Memoir

Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman (Hardcover)

By Abby Stein

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ISBN: 9781580059169

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Published: Seal Press - November 12th, 2019

Abby Stein’s memoir is an engaging story of growing up as a queer person (a trans woman, specifically) in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Funny, heartbreaking, and always compassionate, this is a great read for anyone interested in trans life stories, intersections between queerness and religion, or communal responses to trauma.

 

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Go to Sleep (I Miss You): Cartoons from the Fog of New Parenthood (Hardcover)

By Lucy Knisley

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ISBN: 9781250211491

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Published: First Second - February 25th, 2020

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Knisley collects a series of short,1-page comics- drawn amidst the insanity of parenting. Perfect reading for those long howling sessions or days when you just need a commiserating laugh.

Marika 

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (Hardcover)

By Dina Nayeri

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Published: Catapult - September 3rd, 2019

 

A refugee who escaped Iran under threat of religious persecution in 1989, Dina Nayeri writes with lyricism and incredible clarity about the refugee experience. She weaves her own story in with those of fellow Iranian refugees, as well those waiting in the camps in Greece today to show the insidious power of Western privilege, the hopelessness of the asylum seeker, and to make the plea for dignity for the misplaced. A necessary read.

Meaghan

The Guynd: Love & Other Repairs in Rural Scotland (Paperback)

By Belinda Rathbone

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ISBN: 9781567926583

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Published: David R. Godine Publisher - September 26th, 2019

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If you like to learn about other people’s cultural heritage, or if you just like poking around their homes (by invitation!), this is the book for you. The perfect read for a winter’s day, I could not put it down. 

Robin

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) (Hardcover)

By Trevor Noah

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ISBN: 9780525582168

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Published: Delacorte Press - April 9th, 2019

 

A thoroughly astonishing and enlightening life story, that will make you see the world with more open-mindedness and humor. The best non-fiction book I've ever purchased for my kids, thrilling stories and perspective. Best for ages 11 and up.

Molly

Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs (Hardcover)

By Keena Roberts

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Published: Grand Central Publishing - November 12th, 2019

 

Keena Roberts split her childhood between a private school in Philadelphia and "Baboon Camp," a remote island in Botswana where her primatologist parents worked several months out of the year. Her resulting memoir, a story of a fish-out-of-water girl most comfortable with animals, is funny, touching, and deeply compelling.

Rebecca

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) (Hardcover)

By Trevor Noah

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Published: Delacorte Press - April 9th, 2019

 

A thoroughly astonishing and enlightening life story, that will make you see the world with more open-mindedness and humor. The best non-fiction book I've ever purchased for my kids, thrilling stories and perspective. Best for ages 11 and up.

Molly

An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic (Paperback)

By Daniel Mendelsohn

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ISBN: 9780345806215

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Published: Vintage - July 31st, 2018

 

A lovely true story of a son getting to know his father intermixed with a college course on The Odyssey. The ending hits the mark. A perfect gift for the academic in your life. Excellent for book groups.

Molly

I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer (Paperback)

By Ahmet Altan, Yasemin Congar (Translated by)

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ISBN: 9781590519929

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Published: Other Press - October 1st, 2019

 

Altan, one of contemporary Turkey’s most important writers, currently serving a life sentence on trumped up charges by Erdogan’s  brutish authoritarian regime, has written this profoundly moving prison memoir that ultimately is an expression of the triumph of the human spirit and imagination.

Dale

Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life (Hardcover)

By Amber Scorah

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ISBN: 9780735222540

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Published: Viking - June 4th, 2019

 

This is the rare book where the mundane details of life put you on the edge of your seat. Equal parts thrilling and thoughtful, Scorah's memoir is the first time I've seen my own experience living overseas reflected pitch-perfectly on the page. A timely reminder that sometimes it's easier to find ourselves in words than it is in the culture around us.

Caleb