Difficult Memoirs

Drew Nieporent has been a staple of the New York dining scene for decades, establishing a host of iconic restaurants like Nobu, Tribeca Grill, and Montrachet. But his career started from much more humble beginnings—the grill at the local McDonald’s. A middle class kid from New York’s East...

Beloved Bible teacher and ministry leader Joyce Meyer shares the unforgettable story of her troubled upbringing, her call to ministry, and God’s healing hand upon her life in this boldly honest and moving memoir. “I feel it’s necessary to disclose certain details of my story so readers can...

What if the greatest lessons in healing come when life completely unravels? As a young, healthy physician-in-training studying abroad, she was immersed in discovery—new cultures, new perspectives, and a growing curiosity about what it truly means to heal. She never expected to become her own patient. When subtle symptoms began to emerge, she did what she was trained to do—analyze, assess, and search for answers. But this time, the diagnosis was her own: A brain tumor. A malignant, incurable, life-altering tumor. In Difficult Gifts, this powerful memoir traces an unexpected journey from ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of The Economist’s Best Books of the Year! In this “affecting…intriguing…heartbreaking” (Booklist) coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the...

Bloomsbury presents A Life in Light by Mary Pipher, read by Jessica Garcie. A USA Today Must Read New Book From the bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia—a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality. In her...

Así comienza este recorrido en el que Felipe Calderón reflexiona sobre la compleja tarea de gobernar y lo que significa tomar decisiones en escenarios de incertidumbre, decisiones que, a fin de cuentas, nadie más quiere tomar. Al enfrentar este reto, dice el autor, es inevitable relatar las circunstancias, las vivencias, las ideas que rodean cada hecho. Así, a partir de una concepción muy particular de la política, como vocación y deber, Felipe Calderón presenta una visión de conjunto de las decisiones más difíciles que ha tomado en su trayectoria....

Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. What motivated this extraordinary person? Kim Bendheim has long been fascinated by Maud Gonne’s perplexing character, and here gives us an intensely personal assessment of her thrilling life. The product of much original research, including interviews with Gonne’s equally vivid, unconventional descendants, The Fascination of What’s Difficult is a portrait of a powerful woman who, despite her considerable flaws, continues to inspire.

Imagine discovering the man you married never truly loved you. Zara's faith, marriage, and future collapse when a devastating truth comes to light. After divorce and heartbreak, she must decide: retreat into fear, or trust God and love again. After The We is a moving Christian memoir about betrayal, healing, and second-chance love.

Discover how ordinary seniors experienced extraordinary moments that strengthened their faith forever. Some of the most powerful examples of faith are found in the lives of ordinary people who trusted God through extraordinary circumstances. Memoirs that Matter brings together twenty inspiring true stories from seniors who experienced hardship, loss, uncertainty, miracles, and moments that forever deepened their relationship with God. Their journeys reveal the quiet strength, resilience, and unwavering faith that carried them through life’s greatest challenges. Each story offers a glimpse...

In Difficult Knitting Eve Machin, born in Bristol in 1915, gives a rich account of a childhood divided between two worlds: a comfortable, quintessentially English upper middle class world of servants, horses, spacious houses, public school and stiff upper lip - the world of her English father. And the world of her mother, daughter of a wealthy, sophisticated and very numerous Jewish family in Vienna, who had married against their wishes. The marriage was catastrophic. Torn between a loving but alcoholic father, and a close but distinctly un-maternal mother, Eve's childhood is spent ...

The Lord Is My Shepherd (Revised & Extended Edition) A True Story by L. Durand Corbin, Sr. What happens when your prayers seem unanswered... your strength begins to fail... and faith is all you have left? Life has a way of leading us through valleys we never expected to walk. Seasons of loss. Illness. Grief. Disappointment. Questions that seem to have no answers. In this Revised & Extended Edition of The Lord Is My Shepherd, L. Durand Corbin, Sr. invites you into a deeply personal journey of unwavering faith, revealing how God's presence remained constant through every trial. Featuring new ...

Facing Great Loss and Finding Greater Purpose Melissa Eadie was first diagnosed with cancer at the tender age of fourteen. While her peers were experiencing high school, the latest trends, and youthful ambitions, Melissa became familiar with the four corners of her hospital room. A two-time cancer survivor and above-the-knee amputee, Melissa’s life is the definition of strength and perseverance, but she knows that victory includes the painful fight to the finish line. More than just a memoir, Held walks you through Melissa’s vulnerable “diary” moments in the process of growth, grief...

She was seven the first time the person who was meant to protect her didn't. She was fourteen when she finally spoke, and was called a liar within the hour. She was on a bridge before she understood that the silence she'd been handed was killing her by inches. The Woman Who Found Herself is the story of how Melissa Wand survived a childhood of poverty, abuse, and inherited silence, and the harder, quieter story of what came after: how a nervous system built for danger can be retrained to trust safety, how a daughter becomes the mother who refuses to pass the wound down, how a woman stops ...

As John Henry Clark notes in his book, Dying, as we get older we start to think about our own mortality. Those thoughts become even stronger as our parents age. It’s usually around this time we realize that time is no longer on our side, and if we really want to know more about our parents and the legacy they want to leave, we need to talk to them. Now. That’s exactly what Clark decided to do. Now in his fifties – with his father in his seventies – he sets out to record his father’s memories and his conversations with him and to put them into this touching slice-of-life memoir. ...

"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love...

Lillian Hellman was a giant of 20th-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In A Difficult Woman, renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time.

Los hallazgos científicos de Rodolfo Llinás son fascinantes y de una importancia capital para el estudio del cerebro a escala mundial. Después de cientos de horas de entrevistas con Llinás, con sus familiares, amigos y colegas, y de otras tantas en la búsqueda de archivos y álbumes familiares, Pablo Correa desmenuza para la buena comprensión de cualquier lector los hallazgos del neurocientífico colombiano más importante de todos los tiempos.

When life breaks you open, the truth that rises can either undo you or set you free. In this honest and deeply human collection, Marilyn Smith invites readers into the hidden rooms of her story: places marked by loss, resilience, awakening, and the slow work of becoming whole. These pages explore what it means to survive when the world feels unsteady, to rise when the heart is tired, and to trust that healing is possible even after seasons that seem beyond repair. With warmth and clarity, Smith reflects on the struggles that shaped her, the voices that guided her, and the faith that carried...

For decades, historians have perpetuated the myth of a "Churchillian" relationship between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, citing their longtime alliance as an example of the "special" bond between the United States and Britain. But, as Richard Aldous argues in this penetrating dual biography, Reagan and Thatcher clashed repeatedly - over the Falklands war, Grenada, and the SDI and nuclear weapons - while carefully cultivating a harmonious image for the public and the press.

A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. “By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment...