Personal Memoirs
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Return: A Journey Back to Living Wild
$29.99 Add to cartIn this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside our
- Author: Vilden, Lynx
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063215101
- Language: English
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Facing Death: Finding Dignity, Hope and Healing at the End
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Is it possible to have a good death, free from unnecessary pain and trauma? What if our final days were designed to bring about reconciliation and release? In this wise and large- Author: deMaine, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1734979100
- Language: English
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Illusions of Camelot: A Memoir
$24.95 Read moreFrom the artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and former principal dancer for the New York City Ballet comes an unforgettable memoir about one artist’s journey from boyhood to ballet.
Pet- Author: Boal, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0825309832
- Language: English
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The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
$22.99 Add to cart“[A] testament to a great spirit, a woman who lived in terrifying proximity to one of the greatest writers of all time, and who understood exactly the high price she would have to pay for this privile
- Author: Porter, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0061997412
- Language: English
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I Didn’t See It Coming: Scenes of Love, Loss and Lewy Body Dementia
$28.00 Add to cartIn this memoir of love, loss, and Lewy body dementia (LBD), Mary Lou Falcone takes readers on a cathartic journey of caregiving that is filled with hope, laughter, and tears. At the age of ten, Mary L… [more below]
- Author: Falcone, Mary Lou
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1734526890
- Language: English
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My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
$18.00 Add to cartAn eloquently told personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, which reveals Harry Belafonte as not only one of America’s greatest entertainers, but also one of our most prof
- Author: Belafonte, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0307473422
- Language: English
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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
$23.95 Add to cart“Beyond Katrina” is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 082034902X
- Language: English
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Daddy’s Girl: A Father, His Daughter, and the Deadly Battle She Won
$19.99 Add to cartHow does a young mother overcome an 8 percent chance of living to raise her newborn son? She becomes a warrior and provides hope for others. Daddy’s Girl is the story of a father, his daughter, and th
- Author: Schnabel, Michael A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 195645036X
- Language: English
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The Faraway Nearby
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell’s Roses Apricots. Her mother’- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125494
- Language: English
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.
With its deeply personal and se- Author: Jamison, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0316259586
- Language: English
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
$8.95 Add to cart“Anyone who has ever wondered what it really means to be Black will find the answer in this book.”–MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE
To Be Young, Gifted and Black is a special kind of autobiography, in a very spec- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0451531787
- Language: English
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East Side Dreams
$18.95 Add to cartEast Side Dreams is an award winning, inspirational book. As you read, you will experience with the author, Art Rodriguez, the difficult time he had growing up, partly dealing with his dictatorial fat… [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0967155568
- Language: English
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Altogether Different: A Memoir About Identity, Inheritance, and the Raid That Started the Civil War
$17.00 Add to cartIf you could choose between being Black and being white, what would you do?
As a child, Brianna Wheeler, the mixed-race descendant of Dangerfield Newby-first of John Brown’s raiders to die at Harpers F
- Author: Wheeler, Brianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1957024054
- Language: English
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Before There Was An After
$16.99 Add to cartA powerful and emotional mother and son memoir that recounts their seven year journey through his heroin addiction and multiple attempts at recovery. Honest, heartbreaking and revealing they share the
- Author: Davis, Gerad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988398806
- Language: English
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A Very Private School: A Memoir
$28.99 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A tour de force.” —The Washington Post In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school. A Ve- Author: Spencer, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1668046385
- Language: English
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Autumn Song: Essays on Absence
$19.95 Add to cartWe all live lives littered with what we leave behind: places we once lived, friendships we once had, dreams we once envisioned, the people we once were. Each new day we attempt to find a way to contin… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Gopo, Patrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235800
- Language: English
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Irma: The Education of a Mother’s Son
$25.99 Add to cartA son’s lessons from his single mother–a twenty five year old widow who took control of her life, defied expectations and raised him into a manhood of his own–from the author of the acclaimed The Ac
- Author: McDonell, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063277972
- Language: English
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Rafa
$19.99 Add to cartIn his memoir, written with award-winning journalist John Carlin, tennis star Rafael Nadal reveals the secrets of his game and shares the inspiring personal story behind his success.
What makes a champ… [more below]- Author: Nadal, Rafael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 1401310923
- Language: English
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
$22.00 Add to cart“Worsley offers us much that Austen’s admirers wish to know…with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished.” –Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review
Take a trip back to- Author: Worsley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1250799961
- Language: English
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Coal Miner’s Daughter
$9.99 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author and Nashville legend Loretta Lynn tells the story of her rise from deep poverty in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, to the top of the male-dominated country music industry –… [more below]
- Author: Lynn, Loretta
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1538701707
- Language: English
