In the last twelve months year, plenty of great authors have made themselves available to join your book club meetings by phone, Skype, or in-person. Book Club Reading List is a directory of authors who are interested in attending your next meeting to discuss their books. To find a book in this genre, check out the Biography & Memoirs section of Book Club Reading List. Select a title, read over the book's summary, and find the author's contact information. It's that simple.
Below are a few interesting options for your next meeting:
| Becoming Alice, A Memoir Six-year-old Ilse watches as Nazi troops parade down her street in Vienna, Austria. It is the start of a journey that carries her from Riga, Latvia to Portland, Oregon. Becoming Alice details her Jewish family’s harrowing escape and struggle as immigrants to matriculate into their new American landscape. Add to that the problems of growing up within a troubled family, clouding her childhood and adolescence. Ilse changes her name to Alice. Only after moving to a boarding house in Berkeley, surrounded by a diverse patchwork of cultures, does she make peace with her own identity. Becoming Alice brilliantly showcases Rene’s triumph over identity crisis, adversity, and the often debilitating power of family ties. |
| Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt Sipping from the Nile is an award-winning finalist in the Autobiography/Memoirs category of the 2012 International Book Awards. Explore the innocence of childhood in a world breaking apart as an enchanted way of life suddenly ends due to multinational hostilities. Naggar’s family moves from Egypt to London where she finishes her education and is carried away into adulthood before embarking on challenge of new horizons in America. Speaking for a different wave of immigrants whose Sephardic origins highlight the American Jewish story through an unfamiliar lens, Naggar recounts her own passage through lost worlds and difficult transitions, exotic locales and strong family values. |
| Transplanted Faith Transplanted Faith details the struggle with faith, health, shattered dreams and end of life choices. David was an inspiration to every nurse, doctor, surgeon, and lung transplant patient at the University of California San Francisco pulmonary family. His courage, determination, and selflessness will touch the very depths of your soul. This book has received ten 5-star ratings on Amazon and is worth checking out for your club! |
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