BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
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Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm
$22.95 Add to cartAn inspiring story about what happens when 3,500 acres of land, farmed for centuries, is left to return to the wild, and about the wilder, richer future a natural landscape can bring.
For years Charli- Author: Tree, Isabella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373718
- Language: English
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American Junkie
$16.95 Read moreA non-stop trip into one man’s land of desperate addicts, failed punk bands, and brushes with sad fame, as he sells drugs during the Seattle grunge years.
In American Junkie, Tom Hansen maps his her- Author: Hansen, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1593766645
- Language: English
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Out with It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
$18.99 Add to cartA “compassionate, unflinching memoir” (David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas) by a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her i… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 145167659X
- Language: English
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Uphill Both Ways: Hiking Toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail
$21.95 Add to cartReading the West Longlist for Memoir/Biography
One grouchy husband. Three reluctant kids. Five hundred miles of wilderness. And one woman, determined to escape the humdrum existence of modern parent- Author: Lani, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229002
- Language: English
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The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
$19.99 Add to cartAn “entertaining” (Booklist) account of the mysterious, hair-raising, and heartbreaking cases handled by the coroner of Marin County, California throughout his four decades on the job–from high-profi… [more below]
- Author: Bateson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1501168231
- Language: English
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The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt
$20.00 Add to cartAward-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many … [more below]
- Author: Giffels, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1451692749
- Language: English
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My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire’s Lone Survivor
$37.00 Add to cartThe true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave.
A “unique and bracing” (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona’s disastrous 2013 Yarnel- Author: McDonough, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0316308188
- Language: English
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I’ll Tell You in Person
$16.95 Add to cartPraise for Chloe Caldwell:
“I read it a couple of months ago in one can’t-put-it-down-even-though-it’s-the-middle-of-the-night sitting. It’s as intense and interesting and clear-hearted as they come.”
- Series: Emily Books
- Author: Caldwell, Chloe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1566894530
- Language: English
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We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartWe Who Walk the Seven Ways is Terra Trevor’s memoir about seeking healing and finding belonging. After she endured a difficult loss, a circle of Native women elders embraced and guided Trevor (Cheroke… [more below]
- Author: Trevor, Terra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235185
- Language: English
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
$18.99 Add to cartA former paramedic’s “thrilling, captivating” (Booklist), and mordantly funny account of a decade spent as a first responder in Atlanta saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1501110861
- Language: English
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Gold from Iron: A Humble Beginning, Olympic Dreams, and the Power in Getting Back Up
$30.00 Read moreA daring and improbable story of Olympic gold from blue-collar origins
Every summer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Nick Baumgartner went to work pouring concrete, taking on the harsh physical conditi- Author: Baumgartner, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1637275455
- Language: English
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Down Below
$16.95 Read moreA stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism’s most compelling figures
In 1937 Leonora Carrington–later to become one of the twentieth c- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Carrington, Leonora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1681370603
- Language: English
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These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home
$21.95 Add to cartTackling some of the world’s most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood, Bayo Akomolafe embarks on a journey of discovery as he maps the contours of the spaces between himself and… [more below]
- Author: Akomolafe, Bayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1623171660
- Language: English
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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors
$16.99 Add to cartFor more than three decades, bestselling author Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life. From her dazzling first novel, Love
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 006230996X
- Language: English
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Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis
$16.95 Read moreA memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett’s startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis whil… [more below]
- Author: Doggett, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 075732486X
- Language: English
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The Last Lookout on Dunn Peak: Fire Spotting in Idaho’s St. Joe National Forest
$22.95 Add to cartSome summers are destined to generate cherished memories. For married high school sweethearts Don and Nancy Hammond, they happened in 1972 and 1973, when Don’s lifelong dream of being a United States
- Author: Hammond, Nancy Sule
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: August 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1638640084
- Language: English
