Autobiographies
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Laughing at My Nightmare
$15.99 Read moreWith acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw’s Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to havi
- Author: Burcaw, Shane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 125008010X
- Language: English
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The Love You Save: A Memoir
$28.99 Add to cart*A Zibby’s Most Anticipated Book of 2023*
*One of The Root‘s Most Anticipated Books of January*
*A Good Morning America Best Book of January?*
*An Essence Must Read Book of the Year*
*A St. Louis Post-Dis… [more below]- Author: Taylor, Goldie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 133544937X
- Language: English
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Just as I Am: A Memoir
$28.99 Read more“In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history.” -President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony
“Just
- Author: Tyson, Cicely
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0062931067
- Language: English
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”–Lucy Kalanithi
“Belo- Author: Bowler, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0399592067
- Language: English
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Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
$26.00 Read moreFor readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, the rapturous memoir of a soon-to-be-mother whose obsession with the reclusive painter Agnes Martin threatens to upend her life
Five months pregnant and s- Author: Novak, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646220765
- Language: English
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How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer
$32.99 Add to cart‘Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.’ Damon Hill
- Author: Newey, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 000835247X
- Language: English
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Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family… [more below]
- Author: Ng, Fae Myenne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162215
- Language: English
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
$24.00 Add to cartNamed a “Best Book of the Year” by New Statesman, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and Washington Independent Review of Books
Southern Book Prize Finalist
From New York Times contributin
- Author: Renkl, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1571313788
- Language: English
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Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior’s Long Trail Home
$27.95 Add to cart“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.” Edward Abbey
In a collection of gripping stories of adventure, Doug Peacock, loner, iconoclast, environmentalist, and contemporary of Edw
- Author: Peacock, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 1952338042
- Language: English
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Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke
$29.00 Read moreFrom stand-up comedian, actress, and host of The Netflix Afterparty, London Hughes, comes an uplifting and raucously funny memoir to show you how to ditch the self-loathing, start the self-loving, an
- Author: Hughes, London
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1538722437
- Language: English
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Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s number one enem- Author: Browder, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982153288
- Language: English
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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
$29.00 Read more“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!” –Valerie Bertinelli
Rabia Chaudry–known- Author: Chaudry, Rabia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643750380
- Language: English
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Running with Scissors
$20.00 Read moreThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusion- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031242227X
- Language: English
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The Rock in My Throat
$18.99 Add to cartAt first, no one noticed when I stopped talking at school.
In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a young Hmong refugee navigating life at home and at school. Having seen
- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 172844568X
- Language: English
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City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul
$37.00 Add to cartA frontline witness account of the deadly urban combat of the Battle of Mosul told by former Navy SEAL and frontline combat medic Ephraim Mattos.
After leaving the US Navy SEAL teams in spring of 2017- Author: Mattos, Ephraim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 23, 2018
- ISBN10: 1546081828
- Language: English
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
$19.00 Add to cartThe 25th anniversary edition of this seminal work on autism and neurodiversity provides “a uniquely fascinating view” (Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don’t Understand) of the differences in our br… [more below]
- Author: Grandin, Temple
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0307275655
- Language: English
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
$23.00 Add to cart“She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far
- Series: Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 022669142X
- Language: English
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A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
$35.00 Read moreA thrilling account of life with Sun Ra’s Arkestra and New York’s avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s
In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and internat
- Author: Abdullah, Ahmed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1953691161
- Language: English
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Karate-Do: My Way of Life
$19.99 Add to cartLinking the time when karate was a strictly Okinawan art of self-defense shrouded in the deepest secrecy and the present day, when it has become a martial art practiced throughout the world, is Gichin… [more below]
- Author: Funakoshi, Gichin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: March 26, 2024
- ISBN10: 1715628047
- Language: English
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice
Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593083342
- Language: English
