Personal Memoirs
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My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge … [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0593802829
- Language: English
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The Path to Sustained Excellence: Strategy, Culture and Team: The Story of WSFS into the 21st Century
$28.95 Add to cartIn business circles, Mark Turner, the former CEO of WSFS, is best known for having led the Delaware-based bank from a market value of $100 million to a value of $3 billion on the NASDAQ exchange, outp
- Author: Turner, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 19 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992259803
- Language: English
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The Safe Word is PINEAPPLE!: Mayor to Manic – My Journey Through Crazy
$16.99 Add to cartA creepy club. A sketchy fast food restaurant. Ultra wealth and urban poverty. A weird night during a political conference in Vancouver turns author Gerry Taft’s life-and mind-inside out.
Believing he… [more below]
- Author: Taft, Gerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1038316804
- Language: English
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The Best We Could: Healing from Intergenerational Trauma
$15.95 Add to cartAn indomitable human spirit …
is it something with which one is born?
Or does one learn not to survive, but to thrive?
In this “memoir of becoming well,” Ellyn Mantell shares her profound journey o… [more below]
- Author: Mantell, Ellyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1966343205
- Language: English
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Ubac and Me: A Life of Love and Adventure with a French Mountain Dog
$28.99 Add to cartThis international sensation is a charming and moving memoir of a dog’s transformative love, and an intimate journey into what heals us after loss.
“Having a dog as company makes nothing feel excessiv- Author: Sapin-Defour, C?dric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1668088266
- Language: English
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Breakfast Wine
$20.99 Add to cartDress-obsessed and directionless, 44-year-old Alex Poppe can’t get her life together. A business analyst, turned actor, turned teacher, she works a dead-end marketing job under a mammary gland-fixated… [more below]
- Author: Poppe, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1627205942
- Language: English
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An Indian Among Los Ind?genas: A Native Travel Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: a gripping, witty travel memoir that offers “a fascinating look at voluntourism from an Indigenous perspective” (Book Riot)
“Ursula Pike’s memoir is unlike any other I’ve read, with h
- Author: Pike, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146706
- Language: English
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The Dazzling Paget Sisters: Identical Twins at the Heart of the 20th Century
$19.00 Add to cartFor fans of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, this is the real-life story of Celia and Mamaine Paget: “devoted twins, whose lives and loves traversed the intellectual currents and crises of mid-twe
- Author: Banks, Ariane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1961341352
- Language: English
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Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThe most “profound” (Booklist, starred review) memoir you will ever read about the power of love.
Did I Ever Tell You? reads like a novel but is an unforgettable true story. Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston- Author: Kingston, Genevieve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1668006308
- Language: English
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The Parts of Him I Kept: The Gifts of My Father’s Madness
$23.99 Add to cartOne cold night in April, Natasha’s father drove his car into the frigid water of New York Bay with her two-year-old half-sister in the backseat. She was the one to walk him past the column of hungry r
- Author: Williams, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1627205977
- Language: English
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Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians
$19.99 Add to cartA “captivating” (The Washington Post) true story of “courage, resolve, and determination” (Christian Science Monitor), author Ralph White’s successful effort to save nearly the entire staff of the Sai… [more below]
- Author: White, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1982195185
- Language: English
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The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life
$26.00 Add to cart“Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book–beautiful, real, full of life.”–Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
“Sheep have helped me become a good shepherd, not jus
- Author: Whybrow, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1571311629
- Language: English
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Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child Star
$26.99 Add to cart“Tamara is one of the funniest people I know and her memoir is as hilarious as she is.”-Cecily Strong
“Tamara’s life story is fascinating.” -Taika Waititi
For readers of Samantha Irby and Jennette McCu- Author: Yajia, Tamara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1639733914
- Language: English
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Tales from the Bottle: My Journey as a Sober Black Mom
$17.99 Add to cartUnveiling the Hidden Struggles of Strength: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Addiction, Triumph & Laughter. An Empathetic Tale of Friendship, Love, and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles.
Tales from the Bottle i
- Author: Hill Walker, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822981201
- Language: English
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Nothing Left to Lose, or, How Not to Start a Commune
$20.00 Add to cartIn pursuit of a meaningful life, Jeff Richards and his friend Rick Sager decide to start a commune out in the Rocky Mountains. It doesn’t go as planned. Instead of the self-sufficient ranch they envis
- Author: Richards, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1953639208
- Language: English
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Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America
$28.00 Add to cartFrom Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail comes an exquisite memoir about fatherhood, religion, and the search for identity in an ever-shifting world.
The son of Egyptian immigrants, Aymann Ismail came of- Author: Ismail, Aymann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 038554961X
- Language: English
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Tell Me Everything: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”
A Washington Post best celebrity memoir of 2023
An Audible best celebrity memoir of 2023
–Gabrielle Union In her hi- Author: Kelly, Minka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1250339456
- Language: English
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Otherwise, I’m Fine: A Memoir
$26.99 Add to cartA daughter’s story of unresolved grief and a family’s hard-won healing
When her husband Bill died in 1969, Tina Presnell gathered her three children. “We won’t talk about this,” she said. “It will be
- Author: Presnell, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1643365061
- Language: English
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Carrying the Tiger: Living with Cancer, Dying with Grace, Finding Joy While Grieving
$19.99 Add to cartAn inspiring story of love, loss and recovery
“[A] beautifully devastating memoir… a remarkable odyssey of learning to ‘live fully in the shadow of death.'” –
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- Author: Stewart, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992264913
- Language: English
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My Drumbeats
$24.99 Add to cartDelve into the inner work, heart and mind of artist, designer, yogi Anick Vorbe on her self-healing journey through the teachings of ayahuasca.
Anick invites readers to share her story of loss, grief,
- Author: Vorbe, Anick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822967397
- Language: English
