Autobiographies
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The Rock in My Throat
$18.99 Add to cartAt first, no one noticed when I stopped talking at school.
In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a young Hmong refugee navigating life at home and at school. Having seen
- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 172844568X
- Language: English
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City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul
$37.00 Add to cartA frontline witness account of the deadly urban combat of the Battle of Mosul told by former Navy SEAL and frontline combat medic Ephraim Mattos.
After leaving the US Navy SEAL teams in spring of 2017- Author: Mattos, Ephraim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 23, 2018
- ISBN10: 1546081828
- Language: English
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
$19.00 Add to cartThe 25th anniversary edition of this seminal work on autism and neurodiversity provides “a uniquely fascinating view” (Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don’t Understand) of the differences in our br… [more below]
- Author: Grandin, Temple
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0307275655
- Language: English
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
$23.00 Add to cart“She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far
- Series: Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 022669142X
- Language: English
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A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
$35.00 Read moreA thrilling account of life with Sun Ra’s Arkestra and New York’s avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s
In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and internat
- Author: Abdullah, Ahmed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1953691161
- Language: English
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice
Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593083342
- Language: English
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The Wreck: A Daughter’s Memoir of Becoming a Mother
$28.00 Read moreNPR’s Books We Love 2023
Equal parts investigative and deeply introspective,
The Wreck is a profound memoir about recognizing the echoes of history within ourselves, and the alchemy of turning inherit- Author: Jackson, Cassandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593490029
- Language: English
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Self-Portrait in Green: 10th Anniversary Edition
$16.95 Add to cartWho are the green women? They are powerful (one is a disciplinarian teacher). They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost). They are seductive (one marries her best friend’s father). And they… [more below]
- Author: Ndiaye, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641481
- Language: English
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Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle
$29.99 Add to cartFor years, Rob Brezsny has written “Free Will Astrology,” a syndicated weekly column that appears in over 100 publications in North America, as well as in translation in Italy, France, and Japan. He i
- Author: Brezsny, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 516
- Publish Date: September 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0972345205
- Language: English
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Behind the Scenes: Covering the JFK Assassination
$29.95 Read moreOn November 22, 1963, the author of Behind the Scenes was a young Dallas Times Herald reporter who sprinted from his newspaper desk to Dealey Plaza minutes after shots were fired at President John F. … [more below]
- Author: Payne, Darwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1574419110
- Language: English
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Toy Fights: A Boyhood
$27.95 Add to cartDon Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of “an infinite sensitivity to the world” (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent yo
- Author: Paterson, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093625
- Language: English
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My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
An intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo For a dozen years as one of the world’s most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to- Author: Nooyi, Indra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 059319179X
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Reached for the Stars El Niño Que Alcanzó Las Estrellas (Sp. Ed.)
$19.99 Add to cartEl joven ingeniero conocido como “el mecánico del espacio” (@THESPACEMECHANIC) comparte su apasionante historia, desde su infancia en Ecuador hasta su trabajo en la misión Marte 2020 de la NASA.
Elio
- Author: Morillo, Elio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063214350
- Language: Spanish
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Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
$27.00 Add to cart“In these soaring, open-hearted essays, Vanessa Zoltan writes with fierce brilliance about suffering, survival, and the kind of meaning in life that can withstand real scrutiny.”–John Green, bestsell… [more below]
- Author: Zoltan, Vanessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0593538498
- Language: English
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But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
$28.00 Add to cartAutism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically.
“For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else.- Author: Layle, Paige
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306831252
- Language: English
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Alexa Hampton: Design, Style, and Influence
$60.00 Read moreFrom Alexa Hampton, one of today’s greatest interior designers and owner of Mark Hampton LLC, comes a beautifully photographed memoir about her journey into design and the inspirations that shaped her… [more below]
- Author: Hampton, Alexa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0593578643
- Language: English
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Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination
$21.00 Add to cartThis is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you.
Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she’s left home alone in New… [more below]
- Series: Great Circle Books
- Author: Smith, Stephanie Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678969
- Language: English
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Willie Nelson’s Letters to America
$27.99 Add to cartAn intimate collection of fond memories, personal letters, good songs, and bad jokes from a true American legend.
“This is your old friend, Willie, sending a note to see how you’re doing and to say I’m
- Author: Nelson, Willie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 29, 2021
- ISBN10: 078524154X
- Language: English
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The Last Miracle: My 18-Year Journey with the Amazin’ New York Mets
$30.00 Read moreNo origin story of the New York Mets is complete without Ed Kranepool.
The lefty first baseman known as “Steady Eddie” made his major-league debut at age 17 during the team’s inaugural season and wou- Author: Kranepool, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1637272707
- Language: English
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart“The book I wish I’d had growing up.” –Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name
Best Books of 2019: Esquire O, The Oprah Magazine Variety Lit Hub Book Riot Electric Literature Autostraddle
Finalist: NBCC- Author: Madden, T. Kira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1635574765
- Language: English
