Autobiographies
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Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts
$49.95 Add to cart“A side-by-side textual comparison of the three surviving typescript revisions of “Pioneer Girl” that uses the texts themselves to draw inferences about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s authorial and Rose Wilde… [more below]
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1941813097
- Language: English
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Saving Sara: A Memoir of Food Addiction
$17.95 Add to cartFor nearly fifty years, Sara Somers suffered from untreated food addiction. In this brutally honest and intimate memoir, Somers offers readers an inside view of a food addict’s mind, showcasing her ex… [more below]
- Author: Somers, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1631528467
- Language: English
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Quest for Eternal Sunshine: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Darkness to Light
$17.95 Add to cartQuest for Eternal Sunshine chronicles the triumphant, true story of Mendek Rubin, a brilliant inventor who overcame both the trauma of the Holocaust and decades of unrelenting depression to live a lif… [more below]
- Author: Rubin, Mendek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1631528785
- Language: English
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I Know Better Now: My Life Before, During and After the Ramones
$29.99 Add to cartI KNOW BETTER NOW: MY LIFE BEFORE DURING AND AFTER THE RAMONES
- Author: Ramone, Richie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1617137103
- 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
$17.99 Read moreAhora para j?venes lectores, la periodista ganadora de cuatro premios Emmy y presentadora de Latino USA de NPR, Mar?a Hinojosa, cuenta la historia de la inmigraci?n en los Estados Unidos a trav?s de l… [more below]
- Author: Hinojosa, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1665920882
- Language: Spanish
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One Million Trees: A True Story
$18.99 Read moreThe real-life story of a family who planted 1,000,000 trees–yes, it’s true!–to fight deforestation in British Columbia.
When Kristen Balouch was 10 years old, her parents made a surprising announcem- Author: Balouch, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0823448606
- Language: English
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Once I Was You — Adapted for Young Readers: Finding My Voice and Passing the Mic
$18.99 Add to cart“When Maria speaks, I’m ready to listen and learn.” –Lin-Manuel Miranda
Emmy Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa has created a brand-new, unique version of her adult memoir, w- Author: Hinojosa, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1665902809
- Language: English
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The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
$16.99 Read moreAn Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Winner
With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russ… [more below]- Author: Yelchin, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 153621552X
- Language: English
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Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years
$27.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose m… [more below]
- Author: Julavits, Heidi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0451498518
- Language: English
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Born Naughty: My Childhood in China
$17.99 Add to cartShare in the joyful, adventure-filled shenanigans of a child growing up in a small mud hut in Inner Mongolia in this charming, illustrated memoir for young middle grade readers.
Growing up in Inner Mo- Author: Wang, Jin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0593563611
- Language: English
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Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival
$19.95 Read moreThe award-winning first picture book to recount the dramatic true story of a refugee family’s perilous escape from Vietnam.
It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded wit
- Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1772780057
- Language: English
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A Mighty Long Way (Adapted for Young Readers): My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
$9.99 Read moreFollow the story of Carlotta Walls LaNier, who in 1957 at the age of fourteen was one of nine black students who integrated the all-white Little Rock Central High School and became known as the Little… [more below]
- Author: Walls Lanier, Carlotta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593486781
- Language: English
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Piece by Piece: How I Built My Life (No Instructions Required)
$9.99 Read moreThe heartfelt and funny memoir of a boy who built himself a prosthetic arm out of the world-famous toy bricks.
David Aguilar was born missing part of one arm, a small detail that seemed to define his l
- Author: Aguilar, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1662504268
- Language: English
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March Forward, Girl
$9.99 Add to cartFrom the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy-selling Warriors Don’t Cry comes an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up while facing adversity in the Jim Crow So… [more below]
- Author: Beals, Melba Pattillo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 24 2019
- ISBN10: 132860392X
- Language: English
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Piece by Piece: How I Built My Life (No Instructions Required)
$17.99 Read moreThe heartfelt and funny memoir of a boy who built himself a prosthetic arm out of the world-famous toy bricks.
David Aguilar was born missing part of one arm, a small detail that seemed to define his l
- Author: Aguilar, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1662504276
- Language: English
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Proud: Living My American Dream
$9.99 Add to cartThe inspiring and critically acclaimed all-American story of faith, family, hard work, and perseverance by Olympic fencer, activist, New York Times bestselling author, and Time “100 Most Influential P… [more below]
- Author: Muhammad, Ibtihaj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0316477044
- Language: English
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Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid
$10.99 Add to cartThe colorful boyhood of a popular author comes to life in this personal account
Imagine learning from a nosy classmate that your mother is having yet another baby. To Ralph’s classmates, news of one m- Author: Fletcher, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250010241
- Language: English
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Pilipinto: The Jungle Adventures of a Missionary’s Daughter
$22.99 Read moreIn 1956, Valerie’s young missionary father, Jim Elliot, and four other men were speared to death by members of a remote Ecuadorian tribe. But the good news of the gospel did not die with them. When Va… [more below]
- Author: Shepard, Valerie Elliott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1629950254
- Language: English
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Why Not?: Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and Chutzpah
$26.99 Add to cartFrom master comedian Mark Schiff, a long-time touring partner of Jerry Seinfeld, comes a hilarious account of decades of foolery with comedy and acting legends and how he honed his mensch skills in al
- Author: Schiff, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1954641168
- Language: English
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Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope
$27.99 Add to cartBetween the Mountain and the Sky shows us the goodness that is possible when a single person–regardless of age–takes action to help another and, in the process, changes the lives of hundreds.
Maggie
- Author: Doyne, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0785240284
- Language: English
