Autobiographies
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The Fruit Cure: The Story of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour
$32.00 Read more“lucid and elegant” — The Washington Post
“A deeply compelling read … Spellbinding ….” — BookPage
“Her journey from desperation to self-acceptance is moving and well rendered. In the crowded m- Author: Alnes, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 168589075X
- Language: English
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature
$18.00 Add to cart“In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils of love, land,
- Author: Lanham, J. Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 13, 2017
- ISBN10: 1571313508
- Language: English
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A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartIn A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten, award-winning author, sex educator, filmmaker, and podcast host Tristan Taormino shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how her radical sexuality and unconven… [more below]
- Author: Taormino, Tristan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 8, 2023
- ISBN10: 1478020229
- Language: English
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From Here
$18.99 Add to cartIn her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee.
With no word for “g- Author: Mufleh, Luma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593354451
- Language: English
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The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Keah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1982100540
- Language: English
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The Light of the World: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartA deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander.
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an exi- Author: Alexander, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 6, 2016
- ISBN10: 1455599867
- Language: English
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Boyhood Among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch
$19.95 Read moreLike many Pacific Northwest sheep herders, Sebastian Etulain emigrated from Europe’s Basque country. He arrived in Yakima in May of 1921, convinced that hard work could overcome a lack of formal educa
- Author: Etulain, Richard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1638640076
- Language: English
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The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
$20.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller and International Phenomenon
One of the Top Ten Books of 2015, Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.
“It’s bloody marvelous.” – Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling- Author: Rebanks, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1250060265
- Language: English
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The Illiterate
$13.95 Add to cartNarrated in a series of stark, brief vignettes, The Illiterate is ?gota Krist?’s memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in f… [more below]
- Author: Kristóf, Ágota
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0811234851
- Language: English
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Invisible Ink
$34.99 Add to cartThe incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.
- Author: Stern, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0814347592
- Language: English
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Fly Girl: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world–and maybe, one day,
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050411
- Language: English
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Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
$28.00 Add to cartThe first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela’s life through the eyes of the grandson who was raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela’s life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders a… [more below]
- Author: Mandela, Ndaba
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 26, 2018
- ISBN10: 0316486574
- Language: English
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Journal of a Black Queer Nurse
$16.95 Add to cartIn this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19.
Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class… [more below]
- Author: Daniels, Britney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 9, 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173776
- Language: English
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Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
$21.99 Add to cartA deeply moving and engaging memoir by Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst, cofounder of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Cure
As two of the first punks in a provincial English town, Lol Tolhurst and Robe- Author: Tolhurst, Lol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 31, 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825813
- Language: English
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The Fire Still Burns: Life in and After Residential School
$21.95 Add to cartSam George’s harrowing account of surviving Canada’s Indian Residential School system.
“My name is Sam George. In spite of everything that happened to me, by the grace of the Creator, I have lived to- Author: George, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0774880856
- Language: English
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Unforgiving: Lessons from the Fall
$30.00 Add to cartIn this deeply personal memoir in the vein of Andre Agassi’s Open and Megan Rapinoe’s One Life, the winningest snowboardcross rider of all time chronicles her career, a story of self-growth that revea
- Author: Jacobellis, Lindsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063294478
- Language: English
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Growing Up Yinzer: Memories from Beloved Pittsburghers
$24.99 Read moreIn the Steel City, “Yinzer” is a term of endearment, reserved for the city’s most beloved and embraced by locals as a symbol of the grit and determination that Pittsburgh endows anyone from there.
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- Series: The History Press
- Author: Roberts, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152048
- Language: English
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Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing
$28.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 Andy Award for Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction
A Zibby’s Top 10 Book of 2023
A USA Today Best Book of 2023
A USA Today Book Club Pick
Foreword by Cameron Diaz
“Reading Kimberly Shannon M
- Author: Murphy, Kimberly Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063228262
- Language: English
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Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
$27.95 Add to cart“I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power.” So begins Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir abo
- Author: Brorby, Taylor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 7, 2022
- ISBN10: 1324090863
- Language: English
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An Unruled Body
$26.00 Add to cartIn a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuiti
- Author: Gjika, Ani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1632063409
- Language: English
