Personal Memoirs
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Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season
$19.00 Add to cart“The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne’s] grotesqueries aren’t drug-induced, they’re very real. His is the genuine Vegas.” (Esquire)
“In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to l
- Author: Dunne, John Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1961341328
- Language: English
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Feedsack Dresses and Wild Plum Jam Remembering Farm Life in the 1950s
$12.00 Add to cartI love watching old movies on television because I know how everything worked in them. The telephones transmitted messages – that’s all. The coffee makers just made coffee and only when you set them o
- Author: Kratz, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: July 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1792395957
- Language: English
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The Jamaican Rude Bwoy Teacher Memoirs: Memorable moments
$26.95 Add to cartTwo weeks after his illegal nightclub-frequented by American and Jamaican gangsters-was raided by the police, Brady found himself standing in front of a class of seventh graders, who questioned whethe… [more below]
- Author: Brady, Oral Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218988517
- Language: English
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The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
$19.00 Add to cartH Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman’s experience of life in Northern California dur… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Manjula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0593468899
- Language: English
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Unearthed: The Lies We Carry & The Truths They Bury
$18.99 Add to cartIn this searing memoir, Chanchal Garg reveals the spiritual and sexual abuse that shattered her sense of self and forced her to question a life defined by duty and sacrifice. Raised as a devoted India
- Author: Garg, Chanchal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798998687501
- Language: English
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A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb
$26.99 Add to cartA darkly funny and emotionally raw memoir from the bestselling author of High Achiever
What comes after addiction? “For as long as I can remember, my mind was like a train with only three stops. Stop- Author: Jenkins, Tiffany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 593232631
- Language: English
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THE AUTHOR by The Author
$19.99 Add to cartWARNING: You are about to read a semi-autobiographical novel by an unnamed A-list celebrity recounting his early years in Hollywood-and the dirty, deplorable exploits that catapulted him to fame.
THE
- Author: Hind, Daniel Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1544547366
- Language: English
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Runs in the Family: An Incredible True Story of Football, Fatherhood, and Belonging
$30.00 Add to cartA revelatory examination of the choices we make as parents and children, told through the eyes of a Black man on a journey to find his biological family and discover where and to whom he truly belongs… [more below]
- Author: Spain, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1668036282
- Language: English
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A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka
$22.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of one man’s gift to orphaned children in need of hope
Can one person really make a difference in the world? Twesigye Jackson Kaguri overcame tremendous odds as he followed hi- Author: Kaguri, Twesigye Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119125
- Language: English
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Homework: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartNamed a most anticipated book of 2025 by Vulture The Guardian Financial Times The Observer The Times (London) Literary Hub
“Homework is wonderful Geoff-Dyer writing, which we’ve all learned to crave;- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 374616221
- Language: English
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The River’s Daughter
$30.00 Add to cartA vivid and propulsive memoir about finding courage and meaning in a life outdoors, by a world-class whitewater rafting guide.
After Bridget Crocker’s parents’ volatile divorce, she moved with her mot- Author: Crocker, Bridget
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1954118546
- Language: English
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The Place of Tides
$28.99 Add to cart“The Place of Tides feels like, not only a modern classic, but one we very much need right now.” -George Saunders
From perhaps the preeminent nature writer of our time and the acclaimed author of Past
- Author: Rebanks, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0063434172
- Language: English
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It’s Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground
$29.99 Add to cartAfter moving from Washington, DC, to the Jersey Shore, a former speechwriter for President Obama starts surfing at the age of thirty-five–the rough equivalent of beginning guitar lessons on your deat… [more below]
- Author: Litt, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1668035359
- Language: English
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009
$25.00 Add to cartNew York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she’s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered–all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, bu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
- Author: Carpenter, Teresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0812974255
- Language: English
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The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road
$29.99 Add to cartFrom Vanity Fair and The New York Times contributor comes a beautifully written, deeply felt memoir recounting the solo, cross-country journey she made along the Ten across the American southwest: a m… [more below]
- Author: Hanks, E. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1982131292
- Language: English
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My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle
$24.99 Add to cartA daughter’s search for her deceased mother brings her face to face with the gods, ghosts, and saints of Cuba.
“My Mother in Havana lifts the veil between the living and the dead and makes believers o
- Author: Huntman, Rebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 195897255X
- Language: English
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
$30.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn’t consider you fully human.
On October 25th, 2023, a- Author: El Akkad, Omar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217070251
- Language: English
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I Once Killed a Man, but Don’t Tell your Mother: A Collection of Stories and Family Secrets
$16.95 Add to cartWhat life experiences are necessary for someone to devise an elaborate plan to take another person’s life? What is the motivator to either bring that plan to fruition or allow it to go unachieved? Fur
- Author: Ogburn, Darien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Seven Signs of Life: Unforgettable Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
$16.99 Add to cartFor Readers of When Breath Becomes Air and Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity, an Intensive Care Doctor Reveals How Everyday Emotions Are Taken to Extremes in the ICU–with a New Afterword… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Aoife
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1951627482
- Language: English
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Son of a Gun
$20.00 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unf- Author: St Germain, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0812980743
- Language: English
