Seeing Red: A Woman's Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred, by Lone Mørch
GENRE: MEMOIR
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Seeing Red is one woman’s search for personal power, a journey of climbing inner and outer mountains that takes her to the holy Mt. Kailas in Tibet, through a seven-year marriage, and into the arms of the fierce goddess Kali, where she discovers her powerful feminine self. As much a memoir about coming into one’s own as it is a love affair with the Himalayas, Seeing Red takes the reader on an unforgettable journey of creation and destruction.

This is the story of Denmark native Lone Mørch’s transformation—a story of love and passion, and also a story of self-betrayal. This is every woman’s story because it’s a dispassionate tale of one woman who knowingly gives up on herself, and who has to fight tooth and nail to reclaim herself. In the end, the efforts are worth it, but she has to strip herself bare, lose everything she’s held dear, and strip away everything she’s ever built in order to see the truth.

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Beautiful Garbage, by Jill DiDonato
GENRE: FICTION

Jodi Plum—smart, talented, ambitious, troubled. Her story parallels an artist’s journey with her sexual epiphanies, exploiting the notorious milieu of the 1980s downtown art scene from an unexplored point of view—that of the young female artist.

Fresh out of her teens, Plum leaves suburbia for Manhattan’s glam and gritty art scene. She soon falls into the clutches of Monika, a beautiful photographer. Under the spell of her new mentor, Plum quickly becomes a rising star. When a skeleton from her past surfaces, Plum’s dream life crashes to a halt. Overwhelmed by guilt, she slips into a world of parties, drugs, and high-class prostitution.

Set in the crime-plagued New York City of the 1980s, Beautiful Garbage offers a satirical and irreverent look at post-’70s sexual politics, the downtown art scene, and the world of elite call girls. Against this background, Plum struggles with the notion of the modern artist.

Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen, by Judith Newton
GENRE: MEMOIR

Tasting Home is the history of a woman’s emotional education, the romantic tale of a marriage between a straight woman and a gay man, and an exploration of the ways in which cooking  can lay the groundwork not only for personal healing and familial relation, but for political community as well. Organized by decade and by the cookbooks that shaped author Judith Newton’s life, it sensuously evokes the cuisines, cultural spirit, and politics of the 1940s through 2011, complete with recipes.

Warming Up, by Mary Hutchings Reed
GENRE: FICTION

Approaching forty, unemployed but well-off, talented but unknown, functional but depressed, former musical actress Cecilia Morrison reluctantly seeks therapy. But it takes a runaway teenager to change her life when he cons her out of sixty bucks.

Whether they're at the apex of success or just starting out, Warming Up speaks to everyone who’s ever wondered, “What’s it all about?” or who finds themselves doing something they never thought they’d do, whether it’s singing in a subway to earn some “dough-re-me” or running out of an important audition, chased by a ghost. Reed offers a unique perspective on a homeless teen who is using his innate abilities as a con man to help his sister and her baby escape their damaged childhoods, and sympathizes with a perfectionist’s struggle to express himself creatively in a medium in which he is a mere amateur. 

Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness, by Linda Joy Myers
GENRE: MEMOIR

Linda Joy Myers’s compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story of three generations of daughters who long for their absent mothers, yet unwittingly recreate a pattern that she was determined to break. Accompany Linda as she uncovers family secrets, finds solace in music, and begins her healing journey. Learn how she transcends the prison of childhood to discover light in the darkness of strife, abuse, and undiagnosed mental illness.

Don’t Call Me Mother was originally published in 2005. This revised edition includes a new introduction and afterword, with new insights about memoir writing. It's an inspiring chronicle of perseverance, healing, and the transformative power of forgiveness.

Splitting the Difference: A Heart-Shaped Memoir, by Tré Miller Rodriguez
GENRE: MEMOIR

Tré was a young L.A. publicist when she fell in love with Alberto, a thirty-something advertising exec. They married on their eighth date and began a Manhattan adventure that was shattered less than four years later when she found him dead of a heart attack. In sharply unsentimental prose, Tré comes to grips with the loss while recounting her marriage to the man she saw as her partner in time. Grief leads her toward a staggering amount of champagne, fumbling sexual encounters, and, finally, Alberto’s homeland of Cuba. Shifting between past and present, she unpacks the oddness of being widowed at 34 and the subsequent joy of reuniting with the daughter she gave up for adoption years ago. At turns irreverent and heart-rending, Splitting the Difference captures one woman’s pursuit of hope and context amid personal tragedy.

Shanghai Love, by Layne Wong
GENRE: FICTION

Shanghai Love is a gripping novel about the unlikely love story that develops between a Chinese herbalist and a Jewish refugee in Shanghai during World War II.

Peilin is betrothed to Kwan Yao, the only son of a wealthy pearl farmer. However, months before their wedding, Yao is killed by the Japanese in the Nanjing Massacre. The Kwans insist on proceeding with the wedding and beautiful Peilin is married to a ghost husband. When an uncle passes away, Peilin is sent to Shanghai to manage the Kwan family herbal shop. Meanwhile, in Berlin, Henri graduates from medical school just as Hitler rises to power and unleashes prejudice and violence against the Jewish population. He flees to Shanghai where he’s befriended by Ping, a young disfigured rickshaw driver. Ping introduces Henri to his sister Peilin. Through her kindness, Henri becomes fascinated with Chinese herbs as well as the exotic culture surrounding him. Shanghai Love is a classic story of love’s triumph over adversity.