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Across the Savage Sea
The First Woman to Row across the North Atlantic
Maud Fontenoy
2005 Edition
Over 1,000 men have climbed Mount Everest, 12 have walked on the moon, and only six have rowed the North Atlantic from west to east. No woman had yet accomplished this feat—until now.
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Madame Figaro
Fontenoy’s daily, arduous adventures make her story a gripping tale.
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Challenging the Pacific
The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route
Maud Fontenoy
2006 Edition
In 2003, the whole world celebrated Maud Fontenoy, the first woman to row alone across the North Atlantic. In 2005, raising the bar, she took on a far more difficult challenge: the Pacific Ocean—again, a feat no woman had ever before accomplished.
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Publishers Weekly
Fontenoy writes lyrically of the beauty and power of the sea and of her struggle to reach her goal.
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Daughter of Heaven
A Memoir with Earthly Recipes
Leslie Li
2005 Edition
A powerful, touching memoir of a Chinese-American woman and her Chinese grandmother by an extraordinarily talented author who has drawn comparisons to Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston.
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author of Crescent and Arabian Jazz - Diana Abu-Jaber
Leslie Li’s writing is brilliantly fresh, direct, and unabashed. Deftly wise and ironic, Daughter of Heaven takes us on an unforgettable, unflinching journey of food and remembrance.
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Family Outing
What Happened When I Found Out My Mother Was Gay
Troy Johnson
2008 Edition
A brutally honest, touchingly funny look at life after a young boy discovers the truth about his mother.
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Edge
Johnson's family troubles break his (and our) hearts almost as much as Augusten Burroughs, and his scathingly funny, merciless observations are David Sedaris–worthy. . . . He has a talent for writing that is emotionally resonant, with a clean, lean style and a sense of wit and deep empathy. He’s also the funniest straight guy to take to his laptop and bang out a memoir about a difficult family life since . . . well, maybe ever. . . . which will strike a deep and responsive chord in plenty of... cont'd
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The Good Works of Ayela Linde
A Novel in Stories
Charlotte Forbes
2006 Edition
From an O. Henry Prize–winner, this dazzling novel in stories marks the arrival of a powerfully original and beguiling new voice in American fiction.
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Jenna Blum, author of Those Who Save Us
"In the tradition of Julia Alvarez, Charlotte Forbes's The Good Works of Ayela Linde uses a chorus of lyrical voices to create an enchanting mosaic portrait of a complex woman."
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In My Skin
A Memoir of Addiction
Kate Holden
2006 Edition
The frank, harrowing, and true story of one young woman’s descent into heroin addiction and prostitution, and the long, arduous struggle to redeem her life that made her stronger.
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Guardian
A glittering story of addiction and prostitution . . . quite simply in a class of its own. In My Skin is the work of a stunningly talented writer who both graces and surpasses her material, subverting popular assumptions about addiction and prostitution while making the extraordinary seem commonplace and the ordinary deeply alluring. . . . Fascinating . . . A crackling good tale.
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Ivy League Stripper
Heidi Mattson
2005 Edition
The true story of a small-town girl who mixed a prestigious Ivy-League education with the down and dirty world of stripping.
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Playboy
An honest and thoughtful look at the business of sexual fantasy.
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The Johns
Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It
Victor Malarek
2009 Edition
Following up on his scathing indictment of the international sexual enslavement of women in The Natashas, investigative journalist Victor Malarek lays bare the other side of the crisis—the men who fuel the demand.
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Gloria Steinem
The Johns by Victor Malarek is a first, crucial, long-overdue look at a global secret: the identities of customers who make sex trafficking profitable. Read it, weep, and begin to humanize the idea that "masculinity" requires dominance and humiliation.
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Kinfolks
Falling Off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors
Lisa Alther
2007 Edition
Best-selling author Lisa Alther chronicles her search for missing branches of her family tree in this dazzling, hilarious memoir.
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Wellesley magazine
Compelling bits of history, raucous wit, genealogical sleuthing, and charming childhood memories . . . With equal parts humor, wonder, and investigative journalism, Alther takes the reader on her journey from eastern Tennessee through the wilds of genealogy. . . . Her discoveries are as revealing as much as they are hidden history.
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Max Factor
The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World
Fred E. Basten
2008 Edition
The inventor of modern makeup, Max Factor literally changed the faces of the world and created a cosmetics empire that launched the multibillion-dollar beauty industry.
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Hollywood Reporter
Basten has authored some of the best-researched, best-presented books done about such versified movie topics as Technicolor, makeup, and motion picture publicity.
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