Autobiographies
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Coal Miner’s Daughter
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and Nashville legend Loretta Lynn tells the story of her rise from deep poverty in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, to the top of the male-dominated country music industry. … [more below]
- Author: Lynn, Loretta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1538701715
- Language: English
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Burning Butch
$17.99 Add to cart“The Trans Memoir We’ve Always Needed.” —Autostraddle
“This blistering memoir is the book I didn’t know I needed… I’m so grateful they had the courage to share their experience in such a transpare
- Author: Mertz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1951213505
- Language: English
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Notes from the Henhouse: On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing
$18.00 Add to cartA sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker–acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.
Following the publication of her acclaime- Author: Barker, Elspeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 166802215X
- Language: English
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Farewell to Manzanar 50th Anniversary Edition
$22.99 Read moreJeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls her childhood at a Japanese incarceration camp in this engrossing memoir that has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. This spe
- Author: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063319055
- Language: English
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Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy
$28.00 Read moreAn intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family mired in secrets, haunted by their dread of shame and stigma, determined to hide their every imperfec
- Author: Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1637583966
- Language: English
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Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir
$18.95 Add to cartA writer discovers an unexpected passion for birding, along with a new understanding of the world and her own place in it.
When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-fi
- Author: Zarankin, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1771622482
- Language: English
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Four Miles West of Nowhere
$22.95 Add to cartIn Four Miles West of Nowhere, John Phillips delivers a Pythonesque travelog of his retirement journey from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to remote Darby, Montana, (population 745, no Starbucks, no traffic lig
- Author: Phillips, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: October 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1941052541
- Language: English
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It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War
$19.00 Read more“An unflinching memoir . . . that] offers insight into international events and the challenges faced by the journalists who capture them.” —The Washington Post
War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memo- Author: Addario, Lynsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128418
- Language: English
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Heavenly Man
$19.99 Add to cartThe remarkable true story of renowned Chinese Christian Brother Yun
This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the fro- Author: Yun, Brother
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0825446775
- Language: English
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Just as I Am
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Tyson, Cicely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0062931075
- Language: English
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Willie Horton: 23: Detroit’s Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers’ First Black Great
$30.00 Add to cartA compelling autobiography from one of Detroit’s favorite sons
At 15, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At 20, he smacked his first major-leagu- Author: Horton, Willie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379786
- Language: English
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Life Is So Good
$18.00 Add to cartOne man’s extraordinary journey through the twentieth century and how he learned to read at age 98
“Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn’t anythi- Author: Dawson, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0812984870
- Language: English
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Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America (with a Foreword by Alan Gratz)
$19.99 Add to cartWith a foreword by Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee.
Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. … [more below]
- Author: Gruener, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1338627457
- Language: English
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir
$28.00 Read moreA heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles.
S饌mas O’Reilly’s mother died when he was five
- Author: O’Reilly, Séamas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316424250
- Language: English
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Burn the Place: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartNominated for the National Book Award, chef Iliana Regan’s debut memoir chronicles her journey from foraging on her family’s Midwestern farm to running her own Michelin-starred restaurant and finding
- Author: Regan, Iliana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 1982157771
- Language: English
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Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
$27.99 Read moreA New York Times bestseller
A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon
At age four, Molly Shannon’s world was shat
- Author: Shannon, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063056232
- Language: English
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Her Honor: My Life on the Bench…What Works, What’s Broken, and How to Change It
$18.99 Read moreIn Her Honor, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell provides a rare and thought-provoking insider account of our legal system, sharing vivid stories of the cases that came through her courtroom and revealing
- Author: Cordell, Ladoris Hazzard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1250269598
- Language: English
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Making a Scene
$29.00 Read more“Illuminating.” —The Washington Post * “Candid and relatable.” —Time *“Riveting and personal.” –Mindy Kaling * “Captivatingly immediate.” —The Skimm *
A “poignant, frank, and intimate” (The New Yo- Author: Wu, Constance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1982188545
- Language: English
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A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straight Into Murderer’s Row: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartA rollicking no-holds barred memoir from journalist and musician Eugene S. Robinson that takes readers along through the story of his life.
“A weird rollicking ride” frames how author Eugene S. Robinso
- Author: Robinson, Eugene S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1627311424
- Language: English
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Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle
$25.00 Add to cartA stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world
“Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Dant? Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the- Author: Stewart, Danté
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0593239628
- Language: English
