Personal Memoirs
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Sea Bean: A Beachcomber’s Search for a Magical Charm–A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“Sea Bean is a coastal treasure. Its hard-won attentiveness shows the wonder and vulnerability of our interconnected oceans, wildlife, and people. In Sally’s writing, beachcombing–an old island pursu
- Author: Huband, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0063384582
- Language: English
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Street God: The Explosive True Story of a Former Drug Boss on the Run from the Hood–And the Courageous Mission That Drove Him Back
$16.99 Read moreHis street name was Daylight. But he was a nightmare. On the streets of New York, darkness and violence reigned. Dimas “Daylight” Salaberrios popped his first pill when he was eleven years old, and ju… [more below]
- Author: Salaberrios, Dimas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1496402782
- Language: English
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The Cycle of Kindness
$16.99 Add to cartThis true story tells the tales about the capacity of the human will. Nathaniel Allenby’s (Fight to Survive, Cirque Quirk) The Cycle of Kindness regales readers with larger-than-life factual accounts
- Author: Allenby, Nathaniel D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1618800558
- Language: English
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Melted Away: A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru
$29.95 Add to cartA prolific poet as a child, Barbara Drake-Vera loved writing almost as much as she adored her father, a moody postal employee with an elaborate comb-over and a fondness for Mahler. But when her succes
- Author: Drake-Vera, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181528
- Language: English
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Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth): A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
“Playful and poignant . . . will be enjoyed by readers of the best dog tales, such as The Art of Racing in the Rain, for its ability to evoke bo
- Author: Zusak, Markus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063426072
- Language: English
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I’m Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen–My Journey Home
$19.99 Add to cartSHOSHANA HOLDS NOTHING BACK in this harrowing account of an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances. She reveals decisions made by chain of command that may have led to her twenty-two-day… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Shoshana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1416567496
- Language: English
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The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Heart-wrenchingly personal…dizzying.” —Rolling Stone From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog–no- Author: Franke, Shari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1668065398
- Language: English
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Driven: Investigating Nine Decades of Stop-at-Nothing Ambition
$45.00 Add to cartAttorney John Martel’s memoir, Driven, explores nine decades of relentless ambition-from flying in the Air Force to winning high-profile legal cases, from successes in music, writing, and competitive
- Author: Martel, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 196086517X
- Language: English
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Mickey: The Cat Who Raised Me
$17.95 Read moreA witty and warm memoir about growing up with the help of a very special cat – from Helen Brown, internationally bestselling author of Cleo and other tales of the beloved cats in her life…
Who was t- Author: Brown, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0806541849
- Language: English
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Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York
$29.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – An evocative coming-of-age memoir–the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde… [more below]
- Author: Trebay, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1524731978
- Language: English
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Twice as Weird: A Memoir about Twice Exceptionality
$23.00 Add to cartWhen Peter Flom was five years old, his parents were told that he had “minimal brain dysfunction” and would never go to college. Peter skipped twelfth grade, did college in three years, and got his BA… [more below]
- Author: Flom, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: February 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218370565
- Language: English
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Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the renowned director of Crazy Rich Asians and Wicked comes a powerful, inspiring memoir of belonging, creativity, and learning to see who you really are.
“[Jon M. Chu] is a visionary. . . . He m- Author: Chu, Jon M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593448944
- Language: English
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Hope Unseen: The Story of the U.S. Army’s First Blind Active-Duty Officer
$18.99 Add to cartThe inspiring, unflinching true story of “blind” faith, as Major Scotty Smiley awakes in a hospital bed and realizes his world is permanently dark he must stretch his faith like never before. Courageo… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Scotty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1451672918
- Language: English
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Little Seed
$18.95 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK of 2024
“Little Seed is what I want the future of literature to be.” -Sam Cohen, author of Sarahland
Little Seed is an experimen
- Author: Tchou, Wei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1646053362
- Language: English
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Surviving Stupid: A Comical Look at Growing up in Rural Manitoba
$16.99 Add to cartWhat doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and as kids we thought we were invulnerable, unbeatable, immortal. We did so many crazy and dangerous things that could have-should have-killed us, all in the… [more below]
- Author: Parsons, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1039196101
- Language: English
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Iris Apfel: Colorful: A Treasure Trove of Inspiration, Influences, and Ideas
$50.00 Add to cartFashion icon Iris Apfel shares her philosophy for living, unique perspective on design, and the key moments that shaped her life, along with 300 photographs from her personal collection in a beautiful
- Author: Apfel, Iris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1419776606
- Language: English
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Wishing on Rainbows: A Memoir
$26.23 Add to cartI didn’t get to say goodbye.
To my son. To myself. He was beyond magical and she was pretty cool too.
When Laura Silveira loses her firstborn son, Chase, at six months of age, she loses the person she
- Author: Silveira, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1963781023
- Language: English
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It Didn’t Start Out That Way
$19.95 Add to cart84 years in the making. 60 homes. 18 schools and 3 husbands. Judy Bridges is the founder of Redbird Studio writing center and author of the well-loved writers’ guide, Shut Up & Write! In her 80s now,
- Author: Bridges, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1736551965
- Language: English
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Leap
$24.99 Add to cart“Generous and gorgeous… Filled with places and people that will stay with you long after you read it… ” — Nicole Helget, author of The Summer of Ordinary Ways
“A first-of-its-kind memoir … An ho
- Author: Love, Brent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: June 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889260202
- Language: English
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Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lesso… [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0593242408
- Language: English
