Losing Mum and Pup
by Christopher Buckley | 
Under a Wing
by Reeve Lindbergh | 
No More Words
by Reeve Lindbergh | 
Looking Back
by Lois Lowry |
Messages From My Father
by Calvin Trillin |
Under My Skin
by Doris Lessing |
The Enchanted Places
by Christopher Milne | 
A House Unlocked
by Penelope Lively |
After All
by Mary Tyler Moore | 
Kitchen Privileges
by Mary Higgins Clark |
Knots in My Yo-Yo String
by Jerry Spinelli | 
In Spite of Myself
by Christopher Plummer |
In Pieces
by Sally Field |
Blue Remembered Hills
by Rosemary Sutcliff |
Curriculum Vitae
by Muriel Spark | 
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
by Alexandra Fuller | 
Find Me Unafraid
by Kennedy Odede | 
So Many Africas
by Jill Kandel | 
The House at Sugar Beach
by Helene Cooper | 
The Jack Bank
by Glen Retief |
The second volume of Doris Lessing's extraordinary autobiography covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in war-weary London with her son, Peter, and the manuscript for her first novel, The Grass is Singing, under her arm to the publication of her most famous work of fiction, The Golden Notebook. She describes how communism dominated the intellectual life of the 1950s and how she, like nearly all communists, became disillusioned with extreme and rhetorical politics and left communism behind. Evoking the bohemian days of a young writer and single mother, Lessing speaks openly about her writing process, her friends and lovers, her involvement in the theater, and her political activities. Walking in the Shade is an invaluable social history as well as Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education.