Autobiographies
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Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman
$22.99 Read morePart memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian women.
With chapters covering sexual and cultural identity, body hair, colorism and mental health, and- Author: Dhaliwal, Sharan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1784884391
- Language: English
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Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
$29.00 Read moreNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER
The incredible rags-to-riches story of acclaimed actor Brian Cox, best known as Succession‘s Logan Roy, from a troubled, working-class upbringing in Scotla- Author: Cox, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1538707292
- Language: English
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Dwyane
$35.00 Read moreThe long-awaited photographic memoir from basketball superstar Dwyane Wade, beautifully designed with hundreds of photos from Wade’s life on and off the court.
“[A] trip down memory lane with one of th
- Author: Wade, Dwyane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0062968351
- Language: English
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Whispers from the Valley of the Yak: A Memoir of Coming Full Circle
$17.95 Read moreJackie has known tumultuous times: she escaped war-torn China as a toddler with her medical missionary parents, grew up with emotional abuse, and came of age in the 1960s. But after returning to China… [more below]
- Author: Lenox Tuxill, Jacquelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425492
- Language: English
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Jennie’s Boy: A Misfit Childhood on an Island of Eccentrics
$19.95 Read more** Winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour **
The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious gr- Author: Johnston, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1586423622
- Language: English
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Bub: Essays from Just North of Nashville
$17.00 Read moreNashville native Drew Bratcher writes musically about memory and memorably about music in uncommonly beautiful essays that announce the arrival of a major new voice. The title essay, a requiem in frag… [more below]
- Author: Bratcher, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1609388496
- Language: English
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The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
$22.95 Read moreA “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-- Author: Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1517904978
- Language: English
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Wasted: An Alcoholic Therapist’s Fight for Recovery in a Flawed Treatment System
$18.95 Add to cartPsychotherapist Michael Pond is no stranger to the devastating consequences of alcoholism. He has helped hundreds of people conquer their addictions, but this knowledge did not prevent his own near-de… [more below]
- Author: Pond, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1771641967
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$26.95 Read moreIn late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Desc
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882047
- Language: English
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Mary and Mr. Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
$0.00 Read moreMary and Mr. Eliot is a twin portrait of T. S. Eliot and its author, the formidable Mary Trevelyan.
In 1938 T. S. Eliot, already “a Classic in his lifetime,” struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan- Author: Trevelyan, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0374203180
- Language: English
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
$16.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A literary tour de force that chronicles a prize-winning author’s descent into an almost suicidal depression.
“Compelling … Harrowing … a vivid portrait of a debilitating- Author: Styron, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 08 1992
- ISBN10: 0679736395
- Language: English
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Fifth Ward to Fourth Quarter: Football’s Impact on an NFL Player’s Body and Soul
$35.00 Read moreAfter his release from the Green Bay Packers, realizing that his football career was abruptly over, Delvin Williams asked himself some hard questions: What happened to the game he fell in love with a
- Series: Swaim-Paup Sports Series, Sponsored by James C. ’74 & Debra
- Author: Williams, Delvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430716
- Language: English
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Xoxy: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist)
$20.95 Add to cartAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 2021 STONEWALL HONOR BOOK
Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an interna- Author: Zieselman, Kimberly M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1785928376
- Language: English
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction – From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: “This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life.” —Ho… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345807170
- Language: English
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Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir
$18.95 Read moreFinalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award
This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pie
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read- Author: Lee, Jen Sookfong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0771025211
- Language: English
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Higher Ground: My American Dreams and Nightmares in the Hidden Halls of Academia
$28.00 Read moreWhen Linda Katehi was six years old, growing up in war-ravaged Greece, she turned to her mother and said, “I do not want to be poor!” Her mother replied: “Then go to school and be a good student. This
- Author: Katehi, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1684017238
- Language: English
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Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood
$26.00 Read moreA photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and author Susan Rubin Suleiman uses such everyday objects and the memories they evok
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Suleiman, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1503634817
- Language: English
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Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse
$19.95 Add to cartAlbert Einstein said, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” It is in this vein that Sholeh Wolpé’s mesmerizing memoir in verse unfolds. In this l
- Author: Wolpé, Sholeh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: March 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1682261980
- Language: English
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Here, Right Matters: An American Story
$19.99 Read moreThe instant New York Times bestseller, now in paperback and with a new afterword
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision
- Author: Vindman, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0063079437
- Language: English
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Enjoy Me Among My Ruins
$15.95 Read moreCombining feminist theories, X-Files fandom, and memoir, Enjoy Me among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgerald’s experiences as a queer sex-working mother. Plumbing the … [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, Juniper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 155861382X
- Language: English
