high treason that was allegedly committed by his grandfather.

B KAPLAN Kaplan, Alice Yaeger. French lessons : a memoir. Pbk. ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.A memoir in which the author discusses her childhood and her lifelong fascination with France and the French language.

B KAR Karr, Mary. The liar's club : a memoir. New York : Viking, 1995.An account of the author's childhood in a Texas oil town and of her family's struggles with cancer, madness, and alcoholism.

B KAS Kastor, Deena. Let your mind run : a memoir of thinking my way to victory. 1st ed. New York : Crown Archetype, [2018]."From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a[n] . . . inspirational memoir on using positive psychology and brain science to achieve . . . athletic success"--Provided by publisher.

B KEL Kelly, Scott, 1964-. Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery. 1st Vintage Bks. ed. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.Astronaut Scott Kelly shares details about his life, discussing his childhood in New Jersey, training, space missions, and more.

B KERMAN Kerman, Piper, author. Orange is the new black : my year in a women's prison. New York : Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks, 2013.The author provides an account of her thirteen months in a minimum security correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where she was sent after being convicted on a ten-year-old charge of drug smuggling and money laundering in 2003, offering insights into the heirarchies, communities, and friendships that characterize the women's prison.

B KIM Kim, Ŭn-ju, 1986-. A thousand miles to freedom : my escape from North Korea. 1st U.S. ed.: July 2015. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015."Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. ... By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun was in danger of the same. Finally, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they were embarking on a journey that would take them nine long years to complete. Told with grace and courage, her memoir is a riveting exposé of North Korea's totalitarian regime and, ultimately, a testament to the strength and resilience of the human spirit"--Provided by publisher.

B KIMMELMA N Kimmelman, Mira Ryczke, 1923-. Echoes from the Holocaust : a memoir. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1997].Personal account of the Holocaust by a woman who managed to survive at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, relating the horror of the camps at the hands of the Nazis and discusses her liberation, eventual immigration to America, and ability to find peace and happiness.

B KLE Klein, Gerda Weissmann, 1924-. All but my life. New, expanded ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 1995.The author tells of the three years she endured as a slave laborer of the Nazis during World War II.

B KOOFI Koofi, Fawzia, 1975-. The favored daughter : one woman's fight to lead Afghanistan into the future. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Afghanistan's first female parliament deputy speaker tells her dramatic life story and, through the letters she writes to her two daughters, shares her hopes for their future and the entire female population of Afghanistan.

B KOTLOWIT Z Kotlowitz, Robert. Before their time : a memoir. 1st Anchor Bks. ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1999.

A memoir in which the author recounts his experiences as a teenage infantryman in the Second World War beginning with the day he was drafted, recalling the rigors of basic training, telling stories of his buddies, and reliving the horror of the massacre of his platoon.

B LAWLESS Lawless, Wendy. Chanel bonfire : a memoir. 1st Gallery Books hardcover ed. New York : Gallery Books, 2013."Wendy Lawless' memoir of resilience in the face of an unstable alcoholic and suicidal mother"--Provided by publisher.

B LEE Lee, Spike. Best seat in the house : a basketball memoir. 1st ed. New York : Crown, c1997.A basketball memoir in which filmmaker Spike Lee discusses the influence of basketball on his life, reveals conversations he has had with players like Michael Jordan, as well as disputes he has become involved in from the sidelines, and offers his opinions on sports, movies and the role of African-American athletes in business and culture.

B LEE Lee, Sungju. Every falling star : the true story of how I survived and escaped North Korea. New York : Amulet Books, [2016]."The memoir of a boy named Sungju who grew up in North Korea and, at the age of twelve, was forced to live on the streets and fend for himself after his parents disappeared. Finally, after years of being homeless and living with a gang, Sungju is reunited with his maternal grandparents and, eventually, his father"--Provided by publisher.

B LI Bernstein, Richard, 1944-. A girl named Faithful Plum : a true story of a dancer from China and how she achieved her dream. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2011.Tells the true story of Zhongmei Lei, an eleven-year-old girl in 1977 who won one of twelve spots at the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy, and whose determination to remain in the school impressed teachers and students alike; and discusses how Zhongmei, whose name means Faithful Plum, went on to form her own dance company which debuted in New York when she was in her late twenties.

B LI Li-Marcus, Moying, 1954-. Snow falling in spring : coming of age in China during the cultural revolution. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.The author reveals the events of her life from age twelve to adulthood when the cultural revolution of Mao Zedong destroyed family customs and life as they knew it.

B LINDHOUT Lindhout, Amanda. A house in the sky : a memoir. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2013.Presents the memoir of journalist Amanda Lindhout, who spent fifteen months in captivity in Somalia.

B LING Chai, Ling. A heart for freedom : the remarkable journey of a young dissident, her daring escape, and her quest to free China's daughters. International trade paper ed. Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, c2011.The author, a leader of a student hunger strike in China's Tiananmen Square, writes about life during China's Cultural Revolution, the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement, her conversion to Christianity following her escape to the United States, and her fight against China's one-child policy that has lead to the murder of infant girls.

B LU Lu, Chi Fa. Double luck : memoirs of a Chinese orphan. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, [2001].Tells the story of the author's struggles after being orphaned at the age of three and how he held on to his dream of coming to the United States as he passed from one relative to another and was even sold to a Communist couple.

B MACKIN Mackin, Elton E. Suddenly we didn't want to die : memoirs of a World War I marine. Novato, Calif. : Presidio, c1993.A portrayal of war as seen through the eyes of a Marine Corps private who fought in every major World War I campaign in which the Marine Brigade participated--from Belleau Wood to the crossing of the Meuse on the eve of the Armistice.

B MAI Mai, Mukhtar. In the name of honor : a memoir. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2006.Mukhtar Mai chronicles the events surrounding her 2002 gang rape in the impoverished village of Meerwala and her decision to stand up to her attackers, describing how she overcame the fear she felt and how her actions influenced the feminist movement in Pakistan.

B MANZANO Manzano, Sonia, author. Becoming Maria : love and chaos in the South Bronx. First edition."Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. Spiced with culture, heartache, and humor, this memoir paints a lasting

portrait of a girl's resilience as she grows up to become an inspiration to millions"--.

B MASON Mason, C. Nicole, 1976-, author. Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, Mason was raised by a beautiful, but volatile16-year-old single mother. Early on, she learned to navigate between an unpredictable home life and school where she excelled. While showing us her own path out of poverty, Mason examines the conditions that make it nearly impossible to escape and exposes the presumption harbored by many--that the poor don't help themselves enough"--.

B MASS Massimino, Mike, 1962-, author. Spaceman : an astronaut's unlikely journey to unlock the secrets of the universe. First edition. New York : Crown Archetype, 2016.Mike Massimino takes readers through his childhood space dreams, and how growing up in a working-class Long Island family catapulted his drive to attend MIT and make it through the final round of astronaut selection, only to later experience the beauty of spacewalk and the enduring mission of saving the Hubble Telescope.

B MCGOUGH McGough, Matthew. Bat boy : my true life adventures coming of age with the New York Yankees. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2005.The author recalls his two years as a bat boy for the New York Yankees while he was a high school student, and describes his experiences with the team, playing catch with the centerfielder, and other highlights of his short career.

B MIN Min, Anchee, 1957-. The cooked seed : a memoir. 1st U.S. ed. New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2013.The sequel to Anchee Min's memoir "Red Azalea," in which she comes to America to find her way, her voice, and her love.

B MIN Min, Anchee, 1957-. Red Azalea. 1st Anchor Bks. ed., April 2006. New York : Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2006.A memoir from a one-time supporter of the Maoist regime who experienced life in China as a member of the communist party, and then as a political prisoner on a labor farm.

B MORI Mori, Kyoko. The dream of water : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1995.

Kyoko Mori takes you on a journey through her native Japan, from which she fled as a teenager, and then returned in 1990. She gives a personal jouney of discovery that is also an exploration of national differences.

B MORI Mori, Kyoko. The dream of water : a memoir. New York : Fawcett Columbine, [1995].Kyoko Mori takes you on a journey through her native Japan, from which she fled as a teenager, and then returned in 1990. She gives a personal journey of discovery that is also an exploration of national differences.

B NAFISI Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books. Random House trade pbk. ed. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004.Azar Nafisi chronicles her life in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on her organization of a group of young women in 1997 who met secretly once a week to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. Includes discussion questions and a reading list.

B NAFISI Nafisi, Azar. Things I've been silent about : memories. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2008.A memoir that discusses the author's unhappy family life while growing up in Tehran, Iran, covering her parents' political involvement and relationship troubles prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-1979.

B NEMAT Nemat, Marina, 1965-. Prisoner of Tehran : a memoir. New York : Free Press, c2007.The author describes the torture and pain she suffered as a political prisoner in Iran's notorious Evin prison during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic revolution, her sentence of death for not releasing the names of her friends, and her forced relationship with one of her interrogators who eventually saves her life.

B OUF Oufkir, Malika, 1953-. Stolen lives : twenty years in a desert jail. 1st ed. New York : Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion, c1999.Malika Oufkir chronicles the experiences she and her family had while they were imprisoned in a penal colony in Morocco.

B PEARL Pearl, Mariane. A mighty heart : the brave life and death of my husband, Danny Pearl. New York : Scribner, c2003.Mariane Pearl, wife of journalist Daniel Pearl, chronicles her husband's abduction and brutal murder at the hands of terrorists in Pakistan in 2002, her ill-fated quest to

save him, and the birth of their son, Adam. Also includes letters of support that the author received after Daniel's death and Adam's birth.

B PET Petrushevska︠i︡ a, L︠i︡ udmila. The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, [2017]."[Presents the] memoir of ... [writer L︠i︡ udmila Petrushevska︠i︡ a], about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia"--Provided by publisher.

B PIV Pivnik, Sam, 1926-. Survivor : Auschwitz, the Death March, and my fight for freedom. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.Recounts the life of Sam Pivnik, a survior of the Nazi concentration camps, a brutal mining camp, a death march, the sinking of a prision ship, and more; and who went on to become a respected art dealer in London.

B PUNG Pung, Alice. Unpolished gem : my mother, my grandmother, and me. New York : Penguin Group, [2009].Alice Pung chronicles her childhood in Australia, describing how her traditional Cambodian family adapted to their new country and how she struggled to merge the two cultures that surrounded her.

B QUIN Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo. Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.Tells the life story of Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa from impoverished childhood in a tiny village in Mexico to illegal immigrant, American citizen, student at the University of California, on to Harvard Medical School, and becoming an internationally renowned neurosurgeon.

B RHO Rhodes-Courter, Ashley, 1985-. Three little words : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, [2008].Ashley Rhodes-Courter provides an account of her life, focusing on the nine years she spent in Florida's foster care system after being removed from her mother at the age of three, and explaining how her life changed after she was adopted.

B ROB Robison, John Elder. Look me in the eye : my life with Asperger's. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2007.John Robison recounts his struggles to fit in and communicate with others as he grew up, describing why he had so many problems relating to others and why he often turned to machines for comfort, rather than people, and explains how his life was changed when he

was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at age forty.B ROB Robison, John Elder. Raising Cubby : a father and son's

adventures with Asperger's, trains, tractors, and high explosives. First edition. New York : Crown Publishers, 2013.The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dadʹs relationship with his equally offbeat son complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble.

B ROD Rodriguez, Deborah. Kabul Beauty School : an American woman goes behind the veil. New York : Random House, c2007.Hairdresser Deborah Rodriguez details her experiences in post-Taliban Afghanistan, discussing the opening of her beauty school and recalls the personal stories of various women who overcame obstacles to obtain an education in cosmetology.

B RUF Rufus, Rob. Die young with me : a memoir. 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. September 2016. New York : Touchstone, 2016.Rob Rufus, an identical twin, reflects on growing up with his brother in a punk band, and how his plans were cut short when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.

B SABERI Saberi, Roxana. Between two worlds : my life and captivity in Iran. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2010.Roxana Saberi chronicles her experiences as an Iranian-American journalist who was accused of espionage and imprisoned while she was working in Iran in 2009, and also discusses the political tensions within the Middle Eastern nation.

B SAMUELSS ON Samuelsson, Marcus. Make it messy : my perfectly imperfect life. First Edition.An inspiring personal account by the star of The Taste and best-selling author of Yes, Chef describes his life as an orphan in Ethiopia, cooking lessons under the tutelage of his adoptive grandmother and education in some of Europe's most demanding kitchens.

B SAY Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. When skateboards will be free : a memoir of a political childhood. New York : Dial Press, 2009.The author describes how his Jewish American mother raises him in Pittsburgh within the Socialist Workers Party, while his Iranian-born father runs as a socialist candidate for president in Iran.

B SHA Sharif, Manal, 1979-. Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. June 2017. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017."A ... memoir by [Manal al-Sharif,] a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive"--Provided by publisher.

B SHE Sheff, Nic. Tweak : (growing up on methamphetamines). 1st Antheneum Bks. for young readers media tie-in pbk. ed. New York : Atheneum, 2018.The author describes his childhood in California, his addiction to crystal meth and heroin at a young age, his relapse after eighteen months of sobriety, and his path to recovery.

B SONTAG Sontag, Rachel. House rules : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2008.The author reflects on her father's control and abusiveness and discusses how she broke free from his rules.

B SOTOMAYO R Sotomayor, Sonia, 1954-. My beloved world. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor shares details about her life, discussing her childhood, education, health, career, appointment, and more.

B SPEWACK Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899-1990. Streets : a memoir of the Lower East Side. New York : Feminist Press, c1995.Memoir of Bella Cohen Spewack, recalling life in New York's Lower East Side where she lived in the early part of the century after immigrating with her mother from Transylvania.

B STE Stefanovic,Sofija. Miss Ex-Yugoslavia : a memoir. 1st Atria Bks. hardcover ed. April 2018. New York : Atria Books, 2018."Featuring warlords and beauty queens, tiger cubs and baby-sitters clubs, Sofija Stefanovic's memoir [as Miss Ex-Yugoslavia] is a window to a complicated culture that she both cherishes and resents. Revealing war and immigration from the crucial viewpoint of women and children, Stefanovic chronicles her own coming-of-age, both as a woman and as an artist who yearns to take control of her own story"--Provided by publisher.

B STRAUSS Strauss, Darin. Half a life : a memoir. Random House Trade pbk. ed. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011.Darin Strauss recounts how his life was changed after he killed a fellow high school student in an accident that

was not his fault, describing the guilt he carried with him for years and the way he finally took responsibility and regained control of his life.

B SUM Summer, Lauralee, 1976-. Learning joy from dogs without collars : a memoir. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003.Lauralee Summer tells the story of her life growing up as the child of a single, often homeless mother, and discusses how circumstances conspired to gain her entrance to Harvard where she majored in children's studies, finally came to know her father, and figured out her place in the world.

B SUNDQUIS T Sundquist, Josh. We should hang out sometime : embarrassingly, a true story. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.At the age of twenty-five, Josh Sundquist, who had Ewing's sarcoma as a child and is now a paralympic ski racer, looks back to try to understand why he has never had a steady girlfriend.

B TAY Taylor, Benjamin, 1952-. The hue and cry at our house : a year remembered. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, [2017].Author Benjamin Taylor reflects on his tumultuous boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, begining witha handshake from John F. Kennedy, and the impact the asssassination had on his adult life and his larger American story.

B TENBOOM Ten Boom, Corrie. The hiding place. 25th anniversary ed., new pbk. ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Chosen Books, 1996.The memoirs of a Dutch woman who was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her activities in the anti-Nazi underground.

B TOOR Toorpakai, Maria, 1990-. A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight. First edition.Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered haram--un-Islamic, forbidden--and girls rarely leave their homes. But she did, passing as a boy in order to play the sports she loved, thus becoming a lightning rod of freedom in her country's fierce battle over women's rights.

B TROPE Trope, Zoe. Please don't kill the freshman : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : HarperTempest, c2003.A memoir of the then-fifteen-year-old author's high school experience to that point, in which diary entries reflect her struggles, angst, and rebellion.

B UNG Ung, Loung. Lucky child : a daughter of Cambodia reunites with the sister she left behind. 1st Harper Perennial ed. New York : Harper Perennial, 2006.Loung Ung recounts her struggles to adapt to life in America after arriving in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee.

B UNGER Unger, Zac. Working fire : the making of an accidental fireman. New York : Penguin Press, 2004.Contains the memoirs of Zac Unger's rookie years as a fireman after the Ivy League graduate responded to a help-wanted ad in a bus station in Oakland, California.

B UWI Uwiringiyimana, Sandra. How dare the sun rise : memoirs of a war child. New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]."[Presents the] story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism"--Amazon.

B VIDAL Vidal, Guillermo Vincente. Boxing for Cuba : an immigrant's story. Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum, [2013].The author describes his early life in Cuba, and discusses the challenges he and his brothers faced after being sent by their parents to the United States in an effort to free them from the threat of communist rule, and ending up in a Catholic orphanage in Colorado.

B WAGLER Wagler, Ira. Growing up Amish : a memoir. Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, c2011.Ira Wagler chronicles his life in the Old Order Amish settlement of Bloomfield, Iowa, describing his childhood on the family farm, his Rumpspringa rite of passage at age sixteen, his decision to leave the Amish church at age twenty-six, and his adjustment to the outside world.

B WAL Wallis, Velma. Raising ourselves : a Gwich'in coming of age story from the Yukon River. 1st ed. Kenmore, WA : Epicenter Press, c2002.Describes a girl's coming of age with her twelve siblings in a two-room cabin in Fort Yukon, Alaska, fending for themselves after their father dies and their mother descends into depression and alcoholism.

B WAL Walls, Jeannette. The glass castle : a memoir. 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. New York : Scribner, 2006.The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and

will to leave home.B WAM Wamariya, Clemantine. The girl who smiled beads : a story

of war and what comes after. 1st ed. New York : Crown, [2018]."Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. It was 1994, and in 100 days more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, ran and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries searching for safety. "--Provided by publisher.

B WARINER Wariner, Ruth. The sound of gravel : a memoir. First edition.The promised land -- Babylon -- Alone -- Breaking. The true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. Recounted from the innocent and hopeful perspective of a child, this is the memoir of one girl's fight for peace and love.

B WES Westover, Tara. Educated : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : Random House, [2018]."A . . . memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University"--Amazon.com.

B WONG Wong, Jan. A comrade lost and found : a Beijing story. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.The author shares how she searched through Beijing for the classmate she betrayed during the Cultural Revolution three decades before, hoping to make amends.

B YE Ye, Ting-xing, 1952-. My name is number 4 : a true story from the cultural revolution. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2008.Ting-Xing Ye recounts the brutality, horror, and desperation she and her family faced during the Chinese cultural revolution and reflects on how those events impacted every aspect of her life.

B YOU Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-. I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2013.Malala Yousafzai's describes her fight for education for

girls under Taliban rule, the support she received from her parents to pursue an education, and how the Taliban retaliated against her by trying to kill her.

B ZENATTI Zenatti, Valérie, 1970-. When I was a soldier : a memoir. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2005.Presents the memoirs of Valerie Zenatti, who at eighteen, enlisted in the Israeli army, endured harsh conditions and surroundings, and participated in top secret missions for the Israeli Secret Service, and describes her French-Jewish heritage and personal struggles.

B ZHU Zhu, Xiao Di, 1958-. Thirty years in a red house : a memoir of childhood and youth in Communist China. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1998].Zhu Xiao Di discusses what it was like to grow up during the Cultural Revolution in China and be involved in the Communist movement during the 1930s.