First Comes Love, NPR commentator Marion Winik’s candid memoir, tells the story of a straight woman (Winik) and a gay man falling in love, marrying, and raising two sons, only to see their against-the-odds happiness crumble under the weight of drug abuse and AIDS. “[Winik] has perfected an unblinking narrative tone that is frequently funny in spite of the fact that much of what she has to impart is painfully sad” (New York Times Book Review). Winik’s new book, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, a 21st-century creative nonfiction version of Spoon River Anthology will be published in November 2008.

Manic is Terri Cheney’s harrowing first-person account of bipolar disorder, written by a former prominent Hollywood attorney who represented everyone from Michael Jackson to Universal Studios. Rendered in heartbreaking prose that probes the depths of depression and the shaky heights of mania, Cheney’s memoir “is not an easy book to read, but has heart and soul to spare” (People).

In 2003, Jennifer Finney Boylan took the literary world by storm, publishing her critically acclaimed memoir Shes Not There, the first bestselling book by a transgendered American. The story of her remarkable transformation from James to Jenny was featured on Oprah, The Today Show, and Larry King Live. In Imm Looking Through You, she writes about her life growing up in Coffin House, a dilapidated mansion on Philadelphia’s Main Line.

The remarkable and loving accomplishment of The Bishops Daughter is that in revealing Paul Moore as he could never disclose himself, honor Moore does not diminish but enlarges him, writes Kathryn Harrison in the New York Times Book Review. Honor Moore, a poet and author of the biography The White Blackbird, a New York Times Notable Book, focuses her memoir on the life of her father, Paul Moore, the activist Episcopal bishop of New York who rose to leadership in the civil rights and peace movements of the 60s. A chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers, The Bishops Daughter is Moore’s investigation of a life lived at the intersection of public and private, and the epic story of a great bishop.