Personal Memoirs
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The Book I Always Promised: Family Curses, Stregas & Adventures from Italy, Portugal & Brooklyn
$14.99 Add to cartI grew to realize that like all the others before them and all the immigrants to follow, my family wanted to find their future in America. Their sleepy little towns were beautiful and safe, but for th… [more below]
- Author: Gomes Serafino, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1665305657
- Language: English
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Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West
$28.99 Read more“Beautifully observed. . . This jewel of a book belongs on the shelf with our best Western writers–Norman MacLean, Pam Houston, and Annie Proulx.”–John Vaillant, bestselling author of The Tiger and
- Author: Andrews, Bryce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0358468272
- Language: English
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Shame
$12.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon,” begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 09 1998
- ISBN10: 1583220186
- Language: English
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
$25.95 Add to cartFascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduce
- Author: Doughty, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0393249891
- Language: English
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Don’t Stand In Line: A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cartWhen a young girl learns there is more to life than inner city Chicago, a child of Polish immigrants sets out to create her own American dream with one question in mind-what does it take to be extraor
- Author: Barker, Gerda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985196405
- Language: English
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The Sun Over the Mountains: A Story of Hope, Healing and Restoration
$24.99 Read moreA memoir of hope, healing and restoration, from star of The Repair Shop, Suzie Fletcher.
Suzie Fletcher is the warm and friendly face on The Repair Shop that viewers look forward to watching every w- Author: Fletcher, Suzie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1804190578
- Language: English
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Too Hot: Kool & the Gang & Me
$28.99 Read moreGrowing up around music, young George was inspired to piece together a makeshift drum set and teach himself to play as he practiced in the dark, dank basement of his run-down New Jersey row house.
He- Author: Brown, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1641609184
- Language: English
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Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition: One Woman’s Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
$18.99 Add to cartA Colorado favorite, Tomboy Bride presents the first-hand account of a young pioneer woman and her life in a rough and tumble mining town of the Old West.
In 1906 at the age of twenty, Harriet Fish ho
- Author: Backus, Harriet Fish
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2019
- ISBN10: 151326205X
- Language: English
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Adamalui: A Survivor’s Journey from Civil Wars in Africa to Life in America
$29.99 Add to cartAwarded author and survivor of the Sierra Leonean and Liberian civil wars, Joseph Kaifala recounts his journey to America with literary finesse and sincere recollection.
- Author: Kaifala, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1681626845
- Language: English
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All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
$32.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now he shares his story for the first time in “a wonderful … [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Mel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 059315911X
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$10.99 Add to cartFirst appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in bondage, was both a bestseller in its day and one of the most powerful, authorita
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 151313356X
- Language: English
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A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
$20.00 Add to cartA Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzer’s inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy of memoirs that began with A Child Called “It” … [more below]
- Author: Pelzer, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0452281903
- Language: English
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartBy the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.
Set in the suburbs- Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 1998
- ISBN10: 684847957
- Language: English
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Krantzman: A Memoir in Stories and Poems
$17.99 Add to cartRob Cohen’s unique memoir describes growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s and 1960s, his college years in Boston, his fall into addiction and alcoholism, and his subsequent recovery and building of a fa
- Author: Cohen, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798985941340
- Language: English
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Small Boat, Vast Ocean: My Years in Solitary Buddhist Retreat
$19.95 Add to cartIn this time of serial distraction, an engaged-in-the-world American woman chose to jump feet first into solitary retreat in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition — lasting three and a half years. Small Boa
- Author: Berger, Diane Rigdzin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986694504
- Language: English
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
$20.00 Add to cartAs seen on the Oxygen mini-series The Disappearance of Maura Murray
When an eleven-year-old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, i- Author: Renner, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1250113814
- Language: English
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Hardship Alaska
$16.95 Add to cartHardship Alaska chronicles Donald Proffit’s life as a Vietnam War era conscientious objector as he sets off on two years of exile, service, soul-searching, and self-discovery in the rugged, beauty of
- Author: Proffit, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1684920574
- Language: English
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Miracles Really Do Happen!: Jesus Makes All Things New
$23.99 Add to cartJesus is coming again soon!
Vanessa Joy Lancellotti had a supernatural encounter with Jesus that she needs to share with the world. Jesus saved her life during a near-death traumatic brain bleed and ap
- Author: Lancellotti, Vanessa Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9.7989E+12
- Language: English
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God Moments
$18.99 Add to cartPREPARE FOR GOD TO INVADE YOUR DAY-TO-DAY LIFE!
In this book, Nancy Santiago shares the many “God moments” she has experienced that opened her eyes to how deeply God cares and how involved He can be i
- Author: Santiago, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Long Road Home: A Family’s Journey Through Addiction
$15.99 Add to cartIn The Long Road Home Robert N. Ruesch and Jennifer Lyn Ruesch take an unfiltered look at the devastation of addiction and the relentless hope of recovery. This father-daughter memoir will guide you o
- Author: Ruesch, Robert N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1964251222
- Language: English
