Autobiographies
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Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival
$19.95 Read moreThe award-winning first picture book to recount the dramatic true story of a refugee family’s perilous escape from Vietnam.
It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded wit
- Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1772780057
- Language: English
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A Mighty Long Way (Adapted for Young Readers): My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
$9.99 Read moreFollow the story of Carlotta Walls LaNier, who in 1957 at the age of fourteen was one of nine black students who integrated the all-white Little Rock Central High School and became known as the Little… [more below]
- Author: Walls Lanier, Carlotta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593486781
- Language: English
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Piece by Piece: How I Built My Life (No Instructions Required)
$9.99 Read moreThe heartfelt and funny memoir of a boy who built himself a prosthetic arm out of the world-famous toy bricks.
David Aguilar was born missing part of one arm, a small detail that seemed to define his l
- Author: Aguilar, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1662504268
- Language: English
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March Forward, Girl
$9.99 Add to cartFrom the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy-selling Warriors Don’t Cry comes an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up while facing adversity in the Jim Crow So… [more below]
- Author: Beals, Melba Pattillo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 24 2019
- ISBN10: 132860392X
- Language: English
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Piece by Piece: How I Built My Life (No Instructions Required)
$17.99 Read moreThe heartfelt and funny memoir of a boy who built himself a prosthetic arm out of the world-famous toy bricks.
David Aguilar was born missing part of one arm, a small detail that seemed to define his l
- Author: Aguilar, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1662504276
- Language: English
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Proud: Living My American Dream
$9.99 Add to cartThe inspiring and critically acclaimed all-American story of faith, family, hard work, and perseverance by Olympic fencer, activist, New York Times bestselling author, and Time “100 Most Influential P… [more below]
- Author: Muhammad, Ibtihaj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0316477044
- Language: English
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Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid
$10.99 Add to cartThe colorful boyhood of a popular author comes to life in this personal account
Imagine learning from a nosy classmate that your mother is having yet another baby. To Ralph’s classmates, news of one m- Author: Fletcher, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250010241
- Language: English
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Pilipinto: The Jungle Adventures of a Missionary’s Daughter
$22.99 Read moreIn 1956, Valerie’s young missionary father, Jim Elliot, and four other men were speared to death by members of a remote Ecuadorian tribe. But the good news of the gospel did not die with them. When Va… [more below]
- Author: Shepard, Valerie Elliott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1629950254
- Language: English
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Why Not?: Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and Chutzpah
$26.99 Add to cartFrom master comedian Mark Schiff, a long-time touring partner of Jerry Seinfeld, comes a hilarious account of decades of foolery with comedy and acting legends and how he honed his mensch skills in al
- Author: Schiff, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1954641168
- Language: English
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Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope
$27.99 Add to cartBetween the Mountain and the Sky shows us the goodness that is possible when a single person–regardless of age–takes action to help another and, in the process, changes the lives of hundreds.
Maggie
- Author: Doyne, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0785240284
- Language: English
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Autobiography of an Androgyne
$10.99 Add to cartEarl Lind’s 1918 autobiography has been recognized as a pioneering work in the history of transgender literature. Throughout his life, Lind was forced to justify and defend his existence from puritani
- Series: Mint Editions–Reading with Pride
- Author: Lind, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1513296965
- Language: English
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Bunnyman: Post-War Kid to Post-Punk Guitarist of Echo and the Bunnymen
$19.95 Add to cartWill Sergeant is a sonic master of the universe. – Courtney Love
This is the true story of one small boy, me, Will Sergeant, navigating the 60’s and 70’s, a woolly-back (hick) spawned one drunken ni
- Author: Sergeant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1734842288
- Language: English
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Cowboys and Indian
$24.95 Add to cartCowboys and Indian: A Doctor’s First Year in Texas is an exciting and entertaining account of a doctor’s first year of practice in an underserved Texas hospital. Besides the challenges of being an imm… [more below]
- Author: Mathur, Sandip V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657729
- Language: English
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Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening explorations of hot button topics for modern women, including… [more below]
- Author: Korn, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982127767
- Language: English
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Una Reina Como Tú
$18.00 Add to cartDisponible en espa?ol solamente.
Francisca Lachapel ten?a un sue?o hermoso y formidable, pero tambi?n much?simo viento en contra. Se hab?a mudado sola a los Estados Unidos, una tierra nueva y ajena, d- Series: Atria Espanol
- Author: Lachapel, Francisca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1501164090
- Language: Spanish
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Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life in Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz
$29.99 Read moreThis is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London.
A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then… WHAAAM! An unstoppable- Author: Piller, Eddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 180096059X
- Language: English
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Being Reflected Upon
$20.00 Add to cartA memoir in verse from one of America’s legendary poets
In a New York Times review of Alice Notley’s 2007 collection In the Pines, Joel Brouwer wrote that “the radical freshness of Notley’s poems stem- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0143137972
- Language: English
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I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1969, Ann-Marie’s parents did the unthinkable, leaving a Hutterite colony with their seven children to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and
- Author: Kirkby, Mary-Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0849946433
- Language: English
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Under Construction: Because Living My Best Life Took a Little Work
$17.99 Add to cartFor fans of Open Book and Sell It Like Serhant, a heartfelt, humorous personal memoir and relatable guide to overcoming obstacles, wising up about romance, and getting ahead in your career from the st… [more below]
- Author: Stause, Chrishell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1982186267
- Language: English
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Sleep Is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny
$15.95 Read moreONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL
A poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination.
In the summer of 1977, standing o
- Author: Barnes, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1771965126
- Language: English
