Personal Memoirs
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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
$18.99 Add to cartAn editor and writer’s vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)–a true story about reading that reminds us w
- Author: Miller, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0061446181
- Language: English
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El Principios que funcionan: En la vida y el liderazgo
$17.99 Add to cartEste libro es una colecci?n de lecciones y an?cdotas personales que han formado la carrera en el servicio p?blico del general de cuatro estrellas y anterior Secretario de Estado Colin Powell. En el co… [more below]
- Author: Powell, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0829702466
- Language: Spanish
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The heartfelt, unforgettable story of how one man found his life’s work–and true love–among a gang of wild parrots roosting in San Francisco. The basis for the award-winn… [more below]
- Author: Bittner, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 140008170X
- Language: English
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Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet
$22.99 Add to cartThis humorous, heartwarming memoir follows a wife and mother’s journey of self-discovery and acceptance as she comes out as a lesbian in her late 30s.
Jill had a happy, healthy 20-year relationship wi- Author: Abby, Jillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1401970745
- Language: English
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Always Ready, A Life of Firsts, Service and Second Acts: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartFor Gregory A. Duncan, life began with a series of uphill battles. Raised as the middle child in a family of five by a single mother, Gregory grew up in the shadow of an absent father and the challeng
- Author: Duncan, Gregory A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798990831704
- Language: English
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Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance.
Few write- Author: Fest, Joachim C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1635425123
- Language: English
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Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
$32.00 Add to cartFrom California Governor Gavin Newsom comes an intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics
“Go slow,” his political elders advised h… [more below]- Author: Newsom, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217077595
- Language: English
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Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
$20.00 Add to cartAs seen in the hit documentary Three Identical Strangers – “[A] poignant memoir of twin sisters who were split up as infants, became part of a secret scientific study, then found each other as adults.… [more below]
- Author: Schein, Elyse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0812975650
- Language: English
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Kutchinsky’s Egg: A Family’s Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
$30.00 Read moreA riveting, heart-stopping family memoir that blends art, obsession, and love as the author searches for the spectacular jeweled egg that consumed her father’s dreams–and spelled her family’s downfal… [more below]
- Author: Kutchinsky, Serena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1668079097
- Language: English
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Pink Lemonade: How We Dealt With Our Lemons
$39.99 Add to cartPink Lemonade: How We Dealt With Our Lemons, is an inspiring narrative of four diverse women united by their breast cancer journeys. The book delves into the raw emotions and realities faced, yet it i
- Author: Pastor, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822984141
- Language: English
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In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with the Brian Jonestown Massacre
$19.99 Add to cartRESIDENT’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
‘[Joel’s] got me glued to these pages . . . I think my brother knows how to feel’ KURT VILE ‘A new postmodern Beat sensation’ RICHA
A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024- Author: Gion, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 139961830X
- Language: English
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards–now wi
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year- Series: Toni Morrison Lecture
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0691278083
- Language: English
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Lambs in Winter: Sketches of a Vermont Life Through Seasons of Change
$24.95 Add to cartFinding hope in a small farm, an engaged community, and an age-old connection to the earth
After half a lifetime spent moving from place to place, Alexis Lathem at last settled down with her husband- Author: Lathem, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1625349017
- Language: English
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Coyotes and Culture: Essays from Old Malibu
$22.00 Add to cartWhat do coyotes have to do with culture?
This unique collection of essays offers a gripping exploration of the precarious beauty and peril of California’s iconic coastline. Through essays blending pe… [more below]- Author: McEachern, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1647792150
- Language: English
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On a Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice
$18.99 Add to cartThe incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians–by one of the few people born into the organization, raised d
- Author: Africa Jr, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0063318881
- Language: English
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Worthy
$19.99 Add to cart**The New York Times Bestseller**
The Instant New York Times Bestseller with exclusive new content from Jada reflecting on the successful, complicated, and often surprising reactions and conversations
- Author: Smith, Jada Pinkett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 006332069X
- Language: English
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Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire
$32.00 Read moreAn exquisitely crafted memoir, sweeping from Zimbabwe to Oxford, that lays bare the violent, enduring legacy of colonialism on both a country and a family
Simukai Chigudu grew up in the shadow of Afri- Author: Chigudu, Simukai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593443691
- Language: English
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Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries
$35.00 Read moreNicholas Lemann grew up thinking he wanted to be Jack Burden, the ever-curious reporter-historian in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men who gets drawn into a web of southern intrigue. Like his fi
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 163149841X
- Language: English
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Seeking Quan Am: A Dual Memoir of War and Vietnam
$15.00 Add to cartMark M. Smith served two tours in Vietnam, 1967 to 1969, with the 1st Air Cavalry Division. In the 1970s and 80s, Mark wrote about his experience. The story of the first tour was written in short epis
- Author: Dixon, Susan Raglan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1733489606
- Language: English
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No Man’s Land: Unpacking One Woman’s Worth on the Colorado Trail
$18.95 Add to cartWHAT MAKES A LIFE WORTH LIVING?
At forty-five, Becky Jensen was raising two sons, engaged to be married, living the dream in Colorado. She was also suicidal and had no idea why. What did she have to be
- Author: Jensen, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: September 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999076502
- Language: English
