Biography & Autobiography
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Under the Mercy: A Sequel to a Severe Mercy
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartWith eloquent, moving prose, Sheldon Vanauken tells about those years following the death of his beloved wife, Davy, and how he moved step-by-step through the darkness of his grief into the light of
- Author: Vanauken, Sheldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: December 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0898702135
- Language: English
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By: Knopp, Lisa
Ravelings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn Ravelings, Lisa Knopp takes up an older, opposing meaning of the verb “ravel”–“to entangle”–as she explores the deaths and departures of loved ones and the rituals by which we mourn and honor the
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Knopp, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 149624494X
- Language: English
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By: Ipsen, Pernille
My Seven Mothers: Making a Family in the Danish Women’s Movement
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartSeven women raise a child together while redefining their place in society at the beginning of the Women’s Movement in Denmark in the 1970s
On New Year’s Eve in Copenhagen in 1972, seven women had a- Author: Ipsen, Pernille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1517917794
- Language: English
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Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$9.95PaperbackAdd to cartElizabeth von Arnim’s vivid, humorous, and subtly subversive Elizabeth and her German Garden is one of the great garden memoirs of all time. As the wife of a stern German aristocrat and mother of youn… [more below]
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1959891669
- Language: English
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By: Whybrow, Helen
The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life
$20.00PaperbackRead moreNow in Paperback!
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Winner of the Vermont Book Awards
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the New England Book Award
Featured on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS New
- Author: Whybrow, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1571311637
- Language: English
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Hispanic Star: Lin-Manuel Miranda
$19.99HardcoverRead moreRead about award-winning songwriter, actor, producer and director Lin-Manuel Miranda in the latest installment of Hispanic Star’s series of engaging, illustrated biographies for young readers, publish
- Series: Hispanic Star
- Author: Edelman, Claudia Romo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 1250340241
- Language: English
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By: Reilly, Errol F.
I’m Alive: A Young Fighter Pilot’s Diary of the US Navy Air War in Vietnam, 1964-1965 Volume 25
$34.95HardcoverAdd to cartI’m Alive is the compelling diary of Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG) Errol F. Reilly, a 26-year-old Navy fighter pilot, written aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea during his first Vietnam combat
- Series: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir
- Author: Reilly, Errol F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 04 2026
- ISBN10: 9798898290009
- Language: English
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By: Farmer, David R.
Jack Rittenhouse: A Western Literary Life
$27.95HardcoverAdd to cart- Author: Farmer, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369553
- Language: English
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By: Schmidt, Sam
No Finish Line: A Racer’s Journey of Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose
$29.99HardcoverAdd to cartAn inspirational memoir by the former IndyCar driver turned entrepreneur, race team owner and philanthropist, No Finish Line is Sam Schmidt’s account of leading the charge to find cures and treatments… [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798895151617
- Language: English
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By: Pattison, Darcy
Night: How Copernicus Made the Sun Stand Still and the Earth Move
$25.99HardcoverRead morePatterns in the Night Sky
On a March night in 1497, a young Nicholas Copernicus watched the moon glide across the sky and hide a distant star. When the star reappeared too soon, he knew something was w
- Series: Moments in Science #11
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1629443352
- Language: English
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By: Hedges, Laurence
Journey’s End – Siouxsie and The Banshees 1987-1996
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cartWith Jon Klein and Martin McCarrick now full-blown members, Siouxsie and The Banshees embark on one of its most creative and ambitious odysseys, culminating in the multidimensional complexities of the
- Author: Hedges, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 22 2026
- ISBN10: 191841906X
- Language: English
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Sorrow’s Apprentice: Becoming a Student of Grief, and the Lessons on Love, Loss, and Living
$28.99HardcoverAdd to cartWhat if grief is not something to solve or heal from, but a teacher that holds profound wisdom?
In Sorrow’s Apprentice: Becoming a Student of Grief, and the Lessons on Love, Loss, and Living, Melissa V
- Author: Vanderzyden, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 08 2026
- ISBN10: 9798995326106
- Language: English
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By: Julian, John
The Complete Cloud of Unknowing: With the Letter of Privy Counsel
$22.99PaperbackRead moreThe Christian mystical tradition has its roots in Holy Scripture but was enunciated most clearly by the late 5th century author writing under the name Dionysius the Areopagite. It was acquaintance wit… [more below]
- Series: Paraclete Giants
- Author: Julian, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1612616208
- Language: English
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Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn Finding Sarah and Mary, Jacqueline Jones Royster combines memoir, family lore, DNA data, local history, and national history to create an ancestral history narrative. Surveying a forty-year journey… [more below]
- Author: Jones Royster, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0820375160
- Language: English
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Grief Grit Glory
$26.95PaperbackAdd to cartA Mother’s Extraordinary Journey From Heartbreak to Hope
Pam was twenty-four, pregnant with her third child, and holding fast to a life built on faith, love, and promise–until everything changed with … [more below]
- Author: Runner, Pamela Jessup
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1636988997
- Language: English
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By: Ramsey, Kelly
Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West
$20.00PaperbackRead moreIn the exhilarating spirit of Wild and A Walk in the Park, this “intimate and action-packed memoir” (Outside) follows one woman’s struggle to succeed as a wildland firefighter on an elite, male-domina… [more below]
- Author: Ramsey, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1668031485
- Language: English
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By: Walker, Rebecca
Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
$27.00PaperbackAdd to cartNow in paperback, this national bestseller “offers painful childhood memories of straddling two vastly different cultures . . . to fashion a cautionary tale about the power of race in shaping identity… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 1573229075
- Language: English
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By: Stamper, Kory
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
$19.00PaperbackRead more“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exac… [more below]
- Author: Stamper, Kory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 110197026X
- Language: English
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By: Velshi, Ali
Small Acts of Courage: A Family’s Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartA captivating family history that illustrates how small actions can have an outsized political impact.
Small acts of courage matter. Sometimes, they change the world. Our history books are filled with- Author: Velshi, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1250903696
- Language: English
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Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming
$30.00HardcoverRead moreA gripping, deeply moving memoir of survival, education, and resistance by a student protestor-turned-political prisoner in post-revolution Egypt.
“I will never be the same after reading Huna.” –Javi- Author: Elgendy, Abdelrahman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217153602
- Language: English













