Biographies/Autobiographies
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Cesar Chavez
$7.99 Add to cartDuring the Great Depression, many people had to work long hours and were barely paid enough to survive. Cesar Chavez felt this treatment was unfair and worked to secure more rights. He formed a Union
- Series: On My Own Biographies (Hardcover)
- Author: Wadsworth, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 157505826X
- Language: English
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Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
$17.00 Add to cartWhat if that person you’ve been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace today?
…And what if that’s the point?
In Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites- Author: Bolz-Weber, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1601427565
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$17.00 Add to cartEx-slave Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Dougla… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 4, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140439188
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: November 3, 2004
- ISBN10: 078688746X
- Language: English
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Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
$23.00 Add to cart“bell hooks’s brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence.” –Gloria Steinem
With her customary boldness and insight, brilliant social critic and public intellectual bell ho- Series: Wounds of Passion #1
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 1, 1999
- ISBN10: 0805057226
- Language: English
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Freedom
$16.99 Read moreA profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe.
Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and fr- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1982153423
- Language: English
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
$22.00 Read more“The Master Plan is less of a road map and more of a philosophy that we should all take to heart: We are all better than our worst decision, our sense of justice should honor the redemptive possibilit… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0735215596
- Language: English
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Vanya: A True Story
$17.99 Add to cartA Classic That’s Inspired Millions
Out of the dark shadows of Soviet atheism rose a fearless young man whose boldness for Christ would make him a testimony to millions of believers around the world. … [more below]- Series: New Leaf Library
- Author: Grant, Myrna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 12 1996
- ISBN10: 0884190099
- Language: English
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present–edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of… [more below]
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593134044
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently
$20.99 Add to cart“When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond…”
Henry David Th… [more below]- Author: Buell, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0197684262
- Language: English
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Prince: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$16.99 Add to cartA collection of the very first, the very last, and the very best interviews conducted with Prince over his nearly 40 year career.
There is perhaps no musician who has had as much influence on the soun- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Prince
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 12, 2019
- ISBN10: 1612197450
- Language: English
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The Sniper: The Untold Story of the Marine Corps’ Greatest Marksman of All Time
$28.99 Read moreJim Lindsay’s The Sniper reveals, for the first time ever, the full story of the deadliest sniper in Marine Corps history, Chuck Mawhinney, who served in the Vietnam war at age 18–written with his fu
- Author: Lindsay, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 125028242X
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$21.99 Add to cartWith knowledge, spirit, good humor, and passion, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak to our most burning contemporary issues a… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Clayborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0446676500
- Language: English
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The Seven Storey Mountain
$18.99 Add to cartOne of the most famous books ever written about a man’s search for faith and peace.
The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age- Author: Merton, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0156010860
- Language: English
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The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
$22.00 Add to cartBob Drury and Tom Clavin’s The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion’s heroism and courage in World War II.
They were known as “Rudder’s Rangers,” the most elite and experien- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1250247187
- Language: English
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All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World’s Most Beloved Animal Doctor
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis for the PBS Masterpiece series and the second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series.
Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of Ja- Series: All Creatures Great and Small #2
- Author: Herriot, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058120
- Language: English
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Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
$19.95 Add to cart2024 Stonewall Honor Award for Nonfiction
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous- Author: Meronek, Toshio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1839763345
- Language: English
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Unsealed: A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Mastering Life’s Transitions
$19.99 Add to cartSEALs are notorious for telling riveting stories without a shred of emotion. There’s a good reason for that. They’ve been trained to keep their emotions at bay-to be hard-so they can accomplish seemin
- Author: Greene, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 22, 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989068289
- Language: English
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The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
$16.99 Add to cartA Journey for the Ages
The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coelho’s international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes are companions–to truly comprehend one, you must re
- Series: Plus
- Author: Coelho, Paulo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0061687456
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$5.95 Add to cartFrederick Douglass’s dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crim- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0451529944
- Language: English
