Biographies/Autobiographies
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Alone Across the Skybridge: A Nurse’s Cancer Journey
$20.95 Add to cartAlone Across the Skybridge is the story of my cancer journey, centered around many of my Facebook journal entries, along with backstories and pictures made from the time I was diagnosed with stage 4 d
- Author: West Bsn, Tracy Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897858170
- Language: English
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One Hundred and Four Horses
$16.99 Add to cartPat and Mandy Retzlaff enjoyed a hard but satisfying farming life in Zimbabwe. After their children, the couple’s true pride and joy were their horses. But in early 2001, their lives were thrown into
- Author: Retzlaff, Mandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0062204394
- Language: English
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Joan of Arc: A Life
$27.00 Add to cart“A master of the story form” (The New York Times) offers a fresh, revealing portrait of the legendary saint
Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contra- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Gordon, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113976
- Language: English
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Betsy Ross and the Making of America
$32.99 Add to cartBeyond the legend of the creation of the American flag, we know very little about the facts of Betsy Ross’ life. Perhaps with one snip of her scissors she convinced the nation’s future first president
- Author: Miller, Marla R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0312576226
- Language: English
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Qtopia: A Memoir of Love, Land, and Liberation
$18.95 Add to cartIn the 1970s, while communes bloomed like wildflowers across the land, most had no room for queer members. The so-called counterculture still clung to heterosexual norms, even as it preached freedom f
- Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
- Author: Bennett, Juda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 029935704X
- Language: English
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My Year in Fairyland: Grief, Maid and a Lifetime of Books
$16.95 Add to cartSarah Ellis’s wife had been toughing it out with MS for more than a decade when she finally received a date for a medically assisted death in Switzerland. The year of waiting brought astonishing momen
- Author: Ellis, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: June 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1069236268
- Language: English
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Sir Walter Ralegh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles
$21.99 Read moreExposing the tensions and contradictions of Renaissance England, Stephen Greenblatt presents Sir Walter Ralegh as a symbol of his age. The interplay between life and art animated both his actions and
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106379
- Language: English
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Climbing Mountains: The Journey to Beat the World’s Biggest Killer
$30.00 Add to cart“Dr Salim Yusuf achieved remarkable success as a physician, scientist, clinical trialist and world health advocate. His career journey is indeed inspirational and should serve as a roadmap for any you… [more below]
- Author: Mathew, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1911451529
- Language: English
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At Death’s Door: 50 Days Between Life and Death – and the God Who Didn’t Leave (A True Story of Survival Against Impossible Odds)
$15.99 Add to cartRabbi Greg Hershberg spent decades helping people find God in suffering.
Then suffering came for him.
After an unexpected medical crisis, Greg’s life unraveled fast. A collapsing body. A stopped heart.
- Author: Hershberg, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889365860
- Language: English
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Still Afloat-A Life at Sea and Ashore–Not Overboard Yet
$24.95 Add to cartAt 102 years old, Captain Hugh M. Stephens remains a master of his craft. In Still Afloat, he charts a course through a century of maritime history, offering a rare, first-hand account of the Merchant
- Author: Stephens, Hugh M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798295616976
- Language: English
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From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
$24.95 Add to cartNamed a 2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award
Finalist for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award
Finalist for the 2021 Feathered Quill Award
Longlisted for the 2020 Clara Johnson AwardJacqueline S
- Author: Saper, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: June 01 2026
- ISBN10: 164012702X
- Language: English
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Controlled Chaos: Lessons They Didn’t Teach You in Teacher School
$15.95 Add to cartNo one prepares you for the chaos of the classroom.
Not the unpredictable moments. Not the pressure to get it right. And definitely not the unexpected moments that stay with you long after the bell rin
- Author: Hall, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1968761136
- Language: English
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Savage, An Unbroken Spirit
$17.99 Add to cartThis book started being written in 1994, after Virginia was held hostage in a standoff with police at a Buddhist ceremony. It took more than 30 years to complete because life continued with more trans
- Author: Savage, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 15 2026
- ISBN10: 9798295868108
- Language: English
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The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up
$19.00 Add to cartJohn Reid’s The Best Little Boy in the World was hailed as a classic memoir of growing up gay in a straight world. But “John Reid” didn’t write it. Years would pass before the writer could reveal his … [more below]
- Author: Tobias, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0345423798
- Language: English
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Unmeasured Strength: A Story of Survival and Transformation
$21.99 Add to cartUnmeasured Strength is a survivor’s awe-inspiring story of how Lauren Manning overcame tragedy and re-created herself as a wife, mother, and woman.
In this update to the 2011 New York Times bestselli- Author: Manning, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1250012147
- Language: English
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The Vanishing Family: A Story of Fate, Love, and the Disappearing Mind
$37.00 Read moreFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought ke… [more below]
- Author: Kolker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 589
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217413270
- Language: English
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The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne
$20.00 Add to cart- Author: Sweeney, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 166802585X
- Language: English
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The Story of Cole Younger
$15.95 Add to cartMissouri guerrilla, Confederate officer, bank robber, notorious outlaw, Wild West showman–Cole Younger’s life was the stuff of myth and legend. In The Story of Cole Younger, long out-of-print, he tel… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Younger, Cole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0873513932
- Language: English
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Already Whole: What was missing was me
$25.99 Add to cartIn Already Whole: What was missing was me, Latoya Greene tells a powerful and unfiltered story of survival, service, and self-reclamation. From a childhood marked by abandonment, abuse, and instabilit
- Author: Greene, Latoya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318833038
- Language: English
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Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
$21.00 Add to cartMike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepre… [more below]
- Author: Kurson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0812973682
- Language: English
