Martin's, $23.95 In this alternately muddled and affecting memoir, Marsha Recknagel struggles to understand the family ties that threatened to strangle both her and the nephew she adopted.

This affectionate and affecting memoir is the sort of book that comes along all too rarely these days.

In her affecting new memoir, she recalls how her bedroom door opened to disclose her mother Dolores, dressed in a yellow sheet, her arms covered with hieroglyphics drawn on with eyeliner pencil.

In this vibrant, affecting memoir, Mr. Dubner makes this rapprochement between a Catholic convert and a reverted Jew seem like a revelation.

In this resonant and deeply affecting memoir, Ms. Nafisi pays tribute to all their lives and to the books that sustained them during some of the darkest days of the Iranian cultural revolution.

Kati Marton's new book is "Enemies of the People," a spare, unsentimental, and deeply affecting memoir about her parents' complicated experiences in Communist Hungary.

Now, six decades later, in this modestly titled, affecting memoir, he finally tells exactly what happened on Hill 913, and describes his long road to recovery.

But in "Anne Frank Remembered," Miep Gies offers not only a fascinating and deeply affecting personal memoir, but also a valuable new perspective on the entire tragedy.

A surprising, sometimes deeply affecting memoir of his final thoughts and perceptions by a protean original who died of AIDS earlier this year.