Shebooks imprint: 70 books
Every Mother Has a Story
A Shebooks/Good Housekeeping Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
The winners of the Shebooks/Good Housekeeping memoir contest offer three slices of life as a mother. In “People Don’t Get Me, Mom,” Jackie Mercurio carries a troubling secret that will change the life of her brilliant, misunderstood boy. Then a family trip to the Butterfly Garden takes them...
Every Mother Has a Story Volume Two
A Shebooks/Good Housekeeping Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Every mother—and every daughter—has a story, and four of the best appear in the second volume of this Shebooks/Good Housekeeping collaboration. Heartwrenching and heartwarming, these top picks trace the twisting contradictions in the relationships between four very different sets of mothers and...
Girls' Night Out
A Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Kate Clark Flora is the master of the mystery and true crime genres. Author of seven “strong woman” Thea Kozak mysteries and three gritty police procedurals in her star-reviewed Joe Burgess series, Girls' Night Out is her first novelette, only in Shebooks. In this delicious tale of revenge, when...
Destination Gacy
A Cross-Country Journey to Shake the Devil's Hand
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In 1994, journalist Nancy Rommelmann accompanied Rick Gaez, a 26-year-old pen pal of John Wayne Gacy, on a road trip from Los Angeles to Illinois, to visit the serial killer before his execution. Along the way, she took the moral temperature of people on college campuses, in bars, in churches, asking...
Light Our Fire
My Wedding to Jim Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
What's it like to be married to the superstar lead singer of the Doors? Patricia Kennealy Morrison gives a loving and detailed account of the pagan handfasting ceremony that bound her forever with the legendary rock superstar Jim Morrison. The intimate portrait of Jim that emerges—a tender and vulnerable...
The Marco Chronicles
To Rome, Without Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Get ready to have all your illusions of the glamorous Italian expat life shattered in this hilarious, irreverent memoir of a young American woman's romantic (or rather, unromantic) misadventures in the eternal city. Handsome, charming Roman men; perfectly made cappuccino and risotto; breathtakingly...
The Real America
The Tangled Roots of Race and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Growing up, Teresa Wiltz always knew that she was black. Her parents, the mixed-race descendants of both the enslaved and the enslavers—and a stray American Indian or two—made it abundantly clear: we’re black. Be proud. And she was proud. Problem was, everyone else was always questioning her...
Blood Brother
The Gene that Rocked my Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Blood Brother: The gene that rocked my family offers a brave and nuanced take on one of the most radioactive issues of our times: genetic testing. When her beloved brother Jim is diagnosed with Huntington’s disease—a fatal brain disease—author Mona Gable is suddenly thrust into alien, frightening...
How It Goes in Mexico
Essays from an Expatriate
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Carol Merchasin first visited San Miguel de Allende in 2005, fell in love with its language, people, and culture, and moved there full-time with her husband shortly thereafter. A lawyer by training, Merchasin is curious about how everything around her in Mexico works—the health care system, religious...
Nest. Flight. Sky.
On Love and Loss, One Wing at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
In Nest. Flight. Sky. award-winning memoirist Beth Kephart returns to the form for the first time in years to reckon with the loss of her mother and a slow-growing but soon inescapable obsession with birds and flight. Kephart finds herself drawn to the startle of the winter finch, the quick pulse...
The Last Thing to Go
Age, Sex, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Joan Didion and Nora Ephron have both written, by turns grimly and hilariously, about the indignities of getting older. Now comes Jane Juska, laying bare (literally) everything no one has yet said about life in the later years. With her characteristic wit, unsparing eye for detail, and famously frank...
Runway
Confessions of a Not-So-Supermodel
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Fresh out of Catholic high school, Michigan girl Meghan Ward heads for the Paris runways at the tender age of 18. She had never intended to be a model. In fact, she had the typical thinking-person’s qualms about the industry, particularly the unhealthy images of women it promotes. But she had the...
by Ethel Rohan
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Out of Dublin, a survivor’s captivating story of loss, abuse, and resilience, is a stunning short memoir told with startling honesty and vulnerability. Perhaps what’s most arresting about this work, above its unique voice, above its call to end silence, is the depth of its author’s capacity for compassion, love, and forgiveness.
Camp Paradox
A Memoir of Stolen Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This haunting yet wry coming-of-age memoir set at an all-girls summer camp fast-forwards decades into the future as Barbara Graham grapples with the knowledge that the “love affair” she believed she’d shared with her female camp counselor in the 1960s fits every definition of sexual abuse. The...