Autobiographies
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Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice
$26.95 Add to cartThis stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, “I was born a Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have liv
- Series: New Directions in Native American Studies #19
- Author: Deer, Ada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0806164271
- Language: English
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All the Colors Came Out: A Father, a Daughter, and a Lifetime of Lessons
$19.99 Add to cartThis “love story for the ages” from a # 1 New York Times bestselling author comes an unforgettable story about basketball and the enduring bonds between a father and daughter that “will heal relations… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0316706892
- Language: English
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The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
$19.99 Add to cart“A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love.” –Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times … [more below]
- Author: Masters, Oksana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1982185511
- Language: English
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Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens
$26.00 Read moreA memoir-in-essays about how skateboarding re-defines space, curates culture, confronts mortality, and affords new perspectives on and off the board
Chipping a board–where small pieces of deck and ta- Author: Vadi, Jos?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767552
- Language: English
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Where’s the Mother?: Stories from a Transgender Dad
$18.99 Add to cart“A deeply compelling memoir from a transgender man who birthed and breastfed his children – it’s informative, inspiring, and transformational.” – DIANA WEST, co-author of The Womanly Art of Breastfeed
- Author: MacDonald, Trevor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 24 2016
- ISBN10: 0991964500
- Language: English
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When Hip Hop Met Poetry: An Urban Love Story
$20.00 Add to cartRashad and Jenesis are teenagers who are facing a harsh reality. Although madly in love, they are from two different sides of the track and quickly learn that their passion for one another is not supp
- Author: Ringstaff, Tytianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: May 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0991031873
- Language: English
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Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism
$26.95 Add to cartIn the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for participat
- Author: Cohen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353280
- Language: English
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Bad Blood
$17.99 Add to cartBestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain–and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three genera… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Sage, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0062080245
- Language: English
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Tenement Kid: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream
$22.95 Add to cartFizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Bobby Gillespie’s vivid and evocative new memoir, TENEMENT KID: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Ch
- Author: Gillespie, Bobby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1737382903
- Language: English
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Dare to Bloom: Trusting God Through Painful Endings and New Beginnings
$19.99 Read moreEither by choice or by circumstance, we all encounter times of starting over. Seasons of hardships, abundance, seeking, and struggle all have a purpose because growth demands change. Dare to Bloom urg
- Author: Flores, Zim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1400218691
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartA memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.”
” Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of … [more below]- Author: Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2005
- ISBN10: 1400080460
- Language: English
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Mise en Place: Memoir of a Girl Chef
$16.95 Add to cartDisadvantages be damned, I would be a chef someday, and if I had to run into the side of a house to do it, so be it.
Mise en Place is the rollicking memoir of Marisa Mangani, a talented chef who takes
- Author: Mangani, Marisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1632995654
- Language: English
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Skinny Woman in a Straw Hat
$27.00 Add to cartWhen young Hao Tran left Vietnam in 1974 to study abroad, he had no idea it would be 20 years before he could return, or how much his native land would change in his absence. These are the stories of
- Author: Tran, Hao C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1945955422
- Language: English
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Ghosted: An American Story
$29.99 Read moreA riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence–from the foothills of Appalachia all the way to the White House.
New York Times bestselling ghostwriter
- Author: French, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0310367441
- Language: English
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Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better
$28.00 Add to cart“In her contemplative memoir, Polly Atkin encourages everyone, especially those with chronic illnesses, to look beyond their own history and see the beauty in their world.” –The Washington Post
“Defia
- Author: Atkin, Polly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1961884003
- Language: English
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The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom
$19.99 Read moreThis passionate autobiography–at once history lesson, prison memoir, metaphysical inquiry, love story, and cry for justice–provides insights into the Israeli occupation and the struggle of the Pales… [more below]
- Author: Srour, Nasser Abu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1635423872
- Language: English
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Marrow: Love, Loss, and What Matters Most
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant–one the donor and one the recipient–be
- Author: Lesser, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 006236765X
- Language: English
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Still Burning: Half a Century of Chicago, from the Streets to the Corridors of Power: A Memoir
$22.95 Add to cartIn this lively and insightful memoir, Jeremiah Joyce recounts a wide-ranging career that in many way tracks the history of Chicago over the last half century. During the late sixties and early seventi
- Author: Joyce, Jeremiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1955656061
- Language: English
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Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
$27.95 Read moreOver his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulate
- Author: Meier, Sid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1324005874
- Language: English
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The Triumph of Rosemary: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartBaby Rosemary – born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 – is adopted from an agency by a black couple in Saginaw, Michigan The adoptive mother’s abuse instills in the girl,
- Author: Atkins, Marylin E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1945875178
- Language: English
