Aspects (Academic)/Life Writings
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The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn, and Fed My Family for a Year
$21.99 Add to cartWhen Spring Warren told her husband and two teenage boys that she wanted to grow 75 percent of all the food they consumed for one year, and that she wanted to do it in their yard, they told her she wa
- Author: Warren, Spring
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1580053408
- Language: English
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The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
$19.99 Add to cartThe riveting New York Times bestseller about a young man who built more than 250 schools around the world–and the steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.
Adam Braun began wor- Author: Braun, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1476730636
- Language: English
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Shirley Jones: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartFrom golden-voiced ingé§ue to bus-driving mother of a pop band, Shirley Jones sets aside her wholesome, squeaky clean image in a memoir as shockingly candid, deliciously juicy, and delightfully frank… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1476725969
- Language: English
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Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the legendary frontman of the Sex Pistols, comes the complete, unvarnished story of his life in his own words.
John Lydon is an icon–one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures
- Author: Lydon, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0062400231
- Language: English
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Melissa Explains It All
$22.99 Add to cartMelissa Joan Hart explained it all–from dating to bullies–in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
- Author: Hart, Melissa Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1250054982
- Language: English
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With Light Steam
$41.58 Add to cartIn 1996 Bryon MacWilliams left the relative stability of the United States for the chaos of post-Soviet Russia and stayed. Over the course of nearly twelve years he reported on academe and the science
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Macwilliams, Bryon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 875807089
- Language: English
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Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
$24.95 Add to cartWhen the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of th
- Author: Prentiss, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0826355919
- Language: English
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On My Own Two Feet: From Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life
$16.99 Add to cartAmy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making histor
- Author: Purdy, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062379100
- Language: English
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Dust to Dust: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartTim O’Brien meets Annie Dillard in this remarkable memoir by debut author Benjamin Busch. Much more than a war memoir, Dust to Dust brilliantly explores the passage through a lifetime–a moving medita
- Author: Busch, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0062014854
- Language: English
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Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartAn instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Primates of Park Avenue is an “amusing, perceptive and…deliciously evil” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the most secretive and elite tribe–Manha… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Wednesday
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1476762716
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 11
$56.25 Add to cartMark Twain’s complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author’s death, as he requested. Published to rave revie… [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Papers #11
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: October 05 2013
- ISBN10: 520272781
- Language: English
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A Year in Rock Creek Park: The Wild, Wooded Heart of Washington, DC
$29.95 Add to cart2015 IPPY Silver Medalist, Best Mid-Atlantic Nonfiction
Twice the size of Central Park, Rock Creek Park is the wild, wooded heart of Washington, DC, offering refuge from a frantic city pace to millions
- Author: Choukas-Bradley, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 12 2014
- ISBN10: 1938086244
- Language: English
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Silver Screen Fiend: Learning about Life from an Addiction to Film
$17.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a “heartfelt and hilarious” (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obses… [more below]
- Author: Oswalt, Patton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1451673221
- Language: English
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What Color Is Monday?: How Autism Changed One Family for the Better
$19.95 Read more“One day Jack asked me, ‘What color do you see for Monday?’ ‘What?’ I said distractedly. ‘Do you see days as colors?”
Raising five children would be challenge enough for most parents, but when one of- Author: Cariello, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 21, 2015
- ISBN10: 1849057273
- Language: English
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A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance
$21.99 Add to cartFernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; she, a divorce
- Author: de Blasi, Marlena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1616202815
- Language: English
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
$18.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story gripped the world and continues to inspire and offer hope.
Michelle was a young single mother when s- Author: Knight, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1602862796
- Language: English
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Shut Up and Give Me the MIC
$20.99 Add to cartThe wildly entertaining memoir from lead singer and songwriter of Twisted Sister–revealing the real stories behind the crazy makeup, the big hair, and badass hits like “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “… [more below]
- Author: Snider, Dee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1451637403
- Language: English
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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
$19.99 Add to cartSex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wil
- Author: Person, Cea Sunrise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 006228987X
- Language: English
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Far and Near: On Days Like These
$19.95 Add to cartNow in trade paper Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volum… [more below]
- Author: Peart, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1770412670
- Language: English
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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis Devoto
$19.99 Add to cartA National Bestseller
Winner of an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Literary Food Writing “An absorbing portrait of an unexpected friendship.” — Entertainment Weekly “Jul- Author: Reardon, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0547577486
- Language: English
