Biographies/Autobiographies
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Coal Miner’s Daughter
$9.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and Nashville legend Loretta Lynn tells the story of her rise from deep poverty in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, to the top of the male-dominated country music industry –… [more below]
- Author: Lynn, Loretta
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1538701707
- Language: English
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Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
$19.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!
From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life. Includes a new foreword by
- Author: Goldberg, Whoopi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798874824365
- Language: English
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Matriarch: Oprah’s Book Club: A Memoir
$22.00 Add to cartINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A glorious chronicle of a life like none other–enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering–and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherho… [more below]
- Author: Knowles, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0593597427
- Language: English
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Running with Scissors
$20.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusion- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031242227X
- Language: English
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Abandon Me: Memoirs
$18.00 Add to cartNamed One of the Best Books of 2017 by:
Winner of the L
Esquire, Refinery29, LitHub, BookRiot, Medium, Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy, The Coil and The Cut.- Author: Febos, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1632866587
- Language: English
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Senator Kenneth McKellar: Feudin’ Son of Tennessee
$34.95 Add to cartKenneth McKellar may have been born in Reconstruction-era Alabama, but for most of his life, he was a Tennessean through and through. After graduating from the University of Alabama with bachelor’s, m
- Author: Hill, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1621909468
- Language: English
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Turning Pages
$18.95 Add to cartFor more than thirty years, Roberta Rubin owned and ran The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Illinois-one of the nation’s most admired independent bookstores. In this warm and inspiring memoi
- Author: Rubin, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: March 04 2026
- ISBN10: 2710718006
- Language: English
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Bound Feet and Western Dress
$23.00 Add to cartA harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound Chi… [more below]
- Author: Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0385479646
- Language: English
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All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
$32.00 Read more“Devastating and hopeful in turn, All That’s Unseen exquisitely captures a complex and contradictory world.” –Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle
In her luminous de- Author: Hackney, Emilee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0593831403
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Athlete
$19.00 Add to cartA legendary NBA player and beloved teammate shares his hard-earned wisdom about finding your true purpose and mastering your inner game, whatever that game might be.
Chris Bosh is on any list of the T- Author: Bosh, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1984881809
- Language: English
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Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir
$27.00 Add to cartWelcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the mid-1950s in Lewiston, New York, a sleepy town near Niagara Falls. Divorce is unheard of, mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon,… [more below]
- Author: Gildiner, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 26 2002
- ISBN10: 014200040X
- Language: English
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The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory
$35.00 Read more“A superbly engrossing adventure of ideas…this will surely be my philosophy book of the year.” –Sarah Bakewell, New York Times bestselling author of Humanly Possible
From leading critic and essayi- Author: Eakin, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1594206325
- Language: English
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I’ll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of I Am Finally, Finally French, this charming memoir, full of gorgeous descriptions of Brittany and at times hysterical encounters with the locals, Mark Greenside describes his initia… [more below]
- Author: Greenside, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1416586954
- Language: English
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Kevin on Costner: A Film Icon Through His Own Words
$24.99 Read moreOffers forty years of interviews revealing the actor-director’s career, creative philosophy, and personal reflections.
Kevin Costner — Oscar-winning actor, director, and producer — has captivated aud… [more below]
- Author: Bizio, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 11 2026
- ISBN10: 8873017983
- Language: English
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Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery
$18.99 Add to cartChristopher Kennedy Lawford’s New York Times bestselling memoir, Symptoms of Withdrawal, offered readers a startling, first-hand look at his own addictions to drugs and alcohol, prompting People maga
- Author: Lawford, Christopher Kennedy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0061456225
- Language: English
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Had I Known: A Memoir of Survival
$19.99 Add to cartIn this brave and deeply personal memoir, one of America’s most beloved journalists, mother, and New York Times bestselling author speaks candidly about her battle against breast cancer, her quest to
- Author: Lunden, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0062404091
- Language: English
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The Story of Bob
$24.95 Add to cartFrom “the greatest generation” comes the true story of a World War II veteran and ordained minister whose public advocacy for social justice was segmented from his private life as a gay man. Ste… [more below]
- Author: Law, Steven C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0829829202
- Language: English
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George Washington and Alexandria: A Founding Friendship
$24.99 Add to cartGeorge Washington and Alexandria recounts and celebrates the life, legacy, and leadership of the city’s hometown hero and the father of the nation.
No other city in America had the impact that Alexand
- Author: Rose, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 146717064X
- Language: English
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Hijas de la Historia: Las Mujeres Que Construyeron a M?xico / Daughters of History
$16.95 Add to cartIsabel Revuelta Poo cuenta la historia de M?xico desde la Conquista hasta el periodo posrevolucionario a trav?s de los ojos de diez mujeres.
CON UNA MINUCIOSA INVESTIGACI?N, ISABEL CONSPIRA PARA ENTR
- Author: Revuelta Poo, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 6073933096
- Language: Spanish
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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
$22.00 Add to cartPaul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senato
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0230341985
- Language: English
