My Song: A Memoir
10 best books like My Song: A Memoir (Harry Belafonte): Saving Fish from Drowning, American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey, The Thread, Rita Moreno: A Memoir, Audition: A Memoir, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder, Born Survivors, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
Saving Fish from Drowning
San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses,...
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
| Author | Hannah Nordhaus |
| ISBN | 0062249215 |
The award-winning journalist and author of The Beekeeper's Lament attempts to discover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, Julia--whose ghost is said to haunt an elegant hotel in Santa Fe--in this spellbinding exploration of myth, family history, and the American West.
The...
River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
| Author | Helen Prejean |
| ISBN | 1400067308 |
In this revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking, the nation's foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion are not mutually...
| Author | Victoria Hislop |
| ISBN | 0755377737 |
A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Thread is a magnificent story of a friendship and a love that endures through the catastrophes and upheavals of the twentieth century--both natural and man-made--in the turbulent city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Victoria Hislop, internationally...
| Author | Rita Moreno |
| ISBN | 1101615222 |
In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend--and one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys.
Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto...
Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring...
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
| Author | Vaseem Khan |
| ISBN | 0316386820 |
On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries.
The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high...
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
| Author | John Waters |
| ISBN | 1250223946 |
"[Just] like reading a description of a Waters film is nothing like seeing it on the screen, listening to him tell his own stories brings the context and inflection needed to truly appreciate his art. A singular experience." — Booklist
This program is read by the author and includes a bonus...
| Author | Wendy Holden |
| ISBN | 0062370251 |
The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death...
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok—a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history
In 1932,...
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
| Author | D.L. Hughley |
| ISBN | 0062698567 |
3 hours, 45 minutes
A cutting satire of race relations in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter from the hugely popular comedian—one of "The Original Kings of Comedy"—and author of the New York Times bestseller Black Man, White House.
"White people are always giving out ‘helpful’...
