Autobiographies
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True Spirit: The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who Sailed Solo, Nonstop, and Unassisted Around the World
$19.99 Add to cartOn May 15, 2010, after 210 days at sea and more than 22,000 nautical miles, 16-year-old Jessica Watson sailed her 33-foot boat triumphantly back to land. She had done it. She was the youngest person t… [more below]
- Author: Watson, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 1451616317
- Language: English
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
$29.00 Add to cartA haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot’s genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mothe… [more below]
- Author: Nguon, Chantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: 20-Feb-24
- ISBN10: 1643753495
- Language: English
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Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color
$19.99 Add to cartWitchcraft has made a comeback in popular culture, especially among feminists, and there is a new kind of witch emerging in our cultural consciousness: the bruja. Brujas chronicles the magical lives o… [more below]
- Author: Monteagut, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1641609958
- Language: English
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Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
$17.95 Add to cartThe early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.
Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collectio- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Wang, Jackie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1635901928
- Language: English
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Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation
$29.00 Read moreIn this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching the president, and all the dad issues she collected along the way.
As the- Author: Cooper, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593473183
- Language: English
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Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
$28.00 Read moreA stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here o… [more below]
- Author: Shields, Aomawa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593299183
- Language: English
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Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being
$22.95 Add to cart“Beauchemin discovers again and again that happiness is a function of the connection between beings–the nonhuman animals as well as the human.”–Maria Popova, A Favorite Book of 2023
For readers of R- Author: Beauchemin, Jean-François
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1771649321
- Language: English
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Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
$28.00 Add to cartFor readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom, Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febos’s Girlhood, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light… [more below]
- Author: Liontas, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1668015544
- Language: English
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Tastes Like War: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartA powerful account of a Korean American daughter’s exploration of food and family history to understand her mother’s schizophrenia.
- Author: Cho, Grace M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1952177944
- Language: English
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
$27.95 Read moreIn the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child s… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1953534678
- Language: English
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Bone by Bone: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing
$22.95 Add to cartOn May 12, 2015, Amtrak 188 derailed outside of Philadelphia going 106 miles per hour. Eight passengers were killed and many more severely injured. Geralyn Ritter was thrown from the train with such f… [more below]
- Author: Ritter, Geralyn S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1950465551
- Language: English
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A Life with Ghosts: True, Terrifying, and Insightful Tales from My Favorite Haunts
$29.99 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The debut book from paranormal investigator and Ghost Hunters TV star Steve Gonsalves! Steve Gonsalves–already considered to be one of the top paranormal investigators in the wo- Author: Gonsalves, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1668008327
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir
$27.95 Read moreAt five years old, Kristal Brent Zook sat on the steps of a Venice Beach, California, motel trying to make sense of her white father’s abandonment, which left her feeling unworthy of a man’s love and
- Author: Zook, Kristal Brent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 1478017198
- Language: English
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Omega Farm: A Memoir
$28.00 Read more*A New Yorker and Vogue Best Book of 2023*
“Compelling… [McPhee] positions herself neither as victim nor saint but as someone who, she says, only wants to be good.” —The Washington Post A moving me- Author: McPhee, Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1982197994
- Language: English
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Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery
$24.95 Add to cart“One hell of a ride.”–Nick Offerman, actor, woodworker, New York Times bestselling author
“Candid and often moving reflections . . . make for absorbing reading. . . . [This is] a memoir of a journey
- Author: Anderson, Dorian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1645022234
- Language: English
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Sitti’s Bird: A Gaza Story
$18.95 Add to cartA sensitive and heart warming story of how a little girl in Gaza finds strength and hope through her painting. Sitti’s Bird is a unique children’s picture book, written and illustrated by Palestinian
- Author: Mattar, Malak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718252
- Language: English
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When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir
$28.00 Read moreIn this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult–and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving t… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Guinevere
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0593237595
- Language: English
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Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth
$30.00 Add to cartThe actress, activist, and once infamous Playboy Playmate reclaims the narrative of her life in a memoir that defies expectation in both content and approach, blending searing prose with snippets of o
- Author: Anderson, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063226561
- Language: English
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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
$16.99 Add to cartA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction
“…an essential and engaging look at recent disability history.”– Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US hist- Author: Heumann, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0807002801
- Language: English
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About Ed
$18.95 Add to cartA moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ scene.
Bob Gl?k met Ed Aulerich-Sugai in 1970. Ed was an aspiring artist- Author: Gluck, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377764
- Language: English
