Personal Memoirs
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I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1969, Ann-Marie’s parents did the unthinkable, leaving a Hutterite colony with their seven children to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and
- Author: Kirkby, Mary-Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0849946433
- Language: English
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Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
$18.00 Add to cartThe FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that inspired the miniseries Waco, now on Netflix.
“R- Author: Noesner, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0525511288
- Language: English
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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
$17.99 Read moreThe former first daughters share intimate stories and reflections from the Texas countryside to the storied halls of the White House and beyond.
Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush- Author: Bush Hager, Jenna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1538711427
- Language: English
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Eminent Hipsters
$17.00 Add to cartA witty, candid, sharply written memoir by the cofounder of Steely Dan
In his entertaining debut as an author, Donald Fagen–musician, songwriter, and cofounder of Steely Dan–reveals the cultural fig- Author: Fagen, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126016
- Language: English
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The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
$25.99 Read more‘Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music can have. It’s a personal journey which becomes univers
- Author: Rogers, Jude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1474622941
- Language: English
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Comfort Is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine
$18.95 Read moreAmy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Watervi… [more below]
- Author: Calder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1952143470
- Language: English
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There Is No Blue
$18.95 Read moreTHE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023
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Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, her f
- Author: Baillie, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1552454746
- Language: English
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Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own
$25.99 Read more‘A staggering piece of writing’ Nigella Lawson
‘It’s woken me up’ Minnie Driver, author of Managing Expectations
‘The most delicious memoir that kept me in bed all day’ Sophie Heawood, author of The… [more below]- Author: Forrest, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1474620647
- Language: English
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
$27.95 Add to cartFamily and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, helping to lead her country toward the future of perfect freedom promised by the le
- Author: Ypi, Lea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0393867730
- Language: English
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Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
$19.00 Add to cartThe most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column–including stories from the anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garc… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0593137043
- Language: English
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Wayward: Just Another Life to Live
$19.99 Add to cart‘Magical and transporting . . . Wayward proves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life, on her own idiosyncratic terms’
‘A gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival: a map of
Maggie O’Farrell- Author: Bunyan, Vashti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1474621953
- Language: English
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Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
$19.95 Add to cartA must-read for the craftsperson, artisan and artist. “In his beautiful book, Peter Korn invites us to understand craftsmanship as an activity that connects us to others, and affirms what is best in o
- Author: Korn, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 1567925464
- Language: English
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Talking of Michelangelo: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell in the Burgundy Region
$18.95 Add to cartSo you go to France for your fortieth birthday for a quiet time of prayer, good wine, and a peaceful monastic experience. What could possibly go wrong?
In this bracingly honest and unexpectedly funny- Author: Giersch, Peter A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889116721
- Language: English
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Warm Milk and Sugar: A Memoir
$13.99 Add to cart“I lived under a weight that wasn’t mine to carry anymore, and this book is the story of how that debt was paid in full.”
This memoir is a testimony of addiction, grief, military service, and the break
- Author: Muñoz, E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798898357917
- Language: English
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Take the Horse and Run: The Incredible True Story of a Horse Fleeing for His Life–And the Girl Who Would Stop at Nothing to Save Him
$18.99 Add to cartHow far would you go for your best friend?
When her parents’ devastating divorce uprooted her life, Haylee Graham plunged into a downward spiral. Heartbroken and afraid, the young girl turned to her be
- Author: Graham, Haylee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798400510243
- Language: English
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It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War
$19.00 Add to cart“An unflinching memoir . . . that] offers insight into international events and the challenges faced by the journalists who capture them.” —The Washington Post
War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memo- Author: Addario, Lynsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128418
- Language: English
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Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the 2022 Banff Mountain Book Award for Environmental Literature
An Outside Magazine Favorite Book of 2021
A Book Riot Best Book of 2021
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2021“Places do not belong
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1571311750
- Language: English
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Coal Miner’s Daughter
$9.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and Nashville legend Loretta Lynn tells the story of her rise from deep poverty in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, to the top of the male-dominated country music industry –… [more below]
- Author: Lynn, Loretta
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1538701707
- 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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Running with Scissors
$20.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusion- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031242227X
- Language: English
