Biographies/Autobiographies
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Catch as Catch Can: Building a Legacy by Finding Opportunity in Every Obstacle
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the streets of Louisville’s Smoketown to corner offices and conference rooms, George Tinsley Sr.’s life journey is one of grit, perseverance, and the transformative power of seeing obstacles as o… [more below]
- Author: Tinsley, George, Sr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1642258423
- Language: English
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My Name Was Baby: An Intersex Memoir
$29.99 Add to cartFrom a rising intersex activist in the Midwest, a candid memoir about growing up different and an inspiring story of self-discovery and self-acceptance.
When Chris Arnone was born in Independence, Miss
- Author: Arnone, Chris M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 0700643524
- Language: English
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Idle in Provence: A Brief History of Thyme
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1971, at the beginning of Monty Python mania, Eric Idle bought a crumbling ruin in the hills of Provence. With no electricity, no water, no road, and no plan, he set out to transform the neglected
- Author: Idle, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1400256763
- Language: English
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Not Just Me: A Survivor’s Fight For Healing, Justice, and DNA Reform
$18.99 Add to cartOne in six American women will be the victim of sexual assault in her lifetime.
This is one woman’s story-and a roadmap for healing.
When Julie Weil was violently abducted and raped in front of her youn
- Author: Weil, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1969826371
- Language: English
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I Once Knew a Guy Named Charlie: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Smith, Jaclyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1982116641
- Language: English
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Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing
$32.50 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben offers a look behind the curtain at his own writing process in an inspiring, candid memoir filled with indispensable insights and techniques.
“For aspi
- Author: Coben, Harlan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1538784629
- Language: English
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
$29.95 Add to cart“A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer.”–Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentiet- Author: Bailey, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0691290172
- Language: English
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Beauty from Ashes: The Story of the Girl Whose Name Means Worthy of Love
$21.95 Add to cartBeauty from Ashes: The Story of the Girl Whose Name Means Worthy of Love was written in a place of my deepest suffering and most profound healing that came out of it. Through the experiences I had bee
- Author: Tarquinio, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 09 2026
- ISBN10: 9798898382612
- Language: English
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A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections
$12.95 Add to cartJames Edward Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward’s two sisters, Anna Lefroy a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen-Leigh, James Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540772
- Language: English
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Under the Mercy: A Sequel to a Severe Mercy
$17.95 Add to cartWith eloquent, moving prose, Sheldon Vanauken tells about those years following the death of his beloved wife, Davy, and how he moved step-by-step through the darkness of his grief into the light of
- Author: Vanauken, Sheldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: December 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0898702135
- Language: English
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Ravelings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder
$21.95 Add to cartIn Ravelings, Lisa Knopp takes up an older, opposing meaning of the verb “ravel”–“to entangle”–as she explores the deaths and departures of loved ones and the rituals by which we mourn and honor the
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Knopp, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 149624494X
- Language: English
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My Seven Mothers: Making a Family in the Danish Women’s Movement
$29.95 Add to cartSeven women raise a child together while redefining their place in society at the beginning of the Women’s Movement in Denmark in the 1970s
On New Year’s Eve in Copenhagen in 1972, seven women had a- Author: Ipsen, Pernille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1517917794
- Language: English
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Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$9.95 Add to cartElizabeth von Arnim’s vivid, humorous, and subtly subversive Elizabeth and her German Garden is one of the great garden memoirs of all time. As the wife of a stern German aristocrat and mother of youn… [more below]
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1959891669
- Language: English
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The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life
$20.00 Read moreNow in Paperback!
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Winner of the Vermont Book Awards
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the New England Book Award
Featured on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS New
- Author: Whybrow, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1571311637
- Language: English
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Jack Rittenhouse: A Western Literary Life
$27.95 Add to cart- Author: Farmer, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369553
- Language: English
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No Finish Line: A Racer’s Journey of Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose
$29.99 Add to cartAn inspirational memoir by the former IndyCar driver turned entrepreneur, race team owner and philanthropist, No Finish Line is Sam Schmidt’s account of leading the charge to find cures and treatments… [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798895151617
- Language: English
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The Complete Cloud of Unknowing: With the Letter of Privy Counsel
$22.99 Add to cartThe Christian mystical tradition has its roots in Holy Scripture but was enunciated most clearly by the late 5th century author writing under the name Dionysius the Areopagite. It was acquaintance wit… [more below]
- Series: Paraclete Giants
- Author: Julian, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1612616208
- Language: English
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Grief Grit Glory
$26.95 Add to cartA Mother’s Extraordinary Journey From Heartbreak to Hope
Pam was twenty-four, pregnant with her third child, and holding fast to a life built on faith, love, and promise–until everything changed with … [more below]
- Author: Runner, Pamela Jessup
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1636988997
- Language: English
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Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West
$20.00 Read moreIn the exhilarating spirit of Wild and A Walk in the Park, this “intimate and action-packed memoir” (Outside) follows one woman’s struggle to succeed as a wildland firefighter on an elite, male-domina… [more below]
- Author: Ramsey, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1668031485
- Language: English
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Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
$27.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, this national bestseller “offers painful childhood memories of straddling two vastly different cultures . . . to fashion a cautionary tale about the power of race in shaping identity… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 1573229075
- Language: English
