This engaging, thoughtful memoir of a return to the scene of the author's Iowa childhood confirms that places and people have the power to change gracefully if they try.

"Failure Is Not an Option" is an engaging behind-the-scenes memoir, a welcome contribution to the history of space flight.

Unlike Marlin Fitzwater's engaging 1995 memoir, "Call the Briefing!

In 1999 our reviewer, Marcia Bartusiak, called this an "engaging memoir" that "puts the need for conservation on a personal level."

In his engaging memoir, "A Walk Toward Oregon," he states matter-of-factly that he volunteered to help pile sandbags against the rising waters.

That medicine and climbing estranged him from his family is regrettable, but it makes for a cliched chapter in an otherwise engaging memoir.

In the midst of this engaging memoir Karesh reflects on the question "Where are you from?"

Wright has also written a comic novel and an engaging memoir of growing up in working-class London, England.

As Michael Korda notes in his engaging memoir of a life in publishing, the daily chores of a book editor do not make for dramatic narrative.

An engaging memoir by a litbiz veteran who has been all the places and done all the things.