Biographies/Autobiographies
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Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen
$18.00 Read moreTreasure in Clay provides a lifetime’s worth of wisdom from one of the most beloved and influential figures in twentieth-century Catholicism.
Completed shortly before his death in 1979, Treasure in Cl- Author: Sheen, Fulton J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0385177097
- Language: English
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Not My Momma
$13.95 Add to cartJerome was smart and full of energy as a kid. His first friend, whom he loved so much, was his momma. Everybody knew her, and she was fine as a glass of cold water. And he was proud to be called Tracy
- Author: Jordan, Jerome Amazin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: February 16 2026
- ISBN10: 9798887935058
- Language: English
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My Color
$26.99 Add to cartNavigating the complexities of identity, a young girl confronts the challenges of race and belonging, ultimately discovering self-love and acceptance in a world that often demands conformity, revealin
- Author: Eugenia, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 16 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318824647
- Language: English
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Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
$27.00 Add to cartA “gleaming, humane” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and a first-year medical student
Medical student Christine Montross felt nervous standing o- Author: Montross, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113666
- Language: English
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Ultra Women: The Trailblazers Defying Sexism in Sport
$25.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
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THE TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
‘A masterful work that will challenge your views on the physical cap
- Author: Canter, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1914487095
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Talmud: Timeless Controversies: Heretic Horizons of Jewish History (Skriuwer.com Edition)
$16.99 Add to cartThe Dark Side of the Talmud examines some of the more difficult passages in rabbinic literature, placing them in their historical context to explain how they arose. Beginning with the Babylonian exile
- Series: Controversial Books
- Author: Auke de Haan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: October 29 2025
- ISBN10: 3565067675
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
$18.99 Read moreA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.
As the first Black woman to c
- Author: Morris, Susana M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063211831
- Language: English
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The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: The Countess of Carnarvon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0063578751
- Language: English
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God is Real: He Showed Me a True Miracle
$11.95 Add to cartThis book describes a number of vignettes involving Dr. Carl Drury. He went from a lucrative medical practice and a career in the Georgia General Assembly to a seventeen-year sentence in federal priso
- Author: Drury, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798898382834
- Language: English
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Life Without Reservations: Growing Up at the Famed Ambassador Hotel 1921 to 1938
$25.00 Add to cartWhat if the only life a young girl ever knew was growing up in a famous hotel? And what if that young girl was your mother, and her magical life went from extraordinary to ordinary overnight? This is
- Author: Benjamin, Carlyn Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1960865412
- Language: English
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
$29.99 Read moreAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Es
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 006224857X
- Language: English
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Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived
$19.00 Add to cartSimon Callow, the celebrated author of Orson Welles, delivers a dazzling, swift, and accessible biography of the musical titan Richard Wagner and his profoundly problematic legacy–a fresh take for se… [more below]
- Author: Callow, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0525436189
- Language: English
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Memoirs
$18.95 Read moreWhen Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams’ candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug u… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Tennessee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0811216691
- Language: English
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The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky: 1929-1940
$44.95 Add to cartFew political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky’s extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible ma… [more below]
- Author: Deutscher, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: January 17 2004
- ISBN10: 1859844510
- Language: English
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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New Yorker Best Books of 2025 Pub- Author: Lin, Jeremy Atherton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0316546070
- Language: English
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Robert Louis Stevenson
$22.00 Read moreR. L. Stevenson’s life and writing, which reflected a restless mind in a global age.
This concise biography offers a fresh portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson: frail Edinburgh child turned globe-trott- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Norquay, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391684
- Language: English
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All the Work I Never Wanted: A Memoirella of Jobs
$15.00 Add to cartThe lady at the plastic-cup-making factory is missing her fingers. The kid at the burger joint is spitting on patties. The newspapers are thrown out of dented vans in the darkest hours of morning. The
- Author: Marshall, Rex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798991307178
- Language: English
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Science Nonfiction: Behind the Scenes in University Research
$23.99 Add to cartEvery year, the United States spends roughly $60 billion-about one percent of the federal budget-on university research. Though this research has far-reaching effects and benefits the public at large,
- Author: Lipomi, Darren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: June 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798995796909
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Forty-Niner
$15.00 Read moreIn August 1906, Chauncey Canfield committed to his publisher a found text: the diary, ostensibly verified, of one Alfred T. Jackson, a pioneer miner who joined the Gold Rush from his home in Norfolk, … [more below]
- Author: Canfield, Chauncey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 19 1993
- ISBN10: 0962798738
- Language: English
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The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting
$17.95 Add to cartA fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the obsessive world of collecting (and stamps) by maverick historian and cult writer Robert Irwin.
“[A] delightful mishmash of quotations, digressions, obs- Author: Irwin, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1805337769
- Language: English
