Hole in My Heart is both a memoir and an exploration of adoption in America.

Author Gleah Powers has a hot-off-the shelf memoir about moving to Los Angeles soon after the Manson murders. Epic in scope, darkly funny, and ultimately redemptive, this is a memoir of a courageous woman determined to find her most authentic self.

Her young life changed in an instant. Now, she must share the story with the son she gave away.

Most of us lead conventional lives. This memoir shows that it's possible to squeeze more "life" out of life than most of us imagine.

Riding astride her horse, rather than sidesaddle, Isabel Bird traveled from Truckee, California through the Tahoe Basin, eventually making her way to Colorado in one of the most unusual travel narratives of its day.

Newly relevant in the era of migrant internment camps, Farewell to Manzanar is a short, but powerful, memoir about the long-term effects of being locked up by the powers that be.

The last frontier. The deepest gorge. A one-armed vet determines to conquer the Canyon.

One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1874.