1. Sorrow Built a Bridge: The Life of Mother Alphonsa - Katherine Burton - This is a biography of Rose Hawthorne Lathrope (1851 - 1926), daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, famous author of The Scarlet Letter. She became the founder of a congregation of nuns, initially called the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer and currently called the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. She is a candidate for canonization.
2. The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage - Paul Elie. This as an amazing biography of four amazing Catholic Americans - Walker Percy, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, and Flannery O’Connor.
3. Father Kevin Codd - To the Field of Stars: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela - a memoir of a priest's pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
4. Klee Wyck - Emily Carr - Emily Carr (1871 - 1945) was a very eccentric and accomplished painter and author (1941). She lived in Victoria in British Columbia on Vancouver Island. Her paintings in a Modernist and Post-Impressionist painting style were under-appreciated during her lifetime. This book, whose title comes from her indigenous name, addresses her visits to indigenous settlements in British Columbia. This memoir won Canada's Governor-General’s Award for Non-Fiction in 1941.
5. Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored - Clifton Taulbert - A native of Glen Allan, Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta, Taulbert shares his experiences growing up in the segregated Mississippi Delta in the 1950s and 1960s, being nurtured by his community and family.
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