Category Notable Nonfiction

Carli Lloyd

Carli Lloyd When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World Biography Memoir In 2015, the US Women’s National Soccer Team won its first FIFA championship in sixteen years, culminating in an epic final…

The House of My Mother

The House of My Mother Shari Franke Memoir Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel…

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing Matthew Perry Memoir “Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty.” So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us…

Forgiven

Forgiven Terri Roberts Memoir Who would have believed all the beauty God would create over the nine years since that awful day. On October 2, 2006, a gunman entered an Amish one-room schoolhouse, shooting ten girls, killing five, then finally…

Mockingbird. A Portrait of Harper Lee

Mockingbird A Portrait of Harper Lee Charles J. Shields Biography Memoir To Kill a Mockingbird—the twentieth century’s most widely read American novel—has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. In this in-depth biography, first published in 2006,…

Tattoos on the Heart

Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle Memoir For twenty years, Father Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles—also known as the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on…

White Fragility

White Fragility Robin Diangelo Racism In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’…