Compelling memoirs can share a range of human emotions, from sadness to elation, fear and love. In these moving memoirs, you'll learn not only about the experiences of their writers, but of the human condition.
- The Mark: Jacques Leslie's memoir shares the experience of a war correspondent who got the job after his predecessor committed suicide.
- The Last Resort: Meet a set of parents struggling to reinvent themselves in the Mugabe regime of Zimbabwe in The Last Resort.
- Two Kisses for Maddy: Matt Logelin's memoir tells the story of a family that lost their mom, just hours after becoming a family.
- Bare Feet: Debbie Ali was kidnapped and held captive for two weeks, and documented her ordeal in this moving memoir.
- Here If You Need Me: Kate Braestrup's book is a moving memoir of an unlikely chaplain in Maine.
- Hope's Boy: Andrew Bridge's book offers an emotional look at why our foster care system needs revision.
- Little Green: Written for children, Chun Yu's book shares a childhood during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
- The Last Eunuch of China: Jia Yinghua's story on the life of Sun Yaoting offers a different story for eunuchs in Chinese costumed dramas.
- 20 Cigarettes: Aureliano Amadei was the only civilian survivor of an Iraq bombing, changing his life forever.
- Let's Take the Long Way Home: Let's Take the Long Way Home is a memoir that celebrates the power of friendship and extraordinary bonds.
- The Geography of Love: What is it like to lose your husband and mother both to cancer only weeks apart? Glenda Burgess' book shares her tragic love story.
- For the Love of Aimee: For the Love of Aimee shares the experience of a grandmother to twin daughters, one of which has severe and multiple disabilities, but thrived longer than anyone expected.
- Choosing My Religion: Stephen J. Dubner's memoir is a moving tale of a son who learns that his Catholic family actually started out Jewish.
- Passing for Normal: Passing for Normal explains what it's like to live with undiagnosed Tourette syndrome and OCD as a young girl.
- Once Upon a Town: Bob Greene's book shares the miracle of a canteen for returning WWII soldiers.
- Just Kids: Patti Smith's Just Kids is a moving memoir of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
- Solacers: Solacers shares the story of a 5 year old Iranian boy as he looks for safety and a family life after his parents divorced.
- A Reason to Believe: Governor Deval Patrick's book tells the story of a man with an improbable life of success and altruism.
- Borrowed Time: Paul Monette offers a moving memoir set at the height of the AIDS crisis in LA.
- Summer of Deliverance: Study the love and relationship between father and son in Summer of Deliverance.
- Wife, Interrupted: Read Amy Molloy's book about a young widow learning to live again.
- Doors to Madame Marie: Doors to Madame Marie is all about the story of a less than familiar Holocaust memoir of a concierge saving a family from Nazis.
- The Los Angeles Diaries: For this former addict, he was forced to change or die, resulting in a moving memoir.
- Memoirs of a Medical Maverick: Risteard Mulcahy discusses his life as a cardiologist and health campaigner, as well as the breakdown of his marriage.
- Where the Road Ends: What's it like to move from Washington to the Brazilian rainforest? Binka le Breton's memoir shares the life of one couple starting life anew.
- Blood Strangers: You will find yourself captivated by this story of an alternative family.
- The Grace of Silence: Michele Norris will move you with her family's quiet and dignified way of dealing with racism.
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: Share the experience of a mother with a stillborn baby in An Exact Replica.
- Danger Pay: Danger Pay explores the experience of a Middle East photojournalist.
- Wall to Wall: Wall to Wall follows Mary Morris' journey from Beijing to Berlin by rail.