C. Griff Griffin, director of general education for the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, said she started reading this book because she is a hiker and had recently hiked to Everest Base Camp in Nepal. more info

Judy Palmer, director of Grand Forum, read this memoir several years ago and found it fascinating. It is the story of the author as a boy who, because of the Cuban revolution, had to leave his family at age 11 to live in an unknown country. more info

A Hope College professor, Heather Sellers wrote this memoir about suffering from prosopagnosia or face blindness: the inability to recognize faces -- even members of her own family. Michele Coffill, associate director of publications in News and Information Services, said Sellers engages readers as if they were beside her for her emotional journey from initial onset to diagnosis. The book and Sellers' experiences are intertwined with flashbacks of growing up in an alcoholic, dysfunctional family. more info