This memoir has been all over the news lately, as its author explores the difficulty and trauma of his childhood and how he eventually became a Yale educated lawyer. Vance’s mother struggled with addiction; a never-ending stream of unsuitable men were a part of his...

Hawkins, author of the sensational Girl on a Train, is back with this atmospheric thriller. A single mother drowns in a river by her house, under mysterious circumstances. Her work involved documenting the deaths of troublesome women in this same river and drowning...

So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys….This is the story of how I...

David Sedaris on audio is a true treat. Sedaris began keeping a diary in 1977. His early entries reveal a young man adrift, hitch hiking back and forth across the country, picking fruit, painting. and cleaning houses for a living, all the while doing too many drugs...

This is the final Neapolitan novel. If you have read them all, you have followed Elena and Lila as they marry, divorce, bear children, and become successful: Elena as an author, Lila as the owner of a computer software business. Despite their success, they continue to...

This novel was the first American winner of the prestigious Man Booker prize. The narrator lives in Dickens, an agrarian community in the center of Los Angeles, whose most famous resident is Hominy Jenkins, the last surviving member of the Little Rascals. Dickens has...

Local poet and professor Feinstein is the son of Sam Feinstein, a noted abstract expressionist painter and, as it turns out, a hoarder. This is a memoir about the relationship between Sascha and Sam is explored through memory and through the author’s experience of...

The audio is read by the Boss himself. Need I say more? The story of Springsteen’s modest beginnings in Freehold, N.J., his dysfunctional family, and his struggle with depression is told frankly and with humor. Springsteen also writes about the hard work of becoming a...

Lisa See introduces us to the Akha people of Yunnan province in this story of mothers and daughters. Li-yan grows up in a tea-growing family, in a village whose ways have not changed in thousands of years. When she becomes pregnant out of wedlock, Li-yan, with the...