American Lives
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And You Will Call It Fate: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartIn And You Will Call It Fate, Timothy J. Hillegonds explores an eight-year relationship with Sean Dempsey, a charismatic yet volatile former NFL player turned entrepreneur who profoundly reshaped the
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Hillegonds, Timothy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496246233
- Language: English
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Character Witness: A Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartWhen Jason Brown’s mother is arrested for stealing $38,000, he agrees to serve as a character witness for her, hoping to keep her out of prison.
Thus begins Character Witness, a memoir, a chronicle o- Series: American Lives
- Author: Brown, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496242637
- Language: English
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The Perils of Girlhood: A Memoir in Essays
$21.95 Add to cartLike many girls growing up in the eighties and nineties, Melissa Fraterrigo leaned on popular culture to transition from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Judy Blume told stories about girls embrac… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Fraterrigo, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496242203
- Language: English
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Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays
$21.95 Add to cartUrgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, a… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Moore, Bailey Gaylin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496241932
- Language: English
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Autumn Song: Essays on Absence
$19.95 Add to cartWe all live lives littered with what we leave behind: places we once lived, friendships we once had, dreams we once envisioned, the people we once were. Each new day we attempt to find a way to contin… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Gopo, Patrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235800
- Language: English
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Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist
$19.95 Add to cartHoming: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist traces the creative coming of age of a mill-town feminist. Sherrie Flick, whose childhood spanned the 1970s rise and 1980s collapse of the steel industry, retu… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Flick, Sherrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238540
- Language: English
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Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World
$19.95 Add to cartSky Songs is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has pass… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Sinor, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496222644
- Language: English
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The Sound of Undoing: A Memoir in Essays
$21.95 Add to cartA memoir in essays, The Sound of Undoing deconstructs the way sound has overwhelmingly shaped Paige Towers’s life. Each essay focuses on a different sound, some perceptible–like the sound of a loon c… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Towers, Paige
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496232879
- Language: English
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Let Me Count the Ways: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cart2023 Vulgar Genius Nonfiction Award
Growing up in a small town in South Texas in the eighties and nineties, poverty, machismo, and drug addiction
2022 Writer’s League of Texas Nonfiction Book Award- Series: American Lives
- Author: Morín, Tomás Q.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496226496
- Language: English
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It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know
$21.95 Add to cartAt first glance a reader might mistake It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know for a juicy Hollywood tell-all, given Chachi D. Hauser’s background as the great-granddaughter of Roy Disney, a cofounder wi… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Hauser, Chachi D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233158
- Language: English
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
$18.95 Add to cartTed Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska–an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his … [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 080327811X
- Language: English
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
$17.95 Add to cartRate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood an… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Huber, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803299915
- Language: English
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If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays
$21.95 Add to cart2023 Heartland Booksellers Award finalist
If This Were Fiction is a
Foreword INDIES Silver Winner in Autobiography and Memoir
Winner of a 2023 Book of the Year Award from Chicago Writers Association- Series: American Lives
- Author: Christman, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232356
- Language: English
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Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions
$22.95 Add to cartPenny Guisinger was not always attracted to women. In Shift she recounts formative relationships with women and men, including the marriage that produced her two children and ultimately ended in part
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Guisinger, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238907
- Language: English
