Personal Memoirs
-
The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking Through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast
$22.95 Read moreThere are five layers of the ocean, though most of us will only ever see one. The deepest layer is the midnight zone, where the only light comes from bioluminescence, created by animals who live there… [more below]
- Author: Emerick, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: April 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0870710796
- Language: English
-
Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain
$24.95 Read moreThe moving story of an English professor studying neurology in order to understand and come to terms with her father’s death from Alzheimer’s.
Winner of the Memoir Prize for Books by the Memoir Magazin
- Author: Weinstein, Cindy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1421441268
- Language: English
-
Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today’s China
$30.00 Read more“THE BOOK CHINA DOESN’T WANT YOU TO READ.” –CNN
SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by THE ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMES This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New- Author: Shum, Desmond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1982156155
- Language: English
-
Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
$27.00 Read more“[A]nother hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh out loud funny. I didn’t want it to end.”
–Mindy K… [more below]- Author: Robinson, Phoebe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0593184904
- Language: English
-
Prison Journal: The State Court Rejects the Appeal Volume 2
$19.95 Read moreInnocent! That final verdict came after George Cardinal Pell endured a grueling four years of accusations, investigations, trials, public humiliations, and more than a year of imprisonment after being
- Author: Pell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1621644502
- Language: English
-
Alive Until You’re Dead: Notes on the Home Stretch
$17.95 Read moreGold Nautilus Book Award Winner
Poignant and humorous insights on fully embracing our lives as we age from Susan Moon, beloved Buddhist teacher and author.
Aging isn’t easy. But it can still be fille- Author: Moon, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1611809630
- Language: English
-
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815
$27.95 Add to cartThe second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity.
In 1800, François-René de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands- Author: Chateaubriand, François-Réne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376172
- Language: English
-
Unfinished: A Memoir
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this thoughtful and revealing memoir, readers will accompany one of the world’s most recognizable women on her journey of self-discovery.
“I have always felt that life i- Author: Jonas, Priyanka Chopra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1984819232
- Language: English
-
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
$25.99 Read moreThe New York Times Bestseller
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Lambda Literary Award winner
From Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist, a memoir in weight about eat
- Author: Gay, Roxane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0062362593
- Language: English
-
Broken Music: A Memoir
$17.00 Read more“Sting’s gift for prose and reverence for language, nearly the equal of his musical gifts, shine on every page. Even when Broken Music addresses the quixotic life of an aspiring rock & roller, it read… [more below]
- Author: Sting
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0385338651
- Language: English
-
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
$10.95 Read moreAs a young widow with a small child, Elinore Pruitt left Denver in 1909 and set out for Wyoming, where she hoped to buy a ranch. Determined to prove that a lone woman could survive the hardships of ho… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451429
- Language: English
-
Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
$18.95 Read moreIn the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. A
- Author: Sheffer, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357791
- Language: English
-
Josie’s Story: A Mother’s Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe
$18.00 Add to cartSorrel King was a 32-year-old mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter, Josie, was horribly burned by water from a faulty water heater in the family’s new Baltimore home. She was taken to J… [more below]
- Author: King, Sorrel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0802145043
- Language: English
-
Life Is Mostly Edges
$19.99 Add to cartOne man’s backward glance at unexpected lessons, the beauty of relationship, and God’s mysterious guiding hand.
Bestselling author and poet Calvin Miller turns his hand to the most moving story of al
- Author: Miller, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 24 2010
- ISBN10: 0785297987
- Language: English
-
Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their- Author: Caldwell, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0812979117
- Language: English
-
Fish Food: A Feminist Moby Dick
$24.95 Read moreHealing and growth happen in the strangest places . . .
Spanning three years of her life, Grace Hayden’s memoir, Fish Food: A Feminist Moby Dick, documents her recovery from trauma involving love and l
- Author: Hayden, Grace Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1643437062
- Language: English
-
By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families
$28.00 Read moreFrom one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations.
Growing up- Author: Thomson, R. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1039008380
- Language: English
-
Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams
$17.99 Read moreThis hilarious and thoughtful memoir from comedy legend Anjelah Johnson-Reyes explores questions of identity, belonging, and her two dreams as a kid: to be an actress and to be a chola.
You may know A… [more below]
- Author: Johnson-Reyes, Anjelah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1546000445
- Language: English
-
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature’s Lessons in Happiness
$21.99 Read moreDiscover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds, whose song is never far away . . .
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE ‘A lyrical and life-affirming book tha- Author: Corbett, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 140594921X
- Language: English
-
Unashamed
$24.99 Add to cartIf you live for people’s acceptance, you’ll die from their rejection.
Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity–childhood abuse, drugs- Author: Moore, Lecrae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 143368912X
- Language: English
