The Days Are Gods

Liz Stephens

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• "I called the bishop of the local ward, and he put the date of your move into the church bulletin, and these gentlemen came to help," Brady, the real ... Lees meer

The Sound of Undoing

Paige Towers

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award Winner 2024 Eric Hoffer Academic Press Award Winner 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List 2024 Wisconsin Librar... Lees meer

Local Wonders

Ted Kooser

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska--an area known as the Bohem... Lees meer

Let Me Count the Ways

Tomás Q Morín

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• 2023 Vulgar Genius Nonfiction Award 2022 Writer's League of Texas Nonfiction Book Award Growing up in a small town in South Texas in the eighties and ... Lees meer

My Ruby Slippers

Tracy Seeley

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• Sure, there's no place like home--but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns... Lees meer

Secret Frequencies

John Skoyles

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• In this compelling memoir, John Skoyles guides us through 1960s New York. Caught between his uncle Fred, a mob associate and man-about-town, and his a... Lees meer

Autumn Song

Patrice Gopo

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award Winner We all live lives littered with what we leave behind: places we once lived, friendships we on... Lees meer

Searching for Tamsen Donner

Gabrielle Burton

• Hardcover | Engels | American Lives
• Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846-47. Others might know... Lees meer

Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

Sonya Huber

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal e... Lees meer

Works Cited

Brandon R Schrand

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• "Doing things by the book" acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand's memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The "works cited" are tho... Lees meer

Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed

Mimi Schwartz

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• In this startlingly funny and wonderfully honest book of essays, Mimi Schwartz describes what it means to be married for almost forty years. She write... Lees meer

Descanso for My Father

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• When his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn't quite two. His mother packed up his father's belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and... Lees meer

The Fortune Teller's Kiss

Brenda Serotte

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• There was always the incantation: "Whoever wishes you harm, may harm come to them!" And just in case that didn't work, there were garlic and cloves to... Lees meer

The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet

Kim Adrian

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter's struggle to face the Medusa of generational t... Lees meer

Should I Still Wish

John W Evans

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• In this candid and moving memoir, John W. Evans articulates the complicated joys of falling in love again as a young widower. Though heartbroken after... Lees meer

Between Panic and Desire

Dinty W Moore

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• "Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books--and, invariably, "hilarious." Between Panic and... Lees meer

Borderline Citizen

Robin Hemley

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• In Borderline Citizen Robin Hemley wrestles with what it means to be a citizen of the world, taking readers on a singular journey through the hinterla... Lees meer

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know

Chachi D Hauser

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• At first glance a reader might mistake It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know for a juicy Hollywood tell-all, given Chachi D. Hauser's background as the... Lees meer

Shadow Migration

Suzanne Ohlmann

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• With her feet firmly rooted on the plains of Nebraska, Suzanne Ohlmann launches the reader into flight over miles and decades of migration: from an ap... Lees meer

Get Me Through Tomorrow

Mojie Crigler

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-year-old guitarist, ... Lees meer

This Jade World

Ira Sukrungruang

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• 2022 Book of the Year Award from the Chicago Writers Association 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist in Memoir 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist This Ja... Lees meer

Turning Bones

Lee Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | American Lives
• Farmers and pragmatists, hardworking people who made their way west from Kentucky through Ohio and Indiana to settle at last in southern Illinois, Lee... Lees meer

American Lives

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• Memoirs are as varied as human emotion and experience, and those published in the distinguished American Lives Series run the gamut. Excerpted from th... Lees meer

Opa Nobody

Sonya Huber

• Paperback | Engels | American Lives
• It had come to this: breast-feeding her screaming three-month-old while sitting on the cigarette-scarred floor of a union hall, lying to her husband s... Lees meer