family

The author, along with other members of his family, extensively research their family's heritage revealing their relationship to the most successful slave-trade family in American history.

Loung Ung recounts her struggles to adapt to life in America after arriving in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee.

Queen Noor, born into an Arab-American family, shares the story of her relationship with her husband King Hussein of Jordan, telling of their first meeting, the time they spent together before their marriage, and her life and work as queen, and discussing Hussein's legacy to his family and country.

Presents the true account of three young aboriginal girls who were taken from their homes in Southwestern Australia and brought to the Moore River Native Settlement in 1931 in order to be assimilated into white culture, and their desperate struggle across over 1,000 miles of desert to reach their home.

Margaret A. Salinger writes about her life with her reclusive father, writer J.D. Salinger.

The novelist tells the story of his father, who created him and whom he recreates in an act of memory, elegy, and appreciation.

The story of the Thornton family, which produced two doctors, a dentist, an attorney, a nurse, and a court stenographer. Donald Thornton worked two full-time jobs to support his family and prodded and inspired his six daughters to pursue education and succeed as young musicians and in their professions.

A memoir in which author Bobbie Ann Mason tells the story of her Kentucky farm family and the challenges she and her parents and grandparents faced when the changing world intruded on their rural life.

Explores the influence of two women on the work of nineteenth-century author Henry James, including his cousin Minny Temple, the heroine of his youth in New England, and writer Constance Fenimore Woolson, a friend of his middle years.