Personal Memoirs
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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
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Stray: A Memoir
$16.00 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman’s attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past.
After selling- Author: Danler, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1101911875
- Language: English
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Path of Totality: Poems
$16.95 Read moreExploring the sudden loss of her child, the hope that precedes this crisis, and the suffering that follows, this collection of poetry renders a shattering experience with candor and immediacy.
This co
- Author: Pollari, Niina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 159376703X
- Language: English
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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
$15.95 Read moreA memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers–Erich Auerbach, Fran輟is Fé§elon, and W. G. Sebald–and their relat… [more below]
- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376393
- Language: English
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How to Fail Successfully: Finding Your Creative Potential Through Mistakes and Challenges
$17.99 Read moreFrom Brandon Stosuy, cofounder of the Creative Independent, an interactive guide to navigating disappointments and finding happy accidents in a creative life, filled with advice from artists across di… [more below]
- Author: Stosuy, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1419746545
- Language: English
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You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
$16.95 Add to cartA gripping and ultimately redemptive story full of surprises, plot twists, and you-can’t-believe-it’s-true moments, You’ll Forget This Ever Happened is a testament to a mother’s enduring love-but it’s… [more below]
- Author: Engel, Laura L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 164742349X
- Language: English
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The Kitchen Whisperers: Cooking with the Wisdom of Our Friends
$17.99 Add to cartA beautifully written tribute to the people who teach us to cook and guide our hands in the kitchen, by a founding editor of Saveur.
“[The book features] many of the culinary names [Kalins] worked with
- Author: Kalins, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063001659
- Language: English
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Tour de Force: My History-Making Tour de France
$16.99 Read moreFrom illness and mental health challenges to becoming the most successful British cyclist at the age of 22, Mark Cavendish shares his inspiring account of his record-breaking rise to the top of the wo
- Author: Cavendish, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1728265312
- Language: English
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Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison–Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Eff
$17.99 Add to cartThe Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. “544 Days” is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24.
The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held host
- Author: Rezaian, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0062691589
- Language: English
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Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller
A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the Food Netwo
- Author: Drummond, Ree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0062962817
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
$7.95 Read moreThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition
“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0300087012
- Language: English
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Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay
$16.00 Read moreDON’T MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON’S COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHING’S TRASH–NOW ON FREEFORM!
New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely es- Author: Robinson, Phoebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0525534164
- Language: English
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Twenty Square Feet of Skin
$22.95 Read more“A pensive inquiry, often breathtakingly beautiful and relatable, into how and where and with whom we fit.” –Kirkus
The essays in Twenty Square Feet of Skin tell their stories through the body-encase- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Baxter, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258689
- Language: English
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
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After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy
$18.00 Read moreAn intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time
“Anyone who, in our age of disbelief, longs to believe in God will find Mr. Kronman worth readi- Author: Kronman, Anthony T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271069
- Language: English
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Local: A Memoir
$28.99 Read moreA powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs.
Born and raised in Hawai’i by a father whose ancestors are indigenous to the land
- Author: Machado, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542027322
- Language: English
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Southern Table: A Memoir and Cookbook
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Part cookbook, part memoir, these “rollicking, poignant, sometimes hilarious tales” (USA Today) are the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s loving tribute to the South, his family and,… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1400032695
- Language: English
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American Junkie
$16.95 Read moreA non-stop trip into one man’s land of desperate addicts, failed punk bands, and brushes with sad fame, as he sells drugs during the Seattle grunge years.
In American Junkie, Tom Hansen maps his her- Author: Hansen, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1593766645
- Language: English
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Bishop J. C. Ryle’s Autobiography
$30.00 Read moreJohn Charles Ryle (1816-1900), first Bishop of Liverpool, was one of the most influential evangelical clergymen of the nineteenth century. A popular platform speaker and prolific tract writer, his boo… [more below]
- Author: Ryle, John Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1848716869
- Language: English
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Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir about What Happens After a Miracle
$29.00 Read moreThe incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed in Iraq.
On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq’s Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day… [more below]- Author: Day, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1538701839
- Language: English
