Autobiographies
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What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartFrom one of California’s most celebrated librarians and public historians, a coming-of-age memoir about the thirst for knowledge and hometown pride.
A Best Book of the Year, Oakland Public Library
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- Author: Lazard, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: 16-May-23
- ISBN10: 1597146080
- Language: English
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All Things Wise and Wonderful: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World’s Most Beloved Animal Doctor
$20.00 Add to cartReaders adore James Herriot’s tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful.
Now here’s a third delightful volume of memoirs rich- Series: All Creatures Great and Small
- Author: Herriot, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1250063493
- Language: English
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My Name Is Lamoosh
$14.95 Add to cartMy Name is LaMoosh is the life story of Warm Springs Tribal Elder Linda Meanus. She grew up with her grandma Flora Thompson and grandpa Chief Tommy Thompson near Celilo Falls, a mighty fishery on the … [more below]
- Author: Meanus, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712314
- Language: English
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
$29.00 Read moreIn a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly carved out a place in the field of astrophysics, grou… [more below]
- Author: Nance, Sarafina El-Badry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0593186796
- Language: English
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End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood
$16.99 Read moreWhat happens when you land your dream job and everything you’ve been working toward becomes a complete nightmare? This is Patty Lin’s story. She climbed the ladder as an award-winning television write
- Author: Lin, Patty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1958506060
- Language: English
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Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartFrom intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, lies, family secrets, and the healing power of truth.
Pidgeon Pagonis always felt like their life was a
- Author: Pagonis, Pidgeon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1542029457
- Language: English
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The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living.
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – For readers of Proof of Heaven, the astonishing story of a woman with an extraordinary psychic gift–and a powerful message from the Other Side that can help us to live mor… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Laura Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0812987926
- Language: English
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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
$16.99 Add to cartA memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body tha
- Author: Taussig, Rebekah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: 6-Jul-21
- ISBN10: 0062936808
- Language: English
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The Light Room
$28.00 Read more“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.” –Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
From “one of our most formally ambitio- Author: Zambreno, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 059342106X
- Language: English
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Catching the Light
$10.95 Add to cartUnited States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing
- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274068
- Language: English
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My Own Magic: A Reappearing ACT
$28.99 Add to cartFor every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within…
Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetro
- Author: Kloots, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0785255656
- Language: English
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The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
$18.99 Add to cartThis autobiographical picture book by the multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack recounts her childhood in a home surrounded by music and love: it all started with a beat-up piano that her… [more below]
- Author: Flack, Roberta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0593479874
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz
$18.99 Add to cart‘You are no longer a number’
Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, dire
- Author: Elboim, Eti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0008600287
- Language: English
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A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery
$20.95 Read more‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of what it is to be trans, but nothing really that encapsulates what is it to be both – to exist in the ha
- Author: Nicholas, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1839971835
- Language: English
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The Friedkin Connection
$19.99 Add to cart“Friedkin’s book does the unthinkable: It relates the behind-the-scenes stories of his triumphs like The French Connection and The Exorcist, but also sees Friedkin take responsibility (brutally so) fo
- Author: Friedkin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: 1-Apr-14
- ISBN10: 0061775142
- Language: English
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West with the Night: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time
Beryl Markham’s West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contempora- Author: Markham, Beryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 22, 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477639
- Language: English
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Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
$28.00 Read moreA searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.
“Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola M- Author: Mahfouz, Sola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593359763
- Language: English
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The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
$20.00 Add to cartCalled “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.
Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the- Series: The Copenhagen Trilogy
- Author: Ditlevsen, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 22-Feb-22
- ISBN10: 125082978X
- Language: English
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Rebel Rising: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself.
For d- Author: Wilson, Rebel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: 2-Apr-24
- ISBN10: 1668007207
- Language: English
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Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment
$29.00 Add to cartA Belletrist Book Pick for December 2023
Lab Girl meets Brain on Fire in this provocative and poignant memoir delving into a woman’s formative experiences as a veritable “lab rat” in a lifelong- Author: Breslin, Susannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: 7-Nov-23
- ISBN10: 0306926008
- Language: English
