Personal Memoirs
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My Dog Skip
$16.00 Add to cartThis classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is “a rich experience all around…. Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about…. I’d take him home in a shot” (The New York Times Book… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767223
- Language: English
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Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as a Daughter Lives with Her Mom’s Memory Loss
$17.00 Read moreThis edition of the inspirational #1 bestseller draws on a new year of Jann’s diaries and her mother’s final days.
When beloved singer and songwriter Jann Arden’s parents built a house just across the- Author: Arden, Jann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0735273936
- Language: English
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Strength in What Remains
$18.00 Read moreNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
Los Angeles Times – San Francisco Chronicle –Chicago Tribune – The Christian Science Monitor – Publishers Weekly- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0812977610
- Language: English
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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this beloved memoir from the author of Tender at the Bone, “Reichl writes with gusto, and her story has all the ingredients of a modern fairy tale: hard work, weird food… [more below]
- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Reichl, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0812981626
- Language: English
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Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life (1860-1975)
$32.00 Read moreWhen the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-sch… [more below]
- Author: Watt, Eva Tulene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0816523916
- Language: English
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Raised by the Zoo: My Life with Elephants and Other Animals
$32.95 Read moreA lively memoir of growing up in the Dublin Zoo.
People have been enchanted by elephants for centuries. For Gerry Creighton, this fascination began at an early age; his father was a keeper at Dublin Zo… [more below]
- Author: Creighton, Gerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0717197514
- Language: English
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The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Streetwise Cat
$19.00 Read moreCat lovers around the world embraced the New York Times bestselling heartwarming true story of James Bowen and A Street Cat Named Bob. Now, the busker and his feline friend are back in The World Accor
- Author: Bowen, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1250067812
- Language: English
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If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display
$22.95 Read moreEssays, stories and poems on the interior lives of bookstores.
Nick Thran’s volume of essays, stories and poems is a quietly powerful meditation on a life of reading, writing and bookselling. Thran, w
- Author: Thran, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0889714487
- Language: English
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Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece
$19.95 Read more- Author: Benedict, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1804440019
- Language: English
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Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death, and Marriage
$27.00 Read moreA profound examination of grief and a great celebration of love by internationally bestselling author James Runcie.
In early 2020, as the world sunk into the pandemic, James Runcie and his wife Marily- Author: Runcie, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1639731520
- Language: English
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Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom — And Back Again
$26.95 Read moreAn identity that spans the globe.
In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She traces her path to claiming a- Author: Harkema, Graci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1774582511
- Language: English
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River of Time: My Descent Into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope
$21.99 Add to cartNaomi Judd’s life as a country music superstar has been nonstop success. But offstage, she has battled incredible adversity. Struggling through a childhood of harsh family secrets, the death of a youn… [more below]
- Author: Judd, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 145559573X
- Language: English
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A Beautiful Work in Progress
$14.95 Read moreRunners’ vocabulary is full of acronyms like DNS for “Did Not Start” and DNF for “Did Not Finish,” but when Mirna Valerio stepped up to the starting line, she needed a new one: DNQ for “Did Not Quit.”
- Author: Valerio, Mirna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1503943399
- Language: English
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Eat a Peach: A Memoir
$28.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious–an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped sha… [more below]
- Author: Chang, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 152475921X
- Language: English
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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth about Everything
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world.
Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most i- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1538733692
- Language: English
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Man of Letters
$29.95 Read moreA Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public … [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 19 2007
- ISBN10: 1594031967
- Language: English
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Never Too Late
$14.00 Read moreMTV reality star Amber Portwood’s autobiography describes her shocking downward spiral and recovery after prision.
When Amber Portwood debuted on MTV’s hit reality series 16 & Pregnant, no one could h- Author: Portwood, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1682613275
- Language: English
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Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
$15.95 Read moreAn intimate account of Paris-born author Phil Marcade’s first ten years in the United States, where-after drifting from Boston to the West Coast and back-he wound up in New York City and became deeply… [more below]
- Author: Marcade, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1941110495
- Language: English
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Toil & Trouble: A Memoir
$20.00 Read moreFrom the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching…and just a little spooky.
“Here’s a partial list of things I don’t believe in: God. The- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1250752000
- Language: English
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Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream
$24.95 Read moreA powerful memoir of resilience, friendship, family, and food from the acclaimed chefs behind the award-winning Hy Vong Vietnamese restaurant in Miami.
IACP AWARD WINNER: Literary or Historical Food W- Author: Nguyen, Tung
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1797202243
- Language: English
