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Esther Amini grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American-born daughter of parents who had fled persecution in Iran. In Concealed, she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for self-determination and must decide which parts of her culture to keep or discard.

Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the freewheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American-born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In Concealed, she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination than tradition allows. Exploring the roots of her father's deep silences and explosive temper, h...

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The author tells the story of one man's reckoning with love and loss, friendship and betrayal, courage and cowardice, and death and rebirth, as he helps a group of rebels prepare for the Zapatista uprising of January 1, 1994: the first war fought on the ground and the internet.

THUNK! It's the sweet sound an ad-packed magazine makes when it's dropped on a table. A boozy, breezy free fall through the magazine industry's fading days of glory....Take 'Mad Men, ' add 40 years, and you'd get these Mag Men...a story of betrayal and friendship, love and survival in the crazy, gritty, glamorous world of magazine advertisin

Have you ever tried to convince someone you weren't crazy?" So begins the seduction journal of the unnamed narrator of Sloth. It's not a mere hypothetical because he's fallen in love with a TV exercise girl named Holly Servant, he must convince her of his sanity from afar if he's ever to woo her in the flesh. But how can he win her heart when he's a waiter--that is, a man who waits in long lines for a living? How can he cut the line to her aff...

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An American surgeon from upper Manhattan chronicles his experiences in Somalia, a place of seemingly endless death, tribal warfare, and thousand-year-old vendettas.

Linda Wolfe's MY DAUGHTER/MYSELF is a wrenching, highly personal and deeply moving story of a family in crisis and a compelling testament to the powerful and universal bonds of the mother/daughter relationship. By turns a medical mystery and a family drama, Wolfe's book chronicles her thirty-eight-year-old daughter's out-of-the-blue, near-fatal stroke, and the fascinating process of physical and mental rehabilitation that allowed her daughter ...

This collection of true stories chronicles the author's childhood growing up in Brooklyn as the Yiddish speaking daughter of Holocaust survivors to her work with cancer patients to her life as a mom of two young boys to becoming a cancer patient herself.

What if growing old didn't have to mean being obsolete or over the hill? What if, instead, it meant being classic, venerable and wise? What if it meant writing the novel you've always wanted to write, or painting, or singing, or teaching, or traveling to a place you've always dreamed of? In gOld, Harry J. Getzov introduces us to many of the extraordinary senior citizens he has interviewed from all walks of life as part of the Eldercation proje...

Wakefield's memoir chronicles his move to New York City in the 1950s.

We're Not Leaving" is a compilation of powerful first-person narratives told from the vantage point of World Trade Center disaster workers-police officers, firefighters, construction workers, and other volunteers at the site.While the effects of 9/11 on these everyday heroes and heroines are indelible, and in some cases have been devastating, at the heart of their deeply personal stories-their harrowing escapes from the falling Towers, the egr...

Willis' remarkable memoir strips away any fantasy of an idyllic life "in the country" and shows the passions, backbreaking labor, and violence of the hard-won life lived on an American farm in the middle of the 20th century.

Schecter's life shattered when she was stricken with a painful, potentially fatal disease. "Fierce Joy" tells how she found a way to be sick without suffering and transformed the loss of her place in the world of work into a quest for her soul.

In her powerful memoir, Mulligan brings alive a nun's story that is both revealing and redemptiveNa chronicle of life in rural Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s, a testament to the challenges of emigration to the United States, and a portrait of one woman's strength and determination to forge a fulfilling life.

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