Biographies/Autobiographies
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Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
$20.00 Add to cartWhy Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does?
Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. F- Author: Lebrecht, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 140009657X
- Language: English
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From Both Sides of the Curtain: Lessons and Reflections from an Oncologist’s Personal Breast Cancer Journey
$24.95 Add to cartBoth Sides of the Curtain is a deeply personal and professionally insightful journey through breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Catherine Sue Hwang, a seasoned breast radiation oncologist, take… [more below]
- Author: Hwang, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1636987915
- Language: English
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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
$20.00 Add to cart“[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published ‘last seen’ advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage…a vital … [more below]
- Author: Giesberg, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1982174331
- Language: English
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Her Denali Solo: A Woman Alone on North America’s Highest Peak
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1990, when only fifty of the thousand annual attempts to climb Denali were made by women, Norma Jean Bowers summited without assistance. As a solo climber, she could not rope to others for safety a
- Author: Lundgren, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: January 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1684922755
- Language: English
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Split the Baby
$17.95 Add to cartIn honest and captivating prose, Split the Baby chronicles the toll of divorce and family rupture from the perspective of a child who was nearly torn in two. Lauren Rhoades retells her experience of g… [more below]
- Author: Rhoades, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1960215361
- Language: English
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Walking Solo but Not Alone
$19.95 Add to cartEvery one of the books I note here is a light, each a gift from someone reaching from another time and place to offer us strength. The human spirit is capable of magnanimity that many of us have not e
- Author: Archibald, Jane Pitkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893080735
- Language: English
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Saying Yes: My Adventures in Polyamory
$32.99 Add to cartTwenty years of marriage. One life-altering question. Natalie Davis’s brave and candid memoir chronicles the transformation of her traditional monogamous marriage into a vibrant polyamorous lifestyle.… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1510784497
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Political Life
$45.00 Read moreA major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings
The young James Joyce (1882-1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he- Author: Callanan, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691227977
- Language: English
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Against All Odds
$12.99 Add to cartFrom teenage fatherhood to earning a Doctorate in Education, Dr. Vinson J. Bradley’s journey is a testament to resilience and faith. Raised in poverty and facing challenges that could have defined his
- Author: Vinson J. Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: September 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798349582370
- Language: English
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Charles Worth, the Englishman Who Invented Parisian Haute Couture: … with the invaluable help of his French wife Marie and the Empress Eug?nie
$15.99 Add to cartEven the French acknowledge this English designer, Charles Worth (1825-95) as the founder of French haute couture. This new biography by the author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French tells for the f
- Author: Clarke, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: April 24 2025
- ISBN10: 2958566358
- Language: English
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The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
$36.00 Read more“As official narratives everywhere strain and crack, Peter and Paul–and Durbin–offer a desperately needed alternative way of seeing and being.” –Benjamin Moser, author of Susan Sontag: Her Life and
- Author: Durbin, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0374609551
- Language: English
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John 3: 16: A Meditation
$9.99 Add to cartUnless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, which is in the public domain. In addition to these verses, original commentary, reflections,
- Author: Teacher, The Children’s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 10 2025
- ISBN10: 9798897951864
- Language: English
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The Logistics Legends – Volume II: Real Stories. Hard Truths. Transformational Lessons.
$27.99 Add to cartTHE BOOK YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR… IS FINALLY HERE.
After the groundbreaking success of The Logistics Legends Volume 1, which changed lives and careers with speaking, coaching, mentoring, and new oppo
- Author: Guo, Cuilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0645661767
- Language: English
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Labor: One Woman’s Work
$28.99 Read moreA powerful memoir of medicine, identity, and family secrets from an esteemed ob-gyn as she unravels her grandmother‘s mysterious death while reimagining women’s health care from a mobile clinic–for r… [more below]
- Author: Afsari, Mary Fariba
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1668015404
- Language: English
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FDR: A New Political Life
$29.95 Add to cartDavid Beito’s path-breaking new book brings to bear the latest historical scholarship to shed light on the life and achievements of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Professor Beito traces the irresistibl
- Author: Beito, David T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1637700695
- Language: English
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Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner’s Daughter
$29.95 Read moreAn Appalachian organizer’s excavation of the past, her own and her people’s, to spark a collective fight for a future where we all have what we need and deserve
In Song for a Hard-Hit People, Beth How
- Author: Howard, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888904893
- Language: English
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The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
$34.50 Add to cartThe “irresistible” (Susan Orlean) untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensat
- Author: Braude, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 582
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783142
- Language: English
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A Room in Bombay: A Memoir
$29.99 Read moreIndian American author Manil Suri grew up in a large crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai) which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three Muslim families. Their single room, at times a refu
- Author: Suri, Manil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106387
- Language: English
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Heat, Heart, & Humanity
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Mendoza, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798218892838
- Language: English
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When We See You Again
$30.00 Read more- Author: Goldberg-Polin, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217198009
- Language: English
