Biographies/Autobiographies
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The Stowaway in First Class: A True Story of an Unforgettable Quest to Come to America
$17.95 Add to cartSOON a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
A family’s legacy is forever changed in this true story of ransom notes, stowaways, and mobsters.
Paris, 1929. Gaetano “Guy” DeSantis is an Italian emigrant with a good lif
- Author: DeSantis, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991511018
- Language: English
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Tryhard: A Cautionary Tale of Clocking in and Spinning Out
$27.99 Add to cartA superstar podcast producer delivers a unique, laugh-out-loud, cry quietly invitation to examine our delusional obsessions with work in this eye-opening book–part memoir, part mentoring, part confes
- Author: Mayer, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0063380501
- Language: English
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Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Revised and Updated Edition)
$33.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. The Sunday Times (UK) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018.
“A magisterial portrait.” —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,- Author: Walker, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1250407818
- Language: English
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Me Alegro de Que Mi Madre Haya Muerto
$15.95 Add to cart- Author: McCurdy, Jennette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 8419130982
- Language: Spanish
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This Is a True War Story: My Improbable History with Vietnam
$27.50 Add to cartA personal account by a war historian and adoptee who discovers his biological father was a famous Marine combat photographer in Vietnam.
Robert K. Brigham has had a substantial career as a historia- Author: Brigham, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0226846881
- Language: English
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From the Streets to the Steps: One Day at a Time – A Memoir
$14.99 Add to cartJimmy Pidgeon was born into an upper-middle-class, albeit dysfunctional family just before the turbulent sixties. As disco was getting up a good head of steam, Jimmy’s life was spiraling out of contro
- Author: Pidgeon, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798349689314
- Language: English
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Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic
$21.00 Add to cartLet It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)–the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock ‘n’ roll ever lived harder… [more below]
- Author: DeRogatis, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0767905091
- Language: English
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Roddy McDowall: An Actor’s Life — From How Green Was My Valley to Lassie to Planet of the Apes
$29.00 Add to cartSincerity, erudition, charisma . . . Roddy McDowall.
Here is the comprehensive, first-ever biography of the award-winning child star, Planet of the Apes movie icon, beloved film legend, and Hollywood … [more below]- Author: Garza Bernstein, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544260
- Language: English
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Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan: Personal Histories of Two Icons of American Architecture
$29.95 Add to cartPeers, foils, colleagues, and rivals–Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan’s impact on each other still expresses itself in architectural masterworks that anchor Chicago’s cityscape. Trygve Thoreson’s pa… [more below]
- Author: Thoreson, Trygve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0252089189
- Language: English
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The Six — Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts
$9.99 Add to cartTwo starred reviews!
The “compelling and inspiring” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) true story of America’s first female astronauts hailed as “suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening” by Mar- Author: Grush, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1534497056
- Language: English
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Anni Albers: A Life
$38.00 Add to cartThe first major biography on Anni Albers traces the complex personality and influential artistic career of the groundbreaking modern artist
Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a pioneer of twentieth-century m- Author: Weber, Nicholas Fox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0300269374
- Language: English
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Mama’s Pearls
$19.99 Add to cartA biography of a husband and wife immigrating to the States from Mexico in the mid-fifties with their five children. Within the first five years of living in mid-city L.A. four months after his wife g
- Author: Villasenor, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: July 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1967927685
- Language: English
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Fourteen Ways of Looking
$25.95 Add to cartStudded with moments of surprise, wit, and intellectual delight, this light-footed, piercing memoir of grief tracks reverberations of loss and acceptance across a lifetime.
When Erin Vincent was fourte
- Author: Vincent, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1646054229
- Language: English
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I Won’t Be Shaken: A Story of Overcoming the Odds
$16.99 Add to cartIn Joshua Loyd Fox’s autobiography, a childhood of abuse and lose became a lifetime of poor decision making, lost relationships and not meeting his full potential.
Finally, after a battle with a possi
- Author: Fox, Joshua Loyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: December 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1736298305
- Language: English
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Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground
$45.00 Add to cartThis is the definitive history of the Velvet Underground, complete and more fully researched than any before
Do What You Fear Most is the authoritative tome on the band that changed music, fashion and
- Author: Unterberger, Richie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1913172996
- Language: English
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Success Unshared Is Failure
$30.00 Add to cartJohn Paul DeJoria’s journey to becoming a billionaire started in the back seat of his car.
Rarely will you find such diversity in a person’s life, business, philanthropy, and philosophy as you will wi- Author: Dejoria, John Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 9798895656402
- Language: English
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The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir
$26.95 Add to cartThis book is about what it means to make a choice. As mothers, how do we carry life and death in our bodies and survive with our hearts intact?
The Heart Folds Early is a story of transformation throug
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Christman, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496246799
- Language: English
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Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood’s Real Cowboy
$35.00 Add to cartTall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood’s Real Cowboy is the definitive biography of Ben Johnson (1918-1996), the only man to win both an Academy Award and a world rodeo championship. B… [more below]
- Series: Hollywood Legends
- Author: Jones, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1496861558
- Language: English
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Blow by Blow: The Jeff Beck Story
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the house authors of the critically acclaimed oral history on Eddie Van Halen, Eruption, a revealing narrative biography of legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck featuring brand new intervi… [more below]
- Author: Tolinski, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0306836580
- Language: English
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Lessons in Leadership, Laughter and Love
$19.50 Add to cartLessons in Leadership, Laughter and Love is not just an enjoyable read; it’s a powerful collection of stories that impart valuable lessons. It chronicles the journey of Medford Q. Lee, a Black America
- Author: Southwell, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1068313153
- Language: English
