Personal Memoirs
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Pendar
$19.99 Add to cartPENDAR – A MEMOIR OF COURAGE, HEARTBREAK, AND PERSEVERANCE
A young family’s world is turned upside down after the Iranian revolution leads to a bloody war. Young 12-year-old Pendar learns that children
- Author: Malek, Pendar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1637774362
- Language: English
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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
$24.95 Add to cartMa was a crafty lady who had been taught well by her father and mother, Elias Samuel Totten and Nancy Jane Bradford Totten. She learned to cook, sew, plow, hoe, pick cotton, do housework, and dry appl… [more below]
- Author: Barger, Carl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1682358291
- Language: English
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The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems
$19.95 Add to cartThe Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and t… [more below]
- Author: Kusserow, Adrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1478025573
- Language: English
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Diabetes and Me: Living a Healthy and Empowered Life in the Face of Diabetes
$24.00 Read more“Children with diabetes can live full, happy, productive lives. I hope my story can stand as proof of that fact.”
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age seven, Wendy Louise Novak had to create her own
- Author: Novak, Wendy Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1633310809
- Language: English
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College Life of a Retired Senior: A Memoir of Perseverance, Faith, and Finding the Way
$21.32 Add to cartSeven years after she retired from a lengthy career in banking, Yvonne Blackwood surprised her friends and family by returning to school at age sixty-four to pursue an English degree. Her purpose was … [more below]
- Author: Blackwood, Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1489746374
- Language: English
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They Call Me Produce Pete: Food, memories, and cherished family recipes from America’s favorite expert on fruit and vegetables
$19.00 Add to cartPete Napolitano began his career in the produce industry in the early 1950s at the tender age of five, peddling fruit and vegetables door-to-door to help support his family’s New Jersey-based produce
- Author: Napolitano, Produce Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986988313
- Language: English
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Aftershock: Reinventing Myself One Piece at a Time
$16.95 Add to cartPenny Fisher is on vacation with her family when she becomes ill and disoriented. An urgent care facility reads her temperature at 104.5 and sends her by stretcher to the emergency room. There, doctor
- Author: Fisher, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1947966626
- Language: English
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The Lake Effect: A Lake Michigan Mosaic
$19.95 Add to cart“I stood ankle deep in Lake Michigan for the first time when I was two years old,” Fred Carlisle writes. His fascination with the lake began then and has continued throughout his life.
The Lake Effect
- Author: Carlisle, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1958363189
- Language: English
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A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
$21.99 Add to cart“Starting with charred fried rice and ending with flaky pineapple tarts, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes us along on a personal journey that most can only fantasize about–an exploration of family history an… [more below]
- Author: Tan, Cheryl Lu-Lien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1401341284
- Language: English
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Misty: My Journey Through Volleyball and Life
$18.99 Add to cartThe passionate, poignant, and triumphant story of two-time Olympic gold medal-winning beach volleyball icon Misty May-Treanor.
More than any Olympics in history, the 2008 Beijing Summer Games captured- Author: May-Treanor, Misty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 1439148554
- Language: English
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Sliding Into Home
$18.99 Add to cartThe former The Girls Next Door favorite and the current star of the E! hit series Kendra bares all in this funny, fresh, fish-out-of-water memoir that captures the spirit of one of the most beloved Pl… [more below]
- Author: Wilkinson, Kendra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 143918092X
- Language: English
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You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music’s Most Maligned Tribes
$18.99 Add to cartOne of Rolling Stone’s 20 Best Music Books of 2013When memoirist and head writer for The A.V. Club Nathan Rabin first set out to write about obsessed music fans, he had no idea the journey would take … [more below]
- Author: Rabin, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1451626886
- Language: English
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Late to the Ball: A Journey Into Tennis and Aging
$19.00 Add to cartAn award-winning author attempts to become a nationally competitive tennis player–at the age of sixty–in this “soulful meditation on aging, companionship, and the power of self-improvement” (The Wal… [more below]
- Author: Marzorati, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 147673741X
- Language: English
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Short Hair Detention: Memoir of a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Surviving the Cambodian Genocide
$20.99 Add to cartIn April 1975, Channy Chhi Laux was a happy thirteen-year-old girl who was excited to start a new school year. But as news reports announced that the Khmer Rouge was getting closer to taking control o
- Author: Laux, Channy Chhi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 574
- Publish Date: December 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1480852937
- Language: English
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Sog: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam
$19.99 Add to cartJohn Plaster’s riveting account of his covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War is “a true insider’s account, this eye-opening report will leave readers feelin… [more below]
- Author: Plaster, John L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 150118346X
- Language: English
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The Life Swap: A True Story
$13.99 Add to cartIn February of 1973, Nancy Weber put an ad in the Village Voice offering to trade places with another woman, a stranger, for a month. In hopes of better understanding what was fixed and final in each … [more below]
- Author: Weber, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 247
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1504015355
- Language: English
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J. Gresham Machen
$35.00 Add to cartJohn Gresham Machen (1881″€”1937) was one of the most significant figures in the evangelical church throughout the twentieth century. He is best known through his vision for a truly evangelical p… [more below]
- Author: Stonehouse, Ned B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 606
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1848718748
- Language: English
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Searching for Mom: A Memoir
$15.99 Add to cartSearching for Mom is a “disarmingly honest” mother-daughter story. Sara Easterly spent a lifetime looking for the perfect mother. As an adoptee she had difficulties attaching to her mother, struggled
- Author: Easterly, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0578601958
- Language: English
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Goodbye, Monique: Requiem for a Brief Marriage
$15.00 Add to cartWell-known New Mexico author, John Nichols, recounts the four-year marriage of his French mother and American father during World War II. Married in Paris, France, David and Monique struggle between 1
- Author: Nichols, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0940875128
- Language: English
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Steve & Me
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Terri Raines was twenty-seven years old, she took a vacation that changed her life. Leaving behind her wildlife rescue work in Oregon, Terri traveled to Australia, and there, at a small wildlife … [more below]
- Author: Irwin, Terri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 1416954740
- Language: English
