Autobiographies
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Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and a Daughter’s Quest for Justice
$17.95 Read moreWhen Joanne Intrator accepts her father’s deathbed challenge to seek restitution for property stolen from her German Jewish family by the Nazis, she has no idea that the quest will last decades-or how… [more below]
- Author: Intrator, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425131
- Language: English
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Willpower: It’s Not What You’ve Been Through, But It’s How You Get Through
$17.95 Read moreAs far back as he can remember, R&B singer, rapper, and activist/social worker Will (Keeps) Holmes has dreamed of a career in music. Originally inspired and influenced by Michael Jackson, Keeps felt t… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1947305883
- Language: English
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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
$25.00 Read moreThe international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely s… [more below]
- Author: Murakami, Haruki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0593320425
- Language: English
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The Butterfly Mosque
$19.00 Add to cartThe Butterfly Mosque, journalist G. Willow Wilson’s remarkable story of converting to Islam and falling in love with an Egyptian man in a volatile post-9/11 world, was praised as “an eye-opening look … [more below]
- Author: Wilson, G. Willow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0802145337
- Language: English
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Beyond Possible: One Man, Fourteen Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime
$30.00 Read moreNepali climber Nims Purja is the first man ever to summit all fourteen of the world’s 8000 meter “Death Zone” peaks in less than seven months. His breakthrough timing beat the previous record of seven… [more below]
- Author: Purja, Nims
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 142622253X
- Language: English
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I Always Think It’s Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable But Earnest Narrator (a Memoir)
$22.00 Read moreA sweeping, unique graphic memoir about an artist’s year abroad in Paris and how it gave way to an all-encompassing love affair and crushing heartbreak as he wrestled with trauma, masculinity, and the… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1668003694
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker
$32.95 Read more“By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth… I managed to prevent Stalin’s dark and murky ambition from taking roo… [more below]
- Author: Rzhevskaya, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1784382817
- Language: English
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The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this “captivating” (Time) memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glam… [more below]
- Author: Leon Talley, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 059312927X
- Language: English
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Wild Dances: My Queer and Curious Journey to Eurovision
$27.00 Read more“A page-turning, tragicomic memoir . . . By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Adams affirms a resilient idea of home that yearns to transcend spa… [more below]
- Author: Adams, William Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1662601573
- Language: English
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Yang Warriors
$16.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Kao Kalia Yang delivers an inspiring tale of resourceful children confronting adversaries in a refugee camp
After lunch the Yang warriors prepare for battle. They practice drills- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1517907985
- Language: English
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Los Sueños de la Niña de la Montaña: Memoria de Una UtopÃa Cumplida / The Dreams of the Mountain Girl
$18.95 Read moreEste libro cuenta una historia de terquedad y rebeldÃa. La de una niña que a los 12 años decidió escribir su destino y, de paso, ayudar a miles y miles de mexicanas a cambiar su suerte
Soy Eufrosi- Author: Cruz, Eufrosina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 6073810601
- Language: Spanish
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Autoportrait
$20.00 Read moreNominated for the Chicago Review of Books Award
A work of unflinching honesty, Autoportrait is a hypnotic memoir of reflection, loss, and everyday joy from one of America’s best contemporary novelists- Author: Ball, Jesse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221389
- Language: English
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Instead of a Letter
$16.95 Read moreWhen Diana Athill, nearly forty-three and far from a household name, sat down to write Instead of a Letter, the first in her series of trailblazing memoirs, she was looking for an answer to the questi… [more below]
- Author: Athill, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 168137613X
- Language: English
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Punching Bag
$17.95 Read morePunching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free L
- Author: Ogle, Rex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 132401623X
- Language: English
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Call Me American: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartAbdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed… [more below]
- Author: Iftin, Abdi Nor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433023
- Language: English
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Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life
$26.00 Read moreA compelling account of surviving a freak accident, and a fascinating exploration of the science of trauma and recovery.
Late one night, while Rebecca Fogg was alone in her apartment, her hand was pa- Author: Fogg, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0593086775
- Language: English
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Una Vez Fui Tú — Edición Para Jóvenes (Once I Was You — Adapted for Young Readers): Cómo Encontré Mi Voz Y Hoy Paso El Micrófono
$8.99 Read moreAhora para jóvenes lectores, la periodista ganadora de cuatro premios Emmy y presentadora de Latino USA de NPR, MarÃa Hinojosa, cuenta la historia de la inmigración en los Estados Unidos a través … [more below]
- Author: Hinojosa, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1665920874
- Language: Spanish
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How Far Do You Want to Go?: Lessons from a Common-Sense Billionaire
$30.00 Read moreWall Street Journal Bestseller
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Billionaire entrepreneur John Catsimatidis, owner and CEO of the Red Apple Group, reveals how his instincts and common sense have propelled- Author: Catsimatidis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1637743432
- Language: English
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
$28.99 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Searing. Powerful. Needed.” –Oprah “Sometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Tarana’s words are a testimony to liberation and- Author: Burke, Tarana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1250621739
- Language: English
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Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland
$19.95 Add to cartAcross the Blue Ridge Mountains stretches a world both charming and complicated.
Jeremy Jones and his wife move into a small house above the creek where his family had settled 200 years prior. He take
- Author: Jones, Jeremy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1949467546
- Language: English
