Autobiographies
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The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
$14.95 Add to cart“Soulful, achingly honest . . . A potent addition to the literature on drug addiction and recovery.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred)
While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, Da
- Author: Poses, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1954861974
- Language: English
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Smile: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cart* A People Best Book of the Year * Time and The Washington Post‘s Most Anticipated List * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence *
From the MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize f- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1982150955
- Language: English
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Lion: A Long Way Home Young Readers’ Edition
$9.99 Add to cartThe young readers’ edition of the true story that inspired Lion, the Academy Award nominated film starring Dev Patel, David Wenham, Rooney Mara, and Nicole Kidman.
When Saroo Brierley used Google Ear- Author: Brierley, Saroo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0425291766
- Language: English
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All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartWinner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature – Named a Best Book of 2022 by Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness – Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed – A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 … [more below]
- Author: Hewitt, Seán
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593300084
- Language: English
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The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of one girl’s coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult.
“A haunting, harrowing testament to survival.” — People- Author: Wariner, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1250077702
- Language: English
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Pretty Baby: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart“Absolutely not to be missed.” —Vogue
“A muscular, canny memoir about labor and power and gender…I couldn’t put it down. What a fucking gorgeous book.” –Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Drea… [more below]- Author: Belcher, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1982175834
- Language: English
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The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman’s Story of Survival in Syria
$30.00 Read moreThis searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.
Simply put, there is no one in Syria with a sto- Author: Ballour, Amani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1426222742
- Language: English
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The Story of a Life
$24.95 Add to cartOne of the most famous works of Russian literature, a memoir about a writer’s coming of age during World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the rise of the Soviet era. This is the first unabridged tran… [more below]
- Author: Paustovsky, Konstantin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377225
- Language: English
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Coal Miner’s Daughter
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1538701715
- Language: English
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Burning Butch
$17.99 Add to cart“The Trans Memoir We’ve Always Needed.” —Autostraddle
“This blistering memoir is the book I didn’t know I needed… I’m so grateful they had the courage to share their experience in such a transpare
- Author: Mertz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1951213505
- Language: English
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Notes from the Henhouse: On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing
$18.00 Read moreA sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker–acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.
Following the publication of her acclaime- Author: Barker, Elspeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 166802215X
- Language: English
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Farewell to Manzanar 50th Anniversary Edition
$22.99 Add to cartJeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls her childhood at a Japanese incarceration camp in this engrossing memoir that has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. This spe
- Author: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063319055
- Language: English
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Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy
$28.00 Read moreAn intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family mired in secrets, haunted by their dread of shame and stigma, determined to hide their every imperfec
- Author: Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1637583966
- Language: English
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Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir
$18.95 Read moreA writer discovers an unexpected passion for birding, along with a new understanding of the world and her own place in it.
When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-fi
- Author: Zarankin, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1771622482
- Language: English
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It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War
$19.00 Add to cart“An unflinching memoir . . . that] offers insight into international events and the challenges faced by the journalists who capture them.” —The Washington Post
War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memo- Author: Addario, Lynsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128418
- Language: English
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Heavenly Man
$19.99 Add to cartThe remarkable true story of renowned Chinese Christian Brother Yun
This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the fro- Author: Yun, Brother
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0825446775
- Language: English
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Just as I Am
$17.99 Read more- Author: Tyson, Cicely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0062931075
- Language: English
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Willie Horton: 23: Detroit’s Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers’ First Black Great
$30.00 Read moreA compelling autobiography from one of Detroit’s favorite sons
At 15, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At 20, he smacked his first major-leagu- Author: Horton, Willie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379786
- Language: English
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Life Is So Good
$18.00 Add to cartOne man’s extraordinary journey through the twentieth century and how he learned to read at age 98
“Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn’t anythi- Author: Dawson, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0812984870
- Language: English
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Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America (with a Foreword by Alan Gratz)
$19.99 Add to cartWith a foreword by Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee.
Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. … [more below]
- Author: Gruener, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1338627457
- Language: English
