Personal Memoirs
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This Was Funnier in China: An American Comedian’s Cross-Cultural Journey
$28.99 Add to cartA heartfelt, one-of-a-kind memoir chronicling the hilarious, absurd, and thought-provoking experiences of an American pursuing comedy in China, learning first-hand how humor does and doesn’t translate… [more below]
- Author: Appell, Jesse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668087561
- Language: English
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Just Play Like You Do in the Basement: Coming of Age as the Drummer for the Greatest Entertainer in the World
$19.99 Add to cartThis trade paperback edition features more than fifty B&W photographs, including numerous never-before-seen images of Sammy Davis, Jr.
In this intimate and inspirational coming-of-age memoir, Ricky Por
- Author: Porrello, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798987831243
- Language: English
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From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
$19.99 Add to cart“A page-turner…deeply moving, beautifully written, and most inspiring. When I reached the last page, my heart was filled with joy and gratitude.” — Nien Chang, author of Life and Death in Shanghai
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- Author: Thwe, Pascal Khoo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0060505230
- Language: English
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A Devil to Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument
$18.99 Add to cartA charming and deeply funny memoir of musical obsession, A Devil to Play is the story of Jasper Rees, a man who unearths his childhood French horn, and begins a quixotic but obsessively serious challe… [more below]
- Author: Rees, Jasper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061626627
- Language: English
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In the Evening, We’ll Dance: A Memoir in Essays on Love & Dementia
$18.95 Add to cartHow does a loving, committed marriage survive the effects of dementia?
In her deeply personal and daringly original memoir, Anne-Marie Erickson lays bare the onset and eventual passing of her husband f
- Author: Erickson, Anne-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1666406953
- Language: English
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Legally Zen: A professional skeptic’s path to finding inner peace
$17.99 Add to cartA skeptic walks into a cacao ceremony…
For logic-first lawyer Kat Reilly, life had a formula: study hard, pass the bar, make partner, buy a house, land a man, have 1.5 children. She was cruising (Cha
- Author: Reilly, Kat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1068912189
- Language: English
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The Top Two Per Cent: Or How the 2023 Christmas Newsletter Got Out of Hand
$22.99 Add to cartIn a year when PEI was navigating the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona and preparing to host the Canada Winter Games, Randy Burrows captures the essence of family life with wit and heart. The Top Two Per … [more below]
- Author: Burrows, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1038340160
- Language: English
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The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
$22.00 Add to cartBrian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them in Iraq as the head of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. Whenever IEDs were discovered, he and his men would lead the way in… [more below]
- Author: Castner, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0307950875
- Language: English
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The Soul Instinct
$30.00 Add to cartFrom Beatrice Dixon, founder of The Honey Pot Company, comes an inspiring memoir about overcoming adversity–personally and professionally–by trusting her intuition and following what she calls her “… [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Beatrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1668049732
- Language: English
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Funny Blind Stories: Perceiving the Humor While Losing My Sight
$32.95 Add to cart- Author: Whitehead, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: November 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1632936658
- Language: English
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What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate to: A Memoir
$22.95 Add to cartAn iconic rock DJ of the Twin Cities tells her harrowing story of being stalked while living her very public life
What’s it like to be in the public spotlight when it just might get you killed? For M- Author: Lucia, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918863
- Language: English
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The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
$22.99 Add to cartWhat can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, whether moving or perplexing or troubl
- Author: Fennelly, Beth Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324117400
- Language: English
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Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria
$32.00 Add to cart“Defiance takes my breath away. A nail-biting tale of astonishing courage.”
“An anthem against patriarchy and authoritariani
–Jeannette Walls #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle- Author: Mrie, Loubna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1984880004
- Language: English
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Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on Tiktok
$28.00 Add to cartAs a result of childhood learning disabilities and educational neglect, Oliver James graduated from high school and became one of approximately 45 million functionally illiterate Americans. However, a… [more below]
- Author: James, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1454959401
- Language: English
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Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
$30.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1984881930
- Language: English
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Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
$18.99 Add to cart“Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John
- Author: Chabon, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0061490199
- Language: English
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Coming Clean
$18.99 Add to cartKimberly Rae Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a beautifully tidy apartment in Brooklyn. You would never guess that behind the closed doors of h… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Kimberly Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0544320816
- Language: English
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Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
$19.99 Add to cartAn inspirational memoir about an abandoned young boy who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea and came to America in search of survival, freedom, and the pursuit of his wildest dreams. “Riv… [more below]
- Author: Kim, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0544705270
- Language: English
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I Always Wanted to Love Her (The Tunnel of Terror)
$13.99 Add to cartGina Bruno Interdonato grew up in a house where horrible things were happening on Long Island-a place she called the “tunnel of terror,” where love was conditional, and silence was survival. Behind cl
- Author: Interdonato, Gina Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798891328785
- Language: English
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Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love
$36.00 Add to cartThe posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and the principal architect of a nonviolent resistance move… [more below]
- Author: Lawson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0593596242
- Language: English
