Personal Memoirs
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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
$19.00 Add to cartFrom historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating story of how Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in the years after the Civil War, offerin… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1982141352
- Language: English
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Bff: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found
$28.00 Read more* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” –Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *
From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club- Author: Tate, Christie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1668009420
- Language: English
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Little Weirds
$29.00 Add to cartOne of Vanity Fair’s Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate’s wild imagination in this “magical” (Mindy Kaling), “delicious” (Amy Sedaris), and “poignant” (John Mulaney) New York Times bestsell… [more below]
- Author: Slate, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0316485349
- Language: English
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Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother’s Pursuit of the Truth
$28.00 Read moreThis “compulsively readable memoir…brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored…An immensely important book” (Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better and Crib… [more below]
- Author: Nix, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0385548591
- Language: English
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Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
$17.00 Add to cartMark Doty’s prose has been hailed as “tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene” (The New York Times Book Review) and “achingly beautiful” (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he of… [more below]
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0807066095
- Language: English
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Close Contact: Memoir of a Determined Pandemic Cancer Survivor
$16.99 Add to cartHave you ever been faced with a challenge that was as confusing as it was daunting? Or that required clear thinking and wise choices when you were overwhelmed and afraid? Close Contact: Memoir of a De… [more below]
- Author: Ormsby, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988341734
- Language: English
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Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition from Self-Loathing to Self-Love
$24.95 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE
‘Honest, raw, moving’ CHRISTINE BURNS
‘Radical vulnerability at its finest’ OWL FISHER
‘Highly recommended’ SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF BOOKS This is the deeply- Author: Violet, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 21 2018
- ISBN10: 1785923153
- Language: English
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Give Them Lala
$18.99 Add to cartUSA TODAY BESTSELLER
The Vanderpump Rules breakout star and provocateur brings her signature sharp wit to the page with this collection of humorous and brutally honest essays exploring her rocky road- Author: Kent, Lala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982153857
- Language: English
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The Devil Finds Work: An Essay
$15.00 Add to cartFrom “the best essayist in this country” (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0307275957
- Language: English
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Kook: What Surfing Taught Me about Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave
$19.99 Add to cartWith grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The River and The Whale Warriors recounts his remarkable journey of discovery–of surfing, an entirely new challenge; of the ocean’s bea… [more below]
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0743294203
- Language: English
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Letting In Air and Light
$17.95 Add to cartFrom a double shotgun house in New Orleans comes a true story larger than life. Teresa Tumminello Brader, niece of the convicted art forger William Toye, retells her family’s experience as she discove… [more below]
- Author: Brader, Teresa Tumminello
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1960215035
- Language: English
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Twin A: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartShortly after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one of the twins had a potentially fatal conge
- Author: Majmudar, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821384
- Language: English
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Radical: A Life of My Own
$27.00 Read moreXiaolu Guo has been lauded as a “voice . . . speaking with full freedom” (Wall Street Journal), which has made her one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation. She is the National
- Author: Guo, Xiaolu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161561
- Language: English
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King of Diamonds: Harry Winston, the Definitive Biography of an American Icon
$32.99 Add to cartThis authoritative and intimate biography, written by his only living son, Ronald Winston, marries the Gilded Age glamour and romance of Edith Wharton with the ruthless family dynamics of HBO’s hit se… [more below]
- Author: Winston, Ronald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1510775609
- Language: English
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Skinfolk: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartCould a picturesque white house with a picket fence save the world? What if it was filled with children drawn together from around the globe? And what if, within the yard, the lines of kin and skin, o… [more below]
- Author: Guterl, Matthew Pratt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324091711
- Language: English
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Makeup to Breakup: My Life in and Out of Kiss
$19.99 Add to cartFounding drummer Peter “Catman” Criss’s New York Times bestselling memoir, “the best–and most honest–account of KISS craziness during the band’s heyday in the 1970s” (Publishers Weekly), now in pape… [more below]
- Author: Criss, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1451620837
- Language: English
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The Choice: Embrace the Possible
$28.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
“I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention t- Author: Eger, Edith Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1501130781
- Language: English
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Forever Boy: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy
$27.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
With her popular blog, Finding Cooper’s Voice, Kate Swenson has provided hope and comfort for hundreds of thousands of parents of children with Autism. Now, Kate shares her inspirin… [more below]
- Author: Swenson, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0778311996
- Language: English
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The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life
$18.00 Add to cart“A warm, profound and cleareyed memoir. . . this wise and sympathetic book’s lingering effect is as a reminder that a deeper and more companionable way of life lurks behind our self-serious stories.”-… [more below]
- Author: Epstein, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 059329663X
- Language: English
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
$21.99 Add to cartThe real, untold, and unvarnished story of life inside the legendary Playboy Mansion–and the man who holds the key–from the woman who was Hef’s #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next Door.
A spon
- Author: Madison, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0062372114
- Language: English
