Autobiographies
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Run, Holly, Run!: A Memoir by Holly from 1970s TV Classic “Land of the Lost”
$14.99 Add to cartRun, Holly, Run is the funny, but harrowing true story of former child actress Kathy Coleman–who starred in the hit 1970s show “Land of the Lost.” Kathy grew up fatherless in Southern California in
- Author: Coleman, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1942545606
- Language: English
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I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cart“A glittering, bittersweet vision of an outsider who turned himself into the life and soul of the party. Kilmer-Purcell’s cast is part freak-show, part soap-opera, but his prose is graced with such in
- Author: Kilmer-Purcell, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0060817321
- Language: English
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Storm in the Land of Rain: A Mother’s Dying Wish Becomes Her Daughter’s Nightmare
$16.99 Read moreAn award-winning journalist discovers that her grandfather, the legendary and heroic Lithiuanian “General Storm” who survived a Nazi concentration camp only to later be executed by the Russians, may a… [more below]
- Author: Foti, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513022
- Language: English
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
$35.00 Read moreWinner of the Crime Writers’ Association ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction–
In her memoir All Th
A tour through the human skeleton and the secrets our bones reveal, from the author of All That Remains- Author: Black, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1951627806
- Language: English
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When Your Family Says No: The Journey to Freedom, Independence, and Happiness
$18.95 Add to cartAs the fourth daughter of a prominent Orthodox Jewish family in New York, I was expected to attend a religious seminary for girls, date the suitors that my father arranged, become engaged by 1
- Author: Martinez, Laya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: May 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0578592169
- Language: English
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How I Became a Man: A Life with Communists, Atheists, and Other Nice People
$17.95 Read moreThis book takes us into the heart of the Soviet Union, where Alexander Krylov grew up as an underground Catholic in the 1970s and 1980s, never even entering a church until he was a teenager. How does
- Author: Krylov, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1621645770
- Language: English
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I’m the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax
$21.99 Add to cartI’m the Man is the fast-paced, humorous, and revealing memoir from the man who co-founded Anthrax, the band that proved to the masses that brutality and fun didn’t have to be mutually exclusive. Throu… [more below]
- Author: Ian, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 306824191
- Language: English
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Riding Toward Everywhere
$18.00 Add to cartArelentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence, William T. Vollmann now takes to the rails. In the company of experienced fellow train-hopper Ste
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0061256765
- Language: English
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Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
$27.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Reading the West Book Awards
With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the
NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction- Author: Young, Rj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1640095020
- Language: English
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Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNamed a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun
“Donovan is such a vivid writer–smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny– that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good- Author: Donovan, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0525560963
- Language: English
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Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
$28.00 Add to cartWinner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * 2022 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner * Shortlisted for the John Burroughs Medal * Finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguish
- Author: Raven, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1954118007
- Language: English
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Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
$18.00 Add to cart“Beautiful . . . Compelling . . . Cusk is] an extraordinary writer of the female experience.” —Financial Times
In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk’s marriage of ten years came to an end. Candid and r- Author: Cusk, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1250828295
- Language: English
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Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion
$28.00 Read moreFrom their beginnings as teenagers experimenting in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed “The Hell Hole” to headlining major music festivals around the world, discover the whole story of Bad Religion’s
- Author: Bad Religion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 306922223
- Language: English
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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
$20.99 Add to cartWinner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island p
- Author: Boochani, Behrouz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1487006837
- Language: English
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The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest
$20.00 Add to cartPraised as “a shining example of what autobiography can be: harrowing, illuminating and thoughtful” (USA Today), Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an idy… [more below]
- Author: Forna, Aminatta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 802160867
- Language: English
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Upset
$24.99 Read moreONE OF BOOK AUTHORITY’S BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME WINNERS: Best American Biography Book, Best College Football Book, and Best Sports Book of All Time.
October 20, 2018, was just another normal Saturday i
- Author: Trent, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1732370168
- Language: English
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Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver
$18.95 Add to cartShe promised one year to live with her stubbornly independent mother, clean out the house her parents had stashed with musty history for five decades, and move her mother into assisted living. Four ye… [more below]
- Author: Staebler, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1647422833
- Language: English
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I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment, Community, and Hope
$18.99 Add to cartA “profound and soul-nourishing memoir” (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world.
When- Author: Nyamayaro, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1982113022
- Language: English
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All the Young Men
$18.00 Add to cartA gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis,
- Author: Burks, Ruth Coker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0802157254
- Language: English
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Heavy: An American Memoir
$27.00 Add to cart*Named a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Souther… [more below]
- Author: Laymon, Kiese
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1501125656
- Language: English
